“Physics Envy” and Some More Light Verse
The following are three poems from Felicia Nimue Ackerman, Professor of Philosophy at Brown University.
A Plea for Critical Thinking
Higgledy-piddledy
Russell and Wittgenstein,
Murdoch, and Geach and his
Eminent wife
Shouldn’t be taken as
Super-philosophers,
Objects of worship and
Larger than life.
* * * * * * *
An A for Effort?
“Why can’t you grade partly on effort?”
Asked a student in hope of an A.
I said, “Would you go to a surgeon
If her teachers had graded that way?”
* * * * * * *
Physics Envy?
A physicist’s thoughts can be faultless
And still turn out not to be true.
But if you go wrong a priori,
Then isn’t the problem with you?
Roy Lichtenstein, “Mirror #10”
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