So what does Julian Dodd do all day? He teaches, debates, writes – and thinks quite a lot of very big thoughts, he tells Leo BenedictusEver since Professor Julian Dodd first told me that he spends around a day and a half of each week “doing philosophy”, I’ve been trying to work out what that actually means. What do philosophers do all day?”Well, ‘doing philosophy’ is writing articles, writing books, going to conferences …” he begins to explain. But all academics do that, don’t they? What about the thinking? Does God exist? Why are we here? The real chin-scratching nitty-gritty of it. How does all that happen? “I’ll be doing a lot of reading,” he says simply, “a lot of thinking with a pencil in my hand … You might think, well, he’s just sitting down on the sofa, but in a way it can be very intense. Continue reading…
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