Comment by maxsilver
2 days ago
This is also why I went into the Philosophy major - knowing how to learn and how to understand is incredibly valuable.
Unfortunately in my experience, many, many people do not see it that way. It's very common for folks to think of philosophy as "not useful / not practical".
Many people hear the word "philosophy" and mentally picture "two dudes on a couch recording a silly podcast", and not "investigative knowledge and in-depth context-sensitive learning, applied to a non-trivial problem".
It came up constantly in my early career, trying to explain to folks, "no, I actually can produce good working software and am reasonably good at it, please don't hyper-focus on the philosophy major, I promise I won't quote Scanlon to you all day."
How people see it is based on the probability of any philosophy major producing good working software, not you being able to produce good working software.
Maybe because phylosophy focuses on weird questions (to be or not to be) and weird personas. If it was advertised as more grounded thing, the views would be different.
The way you are perceived by others dependa on your behaviour. If you wamt to be perceived differently, adjust your behaviour, don't demand others to change. They won't.