Ep 006 - On Overconfidence

The Struggling Academics, Tudor Vladescu, Jan Pedersen, Diana Andrasi, and David Clinnick, discuss what they have been and what they will be reading over this summer (2021).

Join the Struggling Academics, Tudor Vladescu, Jan Pedersen, Diana Andrasi, and David Clinnick, as they discuss mistakes, big mistakes, little mistakes, their own mistakes and misstatements, and how to live with and learn from mistakes.

Join the Struggling Academics, Tudor Vladescu, Jan Pedersen, Diana Andrasi, and David Clinnick, as they explore what it means to be overconfident, their personal follies, and finding the balance between hubris and humility.

This time on Struggling Academics we discuss the peculiar notion of 'Dog Heads' - a species of dog-headed humanoid creatures.

In part two of our discussion, the Struggling Academics, Jan Pedersen, Diana Andrasi, Tudor Vladescu and David Clinnick, explore how Neanderthals relate to us and our understanding of the evolution of human society.

In the first of a two-part discussion, the Struggling Academics, Jan Pedersen, Diana Andrasi, Tudor Vladescu and David Clinnick, explore how Neanderthals relate to us and our understanding of what it means to be human.

The Struggling Academics, Dr. Andrasi (linguist), Dr. Clinnick (archaeologist), Dr. Pedersen (philosopher) & Dr. Vladescu (anthropologist/philologist) lament over the books they haven't read and the language barriers that prevent them from fully accessing some great works.

A little preview of what's rolling out on Struggling Academics over the next few weeks.

The Struggling Academics discuss experts, their interactions with experts, their own degrees of expertise and society's need for experts.