2014-07-27

A two-panel comic about philosophy majors. Panel 1: A young man with reddish hair asks an older professor, "I dunno. If I major in philosophy, what are the career prospects?" The professor replies, "Oh, they're great. Philosophy gives you the ability to think deeply about how to answer hard questions." Panel 2, captioned "4 years later...": At a job interview, the interviewer says, "Decent resume. So, tell me, what's your greatest weakness?" The young man answers with a self-referential logical paradox: "Every statement I make is a lie." The joke is that his philosophy training equips him only to answer questions with unanswerable liar's-paradox riddles. Votey (aftercomic): A close-up of the same interview. The interviewer flatly says, "No job." The applicant, looking resigned, replies, "I anticipated this."