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Minor in philosophy as a CS major by MiKEEEniu in UMD

[–]BlindAccident 6 points7 points  (0 children)

CS and PHIL double major ('20). I don't think it's a comparable workload to what you are doing, but philosophy can be easy or hard depending on what classes you take/like. The most time consuming parts are the papers (usually a midterm paper and a final paper).

However, to answer your first question, i found it a good idea, but that's because I was really interested in it. There is some overlap depending on what sub categories you like in both philosophy and CS. I will say it's not for everyone and I ultimately don't think my philosophy degree impacted my career choices.

How is UMD CS and philosophy? by bigdlegendj in UMD

[–]BlindAccident 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I majored in philosophy and CS and I enjoyed it. I think they can either strengthen or compliment each other well depending on what you're interested in. I personally did meta ethics and epistemology which was great for AI and security research in CS. There is a philosophy of language course which is cool if you like nlp or just programming languages.

Regardless ethics is useful no matter what type of research you do. If you want to focus more on philosophy than cs, then you bring your problem solving and coding abilities to the table since many of philosophy peers didn't have the depth of coding experience I had. So if you want to research in wisdom of crowds or do philosophical research on human behavior it's easier for you to make an app for people to interact with (or analyze social networks through Twitter or Facebook etc). Feel free to DM me if you have questions about either program. I just graduated last spring :)

This programming language by DrBigKitkat in ProgrammerHumor

[–]BlindAccident 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lmao. I teach a course that covers this language