Feminist Philosophers has recently posted some dissertation haiku. Here is my haiku summary of my dissertation (“Phenomenal Consciousness as Scientific Phenomenon? A Critical Investigation of the New Science of Consciousness”):
Science finds qualia
Hoping to solve hard problem
Can’t ’cause there ain’t none
September 11, 2009 at 11:15 am |
Huh … I think you’ve actually got a 6-8-5 going on. I have no idea how to fix it. For me, writing haiku about qualia is a hard problem!
September 11, 2009 at 11:25 am |
Yeah, I don’t think that counting syllables is one of my strengths. Fortunately, I think it is fair to treat the 5-7-5 format as more of a rule of thumb in English than a requirement ( for example, see http://www.wikihow.com/Write-a-Haiku-Poem ).
I think it depends, in the first line, on how you pronounce “qualia”: qual-i-a or qual-ya? The issue is clear for the second line, though; I think I’ll axe the “the.”
September 11, 2009 at 11:33 am |
Having passed your prospectus, I now expect a haiku from you. How about:
Cross-sectional data
Some fear we can’t find causes
But I will show them
September 13, 2009 at 3:19 pm |
Dynamic causes
May sometimes still be found in
Equilibrium
September 13, 2009 at 3:20 pm |
If you want to know
Then you’ll just have to read my
Cool dissertation
September 13, 2009 at 3:23 pm |
That’s for part one … part two is a little harder, but I think I’ll go with:
Cartwright and Norton
Think “cause” unhelpful jargon
But they are both wrong
That’s probably enough of that, eh?