Good gear. Andrew is phenomenal. For those worried about Conti being "vibes based" be assured that Andrew covered several analytic thinkers, including Kant, Heidegger and Schopenhauer all of whom make clearly identifiable arguments. The one star review tells us much more about the author than it does about Professor Andrew Milne (the teacher coordinating it), or of the value of continental training: Apparently several continental thinkers who use analytic method (Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietszche... just to name a few for whom explicit arguments can be both identified and articulated) all fell on deaf ears, or worse, were heard perfectly without any attempt at understanding them. What an exquisitely threadbare complaint. The phrase “vibes based philosophy” is especially revealing, since it functions not as a criticism, but a confession: the reviewer appears unable to distinguish between an argument she dislikes, an argument she fails to follow, and the complete absence of argument altogether. One imagines them encountering a reading lacking a numbered sequence of syllogisms, and concluding, in wounded bewilderment, that thought itself has somehow been abandoned for “vibes.” Personally, I found the criticism illuminating. It demonstrated with admirable economy that some students can encounter phenomenology, hermeneutics, rhetoric, existential analysis, and conceptual history all in a single semester and conclude only that “the vibes were off.”

Anonymous, Semester 1, 2026

Complete waste of time. Just vibes based philosophy. I don't know how this counts as a philosophy unit.

Anonymous, Semester 1, 2026