David Albert - Columbia University

Professor: David Albert
Department: Philosophy
College: Columbia University
Rating # 1
Overview:
  • Course: PHIL9577
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Despite other reviews, he's not arrogant. He's opinionated, but if you don't take it personally you'll discover that he's teaching you *how* to think, not *what* to think. While he tends to talk over people, just be patient. He truly cares about helping you understand the content. I learned more from him than I ever have from any other professor.
Rating # 2
Overview:
  • Course: PHY2240
  • Grade Received: A
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 1.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
interesting
Rating # 3
Overview:
  • Course: PHIL4675
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Direction of Time is one of the two really memorable courses I took at Columbia. Course contents aren't easy, but he really cares about teaching and is very down to earth. He makes difficult concepts easy to understand and does not put up a front by trying on false modesty- he speaks his mind.
Rating # 4
Overview:
  • Course: PHIL001
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 1.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Awful. Arrogant and completely out of touch with students.
Rating # 5
Overview:
  • Course: DIRECTIME
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.5
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Terrible, terrible, terrible, smug, little self-important "man" wholly incapable of either writing or uttering one coherent sentence. The man just babbles one disconnected thought after another. He earned his degree in physics but does nothing in that field, hence why he turned to philosophy and is in the phil dept. Boring and an uncaring weirdo.
Rating # 6
Overview:
  • Course: PHIL01
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
I have no idea why Columbia doesn't fire him. He has a reputation for being totally disconcern for teaching, which he is genuinely horrible at doing. He clearly doesn't care about his students. Just a terrible "professor." And his books he himself wrote are equally horribly poor in quality. I wish I knew about him before taking the course.
Rating # 7
Overview:
  • Course: PHY2240
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
The man simply cannot teach to save his life. For the Direction of Time course, he used his own text, a horribly unreadable text. He is also arrogant and not at all available. No email replies or real feedback. He's not a bad guy but has no business teaching--or writing.
Rating # 8
Overview:
  • Course: DIRECOFTIME
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
This guy is awesome. He makes the material lively and down to earth, and responds really helpfully to student questions. Among the best few teachers I have had. His presentation of the topic is definitely one-sided, but that doesn't have to be a problem - go read a (different) book and try the counterarguments on him, if you want to learn the max.
Rating # 9
Overview:
  • Course: PHILOOFSCI
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
do the reading and you will enjoy this kickass prof!
Rating # 10
Overview:
  • Course: W4XXX63
  • Grade Received: B
  • Overall Rating: 1.5
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
This was a philosophy of physics (quantum) that I dropped...subject material is fascinating, but his book is awful, and his lectures just reiterate the book.
Rating # 11
Overview:
  • Course: PHYSPHIL
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.0
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Pretty middle of the road, all around. His lectures conformed a bit too closely to the text.
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