Comments | lennybound: Ph.D. ∨ Bust

lennybound

Ph.D. ∨ Bust

Oct 18, 2008 23:57

I’ve started looking into graduate school programs in the last week or so. My intent is to specialize in philosophy of mind and philosophy of science, and so the schools I will be applying to are somewhat known for those specialties. I've been told that one ought to apply to 8-10 programs. The following is the list of the schools I'm thinking about ( Read more... )

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booksoverbombs October 20 2008, 14:12:32 UTC

Plenty of people in the field have written in attempts to take the edge off the deep mysteriousness of the project (vd. here, here and here.

Also, I hope you had "Ph.D. XOR bust" in mind?

lennybound October 21 2008, 07:28:05 UTC

Thanks for the links.

And no... it's intentionally inclusive.

killtacular October 21 2008, 07:41:59 UTC

Make sure you know whether you want to apply to the department of History and Philosophy of Science at Pittsburgh, or the normal philosophy department. It sounds like HPS is the one for you, but I don't know and you should be sure.

For the rest: that is a good list, although if I were you I'd add a couple more schools (if you can afford it) because those are all kind of tough places to get in. In my personal experience, the absolute most important thing is your writing sample, so make sure you have one that reflects at your best. And, well, Princeton is very cool if you get in :).