Philosophy 2010

[philosophygrad]

This is for anyone applying to Philosophy graduate programs during the 2009-2010 academic year. Please share acceptances, rejections, wait-list notifications, and so on.

Best of luck to everyone applying!

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[anonymous]

WOOHOO!!!!!!!!

[anonymous]

In case anyone happened upon this thread before it was rebooted, I just wanted to let everyone know that this is THE place to be for philosophy phd app season. Rest assured, things will pick up soon, its still fairly early.

Tradition has it that prospective forum frequenters create an introduction piece detailing their academic profile and a list of their targeted schools. ive decided to wait a year to apply, so I wont be giving my personal intro just yet, but I just wanted to encourage people to start sharing.

Good luck everyone!

[anonymous]

Did I miss something? Wasn't there another philosophy thread? What happened to that one?

[anonymous]

shh, we don't talk about the Other Thread.

anyone want to take over responsibility for philprospectives?

[plnphilosopher]

Hello all,

I was an applicant last year, and I started a private board called philprospectives for those people who got into places or were wait listed. Making it private eliminated trolls and allowed people to speak more openly. It also facilitated contacting people considering the same schools. As far as I know from the people I've met who were using it actively, the board helped people make a more informed decision.

Anyway, I'm done (thankfully) with admissions forever and would thus like to pass administrative duties for philprospectives to someone else. If you'd like to do it, then please contact me via private message. Thanks and good luck!

Re: anyone want to take over responsibility for philprospectives?

[plnphilosopher]

I'd like to come out in support of the philp board as a useful addition to wgi. It helped me make my decision last year.

[anonymous]

Hello!

You all ready for this?!

Just found the site tonight, been doing a lot of reading from '09 and '08. Feeling anxious, but pumped.

I'll come back with an intro once I choose a handle.

Good luck everyone!

Okay so here goes

[sci_phi2010]

I'm not quite done narrowing down the institutions to which I'd like to apply, but generally speaking my interests are in HPS.

Right now I'm at the stage where I'm picking out a writing sample in order to begin polishing, I have three professors who will offer me strong recommendations (though I may reconsider one or two of them since they are not philosophy faculty) and I still haven't taken the GRE.

I hope this community turns out to be as useful this time around as it seems to have been in the past!

Re: Okay so here goes

[anonymous]

You definitely want *at least* two letters from philosophy faculty, even as a self-declared HPS guy. But I think 4 letters total would be fine for most places, so just add a philosopher to the mix.

Re: Okay so here goes

[anonymous]

I agree. Even HPS faculty are primarily *philosophers* so you need to show them that you can do philosophy. One way to do this is by having letters from philosophers. That said, it's not going to hurt to have letters from non-philosophers, provide that the non-philosophers are working in the sciences. Of course, a lot of this depends on the identities of your letter writers. If you non-philosopher recommendation is from Marc Hauser, then that recommendation would go farther at an HPS dept than a no-name philosopher...

[anonymous]

I must say, the process of looking through every professor's publication list is really making me despise "cute" article titles and value the plain, headline style titles.

[anonymous]

Well, maybe if you actually read the articles, you'll find they're quite "cute" after all...

[anonymous]

Of course I read them: I want to know what they're about. The problem with "cute" titles is that you often need to read the article in order to know if you'd be interested in reading it! It's silly, but not that problematic.

Naturalistic Oriented Philosophy Departments

[anonymous]

Which philosophy departments do you consider to be the most naturalistically oriented? I'm interested in hearing your thoughts. To give you an example of a department that I think to be naturalistically oriented: Rutgers.

Re: Naturalistic Oriented Philosophy Departments

[anonymous]

Definitely Pitt HPS would fit into this category.

Re: Naturalistic Oriented Philosophy Departments

[anonymous]

U of Maryland