philstudent1991

Did anyone notice they made FOUR new faculty hires this year, one each from Chicago, Arizona, Wisconsin and Minnesota? I wonder if they are making moves to start a graduate program.

Haha yes I've heard of him I imagine he does good stuff. I just hear stuff from time to time about Baylor being a rough place for academics in general. They gave intelligent design proponent William Dembksi a big position in their science faculty, for instance. I'm just personally of the opinion that religious epistemology is ironic because religious ideas are faith based, and epistemology is anti-faith I mean it has to be. Faith is the acceptance of certain ideas in full knowledge that they can not be categorically proven. But there are plenty of religious people that are excellent philosophers I'm not saying anything about that

If both were funded, NIU seems like the clear choice especially since people you want to work with aren't gonna be at WMU while you're there. If they give you a decent but not fully funded deal at NIU, given that you seem to have a somewhat stable financial set up...I would consider NIU in your case. But I agree that debt for philosophy is foolish. Only you can make the decision.

I feel like this is the most high profile drama remaining out of everyone's hopes to get in (now that BSG got off the wait list at GSU). I'm excited to see how it turns out!! Good luck!

I can't really imagine anything more incompatible than fundamentalist religion and philosophical epistemology lol

Great ideas. Unfortunately I can't edit the poll. Maybe I'll make a survey monkey when I have the chance, or someone else is welcome to.

Ya this happened to me at Houston. It was just a miscommunication somewhere along the line I presume, and I was polite and they were polite and everything is great.

That's my best guess too. Oh well.

30K is your stipend, not including tuition and such? That seems really, really good!!

That's the thing, it just says report, multiquote or quote

I would but now I can't edit the poll. If anyone can tell me how, maybe I'm missing something, please let me know. It doesn't have the edit option that my posts usually have.

GSU students do, almost invariably, do a thesis. Professors at GSU will not write PhD recommendations for students that do not do a thesis.

Well it's not letting me edit so...idk

There are at least 50 non PGRs so I can't list them all. You're right about Cincy I'll add them.

Please be honest and tell me if you are sick of my polls, but this one is just for fun. Vote for the strongest non PGR department, and please recommend via comments for me to add others if necessary, and withhold your vote until I have added it.

The PGR kinda reminds me of the coaches poll in college football. It seems like college football coaches would be great people to poll about college football, and they are in some ways, but in other ways they aren't (they are much more focused on their conference than the national stage, likely don't watch games of non-conference teams, have a pretty big work load so don't watch much sports tv, etc.). Phil professors I imagine fit some of these same worries, i.e. a Kant scholar might not know a damn thing about phil mind. I know they poll people based on specialties but the reality is that no faculty is really going to get a fair shake all the way down the line. Even the PGR is subjective and based on hearsay at times, and this poll obviously is lightyears behind that. But we actually know quite a lot about MA reputations, and while we aren't qualified to assess faculty quality, we do know what our perceptions of reputation are, and have full access to funding and placement info as well.

You can use whatever criterion you want. I know some value placement, some value funding, some value particular faculty strengths, and most value some combination of these. Use your own judgment and criteria.

Some in the philosophical community have suggested that, given the rise of terminal MAs, the PGR ought to rank them as well. This is a primitive attempt to measure program prestige among this community, more out of curiosity than anything. Mark the 5 programs that you believe most deserve a spot in the top 5. There is no order, and ONLY mark 5 or the sample is skewed. Please suggest other programs if necessary. I am only including terminal MAs, which is why Arizona State is not on there since they recently restarted their PhD program. I'm open to suggestions to improve polling, but this poll system is admittedly quite limited.

I'm interested in this too

I thought that too. Maybe Jon Oliver will fill that slot? But I heard he has other plans so

I've been thinking about it. I'm afraid he will have to change his humor to be on the Late Show, maybe even drop his persona. Idk what to think about it. But. Now we can say a philosophy major is the host of the Late Show so...sky's the limit for us

I would also mention that at GSU everyone gets funding, the 15K over two years minimum, and some get fellowships on top of that.

see you there my friend

Don't downvote that lol he is right. But it does seem Brown fares worse than most, especially for such a prestigious school and well ranked (PGR and US News) school.

I was perusing Brown's PhD placement, and I must say it seemed particularly abysmal. They seem to produce very few PhDs, and almost none landed TT jobs (some post docs, some part time positions, and even a high school teacher. One went to Berkeley law (as a student, not a professor), although it was misspelled on the site (Berkley). Does anyone know why this might be? Is Brown not a strong department? Is there something I am missing? Just curious...I won't be going there this time around (maybe in a couple years though).