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One of my profs/letter writers studied under Schroeder for a bit (spent a year at USC while part of his grad program) and he says Schroeder is a fantastic person to work under. I hope that my interests line up very well with USC and my prof knowing people there will help me get in. Also I quote Lackey a bit in my writing sample, so I almost applied to Northwestern, but besides the few people working in epistemology it didn't seem interesting to me.

What program is this, if you don't mind me asking? 10 seems awfully short, just submit the one you already are using, they'll read at least 10 pages into it.

USC for me, now with John Hawthorne there. I'm interested in ethical noncognitivism, and Mark Schroeder is probably one of the coolest people working in that area currently, since Blackburn is nearly retired and Gibbard mostly just says the same thing in different words no a days. Arizona and Yale are close seconds. Honestly though, I'll be thrilled to get in anywhere and get funded, and realistically I hope to be at UVA/Amherst/Miami next fall. Best of luck to ya all! I hope everyone, except for the obvious trolls here, get into their top choices!!!

I think we should just ignore this thread, guys, lets talk about philosophy and grad school here, this discussion is falling into SJW Tumblr Trolling level, and that makes nobody happy. Also I realy wish Dfindley would stop posting here. He's gone from humorous troll to mentally ill to mentally ill racist/sexist. It's time we stopped humouring him.

Or it could just be that 300 people applying for 5 - 7 places means that at least 290 people don't get in?

^This

In Philosophy Phd programs, as far as I'm aware, the program makes the final offers, and that the school admissions themselves normally only care about things like meeting GPA or GRE requirements and so forth. And nearly all analytic programs in Leiter's top 50 all stress that the writing sample is the most important part of the application, so I think you're just gonna have to call this one a loss Loric.

But what about funding/expense/financial aid questions? I would love to study in Europe, but i just spent my life savings applying to MA and Phd programsi n the US.

Yeah, my friend is in religious history (Paul and early Christianity) and he's applying to his second MA (after a religious school BA and a seminary MA) and he can't believe that typically one goes straight from BA to Phd program in philosophy. But then, you guys have a better chance of getting published as MA students and have fewer great Phd programs it seems. Also, in analytic philosophy, unless one is doing history of philosophy, language requirements are basically nill. Continental programs generally require knowledge of German and French or Latin or Greek, but only on the reading level I believe. I really don't know why philosophy typically goes from from BA to Phd. I kinda wish it was BA - MA - PHD, which would mean more funded MA programs and hopefully better ones, and more chances of getting published as Graduate students. But who knows.

I want to second the Luck factor. Last year my friend applied to several schools, from a top PGR school down to Missouri as his lowest. He was Accepted into his second choice (like 10ish on the PGR) and Mizzou. He was denied at mid-ranged programs and low ranked programs as well, even like Rochester and so forth. How'd he get into the top program but not the others? Well, I feel like it was just luck...

Ever Thought about committing yourself to a psychiatric hospital? It would do you some good, and perhaps after that you could re-evaluate things and then move forward with philosophy.

The forgetting part = Drink a lot. For me at least. My friend is in an MA for philosophy and says out of a dozen or so MA students in the program, only 2 of them aren't high-functioning (quasi or not) alcoholics. He's not one of the 2.

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You can't. You have no idea who is posting them, and how many people who applied posted them. Even if the people posted stats, that isn't reliable because of things like writing sample/letters. It's more useful, I think, in seeing if acceptances have been sent out yet or not.

I haven't studied philosophy of math or art, but I have studied mind and didn't encounter any Kant references there. I'll check out Sellars or Strawson's work sometime then. And yeah Plato (Socrates) is the most influential, Kripke the least. Although Kripke might be overrated, naming and necessity has been hugely cited since it was written, and Kripke sparked a ton of debates.

I never studied that much Kant (like one small section in ethical theory about his views, that's about it) in undergrad, but I went to a very contemporary focused analytic program, so I only took two history courses there, lower level stuff. I feel that outside of Kant's ethics, he wasn't hugely influential in analytic philosophy. Personally I think Plato (Socrates) > Aristotle > Descartes > Hume > Wittgenstein > Russell > Lewis > Quine > Kripke in terms of influence on philosophy.

Thanks. I didn't know if people could comprehend what it was talking about, but not like people could in the original context anyway.

Seriously it's the greatest!

On the footnotes, endnotes question - literally just use the one you prefer. Both are acceptable under Chicago style, which is what a lot of major philosophy journals use. I like footnotes, that way I don't have to flip to the back every time I have to see a note. As for abstract, I have no idea, I asked around and nobody seemed like "Abstract Needed" so I made sure that my introduction, which is like a page and half long, is basically an abstract. I figured it was the best of both. Acknowledgements, again I doubt it would hurt you to include them, however if you include a professor or something, people might question how much credit they actually deserve. I personally didn't include acknowledgements, purely because nobody I would've acknowledge would read the finished paper, so they wouldn't know even if I did.

Exactly. I mean, I sent him a christmas card, hopes it gets there in time. Also - you're signature. Fantastic....

you hear that Dfindley? Seriously, seek professional help!

I don't dislike him. Without him my days would be FAR less interesting. Although seriously Dfindly if you are serious I think you should seek some help man...

so you barely got past the title, eh?