Monadology

Congrats! Also thanks for the info regarding how many funded offers they plan to make.

Oh snap. Seconded.

Congrats and thanks for confirming its legitimacy!

I ran out of upvotes and I just wanted to thank you for playing along.I laughed a lot.

I'm sorry, I just don't see how sarcasm would make someone excited about a long layover. Maybe you could clarify a little bit more.

Congrats to the New School offer! I hope it's real, if I remember correctly in the last couple of years they sent out offers by postal mail and in the last third of March, which seems kind of nuts to me.

Sorry to hear that, Zizeksucks. Still, let's hope you get that funding after all.

Congratulations!

Echoing bar_scene_gambler's sentiments. It took me five rounds of applications and an MA degree but I've managed to get in somewhere. Maybe you can't afford to apply multiple times. Even if that's the case, philosophy isn't the only road to teaching if teaching is something you really enjoy (and I imagine it will never cease being a challenge, it's just that kind of task). I hope you can keep your chin up, PhD Applicant! This whole process is really crappy.

If remarks-that-would-be-offensive-if-they-weren't-inside-jokes should never be disapproved of by those who aren't aware they are inside jokes (and when the fact that they are inside jokes is not explained and there is no contextual reason to think they are inside jokes), doesn't that sort of lead to a situation where no remarks which are offensive should be disapproved of? If you're going to make an inside joke around a broader audience and you know would be offensive if it were meant seriously* I'm pretty sure you should either be ready to be disapproved of or ready to explain that it's just an inside joke. I don't think people are "lame" or "obnoxious" for failing to know what one didn't explain to them about the meaning of the joke and acting accordingly. *- Leaving aside the issue of whether or not saying something offensive jokingly is always acceptable.

Well, she is interested in applied ethics Will do. Actually, since she has an offer at UCSD, we're not too bothered about that.

My girlfriend just took herself off the UC Riverside wait list. Hopefully that will help some folks. EDIT: She took herself off the Indiana wait list as well.

Congrats to all the offers in the past couple of days! (And sorry I haven't been keeping up)

Since they took application fees, I would think they would have said something if not.

Toronto and Syracuse!

That's a really cool sounding argument, and anything that makes naturalists uncomfortable is good in my book!

My first ever writing sample (5 years ago) was a paper on John Stuart Mill 's qualitative hierarchy of pleasures, primarily drawing on Eric Schwitzgebel's work on introspection and an unpublished/incomplete work by Kierkegaard. I say this so you'll know that at least one person isn't going to be judging you, especially regarding how orthodox your writing sample is.

I've been accepted at UCR, my AoIs are Agency, 19th & 20th Century Continental and phil of language.

Wow! Big day today. Congrats to all the offers (and waitlists)!

Just got an email to check U Chicago's website. Presumably a rejection. Yep! A rejection.

Congrats and also curse you for getting my hopes up again!

My girlfriend was just wait-listed at UCR, will post in this thread again if she ends up turning it down.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure someone is just trying to confuse us and/or make us laugh.

U Chicago has no waitlist. They make 10 offers and that's it.

Surely U Chicago didn't send out all of their rejections, though. I know a few people who haven't heard a peep still (including myself, and I've checked my spam folder).