Mavngoose1

To be fair to Mill he made a wide set of contributions to political philosophy and ethics outside of his work on utilitarianism as well as some influential work on the philosophy of science and logic. Not to mention he made several contributions to economics and was, to his credit, also a proto-feminist. So, I hope this might explain why those who work on inductive logic, philosophy of science, and perhaps even a feminist or two would vote for him over Nietzsche. So it's not just a bunch of smelly utilitarians. Although I am a bit surprised Nietzsche lost as well and am not sure who I would vote for.

Yikes, I rather like a number of those receiving hate including Hume and Austin. I can take or leave Plantiga... And I don't know enough Kierkegaard to comment. My own pick would be David Benatar.

Agreed. There's really no need to turn on each other.

Here's a few of my favorite: Parfit, Williams, Sidgwick, Moore, Ramsey, Williamson, Lewis

Congrats to everyone who has gotten admitted today! For those who have yet to hear back, hang in there.

Unfortunately, I have no clue if they are calling more or not. Sorry.

Normative Ethics, Meta-ethics, Applied Ethics, Political Philosophy, Personal Identity and Death. And Thank you! I'm still in a bit of shock.

I was the one with the phone call from Arizona. Not much info other than funding, etc.

Yeah, I know. I was being facetious so I didn't have to admit that my "reasons" for not sending the email were not particularly rational.

Perhaps the send button on my email is rigged up to a large nuclear device that will be set off and result in the destruction of the world. Even worse, if there is an infinite set of concretely existing possible worlds, then in one such world this is true! So, clearly to avoid being culpable for such a horrific crime, I should not send the email.

Nope. I have been checking it a couple times a day for the last week. I'm a bit apprehensive about doing so.

So, I still haven't heard from UNC, which is driving me insane.

I'm in the same boat as of right now. Given that it seems a fairly large number of acceptances, rejections, and wait-lists have been reported, is the only hypothesis that the rejection list is quite long and is taking a while to get through?