dgswaim

Just out of curiosity, are you the Illinois UC post on the results board?

You ain't kiddin'.

Too bad, too. Would have liked to have worked with Koons and Strawson...

I've assumed rejection for a while now.

You may be right.

The specific views I take on are Jaegwon Kim's supervenience arguments (mental and epistemic supervenience), Nancey Murphy's version of multiple-realizability, William Hasker's emergentism, and then the eliminativism of the Churchlands and Rosenberg (including Rosenberg's version of naturalized epistemology). I make note of the fact that it doesn't cover every naturalistic conception out there, but that the argument may be sufficient to show that other versions of naturalism with respect to the mind would have similar difficulties. I would have liked to have had more time to polish, though.

Maybe I'll post mine later. I'm afraid few would be sympathetic to my argument, though. The argument is essentially that all naturalistic conceptions of mind collapse into eliminative materialism, and that eliminative materialism doesn't have the necessary resources to maintain a realist construal of science more broadly. So the argument lands upon a disjunctive: reject naturalism and maintain scientific realism, or maintain naturalism and adopt some anti-realist outlook on science.

I've written about Hume zero times. Read him in Hist Phil II... appears I'm shit out of luck.

Rice's response was something like the following: While the admissions committee disagrees as to the constitutive properties of roses and violets, we can confirm that funding is, indeed, awesome. Your application, however, was not, and so you won't receive any from us. Ok... maybe it wasn't quite that harsh...

I'm feeling compelled to drink today. *cheers*

Sorry to hear that!

Standard form letter rejection from Rice via email. Too bad. We coulda hadda good thing, me and Rice. Looking more and more like it's gonna be a MA for this guy this time around.

How is this stupid?

"Hegel had shitty grammar, so I does too" ~ Dfindley (probably)

Seriously... Please, Purdue. Just... please!

Yes, it is.

Surely someone trolling.

"We decided you didn't suck up enough during your undergraduate years and I concur with this decision." dfindley rejected by Columbia?

Wow! Congrats and well done!

I declined the MA offer from Loyola Chicago. Hopefully that's helpful to somebody.

It's funny... I logged onto facebook to find all of my friends and family members commenting on the finer points of red carpet fashion, Jennifer Lawrence's clumsiness, and the awesome star-studded selfie that Ellen just took. I'm over here on TGC debating the various attitudes scholars in academic philosophy take toward rankings and SPEP, etc. Jesus I'm a nerd.

I'm surprised that it should be necessary to change one's dissertation director as a result of differing opinions.

"SPEP is philosophy's MLA." Seriously? I don't understand why he can't just be content to say that he's unsympathetic to the work done by SPEP types, and leave it at that.

There is one now... sort of.

Probably there's a sort of tingling in your spine at this point. You turn around to see a man, medium build, corduroy suit, mildly disheveled in his general appearance. Slowly your eyes come to meet, and there is a kind of tacit knowing behind each person's eyes. Then, finally, you open your mouth to speak: "Dude. Why are you whispering shit in my ear? That's fucking creepy dude."