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Something to consider, just as regards time investment, is to stick mainly to more specialized journals. I don't know what your area is, but in philosophy of science, for instance, the top philosophy of science journals (e.g. Philosophy of Science, BJPS, Studies A, Synthese, etc.) are much faster than the top "generalist" journals. I have a paper under review right now that started out at Phil Sci. It was 3 weeks from editors desk, to peer review, back to editor, to rejection ("bad fit" ). But that quick turnaround is nice, especially as a grad student with limited time resources. It's back out for review at European Journal of Philosophy of Science, which should also be relatively quick.

Thank you very much to the both of you! I decided to accept my offer from Cincinnati!

This. I don't do phil mind, but my very strong impression when visiting was that the phil mind work that's going on there is super cool. Plus, it's all very empirically informed, and empirically informed philosophy is the best philosophy. Plus, Tony Chemero is a ridiculously nice and supportive guy, and very well respected in phil mind/psychology/cog sci circles. Also, the program has been placing very well over the last 5-6 years.

Mathematicians are worse. 

Mathematicians are worse. 

Mathematicians are worse. 

Mathematicians are worse. 

When I took visits last year the only conversations with any philosophical content were ones in which I was asking faculty/students about what they're doing. Nobody expects you to put on a show. The visits are really about trying to sell the program to you, not the other way around. Visits are (and should be) a lot of fun!

When I took visits last year the only conversations with any philosophical content were ones in which I was asking faculty/students about what they're doing. Nobody expects you to put on a show. The visits are really about trying to sell the program to you, not the other way around. Visits are (and should be) a lot of fun!

When I took visits last year the only conversations with any philosophical content were ones in which I was asking faculty/students about what they're doing. Nobody expects you to put on a show. The visits are really about trying to sell the program to you, not the other way around. Visits are (and should be) a lot of fun!

When I took visits last year the only conversations with any philosophical content were ones in which I was asking faculty/students about what they're doing. Nobody expects you to put on a show. The visits are really about trying to sell the program to you, not the other way around. Visits are (and should be) a lot of fun!

When I visited this past weekend nobody really expected any substantial philosophical discussions. Faculty were generally willing to talk about their work and the work of their students, but the focus was very much on the general stuff like what the program is like, general matching interests between people, etc. I think digging into philosophy is good for getting a feel for how philosophy is done there (and for seeing what the grad students there are doing), but unless Mizzou was an odd case, you needn't worry much.
I read some papers of the philosophers there beforehand, but that seemed like it wasn't expected. (Though not unexpected.)
 

Lawrence Krauss and Stephen Hawking declared the uselessness of philosophy altogether. Can we unite and attack those guys?

FYI, the episode featuring Anjan Chakravartty is now available here! http://www.sciphipod.com/podcast/2017/2/22/episode-11-anjan-chakravartty

I got into it for the ladies. 

Waitlisted at University of Oklahoma! Super excited after being shutout in the 2015 season! 

Just accepted to the University of Oklahoma!!! Woohoo!

This is about the same time Penn notifications went out last year.

Yeah, I know that folks do the double PhD thing, like Massimo. For a minute I thought maybe you were getting an HPS PhD and also wanting to get a straight phil PhD, which would be novel lol.

JUST ACCEPTED TO UCSB!! I needed this badly. I was shutout last year, and this was my last shot. My only worry now is funding. No word on that yet. If I can't get the funding, I can't go. Hoping it works out. 

I was looking up old acceptances, and someone who was rejected from -redacted- posted that he found a video of the admissions committee handling his application: 
 
 

Claiming it. There was also at least one other one today that I saw on the Facebook group and they said funding details would come in early March. I'm still speechless honestly!  Also guessing that more offers will come out in batches as they have in years past (based on the results page)

Just received an email from the University of Cincinnati. Accepted with funding! 

I don't need to know what criteria condition the probability of admission, however labyrinthine. I merely need to know that these criteria are in play, whatever they are. This is enough to see that admissions is not like a lottery.

I just wanted to point out that your handle is my favorite Townes song.