PhiPhiPhi
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Sorry to hear. I think everyone around here (even those, like I, not applying) really appreciates the work you've put in.
Best of luck in the future.
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If both of the people you're interested in working with at WMU won't be there, I absolutely would avoid going there. It's my experience that professors rarely have enough time during sabbatical for new students, and so they shouldn't count in your considerations whatsoever. Taking your interest in them out, the choice seems clear to me.
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Madison really isn't that cold. It's a bit much for non-Midwesterners, but it's not unbearable for anyone with some cold resistance.
FWIW: I think UT is a better fit given your considerations listed, but UW is a better program. It's a good choice to have. Good luck!
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I was accepted to Cornell, and declined my offer from Duke. I thought Duke's department was wonderful, and I hope this allows someone else to go!
Just a heads up - Leiter reported Cornell as having a lot of potential losses this season. Link here: http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2014/04/prospective-phd-students-considering-cornell.html
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I just got an email saying I will receive a funded offer from UW-Milwaukee! I had been on the wait list for funding...so glad the wait is over, I'm very excited. (have to discuss the actual logistics of moving, etc. but will most probably be accepting this offer!)
I don't know how far you're moving, but I want to throw out the possibility of getting a POD (or UHaul box, or whatever other alternatives there are). I used one to move cross country and found it to be slightly cheaper and significantly easier than a moving truck.
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Thanks
I'm already in at a T25 PhD program, so it's definitely not the end of the world. I still feel like crap though!Is it just not listed in your signature?
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Equal or better to UConn? So like, what? A tenure-track position at UConn?
Huh? I mean there's lots of schools out there I'd consider better than UConn, should I list them all?
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UConn has accepted two people from NIU, although neither of those people has yet to accept their offer (which presumably means that they have equal or better offers on the table).
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UNC-Chapel Hill. Extremely excited!
They just picked up GIllian Russell, which is really cool. Also Bill Lycan is the man.
If anyone ends up accepting an offer at UConn, shoot me a PM!
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Anyone else going to be at the Rocky Mountain Philosophy Conference at Boulder April 4-5?
Bastards didn't accept my paper, so no!
But more seriously, congrats to you (and all others) on your conference acceptances.
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It is not grad school, but I got accepted to a three-week summer program on Logic and Formal Epistemology at Carnegie Mellon University. I'm happy for that!
That's an excellent program (I hear). Congrats!
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The adcom knew who you were, saw who you were recommended by, and rejected you. That's not the kind of environment that I would beg to get into. You would only be setting yourself up for second-class citizenship.
I'm actually going to agree with this. Staying at your MA program despite just a wait-list would be okay only if you've picked out a couple of people who are really excited to work with you and willing to stick up for you for the next 5 years. If you don't have at least 2 of those people, you should get out of there.
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Why "surprisingly" relevant?
Does being accused of sexual harassment mean that nothing you ever did in your whole life was ever good?
As Monadology pointed out - McGinn has produced shit for the past decade, at least. It's similar to the case of Nagel - if I were to tell someone who has only read Mind and Cosmos that Nagel was one of the best philosophers of the 20th century, they'd probably look at me as if I were crazy.
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Do you hear anyone laughing?
Are you Edward Feser?
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(and a lot less crazy than most people think).
He's not crazier than most people think - antirealism's just a lot more plausible than most people think
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More than say, a week and a half? How much would be a good "adjustment" time?
Between 2-4 weeks is good. I'd say 3: spend the first week settling in, the second week hanging out with your new colleagues and the third doing absolutely nothing - you won't get another chance for a long time.
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Colin McGinn.
McGinn was a surprisingly relevant and good philosopher in the 80s.
As for my vote: Worst philosopher ever? No idea. Most overrated ever: definitely Quine.
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I'll move as soon as I finish this semester...back home. Just shoot me already!
What country?
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But I am really confused why they run such a long wait list. They have presumably 5 spots or so to fill in.
Madison used to have huge classes, e.g. 10. Is that still the case?
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He's saying that he thinks it was a typo in the email...I'm not sure I think so, considering how important of a number that was.
However, the fact that they said it was an unordered waitlist is completely incompatible with them saying to some that they are top 5 and some they are top 15.
Here's a way to eliminate the possibility of a typo. What time did we each get our emails? If the 5s came before the 15s, then we know it wasn't a typo. If the 15s came before the 5s, then perhaps they made a typo and fixed it?
They could be grouped in unordered quintuples, i.e. top 5, then next top 5, then next top 5.
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I've got Florida and my UVA waitlist. If I don't get either of those, it'll be next year for me, since I'm not taking tech without funding.
Not a bad choice if you're already littered with student loans.
Also a general note to everyone: no shame in trying again. I got shutout my first time as well.
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I guess I should be in this thread.
There's always next year?
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Do you know why Dzhafarov says that? I actually just crossed off UConn from my tentative application list because looking more closely at it, there really wasn't much work being done that interested me, as was being done at other places in certain areas of mathematical logic, phil math, and mathematics.
But now I'm worried that maybe I'm missing something.
The UConn Logic Group is a truly interdisciplinary group. It meets every other week and has members primarily from philosophy, math and linguistics (but also from law, psychology). Damir said that there really isn't another group like it anywhere in the US - Notre Dame and Berkeley have things that are advertised as such, but there's very little actual connection between the groups. Here there's a lot of connection between the departments, including students (and professors) taking courses in other departments (eg Damir's reverse math seminar is half philosophy, half math).
Without knowing what you're interested in it's tough for me to say whether here would've been a good fit for you. Most of the work in the philosophy department is in philosophical logic and philosophy of logic, but there are some people doing straight mathematical logic. Also philosophy of math is pretty good here - there's a course going on right now in neologicism that I hear is really interesting, and another one being taught on the brand new translation of Frege's Basic Laws next year.
Reading List for Logic and Philosophy of Math
in Philosophy
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The recommended reading list on reddit is pretty decent, you can find it here: http://www.reddit.com/r/philosophy/wiki/readinglist , just look at the particular sections for logic and philosophy of math. It's not very detailed though, and I'm not an expert in those areas and don't really know if it's extensive enough.