armedneutrality
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^^ say, another kierkegaardian. hello!
here's a great resource for the anyone considering continental orientated schools:
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If you're willing to entertain a different route, I suggest you check out some divinity schools which offer master degrees, like Yale and Chicago. You'd also be able to take seminars in both the philosophy and religious studies departments as a divinity school student, so it seems like a good deal.
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Someone mentioned in another thread that even among the continental schools, the New School has a bad reputation, so that's why. I don't even do continental stuff and I've heard the stories of 10+ years to Phd and very little funding. Congrats on your acceptance, though, I hope it works out good for you and that these are only rumors!
I don't think that's the whole story. Not to contradict what you've heard, as it is rumor, but I think it's important for those interested in the program to consider this.
The new school must have an all right reputation as its MA program seems to have decent placement, e.g., there are maybe 2-3 students in the U Chicago doctorate program coming from the new school. Similarly, the chair of the BU program received a degree from the new school. The terrible funding is infamous, but it's possible to get full rides, as a few students from my SLAC have done. The professors I've encountered that hold degrees from the new school have been great as well. I'm by no means a new school defender, I'm just pointing out some positive impressions I've had. With that said, I will apply to the program come next year, then empirical evidence, Husserl archives, etc. Hope this helps those considering the program!
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Not to get too into this, but I think it's totally a stretch. A return to the body and the meaning of the earth (if we're referring to Thus Spoke Zarathustra) doesn't really have any ethical emphasis (or if it does, it's not normative or applied ethics). If anything in Nietzsche's work has to do with ethics, it's metaethics at most, and the things you're referring to have more of an existential value to them than (meta)ethical. My exclamation at the seeming impossibility of a Nietzsche and Bioethics project also has something to do with Nietzsche's approach to doing philosophy being incompatible with the kinds of approaches I've seen in works by ethicists, so I think there are a lot more problems for a Nietzsche and Bioethics paper than just content issues. But hey, if someone pulls it off and it's actually a convincing reading of Nietzsche's work, I'll legitimately eat a shoe and film myself doing it for the benefit of this forum.
Clearly Nietzsche's views on the body are not to be read as a contemporary ethical argument, and due do his philosophical preoccupation, the two are deeply incompatible. Of course I'm aware of that. My post was not to suggest conflating the two.Though looking back, I can definitely see why you'd think I'd be suggesting the opposite. I think it would be an interesting paper to bring Nietzsche's existential understanding of the body from Zarathustra and the Gay Science into a sort of dialogue with a contemporary bioethical view, which might be feasible, as a reconstruction of any contemporary ethical view, in this paper, would have to anticipate and try to reconcile Nietzsche's gripe with morality, objective thinking, etc. I don't know how it would resolve itself, and I don't believe that'd be such a paper's aim, but 'it may not be a stretch' was to suggest that one could write about the two opposing arguments.
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I would eat one of my shoes if someone could write a believable dissertation on Nietzsche and Bioethics.
Considering Nietzsche's emphasis on a return to the body and to the earth, as in the intro to the gay science, it may not be such a stretch.
As for programs, I think that Boston university would be an excellent fit for philstudent1991. The program seems to be a good balance of philosophy of science and continental.
Greetings, call for fellow Continentalists!
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I've been back and forth about the new school, so thanks for this; it's definitely helpful.
Though I'll be aiming for a master's program, I'll be applying to UC Riverside and Boston U, two doctorate programs that haven't been mentioned yet, but you might consider. I think both programs have a lot to offer a 'contentalist,' as they offer the chance to not only further their AOS, but to do some analytic exploring as well.