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Just did some googling and found this: http://philosophy.arizona.edu/node/560 Looks like Arizona has decent placement, but not always at research institutions. Fair amount of visiting lecturers (but that's common these days). Then again, some of their graduates seem to be teaching at places like Georgetown and Monash—both good! I think it's important to remember that this document is basically all anecdote. It has to be taken with a grain of salt.

Well, looks like people are responding well now that it's a Google Doc. Excellent!

I don't feel comfortable giving out a public pros and cons list about my current program, but I do want to say that if anyone has questions about Boston University they're free to PM me.

I think it's found in the advice thread pinned at the top of the forum.

Some possibilities: grounding/fundamentality, evolutionary debunking arguments (like Street's dilemma), maybe knowledge-first epistemology.

I'm currently prepping for an independent study on the Grundgesetze, which should be great.

It's funny: when I took a Hegel seminar, the professor explicitly told us not to read Pinkard, Pippin, or Brandom as they "systematically misinterpret Hegel for the purpose of spoon-feeding Americans." I did not enjoy that class.

I highly doubt there is an actual GRE cutoff—they're a formality in the eyes of many. One director of grad admissions at a top program told me as much in a meeting. Yes, it's better to have a high GRE than a low one, but if the rest of the dossier is solid, it isn't something to worry about.

I'm not opposed to the idea that something is going on in that book, and I don't want to be one of those types that just complains about Hegel's prose and dismisses. However, even compared to some of his other writings (Encyclopaedia Logic, for example) the Phenomenology is pretty impossible to parse. Maybe if I'd read him before I started specializing I'd get around to reading commentaries—at this point, I don't see much reason to do so, personally.

On the Plurality of Worlds by David Lewis Foundations of Arithmetic by Frege (basically everything by Frege is golden in my book) Philosophical Investigations by W A book I found really enjoyable despite it being the antithesis of my interests was Being and Time. Phenomenology of Spirit is the worst book I've ever tried to read.

I could be wrong. Limited sample size, and all. Feel free to PM if you'd like.

While their programs share a department, they operate pretty much independently. Very little interaction (or so I've been told by grad students there). I wrote on that kind of stuff when I got into my current program. TBH, though, I don't think you need to worry about plagiarism—nobody who is publishing in real journals is looking through GradCafe forums for paper ideas.

The only real concern is that Stalnaker will retire soon. The faculty is still incredibly strong in my AOIs, though.

Well, the list is what it is for a reason! But thanks for the kind words. MIT really is the dream school.

Hah, thanks. It's a cool topic and I do love it, but it's not exactly some super sexy, deep important question! It is highly representative of (at least half) of my interests.

It's a piece in formal semantics—details are probably boring, but it has to do with giving a truth-conditional semantics for a small class of English sentences known as generics.

Currently a PhD student in philosophy at a ranked program, but we've lost some faculty recently (including my advisor), so I'm applying to transfer. Should be able to get an MA out of my current place, though. I do philosophy of language and metaphysics. Undergrad GPA was good but not great. Grad GPA is a 3.95. Don't remember the specifics of my GRE right now, but they were pretty solid. No publications, but a couple of conferences (not grad student conferences). I have two potential writing samples, one in philosophy of language and one in metaphysics. I'll be spending the summer revising them and decide in the fall. Long list, will be shortened by a little bit: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, USC, UC Berkeley, MIT, UConn, UMass, Cornell, Rutgers, NYU, Maryland, Syracuse, UT Austin, Northwestern, Michigan.