machineghost

Cool, thanks!

Does anyone have any idea as to when Georgia State typically begins admitting folks?

It seems safe to once again resume my irrational disdain for Duke based solely on the success of their basketball program.

I've also been obsessively checking email and the Duke portal (which always gives me an error when I log in but then allows me to click a link to get in, which I find bizarre). Anyway, no emails and nothing in the portal. I'm also assuming that Duke isn't finished accepting. One would think that at least some of the other accepted folks would either post it on the results page or at the very least put us out of our misery on this thread. One would think that there would be at least some mention of it in the threads themselves. But in their defense, it is difficult to type and hold celebratory drinks at the same time. So it's hard to say.

It seems to me that you'd be a pretty strong candidate. I have no idea how non-traditional students are perceived, but here's hoping that maturity, life experience, extensive work experience and other such things are at the very least valued. But I sort of doubt it.

I'm interested in all aspects of the free will debate, especially as it relates to law and the justification for various theories of punishment. I have always been sympathetic to incompatibilism, despite thinking that neither camp has a monopoly on strong arguments. I like Smilansky's work and tend to agree that we needn't choose sides on the matter, since compatibilism and incompatibilism are useful ways of thinking about freedom. I've never found any of the libertarian arguments to be persuasive, however. I've applied to Duke, Chicago, Arizona, Georgetown, Texas, Florida State, UC Riverside, and Georgia State. Where did you apply?

I'm a non-traditional student in all sorts of ways. I've undergraduate degrees in psychology and philosophy and an MS in information science. I received my psychology BA degree in 1999 and didn't do particularly well since I didn't particularly care about school and certainly didn't plan on applying to PhD programs nearly 20 years later. I finished an MS in information science in 2003 and finished an undergrad in philosophy in 2009. Since then, I've taken a bunch of extra philosophy courses, done a lot of independent studies, etc., while working full time as a software engineer. My overall grades are comparatively poor, no doubt, but my grades since 2001 have been excellent. My philosophy GPA is 3.91. My GREs are Verbal 164 Quant 159 AW 5.0. My primary interests are philosophy of action and mind, as well as philosophy of language. Good luck everyone!