thehegeldialectic

When is an appropriate time to ask where we are on the waitlist? I am at a place where I might be making decisions soon, and would like to know all of my options.

Received an offer from Villanova.

But if there's a great harm to be prevented, then you are not acting from respect for the law, but to bring about some end. So that wouldn't be acting from duty, but acting from the inclination to prevent perceived negative consequences. For the action to conform to the rational law, you have to act purely on the basis of the law itself. Basically, the categorical imperative is the cause of your action, rather than an effect you try to bring about.

I don't see how this could follow from duty, rather than inclination. Taking a bullet for someone acts for the sake of some end, rather than being motivated by a respect for duty itself, therefore it wouldn't be a moral action.

Aren't y'all using my injury as a means to talk about Kant? Mr. Kant would never approve.

This is philosophy, yo

I disagree. Recall in "Lordship and Bondage" that the attempt for both masters to achieve recognition by staking their lives fails, namely because they both ignore the fact that they cannot be recognized if they both kill each other, nor can one achieve recognition from another person whom they have killed. Jesus Christ, this is freaking dark! Not even utilitarians are this evil.

Alright, calm down y'all. I'm taking care of my health just fine. And of course, the proper answer is the Hegelian one: By staking my life on my commitment to going to graduate school, a contradiction emerges between the explicit (für sich) intention to go to graduate school and the implict (an sich) content of the deed [Tat] or the actual carrying out of this intention, where the content of the intention cannot be said to correspond to the actuality of the deed. In other words, you can't go to grad school if you're dead.

Rejected from UC Irvine (no surprises here). In other news, I ended up in the ER last night after experiencing severe chest pain moments after my first interview. Thankfully, it seems to just be anxiety, but this was pretty scary, as I've never had anything like this happen before.

Just got an interview with Villanova. So far, I've been accepted at University of Kentucky, very short waitlist at DePaul, interviewed at Villanova, and rejected Emory and Chicago. Still waiting to hear back from nine programs. This is going to be very hard to decide.

Your AOS must be money!

Congratulations!

Not sure if I posted this, but I got a University of Kentucky acceptance on Monday. 1a/1w/2r/ out of 14.

Should be able to access from this link: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1575546452486383/

Also rejected from Emory. Would have been a perfect fit, so rather disappointed. But I do have one offer on the table, which is a great fit location-wise and a decent fit for my interests. So I am at least glad that I know now.

So I checked my application status at Chicago and found a rejection letter. Not too worried about it, though, as it wasn't high on my list.

Wouldn't they have sent out all the rejections then?

Chicago hasn't sent me a rejection yet, so they may have not finished making their decisions yet. As I understand it from the website, they don't have a waitlist, but also don't send out all of the offers at once. I wouldn't be surprised if they have accepted people in certain areas, while they are still deciding about others.

I haven't had an interview yet, but as of the past two years, Skype interviews are starting to become more and more common for Ph.D. programs.

Me too! Good luck to us both!

The Leiter report is pretty bogus, especially when it comes to the history of philosophy and anything remotely continental. I would look at the list of schools on the SPEP page instead. http://www.spep.org/resources/graduate-programs/ Most of these programs will have someone working on Kant/19th century philosophy.

Above 25 degrees? You must be ice man or a frost giant or something.

It's not that bad here. My wife hates it, my friend's wives hate it, but it's a cool city with a rich philosophical scene.

My strategy is to stay as busy as possible worrying about other things. Going to be booking myself with tons of reading groups, conferences, and extra work.

I apologize for being inaccurate about the position of the University of Chicago on the Leiter Report. It was not my intention to report these facts inaccurately. Of course, I would agree with this. All I'm saying is that most M.A. students have already produced six term papers. Surely one of them is publishable. Maybe other departments are different, but our professors tell us that all of our final papers should be near publishable quality. I'm also not convinced it's that difficult to produce publishable work. Journals are full of awful articles that don't deserve to be published. The recent Hypatia controversy is proof of how bad articles can be published in well-respected journals.