stakes.don't.matter.

I find it amazing that UCLA has almost NOTHING for metaphysics and epistemology. There's Kaplan (who certainly knows his stuff) and there's someone doing philosophy of science and metaphysics, but that isn't, so to speak. the same sort of metaphysics that's in the mainstream (e.g. Williamson, etc). If you're not just doing ethics, then you really might be trouble when it comes to an M&E hire once you graduate after 5 years. And, if you have options, it even seems that there might be better places do ethics (especially contemporary ethics like meta-ethics).