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While that's true, the philsophy and religion phd is funded, unless that's changed recently. Although, they seemes to offer a lot in buddhisn and not much else when i looked into them.

Without knowing too much about your actual interests, University of South Florida sounds like a good fit. The philosophy dept actually offers a Philosophy and Religion PhD, which is funded and you sound suited for it to me.

I believe there's a continental philwiki for those kinds of programs that ma prove useful.

Boston College has a decent MA program and if you have good letters they might take a chance. Your letters and writing sample will be most important. You can explain your GPA in your statement of purpose (briefly) if you think it's necessary.

There is a list online of aesthetics philosiphy graduate programs, and they list whether the program is continental, which is what you'd want. Its from the American Society of Aesthetics. They list faculty and their interests as well.

Well for starters al-Farabis book of letters starts at the political but finds itself as a thorough treatise on language. He also wrote about music. Avicenna, though he has the best ontological argument for God (imo), his falling man thought experiment basically says what Descartes cogito well before his birth. Also they wrote vast amounts of philosophy on logic, even good ol al-Ghazali.

Hello, I am an undergrad at a small school. I plan on applying to Notre Dame, Toronto, Marquette, Catholic University of America, Vanderbilt, Duquesne, Purdue, Kentucky, UC Santa Cruz, UM-StL, and Tufts. AOI medieval islamic philosophy.

Yeah there's a lot more going on.

Thanks for your advice and for giving me your earnest thoughts on my question. As for the employment side of things, maybe I am thinking backwards about it, but I just have no interest in tailoring my work in some way that improve my job chances, but should a small school give me the opportunity to teach broad subjects, I would absolutely be fine. And I would agree with you about the bias to the extent that most philosophers groan at the mention of God or religion more generally. However, that's fine with me, because the conversation going on in these topics with the people who are interested, religious, atheistic, or otherwise. I think in my statement of purpose, I probably should make it clear that I want to do serious work in medieval Islamic more than anything else. However, I could also say I am interested in any and all of the problems in that tradition, as well as ways they might inform contemporary philosophical discussion in metaphysics, epistemology, etc. This way, maybe despite my narrow scope, they know I am open to all fields of inquiry to that extent?

TTU looks like the place unless you want a specialty in eastern.

Don't sleep on University of Dallas, CUA, or Dominican School of Theology philosophy programs.

If I were you I would consider Baylor for philosophy. One of my former professors went there after seminary and he said it was a very smooth transition, esp. if Kierkegaard is your thing (I would think, anyway, as it's certainly his).

Thanks gang. I feel a lot better about my upcoming statement of purpose now. Y'all rock.

Hello any and all, I am an applicant from a small liberal arts school, however I have presented at several conferences, been published, and won scholarships and awards-- but I am quite nervous that I might be taking the wrong approach to the upcoming app season. To explain, I am concerned that maybe my interests are too narrow. I do like certain fields of philosophy, but I do most of my work within the the history of philosophy. My biggest interest is medieval islamic philosophy. In fact, I am SO interested in that specific area I would not want to consider a school that did not have a medieval islamic philosophy scholar in the faculty. Other interests include medieval philosophy more broadly, philosophy of religion, and existentialism and phenomenology. But again, those are small interests compared to my long standing infatuation with the conversations being had in medieval islamic philosophy. I guess my question is this: how do i address this in my statement without sounding too rigid/unwilling to do work in other topics? I have done work in Islamic philosophy more broadly as well as many other fields, but if I am going to spend 5-8 years getting an AOS, well, i know for a fact what I want it to be in. Thanks for any comments, concerns, or scathing indictments you all may have to offer.