dasdingy

Thank you for your response, it has been very helpful, and I am grateful for it. First off - congratulations, that is exciting you have gotten in! Second - that sounds like a fantastic paper! I do actually wonder if this might be part of it - that paper is clearly something that would be interesting to read. Examples of my papers are, for instance, discussing double affection in Kant using the standard big-deal Kantians, discussing self-recognition in Hegel using some McDowell, etc. These do seem... boring in comparison. Part of my interest here is selfish: I am also dead tired of working on boring history of phil papers when I could be doing philosophy instead of just working on making old papers as academic as possible. I have not had time to publish anything since I cannot work on new stuff and no lower level journal will publish this kind of history stuff. I've been trying for around 5 years now, so it's not just this years' constraints. Somehow I am filtering myself right into the middle of the pile every year, but never getting out. Thank you for your help!

Hi all - I've applied for a few years to continental-leaning schools after receiving an MA with no success. I have been waitlisted a few times, or offered acceptance with no funding others. I am wondering if those who have been successful could share what their areas of interest are and what their sample writings are about... I don't need too much detail, I'm just trying to figure out if I'm cutting myself out by using samples focused on history of philosophy (Kant, Hegel, etc) and if maybe I would be better served using something properly continental like a paper on phenomenology or Agamben. The history papers are written in a somewhat analytic style, so I am now wondering if it looks like these papers don't mesh with my interests and quite frankly look far too boring to make me stand out.