[2015 Campus Visits Thread]

Is anybody visiting David Chalmers this season? And - if this is the case - then can you please share my work with him? It is a precursor/prophecy of his "extended mind" discoveries... though I call it the "trans-brain hypothesis." Some of the best work on it is linked here:

 

https://sciencedefeated.wordpress.com/2015/03/28/the-embodied-mind/

 

I recommend the early posts to get a feel, but what I'm really interested in is what Chalmers thinks. Please report back?

 

Best thanks,

NS

[Shafer-Landau from Wisconsin to North Carolina]

If Simon Blackburn is still at Chapel Hill (if memory serves, he has a joint appointment to UNC-CH and Oxford), then the addition of Shafer-Landau will make UNC a meta-ethicist's wet dream.

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[2013 Applicants (Philosophy)]

I've enjoyed reading this thread so I figured I'd post my information as well. 1. Application list: UCLA, UC Berkeley, Stanford, USC, Arizona (Tucson), WashU, UC San Diego, UC Riverside, UC Irvine, UC Santa Barbara, and Washington (Seattle). 2. Undergraduate Education: Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from Southern Methodist University (despite the name, SMU's philosophy department is heavily analytic and has some well-published philosophers amongst its faculty). 3. Philosophical Interests: Metaphysics and Philosophy of Language. 4. Grades: Mostly A's and A-'s in Philosophy 5. GRE Scores: Mediocre at 530V/590Q/4.5AW I can't really give a measure for my writing sample or my letters of recommendation since there's no reliable means by which to quantify those (arguably most crucial) aspects of the admissions process--as has already been pointed out. However, although i admit it means very little to say, I feel quite confident about both. Good luck to everyone in getting in to their top choices!