Yale?

[artgarfunkel]

Long time reader, first time responder...

I have heard very little buzz on the forums about the Yale philosophy department. What is going on at that department? Has anyone here applied? Is there little interest in the philosophy department there?

[parapraxis]

This forum, unfortunately, isn't visited by many philosophy prospectives. Livejournal's "whogotin" is the place to swap info. I say unfortunately because gradcafe has a good setup and allows one to search for posts-- whogotin is a free for all and reeks of 1997 internet savvy...

Anyway, Yale has a great reputation, one of the best places to do political philosophy, for instance, with Benhabib and Pogge.

They are strong in early modern, too.

The Ivy's are maybe a little out of touch for some folks who are into recent analytic philosophy (or critical theory and other strands in continental philosophy for that matter), but they are generally strong in ancient and in the history of philosophy

Long time reader, first time responder...

I have heard very little buzz on the forums about the Yale philosophy department. What is going on at that department? Has anyone here applied? Is there little interest in the philosophy department there?