Applying to philosophy programs with a poli sci undergrad?

[petronius_arbiter]

Hello, all. As you can see, I am new. I'm an undergraduate at a fairly tiny, but relatively prestigious SLAC that has a long history of turning out people who go to grad school. Like my fellows before me, I am extremely interested in grad school, as I have always been interested in academia and my experience in college thus far has just confirmed it. I'm working on a paper to submit to an undergrad journal and I love the entire process of research. I have some teaching experience, and I love that too, so I'm fairly committed to the idea of grad school as a professional step, not just as more time wallowing in my favorite topics.

That being said, I have something of a problem based on the smallness of my school. I adore my college and really don't want to transfer, but I'm very interested in continental philosophy, particularly from a political science bent. At this point, I'm a poli sci major, but most of the people and programs I'd like to work with in grad school are philosophers. I'm even considering a JD/PhD program, as I'm also very interested in critical jurisprudence.

The philosophy department at my school, however, sort of kind of maybe (well, they do) loathes the continent. I had a short conversation with the head of the department about something or another, and I swear to god he made a face when I mentioned Foucault (yes, I know, undergrad into Foucault. Shocking. At least in this case, it was relevant). He then said, "we don't do that sort of thing here," in the most perfect disdainful voice you can imagine. Based on other experiences and explicit comments (my adviser told me that the philosophy department thinks they are the math department), I'm thinking that it would not be a good fit.

My question is, do I stay in the somewhat more friendly but still traditional Poli Sci department and then go to a Philosophy Ph.D program? I'd want to study political philosophy Do I go to the Philosophy department and get a solid grounding in things I probably need to know, all while my primary academic interests are not developed at all? Do I skip the idea of philosophy grad school all together and find a somewhat critical poli sci program? Related question, will I ever get a job as a philosophy heavy, super critical political science doctorate?

It isn't a pressing issue in the short term, but due to some particular institutional restraints I need to decide on a major very early, so I need to sort these things out now. There would also be a lot of logistical problems in switching majors now (as in, I'm not sure how I could possibly graduate in four years, based on institutional restraints previously mentioned), so I'm only going to switch if it really, really matters.

I hope that was coherent and I haven't embarrassed myself on the first post. I'm not even sure if this post really belongs in philosophy or political science sub-forums, but oh well. Here it goes!

[jferreir]

In the context of an overall strong application, I don