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All about class.
*important caveat that said TT job was secured via an internal hire where two other grads of the same school…
Excellent questions! Re question 6, I have actually already invented a new punctuation mark. I can’t type it here, as…
29. Should competitive examination questions obey Betteridge’s Law?
It’s likely that Notre Dame will return to a policy of requiring GREs next year (this year they’re officially optional…
Would love to see what a successful answer (in the view of the All Souls’ examiners) looks like.
That list of questions has a beauty to it, I swear.
UPDATE: I’m moving this to the top, because I would like to encourage more comments from philosophers (including reactions to comments recently posted). Thanks.
FINAL UPDATE (9/30): There’s a new comment. More are welcome. I won’t bring this to the top after this.
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