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If you were the head recruiter for a professional basketball team, would you require height and weight measurements for prospective…
I wonder if people are familiar with Fred Schauer’s essay on Kelsen and Fuller. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3607099
If knowledge is sociologically conditioned, then what, exactly, happens to the truth-status of the sociology of knowledge itself? This is…
To a large degree, Kuhn’s Structure is an attempt to deliver on the descriptive task of epistemology as Reichenbach conceived…
I concur to a certain extent. I also scored very low on the writing section. Back then, GRE was required…
Thanks, I’ll check it out!
I’m a graduate student in philosophy at a well-known terminal MA program who is applying to PhDs this fall and…
This is remarkable; we noted a couple of philosophy departments that were not admitting PhD students this year, but this is the first school-wide suspension of PhD admissions in the humanities and sciences. Comments are open if readers know of other schools following a similar path; please include links.
Rice University (School of Humanities) has sent out an email to folks who had started an application (I believe) stating that they will be pausing admissions to all five of its PhD programs which includes the philosophy department.
Message from the department confirms this: https://philosophy.rice.edu/prospective-graduate-students
Warwick (UK) confirmed with me via email that they will only be able to offer unfunded offers to their MA program this cycle.
Rice University (School of Humanities) has sent out an email to folks who had started an application (I believe) stating that they will be pausing admissions to all five of its PhD programs which includes the philosophy department.
Message from the philosophy department itself: https://philosophy.rice.edu/prospective-graduate-students
Warwick (UK) will only be able to make unfunded offers to their program this year. Note on funding from the department: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/studywithus/postgraduate/fees-funding
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