In a rare Monday update: My weekend sucked: I read over 150 pages for that stupid journal I help edit and ended up neglecting my real studies. Other than that, I did nothing
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Merely that I'm so hopelessly academic-esque, that any female who even has the intention of using her intellect to pick up guys is almost certain to work on me. In other words, you apparently use a booty call of the mind that I would be powerless to resist.
(I'm mostly being facetious, but I really am that all or nothing when it comes to people with..deeper minds)
I wouldn't freak out: Stonybrook just sucks about letting people know what's going on. I didn't hear from them until I wrote to ask in early April. From what I understand, though, they have made their Ph.D. bids: one went to that girl and the big money fellowship went to a student in the MA program here. If you didn't get rejected, you may be on the wait list. In which case, cross your fingers and hope that the girl comes here!
*seriously, though, you might want to write tem and ask... Have you heard from anywhere else?
I'd take that as wait listed because I know FOR A FACT that one of the students here is going to Stonybrook next year. In fact, this passed weekend he went up there to visit. Wait list is better than nothing, though!
Of the other places, I only applied to BC. I wrote them around April 1st to ask about the application and they sent me an e-mail about the MA program. I turned them down right then because they cost over $30K a year and don't offer any funding.
Sucks what your going through: I went crazy until I heard from Villanova. I am definitely not looking forward to re-applying places next year. All the misery all over again...
Jeff was head of philosophy at Murdoch when I started there as a naive first year in 1995. He left a long time before I did, but supervised several people who were/are important in the development of my thinking.
ANU and UTAS were first on my list (well Uni of Melbourne was a close 2nd) of places I wanted to go, but because of the difference in academic years here in the southern hemisphere, I didn't even get around to putting in applications for the US and the UK as I had been planning to do (because I got my acceptances here first).
I'm pretty happy at ANU. You're right about the good blend of continental and analytic options. Of course, RSSS has more research $ than the school of humanities, and they are pretty strictly analytic 'over there' (a whole 5 mins walk away).
Yeah, I like Malpas's stuff a bunch. Especially since he works in both continental and analytic philosophy, I get the feeling he'll understand what it is that I'm trying to accomplish. I'm practically holding my breath waiting for the book he claimed to be writing during the publication period of Place and Experience called Heidegger's Topology of Being. I get giddy just thinking about it!!!
I was turned on to ANU by a fellow who came to a study abroad fair at my old school. He was an older Heidegger guy (can't recall his name) and served as the Chancellor for some period of time (I remember him mentioning that). I would, of couse, keep my home in the humanities. I'm also interested in the University of Auckland in New Zealand, but if I choose any of those three I'm pretty much assured of studying Heidegger instead of Merleau-Ponty or Kant (my trinity as of right now). Oh well, things to worry about at a later time, I guess.
I hadn't seen you lurking on my friends list, so I just added you... welcome aboard!
Well I'm at ANU, studying Kant with Udo Thiel, who is pretty wonderful. He's mostly written about Locke, but is also very good on 18th C philosophy, German philosophy in particular. I like him because he's very good at the historical detail side of stuff, and also because he's neither continental or analytic. He's currently working on 18th C notions of personal identity and apperception.
We did have Richard Campbell (I think he must be who you met, he was head of department for quite awhile), who is a Heideggerian, but he has retired, his replacement will be arriving in June/July, but he name escapes me... She's also primarily a Heideggerian.
At UTAS they have Marcelo Stamm, who was a student of Dieter Heinrich (he only arrived late last year). Jeff has also written some things on Kant, and of course, edited From Kant to Davidson.
I added you awhile ago... lurking was unintentional, I guess I just had nothing to add until now.
I forgot to add- every time I take this quiz, I come up Heidegger. I think it's ironic that I get Heidegger, and you get Hume. However, I refuse to publish my result on the grounds that Heidegger ripped all his good stuff off of Husserl.
i also got hume, though more than likely not because it gets me girls...although apearently i can get that too... :-/ I found one quiz question especially awkward. are there any male philosophers who enjoy the company of women!?
When did thinking about going abroad come into the picture!? I feel so out of touch with your life.
You're not out of the loop! I've been trying to leave the US since my junior year at URI! That's what all those scholarships were about. The Australia idea is nice because 1) I speak English well enough to write a dissertation in it, 2) there seems to be less of an analytic/continental strife going on, 3) Koalas are funny, and 4) JEFF MALPAS ROCKS! (and he probably returns e-mail, unlike a certain Edward S. Casey...) Let's face it, though: the chances of my getting a Fullbright an next to none (though I am crossing my fingers till they turn white for Matt), so I'll most likely be in Philly in fall 2005.
gimme a break. you could pull a fullbright off. although i also think you could have pulled off all of the other scholarships. and still do.
oh...thought you'd be interested to hear that Pigasus won a seat on the Student Senate...however, they said he was out of the country and thus had to give up his seat. :-p
I tried for two years to get that damn pig on senate, and he wins now??? Who was his manager? Who remembers Pigasus except for maybe five fifth year seniors? HOW DID THIS HAPPEN? Was he running on he same platform?
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*looks flustered*
What do you mean? Tell me more.
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(I'm mostly being facetious, but I really am that all or nothing when it comes to people with..deeper minds)
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Wait wait wait - she heard back from Stonybrook already? I haven't heard from Stonybrook! What does this mean? I am freaking out.
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*seriously, though, you might want to write tem and ask... Have you heard from anywhere else?
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The lady said that they hadn't made any decisions and I would hear by april 1st.
I have not heard from anywhere else. Anywhere else being Depaul, Boston College, and Vanderbilt. Its starting to bug me.
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Of the other places, I only applied to BC. I wrote them around April 1st to ask about the application and they sent me an e-mail about the MA program. I turned them down right then because they cost over $30K a year and don't offer any funding.
Sucks what your going through: I went crazy until I heard from Villanova. I am definitely not looking forward to re-applying places next year. All the misery all over again...
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Jeff was head of philosophy at Murdoch when I started there as a naive first year in 1995. He left a long time before I did, but supervised several people who were/are important in the development of my thinking.
ANU and UTAS were first on my list (well Uni of Melbourne was a close 2nd) of places I wanted to go, but because of the difference in academic years here in the southern hemisphere, I didn't even get around to putting in applications for the US and the UK as I had been planning to do (because I got my acceptances here first).
I'm pretty happy at ANU. You're right about the good blend of continental and analytic options. Of course, RSSS has more research $ than the school of humanities, and they are pretty strictly analytic 'over there' (a whole 5 mins walk away).
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I was turned on to ANU by a fellow who came to a study abroad fair at my old school. He was an older Heidegger guy (can't recall his name) and served as the Chancellor for some period of time (I remember him mentioning that). I would, of couse, keep my home in the humanities. I'm also interested in the University of Auckland in New Zealand, but if I choose any of those three I'm pretty much assured of studying Heidegger instead of Merleau-Ponty or Kant (my trinity as of right now). Oh well, things to worry about at a later time, I guess.
I hadn't seen you lurking on my friends list, so I just added you... welcome aboard!
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We did have Richard Campbell (I think he must be who you met, he was head of department for quite awhile), who is a Heideggerian, but he has retired, his replacement will be arriving in June/July, but he name escapes me... She's also primarily a Heideggerian.
At UTAS they have Marcelo Stamm, who was a student of Dieter Heinrich (he only arrived late last year). Jeff has also written some things on Kant, and of course, edited From Kant to Davidson.
I added you awhile ago... lurking was unintentional, I guess I just had nothing to add until now.
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Husserl didn't even understand Sein und Zeit when Heidegger sent him an advance copy.
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(Sorry to disappoint you- I'm not working in continental phil.)
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When did thinking about going abroad come into the picture!? I feel so out of touch with your life.
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:-)
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oh...thought you'd be interested to hear that Pigasus won a seat on the Student Senate...however, they said he was out of the country and thus had to give up his seat. :-p
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I tried for two years to get that damn pig on senate, and he wins now??? Who was his manager? Who remembers Pigasus except for maybe five fifth year seniors? HOW DID THIS HAPPEN? Was he running on he same platform?
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