Tag: graduate school
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A Collection of Advice for Graduate Students
There’s a lot of advice floating around online for graduate students, but it can be hard to find, and hard for newbies to judge…
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Practical Tips for Philosophy PhD Students
What are some practical work suggestions for philosophy PhD students who are seeking academic careers?
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An Unconventional and Fruitful Approach to Studying Philosophy
The New Yorker published a profile of L.A. Paul (Yale) today. It’s a detailed, positive piece that covers her background, education, career, and ideas.
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Surviving Graduate School in Philosophy — a Guide
“When I was just starting graduate school in philosophy, I had a lot of questions.”
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Douglas Portmore’s Six Commandments for Getting the Most Out of Graduate School
[Originally posted on September 28, 2020.] How can you get the most out of graduate school? Douglas Portmore, professor of philosophy at Arizona State University, has…
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“Should I Go To Graduate School in Philosophy?”
Professors (and graduate students) occasionally get asked, “should I go to graduate school in philosophy?”
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The “Secret Syllabus” of Being a Graduate Student in Philosophy
There’s what professors expect their students to be doing in order to be successful in graduate school and beyond, and then there’s what successful…
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Tech Advice for a New Philosophy Grad Student
A student who will be entering a philosophy PhD program in the fall is seeking advice about hardware and software for his studies.
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Philosophy MA Programs: Funding Details
If you’re interested in learning more about which master’s programs in philosophy offer funding, you can check out the “Funded MA Programs in Philosophy”…
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Apps & Other Methods for Organizing Your Academic Life
It’s the beginning of a new academic year, and a new set of graduate students are learning about all that will be expected of…
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Being an “Awesome First-Year Graduate Student”
As his son approaches graduate school, Eric Schwitzgebel (University of California, Riverside), has been thinking about advice he can offer him to be an…
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What To Do About The Graduate Student Mental Health Crisis
A study of depression and anxiety among graduate students has found that 39% of its survey respondents “scored in the moderate-to-severe depression range.”
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The Underproduction of Philosophy PhDs (guest post by Daniel Hicks)
The following is a guest post* by Daniel Hicks (UC Davis), in which he explains how it could be that, contrary to conventional wisdom, there…
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Grad Student Tuition Waivers to Remain Tax-Exempt
Members of the United States Senate and House of Representatives have been meeting this week to reconcile their different tax reform bills, and various news…
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How to Ask Your Profs for Letters of Recommendation (guest post by Kathryn Norlock)
The following is a guest post* by Kathryn J. Norlock, who holds the Kenneth Mark Drain Chair in Ethics at Trent University, advising undergraduates applying…
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As Graduate Students Prepare For The New Academic Year
[Note: this is a repost from August, 2017.] It was suggested to me that as the new school year approaches, it would be helpful…
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Profs: What Do You Regret About Your Time In Graduate School?
In a new interview at What Is It Like To Be A Philosopher?, David Wong (Duke) says of his time in graduate school:
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What Graduate Students In Philosophy Are And Should Be Paid For Teaching
The graduate students in the philosophy program at the University of St. Andrews are concerned about their teaching conditions, some of them tell me, but they…
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Grad Student Asks: How To Switch Departments? (Ought Experiment)
Welcome back to Ought Experiment, the column by Dear Ida that offers personal advice for your academic life. Today’s letter is from a graduate student seeking…
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Questions about Terminal MAs at PhD-Granting Programs
A philosophy professor advising an undergraduate, who did not major in philosophy, about her options for graduate school quite reasonably suggested she first pursue…