Several folks provided some helpful, extensive responses to my post on schools to consider for graduate study in philosophical theology. I thought I would post them here as a bit of a supplement (though please note: I’m not about to get into the Brian-Leiter-ranking business, and as I noted in the post, I’m not even…
OK, you’ve considered the sort of “rendition” of the scholarly life that appeals to you, and you’ve narrowed down the discipline in which you’re going to be “apprenticed.” The next step is to get more concrete and think about where you’re going to apply. I am very hesitant to get into specifics here, but since…
I can still recall reading Andrew Bacevich’s 2005 article in the Wilson Quarterly, “The Real World War IV.” (Indeed, it was the subject of one of my earliest posts at Fors Clavigera.) It was a significant turning point for me, and articulated a lot of my growing cynicism about what passes for democracy in the…
The students who write me for advice about going to grad school often have a unique challenge: they’ve already been infected with the “interdisciplinary” bug. My own work tends to range across disciplinary boundaries: from philosophy to theology to literature to social science. Those students who have a wide-ranging curiosity, and aren’t easily content to…
It seems like every week I get emails from undergraduates who’ve acquired a taste for academic exploration, or who sense a call to such a vocation, and thus ask for advice about going to graduate school. It occurred to me that I could save myself from writing the same email over and over if I…
The Immanent Frame is running their “Summer Reading” feature again this year as part of their “Off the Cuff” series. They poll an interdisciplinary array of scholars about their reading, including both non-fiction on religion, secularity, and public life as well as literature and fiction. You can see my sample here. (This is just a…