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…
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…
As I noted earlier, I’m in a period of thinking through issues of genre and style in theological and philosophical writing, and thus I’m labeling my blog reflections on these matters “Notes toward a new genre.” My first post generated more email responses than usual, so I’m encouraged that others are also thinking through these…
In Phenomenology of Perception, Maurice Merleau-Ponty emphasizes the bodily nature of our language, ultimately claiming, “Words have a physiognomy.” I was reminded of this when I read Ian McGilchrist’s recent reflection, “Four Walls,” in the July/August 2010 issue of Poetry: Poetry engraves itself in the brain: it doesn’t just slip smoothly over the cortex as…