Friday, January 11, 2008

Philosophers

While I'm thinking about it, I'll list the one (or two) professors at each school I've applied to that I'd look forward to working with the most (based on what I've read).

NYU - Ted Sider (1st overall choice of any professor anywhere), Hartry Field
Rutgers - Dean Zimmerman, (and Cian Dorr if he moves from Pitt; he has an offer)
Princeton - Probably Delia Graff-Fara, though they have a whole bunch of young LEMMings
MIT - Stephen Yablo
UNC - Thomas Hofweber
UMass - Philip Bricker
Colorado - Michael Tooley, Michael Huemer, David Barnett (more here because I've met them)
UCSB - Nathan Salmon
UVA - Trenton Merricks (I would be really excited to work with him, but unfortunately he's one of the few at UVA that I would really be interested in working with)
Rochester - David Braun, Earl Conee
CUNY - Michael Devitt, Saul Kripke (come on, Kripke!)
UCLA - David Kaplan
USC - David Manley, Scott Soames

Looking at this list, obviously most do metaphysics, which is what I'd say my primary area of interest is, but I notice that many (Sider, Dorr, Yablo, Hofweber, Manley, at least) do some meta-ontology, which I could really get into if given the opportunity, I think.

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