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Graduate Study
If you are considering
applying to our program, please read our letter to
applicants.
We are a small program
where students get much individual attention. We have a
very good graduate placement record; our recent Ph.D.'s have generally
found tenure-track positions in four-year colleges. We do a considerable
amount of research, of which the best-known focuses on naturalized
philosophy of mind and on social and moral philosophy, and on philosophical
logic and philosophy of logic and language. Course
descriptions are available here.
The Guide to Graduate Students is available here.
Teaching Assistantships
Graduate students are primarily supported by
teaching assistantships, which in 2008-2009 will range from $19,098.89 to $22,342.52 in salary. Tuition is waived for graduate assistantships who are awarded half or full teaching assistantships and
with full time registration (6 credits or more & maintaining a 3.0 or
better). Both half and full teaching assistants may purchase excellent
health-care coverage, heavily subsidized by UConn.
There are also fellowships of up to $10,000 as well as work-study and other
forms of support. Graduate students accepted into the Ph.D. program are
guaranteed three additional years of support at the full teaching assistant
level.
Graduate Program Rankings
The Philosophical Gourmet
rates our program quite favorably in many of its areas of specialization.
In philosophy of social science, we are rated in the very top group; in
philosophy of mind and cognitive science, we are rated in the same group as
Princeton, Brown, King's College London, and Ohio State; in philosophy of
mind and language, in the same group as Michigan, Arizona, North Carolina,
UC Berkeley, and Cambridge; in Chinese Philosophy, in the same group as
Duke and Hawaii; in Feminist Philosophy, in the same group as Michigan,
Stanford, and UCLA.
But these ratings must
be placed in a broader perspective, as the editor of the Gourmet
himself acknowledges. Prospective graduate students must ask themselves not
only about the quality and volume of research which a department produces,
but also about the commitment of the faculty to teaching, and about the
atmosphere of the department. We believe that our program fares quite well
on these measures.
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