🧩 Philosophy 3d ago · Justin Weinberg

Your One Piece of Philosophy Grad School Advice

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Your One Piece of Philosophy Grad School Advice
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If you could give beginning philosophy graduate students just one piece of advice, what would it be?











I know that some readers will want to jump in to say “don’t”—either as a wisecrack or as sincere guidance.



But as humor it’s clichéd, and as advice it’s not helpful. All graduate students nowadays have heard some version of the warnings most of us know to give undergraduates who tell us they want to go to grad school in philosophy, and they&#8217

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