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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]don't do this. if your DC is not good enough to be accepted to a top phd program in philosophy they will never be a professional philosopher. they can read and discuss philosophy on a side. even if they were accepted to a phd program at oxbridge they would then apply to an academic job as one of a 1000 applicants. the odds will be against them to be a professor anywhere but a medicare school in the middle of nowhere. and then, on top of it, most professional philosophers i met are, paradoxically, pretty unhappy about their jobs. their salaries are very low and most students are not interested in their work. their academic work is also often very technical. they won a lottery that was not worth winning.[/quote]
There’s very few top graduate philosophy students who can’t get a good job. [b]Getting a PhD at Princeton or NYU will get you a gold post position at an Ivy (not Harvard, they’re annoying with tenure) or top lac.[/b]
The issues you talk about with student interest are general to any humanities prof. If the philosopher doesn’t like their research, then they chose a pretty crap career as a researcher, but it’s very hard to escape the fact that the humanities have to teach general education courses and students these days can hardly read, let alone analyze text.[/quote]

This is not true, maybe 1/3 of the classes from a handful of the very top schools will go there. And even if it were true, that's a completely different level of applicant compared to someone inquiring about a master's program. Those phd programs themselves have 1% acceptance rate. And then, when you get it you will need to publish in philosophy journals which have the lowest acceptance rates of any field.[/quote]

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