"Oh My God He's Back Again"

So after a long respite I am finally back writing on my blog. It’s been a little while but I am happy to say that laziness is only partly to blame for my leave of absence. Over the last few months I have been working on applying to M.A. of philosophy programs and am finally about ready to send out the applications. My top two schools are Tuft’s and Brandeis in Boston, both with well-regarded terminal masters programs. My third choice is University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, also has a well-regarded program but not so ideal geographically. It is my hope to gain acceptance into one of these programs and then apply to Ph.D. programs after.

Normally it wouldn’t take someone so long to pull an application together but being that philosophy programs require a writing sample, and being that I studied political science and econ, I had none. Plus I’m not very proud of anything I ever wrote in college anyway. So I’ve been spending a significant amount of time researching and writing an essay strictly with the purpose of submitting it as my writing sample. I chose Kant as my topic, where I attempt to establish empirical merit to his moral law through an analysis of a paradox posed in his Idea for a Universal History with Cosmopolitan Intent. It took some effort but I finally feel I have this essay ready to go and feel semi-confident about sending it in.

As most of you probably noticed I have gone back to Blogger for my blog rather than the old format. I find Blogger to be simpler and more casual, allowing me to just post my daily musings rather than drawn out arguments like I did before, although I may still development drawn out arguments from time to time. Hopefully I will post much more regularly now on a variety of topics. Tomorrow I will post a movie review/philosophical analysis of the Cohen’s brother movie of A Serious Man, which is very philosophical in nature itself.