Towards a Meaningful Life
My interest in philosophy began during my junior year study abroad program, an unexpected turn from my original path. Before then, I was fully...
Philosophy in our times: a call for submissions
My name is Ahan, and I have the challenge and privilege of following on from Isaac Raymond’s excellent tenure as editor of the Graduate...
A long and winding path to philosophy through the law
It took me a long time to get to academic philosophy—in fact, most of my life. I didn’t major in philosophy in college, but...
Leadership, Elevators, and Missing Car Payments: A Reflection on Aphorisms in Recovery
On the wall of the bookshelf in my office is a poem, “If” the Most Powerful Word in the English Language. The poem reads...
Thermodynamic Insider Baseball (or: Why Philosophy of Physics Matters)
There’s something slightly awkward about being a philosopher in a room full of cosmologists. Of course, the other students in this 500-level physics course...
Insights from “A History of the Self”
Introduction
A year and a half ago, I embarked on my first college philosophy class titled "A History of the Self" at the University of...
Mere Conservationism, Concurrentism, and Occasionalism in Teaching
In the spring of 2024, I took a graduate seminar on Leibniz taught by Professor Sukjae Lee in the Department of Philosophy at Seoul...
Reflections on Graduate Student Life
Before I began writing for the Graduate Student Reflection Series, I made a point of reading nearly all the previously published contributions. What struck...
Selena Gomez Over Hobbes, or How To Be Successful in Academia
I began my PhD in Philosophy at Durham University (UK) in 2022. Since then, to my surprise, many BA and MA students interested in...
A Graduate Student’s Nightmare
Those who supervise or assess dissertations should recognize that the power they exercise is easily abused and can result in the destruction of careers....