I signed up for a logic class once and ended up dropping it before the semester started. The closest I've come has been taking Phi 375 this semester.

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10/26/2006 8:26:41 AM

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"(go go Hegel)"

I have a research paper on Plato & Hegel being published in the URJ either this fall or in the spring.

10/26/2006 2:28:49 PM

Hey man, congrats! What's the deal with the URJ anyway? Also, do we have a shot at getting published in any actual academic journal if we're not PhDs? I have something I'm working on that I think might be capable.

10/26/2006 7:53:56 PM

Short Version: With a little effort any research paper submission could get published in the URJ. And the same is true to some degree of real academic journal's, but it would require alot more effort. But I hope to bypass that effort by going to gradschool in a year or two.


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Long version:
I think the URJ is open to anyone, but its primarily intended for people who have gone through the undergraduate research grant & symposium process. But the research is so often math & physics type stuff that would bore one to tears, that they would gladly take anything more interesting.

I know the honors program at ncsu runs some people through the undergraduate research grant/symposium process. For mine it was just Dr Bykova approaching me about a class paper topic, suggesting that I expand it into more of a real research paper by applying for the grant & doing the symposium.

Also I think as long as one is aware of current scholarship on one’s topic then you could get published. It would probably require going some extra steps of a lot of research & a really good paper without the credentials of a PhD, but from talking to some grad students, I’ve heard it can be done.

Personally, I don’t plan be a not PhD forever. Once I get published in the URJ I plan on applying to UNC philosophy program, with graduating on the deans list, the whole grant/symposium thing, leadership positions in my fraternity, classics club, and membership in the philosophy club, & scholars forum, all under my belt.

Also a year or two of real world working full time will help. I’ve been told they don’t take many people straight out of college. I can go all Tom Regan on them with animal rights, and having worked in a vet clinic, and utilitarian ethics… reducing the pain in the world on thinking creatures that are absent of political agendas. Since I did work at a vet clinic in highschool, was accepted to state in the animal sci program, and worked a vet clinic full time after graduating.

Also my letters of recommendation will be from my mentor from the research project who got her PhD in Moscow, my advisor at ncsu who got his philosophy degree from Princeton, and maybe a high up in ncsu’s foreign language department again or maybe one of the classics professors at ncsu. I’m not really sure if for a grad school application they’d be interested in starting up charity programs like DragFEST for a music scholarship/gay charity, but they’re all gay at unc anyways right?

10/26/2006 8:56:00 PM

Hey that's a funny coincidence, I'm applying for a grant under Dr. Bykova at the moment...

She's cool as hell

10/26/2006 8:57:40 PM

bttt

10/27/2006 4:57:41 PM

I still read the Soap Box quite a bit (it's my source of fake news since I don't have cable for The Daily Show, lawl ), but I don't bother posting much anymore... just don't have the time.

To answer the poll though, yes. Master's degree in math, took a logic class online my first semester at NCSU, took a comm class called Argumentation and Advocacy, and took a few random philosophy courses.

10/27/2006 5:16:38 PM

bttt

agnostics, by definition, do not confirm or believe the existance of a supernatural "god" force.

atheists confirm that there is no god force.

both are different.

logic at work.

we need this thread back.

1/5/2007 11:53:03 AM

halleluiah, yes!

1/5/2007 11:56:15 AM