Greetings to the Brains community. My name is Mike Ferreira; I'm a student in the Philosophy department at Ohio State. I write because I'm in the early stages of constructing the bibliography on which I'll be tested for candidacy. This is a request for input in the form of suggestions for additions and omissions to what I've got so far.
Taken from the OSU Department website:
'The purpose of the Candidacy Examination is to assess the student's mastery of the literature included on the Bibliography...and to assess, as well, the student's facility in explicating the philosophical issues that are connected with that literature...'
Generally speaking, students typically go on to write a dissertation in the area they did their candidacy work in.
The general theme, as you'll see, is intended to be 'Concepts', with broader inclusions to do with Intentionality and Mental Content. There's some flexibility with regard to the length of the reading list, but there is a crucial time constraint to keep in mind. Right now the list is too long. I'll be tested in early January of '09. That gives me a little less than a year (from the time of bibliography approval in Spring '08) to get a handle on the body of literature selected. In keeping the list managable, I also need to consider that I'll have to take several seminars and grade/TA during the roughly 9-10 months I have to prepare.
Please comment and/or contact me directly (
ferreira.23@osu.edu). Thanks in advance for your input.
Ferreira Candidacy Bibliography Draft
