Graduation Year: '95

address: 52 S. Russell St., Apt. 7, Boston, MA 02114

occupation: Graduate student/adjunct professor

Email address: bgprusak@bu.edu

I am presently (Sepember, 2000) a fourth-year graduate student in philosophy at
Boston University: I have finished my course work and taken my exams, and am now
beginning to work on my dissertation, which is in the area of "philosophical
anthropology," a movement in German thought in the 1920s. (Its founders were Max
Scheler and Helmuth Plessner; Plessner's writings particularly interest me. Arnold
Gehlen came along later.) I am also teaching as an adjunct professor both at
Boston University's night school and at Emerson College, in its Institute for
Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies. Likely I will finish my dissertation
in a year, and try my luck on the job market come December 2001.

After Williams, I went abroad for a year on a Watson Fellowship, and then worked
for another in New York as a journalist and an editor at Commonweal magazine.
Unsolicited advice: don't go immediately to graduate school. Do something else
for a year or two, if only to become clearer on why you might really want to
devote yourself to the study of philosophy -- on why in the world it matters.

For students thinking of going to graduate school in philosophy -- please
do feel free to write with any questions.