Pick a random digit 0-9 for each letter A-G.
Fill in the word from the chart below.
Re: Thesis Proposal
Dear Professor X:
A said, “B is dead.” If Foucault holds, then this is as novel as it was controversial.
I hereby propose to write my honors thesis on the topic. My metric for analysis will rely less on C than on postmodern D.
Yet I promise not to ignore the elephant in the room: Is E really F?
With your approval, I will start from Derrida’s claim, “G is only a text”– which is both a turning-point and a way-of-life in philosophy, I submit.
Thank you for your attention to this proposal. I look forward to pursuing my studies in your department. Please let me know who is best suited to be my thesis advisor, if not you.
Very truly yours,
Stephen Doty
A B
0 Sontag 0 Metaphysics
1 Voltaire 1 Dogma
2 Derrida 2 Logic
3 Hegel 3 Intuition
4 Nietzsche 4 Postmodernism
5 Quine 5 Deconstruction
6 Santayana 6 Science
7 Sartre 7 Rationality
8 Heidegger 8 Theory
9 Schopenhauer 9 Empiricism
C D
0 metaphysics 0 metaphysics
1 reason 1 Existence
2 dialectic 2 intuitionism
3 Weltanschauung 3 Idealism
4 logic 4 radicalism
5 deconstruction 5 deconstruction
6 cosmology 6 reductionism
7 ideology 7 solipsism
8 Hegel 8 logic
9 empiricism 9 naturalism
E F G
0 history 0 reductionism 0 God
1 philosophy 1 tenable 1 Philosophy
2 science 2 delusion 2 Reality
3 postmodernism 3 solipsistic 3 Theory
4 deconstruction 4 epistemology 4 Reason
5 metaphysics 5 illusion 5 Relativity
6 ethics 6 provable 6 Theory
7 objectivism 7 practical 7 Ethics
8 ideology 8 metaphysical 8 History
9 realism 9 dialectical 9 Science
For example:
Re: Thesis Proposal
Dear Prof. Chatsworth:
Sontag said, “Rationality is dead.” If Foucault holds, then this is as novel as it was controversial.
I hereby propose to write my honors thesis on the topic. My metric for analysis will rely less on deconstruction than on postmodern reductionism.
Yet I promise not to ignore the elephant in the room: Is philosophy really dialectical?
With your approval, I will start from Derrida’s claim, “Theory is only a text”– which is both a turning-point and a way-of-life in philosophy, I submit.
Thank you for your attention to this proposal. I look forward to pursuing my studies in your department. Please let me know who is best suited to be my thesis advisor, if not you.
Very truly yours,
Stephen Doty