1. Your response seems to assume a fair amount of ignorance on my part. This may be misread or even due to a weakness in the posing of my question, but I'm struggling with that impression in my reply. While I am ignorant of many things, I am purposeful in my inquiry and narrowing of interest. I began my approach to graduate education as a generalist. But to make it to the top of a preferred school's list it is important to know why you are a match to their program.

I pursued my bachelor degree over 12 years, only discovering Philosophy in the last four. I know my interests, and most importantly, my talents and weaknesses. I know what I have to offer that makes me valuable, and I know what I am looking for from a grad program. I know that a school that does not value continental philosophy but insists all good philosophy is analytical will not be a match. But I know that applied ethics and especially philosophy of science/tech are more commonly associated with stronly analytical programs/professors. So I'm looking for this rare overlap, and shared value in philosophies, philosophers, and ethical sustems, not out of ignorance or naivety. But, because its worth getting as close as possible to it, or not at all.

2.(goes to both responses) iI have not been reading about Whitehead, I've been reading Whitehead. My undergraduate program was largly focused on the history of philosophy, encouraging the reading of the origional major works and understanding the evolution and impact of philosophy over time. We only had a few applied ethics courses that took a survey appproach and rarely focused on any current commentary.

I have attemped your suggested approach (traditional routes, as I said above) with little to show for it. Most of what I did find was outdated since neither he nor virtue ethics is not currently fashionable, I found it difficult to locate many good and current articles related to the work I'm interested in pursuing. Much of process philosophy that I've found was process theology which exactly what I'm not interested in. What very little I did find was often not written by tenured track philosophy in graduate programs. Adjuncts, or non-grad programs instead. Yes, I know that no perfect program is out there but its difficult to tell via traditional resources which may be interested in welcoming a student as odd as I am. Simply a program where my strengths overlap with their interests and approach. Chicago appears to be a good option, at least on paper, but its likely there is better in more obscure progams. And as I'm interested in writing and reasearch far more than professorial employment, I have the luxury of being picky or moving on.

Thank you for your time.