Month: April 2014
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Cognitive Decline and the Peak Age for Philosophy
Speaking of video games, Starcraft 2 is a “military science fiction real-time video game” that is used in at least one classroom to teach…
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Graphing the History of Philosophical Influences
To cut a long story very short I’ve extracted the information in the “influenced by” section for every philosopher on Wikipedia and used it to construct…
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Five Years In Philosophy
Massimo Pigliucci, currently professor at CUNY and soon to be holder of the K.D. Irani Professorship in Philosophy there, takes the occasion of his 50th birthday…
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Recent Developments in the Colorado Stories
Inside Higher Ed has a fairly detailed article on recent developments on the goings-on in the department of philosophy at the University of Colorado,…
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Sexual Assault Charges Against Rutgers-Newark Philosophy Chair
Anna Stubblefield, the chair of the philosophy department at Rutgers-Newark, has been placed on administrative leave while she fights criminal charges that she repeatedly…
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Women of Philosophy
Women of Philosophy is a site “devoted to collecting information about women currently working in philosophy around the globe.” One goal of the site “is…
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More on the Lack of “Significant” Women Philosophers
Noah Berlatsky, writing in The Atlantic, responds to Charles Murray’s claim that there have been no significant women philosophers.
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Advice for Grad Students and Other Conference Goers
The Pacific APA is in session and so it might be a good time to share this helpful post about good conference-going behavior (via Hannah Bondurant).…
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Mental Illness in the Academy
Last month The Guardian published a couple of pieces on mental illness in academia. The first was a blog post on the “culture of…
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A Philosophy Video Game
The makers of the video game, The Old City, say that it is “philosophically founded,” and this article about the game uses some version…
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An “Oh, Yes!” for Continental Philosophy
Last month saw the opening of the Scottish Centre for Continental Philosophy at the University of Dundee. At their inaugural workshop, James Williams (Dundee)…
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More Millions for Mele
Alfred Mele (Florida State) has won another enormous grant from the Templeton Foundation, this time for $4.5 million, for his project on the philosophy…
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Teaching Philosophy in Prisons
Currently over two million people in the United States are in prison, and about nine million worldwide. There are many questions worth asking about the…
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Accessing PhilPapers From Campus
PhilPapers announces that starting on July 1st, 2014, full access to the PhilPapers site from an institution of higher education will be by institutional…
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Running Commentary
If there were a pill that could replicate all the benefits of running—heath, looks, even enjoyment—would you keep running? In my experience, the longer…
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Is This Letter Addressed To You? Or you? Or you?
Dear Ambiguous Commentator, Hi there. I don’t think we’ve met, but I appreciate your interest in the blog and I’m flattered that you have…
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Philosopher Gets Google Doodle Treatment
The 888th birthday of Spanish Muslim philosopher Averroes (Ibn Rushd) is celebrated with a Google Doodle today, but not everywhere. Check out Google Spain…
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New Report on Adjunct Faculty
A new study on contingent or adjunct faculty has been released. The New York Times comments on it, and then itself comes in for…
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The Philosopher-Politician Reflects
We all think we can teach politics, but there is some almost tragic sense in which it can only be learned… by the mistakes…
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What Is Philosophical Progress?
Writing in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein (previously) argues that philosophy is making progress, and argues for a particular conception of…