Month: May 2014
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Blog Admin
Posting may be light and comment approval a little slow over the next week or so, owing to travel. Philosophers, don’t do anything too…
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Heap of Links
1. A defense of the lecture. 2. Harvard’s internal report on the scientific misconduct case of Marc Hauser. 3. “Socrates and the Crisis of…
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Google Gets Philosopher to Help It Forget
Luciano Floridi (Oxford) has been selected by Google to be a member of an advisory panel to help the company handle requests from European residents asserting…
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Big Pragmatism Map
Michael P. Wolf (Washington & Jefferson College) taught pragmatism this past semester and created a map to help keep things straight. A big map. Not unworkably big,…
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Philosophical Critique of Piketty
Kevin Vallier (Bowling Green) has begun a five part series of posts assessing the normative political philosophy in Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century. He…
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Philosophers in Government
In Slovenia, Alma Maruška Sedlar, a woman described in news reports as a philosopher and teacher, has been appointed by President Borut Pahor as a deputy chief…
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Hilary Putnam’s Blog
Hilary Putnam now has a blog. No, it is not named “Twog,” which seems like a missed opportunity to me. Called “Sardonic Comment,” its first post…
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Heap of Links
1. Does the formal modeling of game theory teach us anything new? Here is a list of some counterintuitive findings, suggesting that the answer is…
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Black Philosopher, White Academy
A post at Lewis Gordon’s website about Bruce Kuklick’s book on William Fontaine, an African-American philosopher who taught at the University of Pennsylvania from 1947-1967,…
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What Can You Do With A Philosophy Major? Part 8563 or so
You can invent a silly product, market it well, and use the proceeds to fund a charity. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the newest inductee…
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How Much Do You Travel For Work?
Many philosophers travel for work, delivering talks or participating in conferences and the like. In deciding whether to attend another conference, or accept another invitation,…
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Professional Philosophers in Industry
Professional Philosophers in Industry is a LinkedIn group for philosophers who have left academic philosophy. “The purpose of this group is to provide professional…
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New Open Access Philosophy Journal
Ergo is a new general, open access philosophy journal that launches today. In their introduction, Franz Huber and Jonathan Weisberg describe the data and other…
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Must Journal Submissions Conform to Style Guidelines?
An assistant professor writes in with the following query: Do journal editors ever reject something simply because it doesn’t fit the stated style guidelines?…
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Around The Philosoblogosphere
Below are reports about some recent philosoblogospheric activity. If something philosophical and worth sharing is going on at a blog you read or run, feel…
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The PERFECT Project for €2 Million
Lisa Bortolotti, a philosopher at the University of Birmingham, has won a European Research Council Consolidator Grant for 2 million euros (over 5 years)…
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Heap of Links – Long Weekend Bonus Edition
1. I’ll have the Frege Legs with Russell Sprouts, please. 2. Steven Nadler on the Jewish ban of Spinoza and the relation between wisdom…
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Heap of Links
1. “No one goes into the humanities for reasons political, professional, or merely personal. We do so because devoting ourselves to some particular field…
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SC Philosophers Ask: Is the State Legislature Silencing Gay Voices?
Julinna Oxley (Coastal Carolina) and Diane Perpich (Clemson), both philosophy professors who head up the women’s studies programs at their respective universities, have written…