Month: May 2014
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The $4.8 Million Experience
Samuel Newlands (Notre Dame), L. A. Paul (North Carolina), and Michael Rea (Notre Dame) have won a grant of $4.8 million from the Templeton Foundation…
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McMahan Offered White’s Chair of Moral Philosophy
Oxford University has offered the prestigious White’s Chair of Moral Philosophy to Jeff McMahan (Rutgers). The chair is currently held by John Broome. Recent…
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Ask a Long-Dead Philosopher
If you could ask a long-dead philosopher any one question, who would you you pick, and what would you ask? (For our purposes here,…
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Colorado Professor Allowed Back On Campus
Dan Kaufman, who had been barred since March for unspecified reasons from the University of Colorado, where he is associate professor of philosophy, is…
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Heap of Links
1. Jeff Sebo talks about moral status while drawing very fast. And well. Hmmm, maybe he isn’t the one drawing. 2. If privacy is…
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Philosophy Major in the News
I’ve had many opportunities to use my philosophy degree to home in on what one politician or another was saying and to find the…
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Philosophy Students Do It
…for good reasons? How about more? That’s a finding of a recent survey conducted at over 100 British universities. So do we add this…
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Philosophers Hired Outside of Academia
At the suggestion of a friend I am creating a new page at Daily Nous for people to list their successes finding employment outside…
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Philosophy Student Wins on “The Voice”
The Voice is a popular televised singing competition on NBC. The finale of its sixth season aired last night, and the winner is Josh Kaufman, who…
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Should the Philosophy Job Market Ditch Letters of Recommendation?
Over at the Justice Everywhere blog, Anca Gheaus (Sheffield) takes up the question of whether the practice of asking for, reading, and giving weight…
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Anja Jauernig (Pittsburgh) to NYU
Anja Jauernig, currently associate professor of philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, has accepted a senior offer from New York University, starting in January,…
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Laurence Goldstein (1947-2014)
Laurence Goldstein, a professor of philosophy at the University of Kent, has died. Before joining the department at Kent, Goldstein had held appointments at…
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Now That I’ve Got Your Attention…
We can ask, what is attention, anyway? The folks over at Brains, the group blog on the philosophy and science of minds, are currently…
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PIP #1: Huebner Interviews Maffie
A “pip” is defined variously as a small fruit seed, a dot on dice or dominoes, an exemplar. It is a verb meaning to…
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Philosophy: “Something scientists should embrace”
Just having the graduate students and Sara [Goering, associate professor of philosophy] present in our space and asking us questions raises our consciousness, our…
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Report on the Yale Case from IHE
Inside Higher Ed reports on the recent social-media publicizing of allegations of sexual misconduct against “a professor of philosophy at Yale University.” (previously here and here,…
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A More Animated Than Usual Chomsky
The world is a very puzzling place. If you’re not willing to be puzzled, you just become a replica of someone else’s mind. Is…
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Philosophy Festival in Cologne this Week
Today is the start of phil.Cologne, a week-long philosophy festival featuring an international slate of philosophers taking up a wide range of questions. Also…
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Ethics? There’s An App For That
The Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University has developed an Ethical Decision Making app. The app…asks the user to consider the…
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The Legality of Hiring for Diversity
There is a great discussion on the thread about diversity in philosophy departments at undergraduate institutions, with many thoughtful comments and constructive suggestions still…