Month: June 2014

The railway strike in France has entered its sixth day, risking making students late for the philosophy portion of the baccalauréat exam. the timing…

The sixth and final installment of The Conversation‘s “Biology and Blame” series is up, and it is on cognitive enhancement. Nicole Vincent (Georgia State)…

Philosophy professor Sharon Kaye (John Carroll University) is featured in this Inside Higher Ed article on using thought experiments in the classroom.

Gary Gutting.: You obviously don’t see scientific cosmology as supporting any case for theism. You also think that it refutes theistic religions’ claiming that…

Modeled on the well-populated site, Women of Philosophy, a group of philosophers are creating a number of other databases, starting with one for Latina/Latino…

It was (perhaps) a dark and stormy night, back in the 1950s, when the multi-colored glass panels depicting 24 philosophers were removed from the…

Richard Sorabji, emeritus professor of philosophy at King’s College London and Honorary Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford (and who has held positions at Cornell,…

The American Philosophical Association has announced the winners of some recent publication prizes. Sally Haslanger has won the 2014 Joseph B. Gittler Award for…

John Brunero, currently associate professor of philosophy at the University of Missouri – St. Louis, has accepted a position with the University of Nebraska…

We, the undersigned stakeholders in the UCL community and concerned parties-at-large, insist that Professors Michael Arthur (Provost), Jonathan Wolff (Dean of Faculty of Arts…

Hasan Azad, a PhD student in religious studies at Columbia, takes to the pages of Al Jazeera to ask, “why are there no Muslim…

We face a situation where the A Level Philosophy may soon no longer exist such that we can continue to lament its supposed flaws…

We’ve all heard Stephen Hawking claim that philosophy is dead because philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. And we’ve all…

Stephen Colbert has a segment on android rights, and “known European” Massimo Pigliucci (CUNY) shows up towards the end (3:50) to comment. (via Philosophy…

Aarti Sabharwal of Virginia was recently named the “Most Philosophical Third Grader in America” as a result of her entry in the national 2014…

These issues have sparked a relatively new area of research among military ethicists known as “moral injury.” It emerges from experiences when “you apply…

An article in Times Higher Education reports that the editorial board of the journal of Prometheus: Critical Studies in Innovation, has threatened to resign. Why?…