Month: August 2014
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#APSAOnFire
Way back in the 2000s, at the Eastern APA’s conference hotel in DC, the fire alarms went off in the middle of the night.…
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Heap of Links
1. Why are they so angry? Amia Srinivasan (Oxford) makes the case for anger, arguing that it can be a huge source of strength and…
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The Morality of the Boycott
Over 500 philosophers have signed on to the boycott of University of Illinois, initiated after it rescinded Steven Salaita’s job offer. Already, the boycott…
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Blacks in Philosophy in the US
[Reposting from August in the hopes of further discussion.] In “What is the State of Blacks in Philosophy?” a recent article in Critical Philosophy…
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Philosophers’ Ethical Non-Monogamy Group
Carrie Ichikawa Jenkins (British Columbia) and Rebecca Kukla (Georgetown) have informed me that they have created a new, private, “Philosophers’ Ethical Non-Monogamy Group” on…
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Why Not Skype Interview?
Over the past few years more and more philosophy departments are moving to a model of hiring that ditches the interviewing of candidates at the Eastern…
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Heap of Links
1. A symposium at Boston Review called “Against Empathy,” featuring Paul Bloom, Peter Singer, Nomy Arpaly, Barbara Fried, Jesse Prinz, and others. 2. “Imagine…
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Indie Film by Philosopher about Job Market
Shahin Izadi, who received his PhD in philosophy from the University of Wisconsin, must have decided that the academic job market was too easy…
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What Was I Thinking?
As I pressed the “publish” button on the “Philosophical Topics of Interest to Women?” post, the old Saturday Night Live commercial for “Chess for Girls!”…
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Another Colorado Investigation
An associate professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado, Bradley Monton, is being investigated by the university. Associate professor Brad Monton is the…
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Philosophical Topics of Interest to Women?
A philosophy professor sends in the following inquiry for discussion: One way to try to make introductory-level philosophy courses more appealing to women is…
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Sen on Poverty, Energy, and the Environment
I would like to comment on two quite different, but ultimately related, areas of neglected environmental analyses that demand immediate attention. The first is…
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What’s Wrong with Oxford Scholarship Online?
Oxford Scholarship Online (OSO) is the digital imprint for Oxford University Press, making available electronic versions of OUP books. According to Bob Pasnau (Colorado),…
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Heap of Links
1. “Scientists that talk philosophy down are simply superficial: they have a philosophy (usually some ill-digested mixture of Popper and Kuhn) and think that…
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Dan Kaufman Sues University of Colorado
Dan Kaufman, associate professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado, is suing his university and several of its employees for $2 million for…
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Salaita Decision Reaffirmed
It does not appear that the University of Illinois will be altering the decision to rescind Steven Salaita’s job offer. From a post at…
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How to Accelerate Refereeing
People have been experimenting on journal referees and have learned some useful information. First off, whatever you do, don’t ask Professor Procrastinate to referee…
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What Are Professional Philosophers For?
Most academic philosophy departments see themselves primarily as housing a specialized academic discipline, and contributing only incidentally here or there to a university’s general…
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Grad Traps! (Guest Post by Daniel Silvermint)
[September 3, 2016: This was originally posted on August 21, 2014. Reposting by request from a reader.] Grad students of philosophy! And other relevant…