Month: August 2014
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When Is Philosophical Agreement Suspicious?
Last week, in the post about philosophy of religion, I wrote: For a few reasons, it is not a sociologically surprising fact that most philosophy…
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Civic Engagement in Philosophy Classes
Ramona Ilea (Pacific University) shares news of an online resource for philosophy professors she has helped create called Engaged Philosophy. The site is a…
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In the Overlap between Logic, Fun, and Information
John Venn, an English philosopher who spent much of his career at Cambridge, died in 1923, but if he were alive today he would totally be…
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What Are Some Things You’ve Said?
While we’ve been collecting your philosophical sayings here, someone else has been collecting what you might have said in the classroom or in office hours…
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Heap of Links
1. “By insisting that print [rather than online or ebook-only] is a necessary condition for scholarly quality, deans and scholars make it more difficult…
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Ketland Reinstated at Oxford
Jeffrey Ketland, who had been dismissed from his position as a philosophy fellow and tutor at Oxford’s Pembroke College following accusations that he had harassed a…
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Philosopher’s Index vs. PhilPapers
Wayne Bivens-Tatum, the philosophy and religion librarian at Princeton University, has published a comparison of Philosopher’s Index and PhilPapers at his blog, Academic Librarian.…