Month: September 2014
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Substantive Philosophy Blogs
Brian Weatherson has created a list of substantive philosophy blogs at his own blog, And Another Thing.
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The Cutest Guide To Doing Philosophy
Helena De Bres (Wellesley) has created The Pink Guide to Philosophy, a place where students—especially those about to take their first philosophy course—can get acquainted with…
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Philosophy Tag
In our last game of Philosophy Tag, Valerie Tiberius (Minnesota) tagged Dan Haybron (St. Louis University). Dan has been thinking about well-being lately (haven’t we…
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Heap of Links
1. Martha Nussbaum (Chicago) is interviewed by Russ Roberts at EconTalk. 2. Chris LeBron (Yale) is interviewed at 3am Magazine on philosophy of race and…
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Heap of Links
1. Simon Blackburn gives us his version of a “kids, these days, let me tell you” cranky rant about selfies, which he saves only by saying…
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The September Statement (Guest Post by Simon Cabulea May)
Simon Cabulea May is assistant professor of philosophy at Florida State University. He works on a variety of topics in political philosophy. He is…
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Thoughts on the PGR and the Recent Controversy (Guest Post by Alex Rosenberg)
Alex Rosenberg is the R. Taylor Cole Professor of Philosophy at Duke University. He is known for his work in philosophy of science, particularly…
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A Moment of Calm
“Nietzsche stayed in Sils-Maria during the summers of 1881 and 1883-1888. In Sils itself is Lake Sils, where the Chasté peninsula was a favorite site of…
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Alfred Mele’s New Blog
Alfred Mele has announced a new blog project called Free Will for All. He explained on Flickers of Freedom the other day one of its distinctive features:…
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Academic Ice Bucket Lesson Plan
Arthur Ward (Lyman Briggs College, Michigan State) teaches a unit on charitable giving in his ethics course and has come up with a way…
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Nominal Versus Real Change
As I noted here, and as he announced on his own site here, Brian Leiter has asked Berit Brogaard (Miami) to serve as a…
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Evaluating Philosophy Graduate Programs
Wednesday’s post on the future of the Philosophical Gourmet Report has a lot of thoughtful comments on it, with some interesting ideas for and alternatives to…
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The Chronicle on this Week’s Controversies
The Chronicle of Higher Education has a story on the recent events involving Brian Leiter’s emails to certain members of the profession and the future…
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Heap of Links
1. A defense of majoring in philosophy, by Joseph Tinguely (South Dakota). 2. Artist Tino Seghal’s latest installation places philosophers in the Roman agora…
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What Can I Get for a Counterexample and a Jar of Homemade Pickles?
The American Philosophical Association has created “marketplace forums” for its members, in which they can barter with one another for various items (or simply…
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Giving a Philosophy Talk
Ole Koksvik (Bergen), along with the help of friends, has put together a very useful set of tips for giving a philosophy talk. I appreciated…
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Should the Philosophical Gourmet Report Continue? (Several Updates Added)
Brian Leiter (Chicago), who created and organizes a reputational survey of philosophy graduate programs known as the Philosophical Gourmet Report, is asking whether he should continue…
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Top Ten Ways Daily Nous Should Respond to the Current Fracas
11. Learn to count. 10. Take a poll. 9. Do some work around the house, such as tighten hinges, remove all fans. 8. Finally…
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Heap of Links
1. “I’m not sure, for example, what the philosophy REF panel would make of Berkeley’s research on tar-water, or even Bentham’s on prisons, for…
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Scam Journals and Publishers
Scholarly Open Access is a website run by Jeffrey Beall, a librarian at Auraria Library at the University of Colorado Denver, that provides “critical…