Month: September 2015
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SEP, IEP, NDPR, Wi-Phi Weekly Update
Appearing here via special arrangement with Philosophical Percolations are last week’s additions and updates to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP), the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (IEP), Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (NDPR),…
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Warning: This Post Is About Trigger Warnings
Kate Manne (Cornell) has an opinion piece in today’s New York Times about professors’ use of “trigger warnings,” by which she means “notice in their syllabuses, or before…
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Progress in Philosophy
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein is becoming the most well-known defender of the idea that philosophy makes progress. Last year, in The Chronicle of Higher Education, she wrote: Philosophy was…
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Daily Nous Seeks Cartoonist
I would like Daily Nous to run a regular humorous comic strip having something to do with philosophy, the philosophy profession, or academia. The…
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Who called it “Experimenting with Coffee” instead of “X-phresso”?
A pair of philosophers teamed up with a beautiful food website and a fancy coffee shop to bring some experimental philosophy to the people. Shen-yi Liao…
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2014 Lakatos Award Given To Two Philosophers
The 2014 Lakatos Award has been won jointly by Gordon Belot (Michigan) for his book Geometric Possibility (Oxford University Press, 2011) and David Malament (UC Irvine) for…
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Imposter Syndrome (Ought Experiment)
Making your way in the world today takes everything you’ve got. Taking a break from all your worries sure would help a lot. Wouldn’t…
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Are MAs the New Norm for Admitted PhD Program Applicants?
From a philosophy professor who prefers to remain anonymous, a question about whether it is now the norm for successful applicants to PhD programs…
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Philosopher Wins $50,000 Hiett Prize
Scott Samuelson, associate professor of philosophy and humanities at Kirkwood Community College in Iowa, is the 2015 recipient of the Hiett Prize in the…
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Administrator-Faculty Spousal Hiring
A reader who prefers to remain anonymous writes in with question: My spouse is a finance professional interviewing to work for a university endowment. …
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New Philosophy Center Aims to Bridge American – Chinese Gap
The Berggruen Philosophy and Culture Center is an initiative launched to “look past contemporary political differences” between the United States and China “to their deeper…
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Japan’s Education Ministry vs. Humanities and Social Sciences
Times Higher Education reports: Many social sciences and humanities faculties in Japan are to close after universities were ordered to “serve areas that better…
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Making Journal Issues Larger
The European Journal of Philosophy has announced it is increasing the size of its issues. Joseph Schear (Oxford), the journal’s editor, writes: For the last several…
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Leadership of the Philosophical Gourmet Report
Some readers have recently asked questions about who is “really” running the Philosophical Gourmet Report (PGR), a ranking of the reputations of some doctoral…
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SEP, IEP, NDPR, Wi-Phi Weekly Update
Here are last week’s additions and updates to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP), the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy(IEP), Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (NDPR), and Wi-Phi Wireless Philosophy, courtesy…
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Claudia Card (1940-2015) (Updated)
Claudia Card, Emma Goldman Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has died. Professor Card received her undergraduate degree in philosophy at Wisconsin,…
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The Unsung Hero of Your Undergraduate Philosophy Education
There are some philosophers we hear a lot about—not just those in the canon, but also the “superstars” of today. These philosophers can often…
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Buchanan Wins 2015-16 PBK Romanell Professorship
Allen Buchanan (Duke/KCL) is the 2015-2016 winner of the Phi Beta Kappa Romanell Professorship. The Romanell Professorship is awarded on the basis of one’s “distinguished…
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The Absence of Chinese Philosophy in the U.S.
In the United States, there are about 100 doctorate-granting programs in philosophy. By my count, only seven have a permanent member of the philosophy…
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Two Philosophers’ Views on the Point of College
This week, two philosophers—Kwame Anthony Appiah (NYU) in the New York Times Magazine and Gary Gutting (Notre Dame) in The Chronicle of Higher Education—have discussed the point of a college…