Month: October 2015
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Which Philosophy Ideas Make for Good Costumes?
Which philosophical ideas (or examples) would make for a good Halloween costume? Yes, Brain in Vat. We all think we’ve thought of that one…
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The Philosophy of Adjuncting: A Syllabus (Guest Post by Kevin Temple)
The following is a guest post* by Kevin Temple, a PhD candidate in philosophy at The New School for Social Research. It appears here…
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Would the Great Philosophers Have Survived in the Modern University?
Would the philosophers who populate the canon have gotten tenure? Would they have survived the Research Excellence Framework (REF) assessments in the UK? Lloyd Strickland…
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Sanders Graduate Student Prizes Awarded
The American Philosophical Association (APA) has announced the winners of the 2015 Sanders Graduate Student Prize, sponsored by the Marc Sanders Foundation. They are: Joshua…
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A College without Philosophy? A Philosophy Department without Philosophers? (updated)
After program cut upon program cut, at what point does a liberal arts institution cease to be one? That’s the question in an article…
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APA Book Prize Results Announced
The winner of the 2015 American Philosophical Association’s Book Prize is Manuel Vargas (University of San Francisco) for his Building Better Beings: A Theory of…
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Why Students Aren’t Reading (Ought Experiment)
Welcome back to Ought Experiment, which sadly is not a comic strip. I think this week’s question is about getting kids to do the…
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U.S. Politics with Logical and Factual Annotation
This is a great public service and a great idea. Stefan Schubert, a visiting philosophy professor at the London School of Economics, and Spencer Greenberg,…
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Name-Blind Hiring
The BBC reports that Leading companies and universities are being asked to remove names from application forms in an effort to stop “unconscious bias”…
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Philosophy in 10 Years
Here are five predictions about the state of philosophy in ten years: 1. Philosophy’s popularity as a major will increase. This will be owed in…
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Bernecker Selected as Humboldt Professor at Cologne (updated)
Sven Bernecker, professor of philosophy at the University of California, Irvine, is one of the recipients of the latest round of Humboldt Professorships. The…
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Where Philosophy Is Missing
Some colleges have no philosophers. Some colleges have philosophers, but not many, yielding a very low philosopher-to-student ratio, particularly when compared to elite institutions or…
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Applying for Jobs at a SLAC?
A revised version of the Guide for Applying to Jobs at Selective Liberal Arts Colleges has been published at Inside Higher Ed. Check it out. The original…
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To φ Or Not To φ (Daily Nous Philosophy Comics)
To φ Or Not To φ by Tanya Kostochka
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Does Philosophy Improve Critical Thinking?
Following on the heels of last week’s discussion of non-philosophers teaching critical thinking, the Chronicle of Higher Education drew attention to a meta-analysis of studies about whether…
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Open Access Philosophy Textbooks
Open educational resources (OER) are “any kind of material that you can use in teaching and learning that is openly available.” Richard Zach (Calgary) explains that “openly available” in…
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Back to the Future Day: To When Should A Philosopher from 2015 Go?
In the movie Back to the Future II, Doc Brown and Marty McFly travel 30 years into the future, to today, October 21st, 2015. The…