Month: October 2016
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The Injustice Boycott and Academia
Influential activist and writer Shaun King—currently “senior justice writer” at the New York Daily News—has announced plans for a potentially massive boycott of “cities, states, businesses,…
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Philosophy of Jazz
Philosophy of Jazz is a new site—“currently in its initial stages”—on topics at the intersection of jazz and philosophy. The site, created by David C.…
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Philosophers, Neighbours, and Tartars (Guest Post by Justin E. H. Smith)
The following is a guest post* by Justin E. H. Smith, professor of philosophy in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Université…
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APA To Launch Graduate Student Council
The American Philosophical Association (APA) has announced that it will be launching a new group responsible for “reporting to the board of officers on…
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Charles Taylor Wins Million Dollar Berggruen Prize
Charles Taylor, professor emeritus of philosophy at McGill University, is the winner of the inaugural Berggruen Prize.
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Publishing Scam Mimics Legitimate Philosophy Journal
When Chris Kramer, associate professor of philosophy at Rock Valley College in Illinois, learned that a paper of his had been accepted to the…
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Glasgow Hires Six New Philosophers
The Department of Philosophy at the University of Glasgow made six new permanent appointments this summer. That’s an unusually large number of hires at one…
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Mary Hesse (1924-2016)
Mary Hesse, professor emeritus of philosophy at University of Cambridge, died this past Sunday. Professor Hesse worked in philosophy of science. She had been at Cambridge…
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Writing a Tenure Letter But Were Afraid to Ask (guest post by David Boonin)
The following is a guest post* by David Boonin. He is currently professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where he has also…
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Anglo-American Philosophy: “A Site of White Supremacy”
“A perverse feature of American life is that calling a white person racist is allegedly a very wounding insult.” That’s Lionel McPherson (Tufts), in a…
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Joseph Boyle (1942-2016)
Joseph Boyle, professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Toronto, died on September 24th. Professor Boyle worked mainly in ethics, including ethical theory…
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Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update
It’s Monday morning—somehow already the first Monday of October—and time for the weekly report on what’s new at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP), Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (IEP), Notre…
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Shafer-Landau to Return to Wisconsin
Russ Shafer-Landau, currently professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and director of its Parr Center for Ethics, will be returning in Fall…