Month: August 2017
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Custom Student Evaluations Of Teaching
Maybe, just maybe, if more of the comments on our student evaluations looked like the following, they’d be worth it:
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Mini-Heap x 2
Usually, the Mini-Heap contains 10 recent items from the frequently updated Heap of Links, collected and numbered for your convenience. However, after last week’s break, many…
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Large Grant To Support Pre-College Philosophy In Australasia
The Federation of Australasian Philosophy in Schools Association (FAPSA) has been awarded $281,656 AUD (roughly US$224,000) to fund a project that brings philosophy to pre-college students.
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Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update
Here’s the latest from some key online philosophy resources.
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All Members of President’s Committee on Arts & Humanities Resign
All 17 of the non-governmental members of the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities (PCAH) today submitted a group resignation letter (posted below), effectively disbanding…
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Administrative Note
Dear readers, posting at Daily Nous will be on the rather light side for the remainder of the week.
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White Supremacists, Charlottesville, and the Philosophy Classroom
Racist violence has been a defining feature of the United States since its creation. One risk of focusing on highly visible instances of racist violence,…
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Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update
Here’s the latest from some key online philosophy resources.
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Censorship of Philosophy in Hong Kong
Politically-motivated censorship of philosophy in Hong Kong has “clearly become worse” over the past few years, says Wong Kwok-kui, a philosopher at Hong Kong Baptist…
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A Graphic Review of a Graphic Philosophy Book (guest post by Adam Ferner)
The following is a guest post* by Adam Ferner (Royal Institute of Philosophy).
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Society of Philosophers in America Wins Excellence & Innovation Prize
The Society of Philosophers in America (SOPHIA), an educational nonprofit organization comprised of academics and non-academics “dedicated to building communities of philosophical conversation” is the…
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Philosophy PhDs Worthless According To Proposed Immigration Point System
“Had I received this job offer under the newly proposed plan for immigration reform endorsed by President Trump, I’d have been deported back to…
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Klein from Macquarie to ANU
Colin Klein, currently senior lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at Macquarie University, will become associate professor of philosophy at Australia National University (ANU) in 2018.
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Wilson from Alberta to La Trobe
Robert Wilson, currently professor of philosophy at the University of Alberta, will be taking up the position of professor of philosophy at La Trobe…
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As Graduate Students Prepare For The New Academic Year
[Note: this is a repost from August, 2017.] It was suggested to me that as the new school year approaches, it would be helpful…
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Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update
Below, the latest from some key online philosophy resources.
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Michael Martin Heads To Oxford
Michael Martin, currently Professor of Philosophy at University College, London and Mills Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at UC Berkeley, will be moving to Oxford…
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Further Developments at Hypatia
Last month’s resignation of both Hypatia’s editors and its associate editors in the wake of controversy over the journal’s publication of an article on transracialism left philosophers wondering about…
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Discriminatory Texas Law Prompts Philosophers To Move Conference
The Public Philosophy Network (PPN) was planning on holding its annual conference next February at the University of North Texas (UNT). It will now, instead,…