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November 2017

Mini-Heap

Here’s the latest edition of Mini-Heap—10 recent items from the frequently updated Heap of Links. Feel free to discuss. (more…)

No Winner of Sanders Public Philosophy Award

The Marc Sanders Foundation offers a number of generous awards in several areas of philosophy and in 2016 launched its Public Philosophy Award. For the 2017 run of this contest, the foundation received 65 entries. However, it made no awards. (more…)

£100,000 Leverhulme Prizes to Three Philosophers

The Leverhulme Trust, a significant funder of research and education in the UK, has announced the winners of its 2017 Leverhulme Prizes. Three philosophers were recognized in the “Philosophy and Theology” category. (more…)

University of Florida Reopens PhD Program

Admissions to the Ph.D. program in philosophy at the University of Florida (UF) were suspended in the wake of the 2007-2008 economic downturn. That suspension has now been lifted: the UF Department of Philosophy will once again be accepting applications for admission to its Ph.D. program. The M.A. program, which had been in operation during this period, will continu..

Hypatia Board Announces Task Force

The Board of Directors of Hypatia, the non-profit corporation that owns the Hypatia, the journal, have announced the creation of a task force to review its governance structure and editorial policies and to create a search committee for its next editorial team. (more…)

Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

Happy Monday, folks. Here’s the weekly report of what’s new at some useful online philosophy resources. (more…)

ANU Philosophers Awarded Over AU$1.5 Million (updated w/ info re: awardees elsewhere)

Faculty at the School of Philosophy at Australian National University (ANU) have recently received multiple grants totaling over AU$1.5 million (roughly US$1.15 million). (more…)

NYU and Pitt To Waive PhD Application Fees For Some Students

The philosophy departments at New York University and the University of Pittsburgh, as well as the Department of History and Philosophy of Science (HPS) at Pittsburgh, will be waiving the fee for applications to their PhD programs for some students. (more…)

Chaospet (Daily Nous Philosophy Comics)

Chaospet
by Ryan Lake

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How Philosophy Makes Progress (guest post by Daniel Stoljar)

Does philosophy make progress? Daniel Stoljar, professor of philosophy at Australia National University, thinks it does, and he defends that idea in his new book, Philosophical Progress: In Defence of a Reasonable Optimism. In the following guest post,* he presents one kind of argument for his view. (more…)

Tax Proposal Would Make Getting a PhD in the US Very Expensive (Multiple Updates)

The tax plan introduced by Republicans in the U.S. Congress last week would have drastic effects on graduate education in the United States, according to reports at The Chronicle of Higher Education and Inside Higher Ed.

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Springer Agrees To China’s Demand To Censor Its Journals

Springer Nature, possibly the world’s largest academic publisher, has agreed to demands from the Chinese government to block access in China to more than a thousand articles, according to reports at Financial Times and The New York Times.

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APA Awards Inaugural Excellence in Teaching Prize

The American Philosophical Association (APA) has announced that the winner of its inaugural Prize for Excellence in Teaching has been awarded to Stephen Bloch-Schulman, associate professor of philosophy at Elon College. (more…)

Mini-Heap

Here’s the latest edition of Mini-Heap—10 recent items from the frequently updated Heap of Links. Feel free to discuss. (more…)

Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

Good morning, everyone. Here’s the weekly report of what’s new at some useful online philosophy resources. (more…)

Encouraging Your Promising Students To Take Another Philosophy Course

This is a good idea:

Every semester, about this time, I identify students in my intro classes who are doing reasonably well, seem interested in philosophy (based on class participation, conversations in office hours, or written work), and are not graduating in the near future. I email all of them individually (although of course the letters are somewhat repetitiv..

Philosophy Minor Survives Program Massacre at Wisconsin-Superior

Administrators at the University of Wisconsin-Superior surprised their faculty this week with news that they were “suspending more than two dozen academic programs,” according to the Chronicle of Higher Education. Remarkably, given all the times we’ve seen philosophy programs threatened over the past few years, the philosophy program at Wisconsin-Superior survived t..

Philosophy’s Fit With The Sciences and The Humanities

“My aim has been to remind philosophers that their subject, whether or not ‘handmaiden to the sciences’, ought to be handmaiden also to the humanities”

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When You Should Have Been Cited, But You Weren’t

A philosopher writes in with a query at the intersection of research ethics, publishing norms, and academic etiquette. (more…)

A Way Western Philosophy Is Racist

Mainstream philosophy in the so-called West is narrow-minded, unimaginative, and even xenophobic. I know I am leveling a serious charge. But how else can we explain the fact that the rich philosophical traditions of China, India, Africa, and the Indigenous peoples of the Americas are completely ignored by almost all philosophy departments in both Europe and the Engl..