Month: December 2020
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Hedden from Sydney to ANU
Brian Hedden, currently Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Sydney, will be moving to Australian National University (ANU), where he will be associate…
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Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update
The weekly report on new and revised entries in online philosophy resources and new reviews of philosophy books…
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Conference Series On Oppressive Speech Disinvites Trans-Exclusionary Philosopher
Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), a publicly-funded research institute in Berlin that is holding a series of conferences on oppressive speech between now and May,…
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Philosophy Threatened at University of Evansville (updated)
Christopher M. Pietruszkiewicz, the president of the University of Evansville, thinks it is a good idea to make sure future students at the school…
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Kingma from Southampton to KCL
Elselijn Kingma, currently associate professor of philosophy at the University of Southampton, has been named the Peter Sowerby Chair in Philosophy and Medicine at…
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Large ERC Consolidator Grants for Philosophy Projects (2020)
The European Research Council (ERC) has announced the winners of its 2020 Consolidator Grants, and among them are a few philosophers.
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Philosopharmacology
A few months ago I learned about the brilliant conceptual artwork of Dana Wyse. Since the mid 1990s she has been producing a series…
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Teaching Philosophy as a Way of Life (guest post)
The following is a guest post* by Stephen Angle, Steven Horst, and Tushar Irani, philosophy professors at Wesleyan University, about their team-taught course, “Living…
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Philosophy Projects Funded By Riksbankens Jubileumsfond
Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, an independent foundation in Sweden that supports research in the humanities and social sciences, has announced the recipients of its 2020 grants.…
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David Charles McCarty (1953-2020)
David Charles McCarty, professor of philosophy at Indiana University, has died.
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The Race and Gender of U.S. Philosophy PhDs: Trends Since 1973 (guest post)
The following is a guest post* by Eric Schwitzgebel (UC Riverside) on trends in the race and gender of people earning Ph.D.s in philosophy…
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Morton from UNC to Pennsylvania
Jennifer Morton, currently associate professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, has accepted an offer from the University of Pennsylvania.
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Inaugural Isaac Levi Prize Awarded to Andrew Bollhagen
Andrew Bollhagen, a fourth-year graduate student in philosophy at the University of California, San Diego, is the winner of The Journal of Philosophy‘s inaugural Isaac…
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List (LSE) & Valentini (KCL) to LMU Munich
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich (LMU) has hired two philosophers: Christian List and Laura Valentini.
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Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update
The weekly report on new and revised entries in online philosophy resources and new reviews of philosophy books…
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On Norms for Public Philosophy
In a recent article in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Anastasia Berg, assistant professor of philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and an editor…
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Hasna Begum (1935-2020)
Hasna Begum, professor emerita of philosophy at the University of Dhaka, has died.