The Saudi Journal of Philosophical Studies is a new semi-annual, multi-lingual, peer-reviewed philosophy journal. (more…)

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The 2021 Nicholas Rescher Prize for Systematic Philosophy has been awarded to Thomas Nagel, emeritus professor of philosophy and law at New York University. (more…)

Some philosophy professors have been assigning their students four-sentence papers to write. Why do this? (more…)

An effort is underway to protest the decision of the University of St. Andrews to fail to make permanent the contract of a philosopher on a fixed term appointment who has done an extraordinary amount of work for the university over the past three years. (more…)

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The Global Philosophy of Religion Project at the University of Birmingham has partnered with the public television show Closer To Truth to produce 10 episodes of the show and multiple short videos on topics in philosophy of religion. (more…)

At the end of last month I posted a survey about when academic philosophers would be willing and able to resume travel for work. Here are the results. (more…)

Efforts to remove a statue of Cecil Rhodes from Oxford University owing to his white supremacist views gained momentum over the past year but the statue may be saved—with the help of philosopher Alain LeRoy Locke. (more…)

A report on new and revised entries in online philosophy resources and new reviews of philosophy books. (more…)

What are the different types of contribution one can make to the literature in philosophy? (more…)

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Arthur Ripstein, professor of law and philosophy at the University of Toronto, has been named the winner of the Killam Prize in the Humanities by the Canadian Council for the Arts (CCA). (more…)

The increase in remote and asynchronous teaching has led to more academics gaining familiarity and practice with making videos. Some philosophy professors have taken their new skills beyond their courses, creating brief introductory videos for anyone to watch online. (more…)

Clubhouse is a new talk-based social network. It’s still in beta and admission to it is by invitation only, but reportedly there is some philosophy happening on it. (more…)

Frege “helped himself generously to Stoic logic” without ever crediting the Stoics or the author whose writings were his likely source about their ideas, according to Susanne Bobzien, professor of philosophy at Oxford University. (more…)

Here’s the report on new and revised entries in online philosophy resources and new reviews of philosophy books. (more…)

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Waheed Hussain, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, has died. (more…)

Canadian legislators will be deliberating over Bill C-7 over the next few days. The bill would expand existing legislation regarding medical assistance in dying (“MAID”) to make it easier for people with disabilities to request and obtain MAID, and philosophers are weighing in on the discussion. (more…)