Month: March 2021
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Restall from Melbourne to St. Andrews
Greg Restall, currently Professor of Philosophy at the University of Melbourne, will be moving to the University of St. Andrews, where he will be the…
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Advice About Undergraduate Philosophy Journals
A professor sends in a query about advising students on undergraduate philosophy journals.
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Cabrini University to Cut Philosophy Major
Cabrini University, a Catholic College in Pennsylvania, has announced that it is eliminating several programs, including its philosophy major.
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New: The British Society for the Theory of Knowledge
The British Society for the Theory of Knowledge (BSTK) is a new organization “dedicated to furthering philosophical research in epistemology.”
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Drożdżowicz and Malmgren to Lillehammer (Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences)
Anna Drożdżowicz, currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oslo, and Anna-Sara Malmgren, currently a lecturer at Stanford University, have been hired as…
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Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update
The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources and new reviews of philosophy books…
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Philosophy, Imagination, Muscle, Bone, and Science
“My conception of my work doesn’t entail that I think philosophy, in the aggregate, is without practical significance. Quite the opposite. Any institution that…
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Junior Yearly Progress Reports in Pandemic Times
This Daily Nous item is temporarily unavailable while its historical content completes a security review. The title and publication record are preserved; the original…
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Complementing Defenses of Academic Freedom with Understanding & Advice
As reported earlier this week, there’s a new organization, the Academic Freedom Alliance (AFA), that aims to defend faculty whose academic freedom is being…
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Citing (and Thanking) the Referees at the Journal that Rejected You, Part 2
“We argue that when an author’s work is published, the author should thank the reviewers whose comments improved the paper regardless of whether those…
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Academic Freedom Alliance Formed
A group of scholars have created a new non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the academic freedom of higher education faculty
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How Should Philosophers Talk to Journalists?
“Whenever a journalist interviews me about whether a certain practice is morally right or wrong I always feel like I disappoint…”
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Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update
The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources and new reviews of philosophy books…