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August 2022

Lederman from Princeton to Texas

Harvey Lederman, currently professor of philosophy at Princeton University, has accepted an offer from the University of Texas at Austin. (more…)

Conversation Starter: Teaching Philosophy in an Age of Large Language Models (guest post)

Over the past few years we have seen some startling progress from Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-3, and some of those paying attention to these developments, such as philosopher John Symons (University of Kansas), believe that they pose an imminent threat to teaching and learning (for those who missed its inclusion in the Heap of Links earlier this summer, yo..

Larry Laudan (1941-2022)

Larry Laudan, an influential philosopher of science and law, died on August 23rd, 2022. (more…)

APA Non-Academic Careers Committee Seeks Feedback

The Non-Academic Careers Committee of the American Philosophical Association (APA) is seeking input and feedback on how it can better serve philosophers in and out of the profession. (more…)

2021 Philosopher’s Annual

Philosopher’s Annual has released its 41st volume, covering the literature from 2021. (more…)

Lam from Vassar to UC Riverside

Barry Lam, who until recently was Associate Professor of Philosophy at Vassar College, and who is well-known as the creator of the popular philosophy podcast Hi-Phi Nation, is now Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside. (more…)

The Philosophy Major Continues to Recover and Diversify in the U.S. (guest post)

The number of college students graduating with degrees in philosophy continues to increase, as does the gender and racial diversity of this group. (more…)

Several Philosophers Win Recent Templeton Grants

The John Templeton Foundation has awarded a number of grants over the past few months, and a few philosophers are among the recipients. (more…)

Donald W. Crawford (1938-2022)

The following is an obituary for Donald W. Crawford (UC Santa Barbara, University of Wisconsin), authored by Elliott Sober, his colleague at Wisconsin, and Yuriko Saito, professor emerita at Rhode Island School of Design, who was one of his students. (more…)

Penn State’s Programs for Prospective Philosophy Grads from Underrepresented Groups

The Department of Philosophy at Penn State, known for its efforts to promote diversity in philosophy (see here and here, for example), will once again be putting on a program for prospective graduate students. (more…)

Mini-Heap

Recent additions to the Heap of Links… (more…)

Philosophers Among Recent NEH Grant Winners

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has announced the winners of its latest round of grants, and several philosophers are among the winners. (more…)

New Data about Philosophy Graduate Programs (guest post)

In the following guest post, Carolyn Dicey Jennings, associate professor of philosophy at UC Merced, shares some new data about graduate programs in philosophy that she and her team at Academic Philosophy Data and Analysis (APDA) have collected and analyzed. (more…)

Hello Again and Thank You

Well, that went by way too fast. (more…)

The Philosophy Guild (guest post)

“Most contemporary philosophy writing is just bad writing… How did things go so wrong? It’s tempting to declare that philosophers are simply terrible writers, but I think that’s a mistake…” (more…)

Teacher, Bureaucrat, Cop (guest post)

“We can free ourselves up to pursue a wider range of educational goals when we see that fairness is not an absolute demand for all classroom life, but only one goal among many. And sometimes, we can trade away some degree of fairness in the pursuit of other goals.” (more…)

The Philosophy Special (guest post)

“I suspect I’m not alone among philosophers in finding colloquia almost universally frustrating: the speakers are more interesting than the conventional talk allows them to be…” (more…)