Month: July 2023
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The Best Worst Feedback You’ve Received from a Teacher
As we saw in the discussion of last week’s post about Harry Frankfurt’s recollections of Max Black, some of you recall hard-ass professors you…
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Personal, Practical, Public Philosophy
“Starting around 2010, however, there was a striking change, surprising to someone trained in the 1980s. Some philosophy professors began to write a lot…
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An Accessible and User-Friendly Argument Mapping App (guest post)
[archived image unavailable]“Argument mapping is about twice as effective at improving student critical thinking as other methods,” writes Jonathan Surovell (Texas State University). However, “there…
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How To Alleviate the Referee Crisis: A Proposal (guest post)
“There are just too many papers for which editors are seeking reviews.”
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Philosophy Through Comics (guest post)
Can you do philosophy with comics? “Yeah, sure, easy.” But why do it?
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The Hard-Ass Philosophy Professor: an “Inestimably Valuable Educational Experience”
Last week, following Harry Frankfurt’s death, Katrien Schaubroeck (Antwerp) circulated an intellectual autobiography Frankfurt had written for a 2011 volume she co-edited on his…
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Job Market Report, 2023 Secondary Cycle (guest post)
How did the academic philosophy job market look between January and June, 2023?
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Learning How to Get Your Philosophical Ideas on the Air
Suppose you’re a philosopher, and suppose you have an idea for a philosophical story or segment for a show you listen to or watch.…
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Do the Thing: Philosophy Teaching with Practical Workshops (guest post)
“There is such an enormous and useful energy in bouncing back and forth between the theoretical and the practical.”
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Harry Frankfurt (1929-2023)
Harry Frankfurt, emeritus professor of philosophy at Princeton University, whose work on free will has been highly influential, has died.
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Future of Templeton Philosophy Funding Uncertain (updated with replies from Templeton, Dennett)
The John Templeton Foundation, the largest single funder of philosophical projects in the United States, has eliminated its “Philosophy and Theology” department.
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James F. Drane (1930-2023)
James F. Drane, emeritus professor of philosophy and clinical bioethics at Pennsylvania Western University, Edinboro, died this past April.
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Logic Courseware, Surveyed (guest post)
What materials exist for teaching large introductory logic courses, and how do they compare?
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Gary Varner (1957-2023)
Gary Varner, professor emeritus of philosophy at Texas A&M University, has died.
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Allen and Roskies to Santa Barbara
Colin Allen, recently Distinguished Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh,and Adina Roskies, currently Helman Family…
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A Case for AI Wellbeing (guest post)
“There are good reasons to think that some AIs today have wellbeing.”