Month: November 2023
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The Appropriateness of Appropriateness
A journal’s editorial team conditioned the acceptance of an article on the removal of two footnotes they said were “distracting,” its author reports. Distracting…
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Lang on Academic Freedom
Gerald Lang (Leeds) has a thoughtful discussion of academic freedom, prompted by the UK government’s appointment of a “free speech tsar” (who happens to…
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Proportionality, Psychic Harm, and the Day After (guest post)
“Once we count psychic harm, it looks like Israel’s war might be proportional. But it could be proportional only if the Israelis aren’t imposing…
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Philosophy Professor vs. University on Accommodations
A philosophy professor at Queen’s University in Canada has been booted from the logic course she was teaching owing to a dispute between her…
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Offering Free and Low-Cost Philosophy Programs to the Public
Wisdom’s Edge Foundation is a non-profit organization that “brings philosophy to the edges of society.”
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The Rise of English as the Global Lingua Franca of Academic Philosophy (guest post)
“We think it is more or less inevitable at this point that English will be the global lingua franca of academic philosophy for the…
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Flipping the Conference
An upcoming philosophy conference is organized around those interesting and fruitful conversations that take place between the official talks.
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Condemnations, Moral Guidance, and Gaza (guest post)
“The absence of moral guidance by philosophical condemners conveys that they do not think of Israelis as friends whom they want to morally improve.…
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Goldstein from Dianoia/ACU to Hong Kong
Simon Goldstein, currently associate professor at the soon-to-be-eliminated Dianoia Institute of Philosophy at Australian Catholic University, will be moving to the University of Hong…
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Philosophy Summer Programs for Graduate Students/PhDs – 2024
Please use the comments section on this post to share information about Summer 2024 Programs in Philosophy for graduate students and/or PhDs in philosophy.
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Philosophy Summer Programs for Undergraduates – 2024
Please use the comments section on this post to share information about Summer 2024 Programs in Philosophy for college undergraduates.
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Philosophy Summer Programs for High School Students – 2024
Please use the comments section on this post to share information about Summer 2024 Programs in Philosophy for high school students.
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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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First Issue of Philosophy of Physics Published
The inaugural issue of the journal Philosophy of Physics (PoP) has been published.