Month: April 2025
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Trump’s Attacks on Universities, A Continuing Series (updates)
Trump administration officials yesterday revealed that the president has ordered that $1 billion of federal funding for Cornell University and $790 million of federal…
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Garcia Awarded Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize
Manon Garcia (Freie Universität in Berlin) has been awarded one of the 2025 Heinz Maier-Leibnitz prizes, “Germany’s most prestigious award for researchers in the…
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Finlay to Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Stephen Finlay, previously professor of philosophy and director of the Dianoia Institute at Australian Catholic University, will be moving to the University of Illinois…
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Kitcher Wins Frontiers of Knowledge Prize
Philip Kitcher, professor emeritus of philosophy at Columbia University, has been named the winner of the Frontiers of Knowledge Prize in the Humanities by…
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Sullivan Wins Simon Award
Emily Sullivan, associate professor of philosophy at Utrecht University, is the winner of the 2025 Herbert A. Simon Award for Outstanding Research in Computing…
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How Many People Applied for Academic Philosophy Jobs in 2024? (guest post)
How many people applied to academic philosophy jobs last year? Which types of institutions had the most applicants? Which types of jobs?
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Where the Streets are Named for Philosophers
The streets and parks in a new neighborhood being developed in Prague will bear the name of well-known philosophers.
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Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update
The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, and new podcast episodes.
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Israeli Gov’t Cancels Philosopher Who’s a Grandson of a Holocaust Survivor
Omri Boehm, associate professor of philosophy at the New School for Social Research, was scheduled to speak at the Buchenwald concentration camp liberation anniversary…
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So, philosophers tend to have these occupational tics, right?
Many years ago I realized that, while teaching, I was automatically adding the one-word question, “right?” to the end of a lot of my…
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Cancellation of NEH Grants Begins (updated)
Cultural groups across the country received notices yesterday of the abrupt cancellation of their National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grants, according to The New…
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A Philosopher’s Testimony before the House Judiciary Committee
“If we do not want to slide towards illiberalism, no one should be above the law.”
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Logic Meets Tetris in New Video Game
In his spare time over the past couple of years, philosopher Ivo Pezlar (Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences) has been…
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The Multi-Day In-Class LockDown Browser Essay Assignment (guest post)
Many professors in philosophy and other disciplines believe that having students write take-home essays is important. Essays give students the opportunity to spend a…
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Students Protest, a Philosopher is Knifed, and Faculty are Unpaid in Serbia
Natalija Jovanović, dean of the Philosophy Faculty at the University of Niš in Serbia, was attending a student protest when a woman who opposed…
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Müller Wins Covey Award
Vincent C. Müller, professor of philosophy and ethics of AI and director of the Centre for Philosophy and AI Research at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg,…