Month: January 2026
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University of Austin’s Experiment: a Report
“I’ve never felt my speech was so chilled as it was in the classroom at UATX.”
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Philosophers Among the Winners of Recent Leverhulme Grants
The Leverhulme Trust has announced the winners of its 2025 Major Research Fellowships, and three philosophy professors are among them.
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APA to End Experiment with Online Divisional Meetings
The American Philosophical Association (APA) has been experimenting with holding one of its three major conferences entirely online. The organization has now announced that,…
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Stratmann Wins JHP Article Prize
The Journal of the History of Philosophy has announced that the winner of its 2025 article prize is Joe Stratmann, assistant professor of philosophy at…
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A Dishonest Response from TAMU President Tommy Williams
The interim president of Texas A&M, Tommy Williams, has publicly replied to last week’s reports of his university telling a philosophy professor to remove…
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Fighting AI with AI
Is there a German word for a feeling that combines admiration, weariness, and a touch of disgust? That word would be handy as we…
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Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update
This is the weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, new podcast episodes, recently published…
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The APA Board’s Open Letter to Trans Philosophers
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Calling Dibs in Philosophy
Barry Lam (UC Riverside) wrote recently about the practice of “calling dibs.”
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Texas A&M Bans Plato (further updates)
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A Course on Public Philosophy
What does a course on public philosophy look like?
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Philosophy to the Rescue of Science
The pessimistic meta-induction—the argument that since past scientific theories have been shown to be false, we should expect that today’s will turn out false,…
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Philosopher Receives Big Grant to Study “Spiritual Yearning”
Ian Church, associate professor of philosophy at Hillsdale College, has received a $2.5 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation for a project on…