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Priest from CUNY to Tohoku

Graham Priest, currently Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center, will be moving to Tohoku University in Japan. (more…)

Writing Together: A Teaching Experiment (guest post)

“I’m very fond of the take-home essay, as there’s something irreplaceable about the experience of articulating a theory over the course of multiple weeks—doing background research, letting the ideas marinate in one’s subconsciousness, and chiseling away at the draft until every word is perfectly placed.” (more…)

Complaint Against Appointment of Trans Philosopher to REF Panel Dismissed

In April, Jonathan Pike, a professor of philosophy at Open University, submitted a formal complaint about the appointment of his colleague, professor of philosophy Sophie Grace Chappell, a trans woman, to the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2029 subpanel for philosophy. (more…)

Gender, Publications, Teaching, and Satisfaction in the Early Stages of a Philosophy Career (guest post)

“Publication differences by gender are small or statistically undetectable during graduate study, but become more pronounced by graduation and especially by the time of first permanent hire…. Teaching portfolios appear broadly similar across gender groups in terms of overall volume, though there are some suggestive differences in how teaching labor is distributed..

Kant Studies Online: No Longer Online

What happens to the articles published in an online-only journal when that journal not only ceases to publish, but ceases to exist? (more…)

Petition Against Dundee University Plan to Cut Philosophy Degree

“The University of Dundee has announced it plans to cease offering Philosophy as a named degree from 2027. This news has come as a complete shock to students, staff and the wider Scottish community. We, the philosophy community of Dundee, are determined to fight this.” (more…)

APA Prizes: Spring 2026 Edition

The American Philosophical Association (APA) has announced the winners of its Spring 2026 prizes. (more…)

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A slightly larger mini-heap of links than usual… (more…)

A New Tool for Curbing AI Cheating (guest post)

“The aim is not to keep everything exactly as it was before gen AI took off. That would be both impossible and undesirable. The aim is to preserve the parts of philosophical education that are still worth preserving while changing the surrounding infrastructure enough to make that possible.” (more…)

When There’s no Fun in Funding: External Research Money, Ethics-Washing, and Positive Academic Freedom (guest post)

Governments and firms are turning to philosophers and other scholars more and more in regard to the ethics of developing and regulating technology. Yet this engagement with ethics may be superficial, careless, or even manipulative—and the ethicists involved may not even be in a position to realize this. (more…)

Subordinating the Humanities’ Scholarly Enterprise to Political Goals (updated; comments now open)

“In our view there are several worrying tendencies in contemporary academic scholarship in the humanities and social sciences, all of which reflect, to varying degrees, a distinctive form of politicization in which the scholarly enterprise is taken to be subordinate to, or in the service of, political (social or moral) goals beyond the advancement of knowledge a..

Cartwright Wins Frontiers of Knowledge Award

Nancy Cartwright, professor of philosophy at Durham University and the University of California, San Diego, has been selected as the recipient of the 2026 Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Humanities. (more…)