Author: Justin Weinberg
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$14.5 Million for Philosopher-Led Project on Agency in Biology
Alan C. Love, professor of philosophy at the University of Minnesota and Director of the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science, has won a…
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Networking and Mentoring Workshop for Graduate Student Women in Philosophy
Athena in Action, a networking and mentoring workshop for women graduate students in philosophy, will be taking place in June, 2022 at Rutgers University.
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What Is This AI Bot’s Moral Philosophy?
Delphi is an AI ethics bot, or, as its creators put it, “a research prototype designed to model people’s moral judgments on a variety…
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What Philosophers Believe: Results from the 2020 PhilPapers Survey
Results from the 2020 PhilPapers survey, with responses from nearly 1,800 philosophers (mainly from North America, Europe, and Australasia), to questions on a variety…
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A Map of the Most-Assigned Philosophical Works
The Open Syllabus Project (previously) collects and analyzes data about course syllabi and the readings professors assign.
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Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update
The report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources and new reviews of philosophy books…
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Mary Rowland Haight (1938-2021)
Mary Rowland Haight, a long time member of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Glasgow, has died.
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Advice for Applying to PhD Programs in Philosophy (guest post)
In the following guest post*, Alex Guerrero, professor and director of graduate admissions in the Department of Philosophy at Rutgers University, offers some advice…
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In Which We Overthink “Frightening”
[moving to the top for Halloween weekend] Halloween is coming up, a holiday about delighting in frightening, about fear and frivolity, about terrors and…
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Kathleen Stock Resigns from Sussex
Kathleen Stock has resigned from her position as professor of philosophy at the University of Sussex.
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Lilli Alanen (1941-2021)
Lilli Alanen, professor emerita of philosophy at Uppsala University, has died.
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Remote-Working Positions in Academic Philosophy
How will remote working in academia spread beyond the pandemic circumstances that familiarized so many of us with it?
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Philosophy of Well-Being: A “Dysfunctional” Situation?
A “responsible definition of wellbeing,” says Anna Alexandrova (Cambridge), “needs to be appropriate to the goals of the project—epistemically accessible, reasonably simple, in other…
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Mental Health & Disability Network for Philosophy Grad Students
A pair of graduate students have created a network for graduate students in philosophy coping with mental and other health challenges, hosted primarily on…
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Philosophy Graduate Admissions Spreadsheet 2021-22
Reminder: there’s an open-access spreadsheet all about philosophy graduate program admissions, including relevant links and information about application deadlines, fees, requirements, funding packages, and…
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Oldest Professorship in Philosophy Gets New Name
The White’s Chair of Moral Philosophy at University of Oxford was established in 1621 with a donation from clergyman Thomas White. 400 years later,…
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A Network for Scholars Researching Women Philosophers in the History of Philosophy
The Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists at Paderborn University has created a network for scholars who work on women in…