Author: Justin Weinberg
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Advice About Undergraduate Philosophy Journals
A professor sends in a query about advising students on undergraduate philosophy journals.
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Cabrini University to Cut Philosophy Major
Cabrini University, a Catholic College in Pennsylvania, has announced that it is eliminating several programs, including its philosophy major.
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New: The British Society for the Theory of Knowledge
The British Society for the Theory of Knowledge (BSTK) is a new organization “dedicated to furthering philosophical research in epistemology.”
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Drożdżowicz and Malmgren to Lillehammer (Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences)
Anna Drożdżowicz, currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oslo, and Anna-Sara Malmgren, currently a lecturer at Stanford University, have been hired as…
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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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Philosophy, Imagination, Muscle, Bone, and Science
“My conception of my work doesn’t entail that I think philosophy, in the aggregate, is without practical significance. Quite the opposite. Any institution that…
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Junior Yearly Progress Reports in Pandemic Times
A junior faculty member has questions about the assessment of faculty on the tenure-track over the past year, particularly regarding how such faculty should,…
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Complementing Defenses of Academic Freedom with Understanding & Advice
As reported earlier this week, there’s a new organization, the Academic Freedom Alliance (AFA), that aims to defend faculty whose academic freedom is being…
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Citing (and Thanking) the Referees at the Journal that Rejected You, Part 2
“We argue that when an author’s work is published, the author should thank the reviewers whose comments improved the paper regardless of whether those…
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Academic Freedom Alliance Formed
A group of scholars have created a new non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the academic freedom of higher education faculty
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How Should Philosophers Talk to Journalists?
“Whenever a journalist interviews me about whether a certain practice is morally right or wrong I always feel like I disappoint…”
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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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Nussbaum Wins Holberg Prize
Martha Nussbaum, Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, has been named the winner of the 2021…