Author: Justin Weinberg
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Made by Philosophers for Philosophers — and Anyone Else Interested In Philosophy
It’s that time of the year again, when academics buried in grading are happily distracted by the pleasures of shopping for holiday presents.
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Increase in Hiring of Liberal Arts Majors Predicted for 2020
“The biggest workplace gaps throughout technology evolution will rely on the soft skills that are cultivated by a liberal arts education instead of technical…
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Ken Taylor (1954-2019) (w/ updates)
Kenneth Taylor, the Henry Waldgrave Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University, has died.
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Philosophy Graduate Program Application Information Spreadsheet
Someone created a useful tool for students applying to graduate programs in philosophy: an admissions and application spreadsheet.
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Free Philosophy Book for Swedish Students
All third-year high school students in Sweden can claim a free copy of Alternative facts: On Knowledge and Its Enemies, by Stockholm University philosophy professor…
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Fire at Harvard’s Philosophy Department
Emerson Hall, which houses the Department of Philosophy at Harvard University, caught fire last Friday.
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Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update
Here’s the weekly report on new and revised entries in online philosophy resources and new reviews of philosophy books.
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Jaegwon Kim (1934-2019)
Jaegwon Kim, professor emeritus of philosophy at Brown University, has died.
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Students Have Easy Access to Ghostwriters for Hire — What Should Teachers Do?
Recently, Eric Winsberg (South Florida), as an experiment, tweeted, “Who could I pay to write a five-page essay for me that I need to…
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James Griffin (1933-2019)
James Griffin, a philosopher who spent much of his career at Oxford University, died last Thursday.
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First German-Language Nietzsche Research Center Opens
The University of Freiburg has opened the Nietzsche Research Center, which it says is “the first in the German-speaking region and combines specialist knowledge…