Author: Justin Weinberg
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Philosophical Apps: How To Popularize Philosophy (guest post by Caleb Ontiveros)
The following is a guest post* by Caleb Ontiveros, a former philosophy Ph.D. student who now works as a software engineer.
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Lynch Wins 2019 NCTE George Orwell Award
Michael P. Lynch, Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut, is the winner of the 2019 George Orwell Award for Distinguished…
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What Should Search Committees Initially Ask For?
A reader draws my attention to the advertisement for an assistant professorship in philosophy at Duke University as an example of the problem of schools…
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Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update
Here’s the weekly report on new entries in online philosophical resources and new reviews of philosophy books.
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Philosophy Journals: A Crowdsourced Guide for Authors
Philosophers, are you tired of googling and clicking and scrolling to find out which journal is the right one for the manuscript you just finished?
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Miguel León-Portilla (1926-2019)
Miguel León-Portilla, emeritus professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and “the world’s foremost authority on Náhuatl philology and philosophy,” has died.
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Justin Zylstra (1987-2019) / Memorial Prize
Justin Zylstra, a research fellow in philosophy at the University of Vermont who received his Ph.D. from the University of Alberta in 2016, died…
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Teaching Students How To Ask Philosophical Questions
“Question asking… is a skill all-too-often undervalued in philosophy pedagogy and philosophy pedagogy research”
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Schoenfield from MIT to UT Austin
Miriam Schoenfield, currently associate professor of philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), has accepted a position as associate professor of philosophy at…
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Philosophers’ Pick-Up Lines
“I didn’t know that angels could fly so low. Or that angels even existed anymore now that God is dead… amiright???”
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Translation Plagiarism in Philosophy
“Many readers—from peer reviewers to journal readers—are underprepared to discern that a plagiarizing work has already appeared in print in another language under different…
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Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update
Here’s the weekly report on new entries in online philosophical resources and new reviews of philosophy books.
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“Frustration, Mediocrity, and Drama”
A year in the academic life of the typical Nigerian philosopher is a long one defined by frustration, mediocrity (either self-imposed or externally imposed)…
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A Plea for More Teaching Apprenticeships (guest post by Mercy Corredor)
“Working for an instructor is worlds apart from working with an instructor with the aim of learning about the practice of teaching.”
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Philosopher Awarded £977K Grant for “Mindreading”
Philosopher Richard Moore, who will be moving to Warwick University from The Berlin School of Mind and Brain at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin next year,…