Author: Justin Weinberg
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Answering the Taxpayers
I am a professor of philosophy at a public university. What is the value of philosophy to the taxpayers who subsidize my teaching? Philosophy…
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Rise of the Intuitions
Is there a word more overused in philosophy nowadays than “intuition”? That is many people’s intuition sense of things, but why go with gut feelings…
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Police Violence, Race, and…?
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On Warwick’s Outsourcing (a few updates)
A few days ago news surfaced of the University of Warwick’s plan to outsource some of its teaching to a company called Teach Higher.…
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Solutions to the Jobs Problem Revisited
Last year, Daily Nous reported that Eleanor Dickey, professor of classics at University of Reading, had been collecting various possible responses to problems associated with the…
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A Philosophy Department’s Impressive Fight For Survival
Robert Stufflebeam, chair of the Philosophy Department at the University of New Orleans, shares some of the challenges his department faces, and some of…
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Honoraria in Philosophy
A philosopher writes in with a query about paying philosophers for talks and the like… I’d like to learn more about honorarium practices for…
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A Site To Help With Non-Academic Employment
Hiring the Humanities is a new website that aims to assist those currently working in the humanities find employment outside academia. It was started…
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A Philosophy Scholarship Program
Furman University has developed an exciting scholarship program for students interested in studying philosophy. J. Aaron Simmons, associate professor of philosophy there, kindly took…
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Lack of Philosophical Progress Owed to Procrastination, Study Hopes to Find
Historians of philosophy and experimental philosophers have teamed up to determine why there has been so little progress in philosophy. “Socrates asked ‘what is…
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Lockwood v. Tooley on “Sexual Assault on Campus”
Heidi Lockwood (Southern Connecticut) and Michael Tooley (Colorado) met at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) earlier this month for a debate sponsored by VCU’s Department…
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Inaugural Issue of the Journal of the American Philosophical Association
The first ever issue of the Journal of the American Philosophical Association is now available online. According to a press release from the APA, “All current…
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High Enrollment Philosophy Courses
We, like I’m sure lots of other departments, are suffering from decreasing enrollment numbers. I was wondering if you could do a post asking…
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Who Deleted What From Heidegger’s Works, And Who Knew About It? (updated)
FAZ, one of the main newspapers in Germany, reports on the unraveling scandal regarding Heidegger’s anti-Semitic writings. The latest, I am told, is that…
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Watching TV (with poll)
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This Is What We Look Like Campaign
“This Is What We Look Like” is a new campaign aimed at “Promoting the presence, awareness, and progress of women in traditionally male dominated fields,”…
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Hobbies of Philosophers: Steff Rocknak
For this installment of “Hobbies of Philosophers”, I talked to Steff Rocknak, professor of philosophy at Hartwick College. Steff works on Hume, Quine, philosophy…
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Questions about the Confucius Institute
Kansas State University is about to open a Confucius Institute on its campus and some there, including associate professor of philosophy John Mahoney, are…