Author: Justin Weinberg

It was (perhaps) a dark and stormy night, back in the 1950s, when the multi-colored glass panels depicting 24 philosophers were removed from the…

Richard Sorabji, emeritus professor of philosophy at King’s College London and Honorary Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford (and who has held positions at Cornell,…

The American Philosophical Association has announced the winners of some recent publication prizes. Sally Haslanger has won the 2014 Joseph B. Gittler Award for…

John Brunero, currently associate professor of philosophy at the University of Missouri – St. Louis, has accepted a position with the University of Nebraska…

We, the undersigned stakeholders in the UCL community and concerned parties-at-large, insist that Professors Michael Arthur (Provost), Jonathan Wolff (Dean of Faculty of Arts…

Hasan Azad, a PhD student in religious studies at Columbia, takes to the pages of Al Jazeera to ask, “why are there no Muslim…

We face a situation where the A Level Philosophy may soon no longer exist such that we can continue to lament its supposed flaws…

We’ve all heard Stephen Hawking claim that philosophy is dead because philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. And we’ve all…

Stephen Colbert has a segment on android rights, and “known European” Massimo Pigliucci (CUNY) shows up towards the end (3:50) to comment. (via Philosophy…

Aarti Sabharwal of Virginia was recently named the “Most Philosophical Third Grader in America” as a result of her entry in the national 2014…

These issues have sparked a relatively new area of research among military ethicists known as “moral injury.” It emerges from experiences when “you apply…

An article in Times Higher Education reports that the editorial board of the journal of Prometheus: Critical Studies in Innovation, has threatened to resign. Why?…

No one has reason to accept a scheme of cooperation that places their lives under the control of others, that deprives them of meaningful…