Author: Justin Weinberg
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Dialectica and the Challenges of Converting a Journal to Open Access
A reader recently pointed out that the philosophy journal Dialectica in 2020 became an open access journal, after 15 years of being published by…
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Deciding Between Grad Programs: What Questions to Ask? Of Whom?
Applicants to graduate programs in philosophy are now hearing from admissions committees and will have decisions to make about which to attend, or whether…
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Lenhard Wins 2024 Covey Award
Johannes Lenhard (Rhineland-Palatinate Technical University) has been selected as the winner of the 2024 Covey Award by the board of the International Association for…
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Paulin J. Hountondji (1942-2024)
Paulin Jidenu Hountondji, an influential African philosopher, died earlier this month.
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Viehoff from NYU to Berkeley
Daniel Viehoff, currently associate professor of philosophy at New York University, will be moving to the University of California, Berkeley, where he will be…
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Rasmussen from Azusa to Baylor
Joshua Rasmussen, currently associate professor of philosophy at Azusa Pacific University, will be moving to Baylor University, where he will be professor of philosophy.
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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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Site Damage & Repair (updated)
Daily Nous suffered an as-of-yet unexplained “critical error” tonight. The site was down for several hours and could only get back online by restoring…
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Are Your Students Doing The Reading?
And if they’re not, what can be done to get them to do it? Or is that the wrong way to think about it?
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Leverhulme Trust to Investigate One of Its Philosophy Fellows at Cambridge (updated)
The Leverhulme Trust, a philanthropy in London which provides grants and fellowships to scholars across a range of disciplines, has launched an investigation of one…
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The Influence of Translations in Philosophy: The Case of the Tractatus
You know that famous last line of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, “Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent”? That’s not quite what he said,…
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Philosophy’s Digital Future (guest post)
“The crucial question for any academic system is how filtering works. Information is cheap. What we want is some way to identify the most valuable…
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One Front in the Fight for Philosophy’s Survival in the US: High Schools
One obstacle undergraduate philosophy programs in the United States face is student unfamiliarity with philosophy.
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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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American Philosophers Should Condemn the War in Gaza (guest post)
“American academic philosophers should speak out to condemn the Israeli assault on Gaza.”
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AI & the Professions
Large language models outperform humans as junior lawyers, according to a new study.
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Lawrence Pasternack (1967-2024)
Lawrence Pasternack, professor of philosophy at Oklahoma State University, has died.