Category: Academic Labor
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Unions, Strikes, and the Financial Satisfaction of Philosophy PhD Students
In its 2023 and 2025 surveys, Academic Philosophy Data & Analysis (APDA) asked current PhD students to rate their satisfaction with their financial situation.
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Research-University-Biased Perceptions of Professional Philosophy
What do you do as a philosophy professor? What does it take to get a job as a philosophy professor? To get tenure? What…
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Philosophy Departments as Sites of Collective Intellectual Activities: A Follow-Up to the Poll
Has there been a “marked decline” in the “meaningful presence of faculty members in both formal and informal scholarly events—those that contribute to intellectual…
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Academic Equipment: Coffee at the Office
For the latest installment of the occasional academic equipment series, let’s talk coffee.
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Philosophy Departments as Sites of Collective Intellectual Activities: a Decline? (guest post & poll)
Has there been “a marked decline in faculty participation in seminars, colloquia, reading groups, and other intellectual gatherings that once formed the core of…
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Academic Equipment: E-Readers & Reading Apps
For the third installment of the academic equipment series (we’ve so far talked about bags and chairs) we turn to the subject of e-readers.
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Publishers Want To Sell Companies the Right to Train AI on Your Books: Should You Consent?
Should authors consent to have their publishers grant licensing requests by firms and projects to allow them to train their generative AI on their…
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Surviving the “Precarious Years”
“Lassiter taught nearly 50 courses before he began a tenure-track job in 2013. He ordinarily took on three courses in Fall and Spring semesters,…
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When Your Semester Starts Without a Contract
In my inbox yesterday: “I am about to begin teaching tomorrow and I have yet to receive my contract…”
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Academic Equipment: The Work Bag
This is the first in a series of occasional posts about the things academics tend to use—the tools, equipment, accessories, and other products we need…
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Helping Philosophy Grad Students on Strike (updated)
As we noted last week, graduate student workers at Boston University (BU) have gone on strike to demand increased stipends and improved benefits.
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BU Dean Recommends Replacing Striking TAs with AIs (updated)
The actual dean of an actual college of arts and sciences at an actual university has actually recommended replacing striking instructors with artificial intelligence…
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Zombie Plagiarism in Philosophy
Some philosophy articles might be exposed as containing plagiarized material, might have editorial notes appended to them indicating as much, or might even be…
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Journal of Political Philosophy Update (guest post)
The following is an update on the Journal of Political Philosophy, whose advisory board resigned following a decision by the journal’s publisher, Wiley, to fire…
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Is Someone Selling Your Dissertation Without Your Permission?
A lecturer in philosophy at a UK university discovered that a company has been selling his recent dissertation as a book online through Amazon,…
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That’s Not How Layoffs/Redundancies Work, Sussex
The University of Sussex is reportedly attempting to lay off a philosophy lecturer while at the same time advertising a new position to teach…
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Philosophy Colloquia: How Much Does Your Department Pay Speakers?
A philosophy professor in charge of his department’s colloquium series has asked what the norms are regarding honoraria.
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Over 1000 Academics Sign Onto Pending Work Stoppage at the Journal of Political Philosophy
Over 1,000 academics have added their names to a resolution pledging that, as of the end of 2023, they will not submit manuscripts to,…