Category: News
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Missouri Philosophy Issues Statement on Controversy over Racist Incidents (two updates)
The University of Missouri’s governing board is holding a meeting this morning to decide how to respond to calls by students and others for its president,…
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Disability Studies Quarterly Is Reviewing Stubblefield’s Articles
A philosophy professor who wishes to remain anonymous wrote to the editor of Disability Studies Quarterly in the wake Anna Stubblefield’s conviction for aggravated sexual assault…
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Ludlow Resigns
Northwestern University’s Vice President for University Relations, Alan K. Cubbage, has released the following statement: Peter Ludlow, a Northwestern University professor of philosophy, resigned…
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The Ludlow Hearing: Some Questions
The hearing to determine whether Peter Ludlow will be fired from Northwestern University (previous posts) has been underway over the past month or so but is…
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U.S. Politics with Logical and Factual Annotation
This is a great public service and a great idea. Stefan Schubert, a visiting philosophy professor at the London School of Economics, and Spencer Greenberg,…
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Stubblefield Convicted of First-Degree Aggravated Sexual Assault
Anna Stubblefield, a professor of philosophy at Rutgers-Newark, was found guilty of two counts of felony first-degree aggravated sexual assault for raping a mentally…
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Did This Monkey Intentionally Take A Selfie?
Some monkey business is raising questions in philosophy of action, philosophy of language, legal theory, and animal ethics. British photographer David Slater traveled to…
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Fire at University of Chicago Philosophy Department
This past Sunday, a fire broke out in Stuart Hall at the University of Chicago, home to the school’s Department of Philosophy. No one was…
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Japan’s Education Ministry vs. Humanities and Social Sciences
Times Higher Education reports: Many social sciences and humanities faculties in Japan are to close after universities were ordered to “serve areas that better…
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Judge Rejects Ludlow’s Amended Claim Against NU
From the Cook County Record: A federal judge has rejected a Northwestern University professor’s amended claim against the school, ending another chapter in a complex…
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Renewed Call to Reinstate Salaita
Kirk Sanders of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign passes along the following: A group of forty-one Executive Officers and campus leaders from across…
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Holy %#&! They Made a Real Brain in a Vat
An almost fully-formed human brain has been grown in a lab for the first time, claim scientists from Ohio State University… Though not conscious the…
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Philosophy May Come to Schools in Wales
Wales is poised to scrap Religious Education lessons in its schools, it has been revealed. Instead, the Welsh Government’s Minister for Education and Skills, Huw Lewis,…
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Philosophers Object to Heythrop’s Closing (updated)
The governing board of Heythrop College, a constituent college of the University of London whose mission is “to serve society through philosophy and theology,” met in late…
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Philosophers Interview Edward Snowden
John Perry and Ken Taylor (both Stanford), hosts of the radio program Philosophy Talk, interviewed former NSA analyst Edward Snowden, “the world’s most famous whistleblower”…
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Philosophers on the Supreme Court’s Gay Marriage Ruling
On Friday, June 26th, the Supreme Court of the United States announced its ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, holding that the Fourteenth Amendment of the…
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Philosophers on the Charleston Massacre
About 9 p.m., the Bible study concludes. As the group prepares to share a concluding prayer, Roof suddenly stands, pulls out a .45-caliber semi-automatic…
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Philosophers on Rachel Dolezal (updated)
Rachel Dolezal, “in recent years… has portrayed herself physically, and on social media platforms, as a woman of black African-American heritage. However, her parents, Ruthanne…
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The Philosophy of Passing
The story of Rachel Dolezal’s outing as a white woman (insert whatever scare quotes you think appropriate there) is being widely discussed all over…