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Bernard Rollin (1943-2021)
Bernard “Bernie” Elliot Rollin, professor emeritus of philosophy, animal sciences, and biomedical sciences at Colorado State University, has died.
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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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World Philosophy Day & the Growth of Philosophy
Today is World Philosophy Day, a day designated by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to celebrate “the enduring value of…
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Viehoff Wins 2021 Sanders Political Philosophy Prize
The Marc Sanders Foundation has awarded its 2021 Prize in Political Philosophy to Daniel Viehoff, assistant professor of philosophy at New York University.
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Top 30 Philosophy PhD Programs According to APDA
Academic Placement Data and Analysis (APDA), which collects data about and produces a ranking of PhD programs in philosophy, has recently posted details about…
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Advice for Applying to PhD Programs in Philosophy (guest post)
In the following guest post*, Alex Guerrero, professor and director of graduate admissions in the Department of Philosophy at Rutgers University, offers some advice…
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Lilli Alanen (1941-2021)
Lilli Alanen, professor emerita of philosophy at Uppsala University, has died.
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Remote-Working Positions in Academic Philosophy
How will remote working in academia spread beyond the pandemic circumstances that familiarized so many of us with it?
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Mental Health & Disability Network for Philosophy Grad Students
A pair of graduate students have created a network for graduate students in philosophy coping with mental and other health challenges, hosted primarily on…
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A Network for Scholars Researching Women Philosophers in the History of Philosophy
The Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists at Paderborn University has created a network for scholars who work on women in…
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How Can Departments Support Grad Students in Labor Disputes?
Earlier this month, Harvard University’s Graduate Student Union voted to authorize a strike.
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New Series on David Lewis from Hi-Phi Nation (guest post)
The newest season of Hi-Phi Nation, the popular philosophy podcast hosted by Barry Lam (Vassar College), is a four-part series on the work and…
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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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Discipline Size and Progress, in General and in Philosophy
When a field of study becomes large enough, its size “may impede the rise of new ideas,” according to Johan S.G. Chu and James…
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How Does This Year’s Academic Philosophy Job Market Look?
At this point in the job market last year, there were 65 advertisments for positions in academic philosophy advertised at PhilJobs. What about this…
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The “Practical Inertia” of Racism in Philosophy
“Through practical inertia, we end up duplicating what we’ve been handed down by our chauvinistic and often racist intellectual forebears, even if we have…
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New Research Group on Agency and Responsibility to Host Public Lecture Series
There’s a new network of researchers working on questions on agency and action, free will, moral responsibility, moral psychology, and related topics—the Agency and…