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A Strange List of “Great Value” Colleges for Undergraduate Philosophy Degrees (Updated)
A website called “Great Value Colleges” has published a list of “100 Great Value Colleges for Philosophy Degrees (Bachelor’s) for 2020.”
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Underappreciated Philosophical Writing of the Past 50 Years, Part 3: 1990s
Continuing our series of underappreciated philosophical writing of the past 50 years, we turn now to the 1990s.
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Brownlee from Warwick to British Columbia
Kimberley Brownlee, currently professor of philosophy at the University of Warwick and a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, is moving to the University of British Columbia…
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C. Thi Nguyen from Utah Valley to University of Utah
C. Thi Nguyen, currently associate professor of philosophy at Utah Valley University, will be moving to the Department of Philosophy at the University of Utah.
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Editorial and Advisory Board of Journal Resign En Masse
“We recount our small act of resistance here because we think there may be lessons for the wider academic community.”
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Philosophers Assemble Archive of Obscure but Prescient 1970s Physics Newsletter
Before you throw out all of those old boxes of journals you received in the mail or articles you photocopied in an attempt to…
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The BJPS Referee Of The Year Award
The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (BJPS) has a “Referee of the Year” award.
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Countenancing Segregation Based on Imaginary Science (guest post)
“Papers like this should be left ignored, and certainly not mistaken for brave declarations of inconvenient truths.”
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What Is Learned from 70,000 Responses to Trolley Scenarios?
A team of researchers has reported on its collection and analysis of 70,000 responses to three scenarios that frequently comprise versions of the trolley problem.
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Scholars Object to Publication of Paper Defending Race Science
Scholars are objecting to the decision of the editors of the journal, Philosophical Psychology, to publish an article that calls for “free inquiry” into possible inherited…
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A Philosopher Takes on Evolutionary Psychology
“Evolutionary psychological inferences commonly fail to satisfy reasonable epistemic criteria.” The failures are so significant that good evolutionary psychology may not be possible.
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Summer Programs in Philosophy for Graduate Students – 2020
This is a post for the listing of summer programs in philosophy for graduate students.
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Improvement in Philosophy over Time
“If Aristotle lived today, there is no way that he would be an Aristotelian.” That winning line is from a recent critique of the…