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“We have a good university right here in town. Why did you have to move so far away for graduate school?” “What do you…

Recently, the Journal of Political Philosophy  published an issue with a special symposium section on “Black Lives Matter.”  It’s an important and timely subject, and fits…

Ad Hoc by Rachel Katler

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Last week, Tommy Curry, professor of philosophy at Texas A & M University, began receiving racist hate mail and death threats as a result…

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Sometimes a picture is worth a million words, or at least a number of numbers. Writer Natasha M. Frost has created a visual representation of publication…

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The Marc Sanders Foundation has announced that T. Scott Dixon, assistant professor of philosophy at Ashoka University (in India), is the winner of its annual metaphysics prize for…

Peter Kivy, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University, has died. A prolific philosopher of art, literature, and especially music, Professor Kivy had over 20 books…

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Over the past few days, many members of the philosophical community have been expressing disappointment, sadness, and outrage over the recent controversy concerning the…

An article in the current issue of the feminist philosophy journal Hypatia has created such a controversy over the past several days that the members…

Mini-Heap: recent items from the Heap of Links, collected in groups of 10, here for your perusal and discussion.

Mini-Heap: recent items from the Heap of Links, collected in groups of 10, here for your perusal and discussion.

Philosophers are used to talking and thinking about beliefs. Nowadays, thanks to the pioneering work of Tamar Gendler, most of us are comfortable talking…

The Berggruen Institute has begun soliciting nominations for the second winner of its $1 million “Berggruen Prize.” The inaugural winner was Charles Taylor. Who…

Nick Byrd, a PhD student in philosophy at Florida State University, has posted about the classroom poster session that students in Marcela Herdova‘s Free…

To φ Or Not To φ by Tanya Kostochka