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I don’t think the arguments for either theism or atheism lead to knowledge of their conclusions. But there are arguments on both sides from…

We must find a method of caring without touching, of contacting without making contact. The physiological barriers are, for the time being, necessary. But…

Helen De Cruz conducted a survey about submitting articles to the “top-5” philosophy journals and now has a post up analyzing the results.

We’re confusing consumer satisfaction with product value. That’s Philip B. Stark, a professor of statistics at Berkeley, discussing a mathematical critique of student evaluations…

Wes Morriston, who retired this past summer after 42 years as a member of the philosophy department at the University of Colorado, has written…

David Shorter, a professor world arts and cultures at UCLA, has published a list of “six key lessons” for people starting graduate school. Paraphrasing,…

Miranda Fricker, Jennifer Saul, and Holly Lawford-Smith at the University of Sheffield are interested in hearing from anyone with an interest in epistemological, metaphysical,…

Certain subfields of philosophy, such as feminist philosophy, philosophy of race, and philosophy of disability, are sometimes accused of being improperly “political.” Lately, I have…

“One of the striking features of people on psychiatric wards is how much their conversation is about topics also discussed in philosophy journals.” One thing…

An anonymous donor contributed $3 million for the creation of Rochester Institute of Technology’s Eugene H. Fram Chair in Applied Critical Thinking, named for a tough…

At Texas Christian University, Introduction to Philosophy is team taught—and by “team” they mean the whole department, as a brief article in the school paper describes.…

Here’s a sentence you might never have expected to read: “Drawing on his research on presentism, he has suggested a variety of ways in…

Experimental philosophy is a young (and controversial) subdiscipline of philosophy, but enough of it has been conducted that potentially informative meta-analyses are now possible.…

The University of Illinois’s Board of Trustees voted on Thursday to deny the appointment of Steven G. Salaita to a professorship on the Urbana-Champaign…

The so-called Continental-analytic division within philosophy is not a philosophical distinction; it’s a sociological one. It is the product of historical accident. It is…

It has been around for a while, but in case you aren’t familiar with it, you may want to check out The Philosopher’s Eye. It’s Wiley-Blackwell’s…