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Retaliation and the Ketland Case (Guest Post by Heidi Lockwood)
Heidi Lockwood is associate professor of philosophy at Southern Connecticut State University. She works on topics in logic, metaphysics, and epistemology, and has also…
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Around the Philosoblogosphere
Here are some discussions going on elsewhere. Feel free to point to others in the comments. 1. The Brains blog is hosting a symposium…
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Transcript and Video of Salaita’s Press Conference
The transcript of Steven Salaita’s remarks at today’s press conference is here, and a video of the event, including an introduction by one of his…
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Hacking Wins 2014 Balzan Prize
Ian Hacking (Toronto) has won the 2014 Balzan Prize for Epistemology and Philosophy of Mind. The prize includes 750,000 Swiss Francs (€620,000; $800,000 £490,000).…
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Common Misconceptions about Philosophy
Wikipedia has a page dedicated to common misconceptions (via Kottke). While the page has sections for history, math, science, and food (among other things), there…
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Varieties of Empathetic Philosophers
“If I could, I would make it so that everyone in the world could genuinely understand the perspective of everyone else; why they are frustrated, when…
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Salaita Updates
Steven Salaita (previously) will be speaking at a press conference today at 12:30 pm at the University YMCA in Urbana, Illinois. Details here. UPDATE: The…
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Guidelines for Philosophical Discussion
David Chalmers has, with the help of some crowdsourcing, put together a list of “guidelines for respectful, constructive, and inclusive philosophical discussion.” They are…
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AAAS Philosophy Report
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences has released a second version of its Humanities Departmental Survey, the aim of which is to “fill…
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The Purpose of Philosophy Class
It is not the purpose of a Philosophy class to transmit information or inculcate skills, however useful that may be. It is to introduce…
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What Is “Continental Philosophy”?
In the comments to the last heap of links, dmf points to a post on Terence Blake’s blog, Agent Swarm, entitled “16 Traits of Continental…
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Six Month Status Report
Daily Nous began on the first Friday in March, and now it is the first Friday in September. It’s six months old, so still…
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Colorado Faculty in “Fear” of Administration?
A group of faculty members believes the University of Colorado administration has created a sense of fear on the Boulder campus with recent cases…
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Philososplainin’ #1: Reclining Airplane Seats
Maybe it started with Thales falling into a well, helped along by the trope of the absent-minded professor, and reinforced by, say, the difficulty of…
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Updates on Salaita
For the most recent information about the efforts to reverse the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s decision to rescind Steven Salaita’s offer, see Corey…
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How White Is Philosophy Compared to Other Humanities?
Eric Schwitzgebel, inspired by the recent article “What is the State of Blacks in Philosophy?” by Botts, et al (previously), looked further into the…
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Recurring Philosophy Conferences
Elizabeth Harman and Daniel Wodak (Princeton) have created a list of recurring philosophy conferences. It’s a Google document; if you know of any philosophy…
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Salaita’s Contract to be Forwarded to Board – UPDATED
UPDATE [9/2/14]: Ted Underwood, a professor of English at UIUC, tweets: “Regret to say that last night’s report from students appears premature. Faculty have…
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Philosophy that’s a Pleasure to Read
“People have been asking me: what will you acquire? In most cases I gave the obvious response about seeking new directions in these fields…
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$1.5m for New Chair at University of Montreal
An anonymous donor has provided the University of Montreal with 1.5 million dollars (Canadian) to fund the Aesop Chair in Philosophy. It’s first holder…