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APA Prizes Announced
The American Philosophical Association has announced the winners of a few of its prizes: 2014 Essay Prize in Latin American Thought was won by…
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Philosophy Majors and the GRE 2011-2014
ETS has released data showing how well people perform on the GRE, sorted by intended area of graduate study. Once again, prospective philosophy graduate…
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Philosophers Propose Boycott
Related to the earlier post of links to philosophers writing about the current conflict in Gaza and associated issues, some philosophers and political theorists…
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Philosophy Can Help South Africa
So, what would a just South Africa look like, and how do we achieve it? If we’ve inherited a legacy of racial injustice, what…
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More on the Barnett story
[reporting from Boulder, CO] The story about the University of Colorado beginning the steps of firing associate professor of philosophy David Barnett (previously) has…
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University of Colorado Moves to Fire David Barnett
The University of Colorado is moving to fire philosophy professor David Barnett: Boulder campus leaders have begun the process of firing a tenured faculty member…
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Philosophy Students: A Tumblr
Zac Cogley (Northern Michigan) has created a tumblr featuring links about and pictures of people in the news who have majored in or otherwise studied philosophy. It’s…
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Dennett on Brains and Blame
“Of course my brain made me do it! What would you want, your stomach to make you do it?” That’s from the text of…
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Writing Tools
No, this is not a post about jerks who write. Rather, it is spurred by an inquiry from John Schwenkler (Florida State) about which…
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It’s Five O’clock Somewhere
“Beer and Trembling” and other bars philosophy professors opened after being denied tenure. (via Mark Alfano) Suggestions—for other bars or the drinks served at…
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Philosophers on the Israeli – Palestinian Conflict
Jason Stanley (Yale) has a piece in today’s Frankfurter Allgemeine, a German newspaper. It is entitled “An Open Letter to the Protestors on the streets…
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New Open Access Journal
Symposion has been relaunched as an open access, multilingual, quarterly, philosophy-centric interdisciplinary journal. Its first issue in its new format has just been published.
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When Is Philosophical Agreement Suspicious?
Last week, in the post about philosophy of religion, I wrote: For a few reasons, it is not a sociologically surprising fact that most philosophy…
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Civic Engagement in Philosophy Classes
Ramona Ilea (Pacific University) shares news of an online resource for philosophy professors she has helped create called Engaged Philosophy. The site is a…
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In the Overlap between Logic, Fun, and Information
John Venn, an English philosopher who spent much of his career at Cambridge, died in 1923, but if he were alive today he would totally be…
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What Are Some Things You’ve Said?
While we’ve been collecting your philosophical sayings here, someone else has been collecting what you might have said in the classroom or in office hours…
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Ketland Reinstated at Oxford
Jeffrey Ketland, who had been dismissed from his position as a philosophy fellow and tutor at Oxford’s Pembroke College following accusations that he had harassed a…
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Philosopher’s Index vs. PhilPapers
Wayne Bivens-Tatum, the philosophy and religion librarian at Princeton University, has published a comparison of Philosopher’s Index and PhilPapers at his blog, Academic Librarian.…
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Kamm on Israel and Gaza
Frances Kamm (Harvard) brings her analytical prowess to bear on an Israeli Ambassador’s just war-based defense of the killing of Gaza civilians, in a…
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PhilPapers and Philosophy Documentation Center Collaboration
PhilPapers and the Philosophy Documentation Center will be working together to expand the amount of information available via PhilPapers and to better manage PhilPapers’ subscription…