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Publishing? There’s an App for that.
HelpMePublish is an app that “provides databases on 13 major subject areas containing information on more than 6000 reputable academic journals provided by journal…
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APA’s Code of Conduct in IHE
Inside Higher Ed has an article on the APA’s creation of a task force to look into whether to create a code of conduct…
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Public Philosophy – the Idea and the Challenges (Guest Post by Jack Weinstein)
Jack Russell Weinstein is a Professor of Philosophy and the Director of the Institute for Philosophy in Public Life at the University of North…
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Another Colorado Student Speaks Out
Sofia Huerter, an MA student at the University of Colorado, has written a response to the recent critique of her department’s proposed climate policies by…
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Job Market Analyses – UPDATED (yet again)
Update (7/14/14): Last week, Leiter replied to Jennings’ comparisons with some data. Jennings responds with newer data, arguing that “recency and time frame” matter. Update…
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Minorities and Philosophy (MAP) Expands to UK
Minorities and Philosophy (MAP) “is a collection of students in English-speaking philosophy departments that aims to examine and address issues of minority participation in academic…
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75% Philosophers, 100% Indie Rock
So I guess we are on a roll here with philosopher-musicians. Christy Mag Uidhir brings The Counterfactuals to my attention. Composed of a music professor…
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Does Philosophy Need A Reboot?
Philosophy is a bit like a computer with a memory leak. It starts well, dealing with significant and serious issues that matter to anyone.…
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New Single by Philosopher of Science
Steven Weinstein (Waterloo) is currently working on “multiple time dimensions, causality and determinism in relativistic classical and quantum physics, the arrow of time” and sweet…
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Non-Academic Philosophers in The Atlantic
The Atlantic has a short piece on Helen De Cruz’s interviews with non-academic philosophers, which were posted at NewApps in three parts (1, 2,…
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Philosopher to Head NEH
William D. “Bro” Adams, a philosopher who taught at Santa Clara University, UNC Chapel Hill, and Stanford, has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate…
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Lappin and Russell and 189 million Swedish Kroner to Gothenburg
Shalom Lappin (King’s College London) and Paul Russell (University of British Columbia) will be heading to the Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science at the…
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Are Trigger Warnings for White People? (Guest Post by Kristina Meshelski)
Kristina Meshelski, an assistant professor of philosophy at CSU Northridge, has kindly authored the following guest post about the recent discussion of trigger warnings at…
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Is It Deep or Have You Been Duped?
In line with the principle of charity in cooperative communication, people will try to reconstruct the meaning of unknown terms on the presumption that what…
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Making Philosophy Journal Statistics Publicly Available
Philipp Blum, one of the co-editors of the journal, dialectica, has a request for other journal editors: I think it would be very helpful…
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The Philosophical Underclass Group
The Philosophical Underclass is a Facebook group of philosophers who request and provide electronic copies of philosophical works from and to each other. It is…
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Digitizing the Geometry of Spinoza’s Ethics
Torin Doppelt, a PhD candidate in philosophy at Queen’s University, has created Spinoza’s Ethics 2.0, a an interesting digital humanities project that “provides a representation of…
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Which Scientific Idea Should Go?
Edge.org’s 2014 annual question is “What Scientific Idea is Ready for Retirement?” Many weigh in on the question with interesting answers, including philosophers Andy…
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Relationships with Students
Slate’s Rebecca Schuman reports on recent discussions in the philosophical community on relations between professors and students. Several philosophers were interviewed for the article,…
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Colorado’s “Best Practices” Document
The University of Colorado Department of Philosophy’s “Best Practices for Faculty and Students” document, in which the department sets out ways to make itself a “safe,…