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Black Philosopher, White Academy
A post at Lewis Gordon’s website about Bruce Kuklick’s book on William Fontaine, an African-American philosopher who taught at the University of Pennsylvania from 1947-1967,…
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What Can You Do With A Philosophy Major? Part 8563 or so
You can invent a silly product, market it well, and use the proceeds to fund a charity. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the newest inductee…
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How Much Do You Travel For Work?
Many philosophers travel for work, delivering talks or participating in conferences and the like. In deciding whether to attend another conference, or accept another invitation,…
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Professional Philosophers in Industry
Professional Philosophers in Industry is a LinkedIn group for philosophers who have left academic philosophy. “The purpose of this group is to provide professional…
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New Open Access Philosophy Journal
Ergo is a new general, open access philosophy journal that launches today. In their introduction, Franz Huber and Jonathan Weisberg describe the data and other…
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Must Journal Submissions Conform to Style Guidelines?
An assistant professor writes in with the following query: Do journal editors ever reject something simply because it doesn’t fit the stated style guidelines?…
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Around The Philosoblogosphere
Below are reports about some recent philosoblogospheric activity. If something philosophical and worth sharing is going on at a blog you read or run, feel…
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The PERFECT Project for €2 Million
Lisa Bortolotti, a philosopher at the University of Birmingham, has won a European Research Council Consolidator Grant for 2 million euros (over 5 years)…
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Heap of Links – Long Weekend Bonus Edition
1. I’ll have the Frege Legs with Russell Sprouts, please. 2. Steven Nadler on the Jewish ban of Spinoza and the relation between wisdom…
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SC Philosophers Ask: Is the State Legislature Silencing Gay Voices?
Julinna Oxley (Coastal Carolina) and Diane Perpich (Clemson), both philosophy professors who head up the women’s studies programs at their respective universities, have written…
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The $4.8 Million Experience
Samuel Newlands (Notre Dame), L. A. Paul (North Carolina), and Michael Rea (Notre Dame) have won a grant of $4.8 million from the Templeton Foundation…
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McMahan Offered White’s Chair of Moral Philosophy
Oxford University has offered the prestigious White’s Chair of Moral Philosophy to Jeff McMahan (Rutgers). The chair is currently held by John Broome. Recent…
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Ask a Long-Dead Philosopher
If you could ask a long-dead philosopher any one question, who would you you pick, and what would you ask? (For our purposes here,…
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Colorado Professor Allowed Back On Campus
Dan Kaufman, who had been barred since March for unspecified reasons from the University of Colorado, where he is associate professor of philosophy, is…
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Philosophy Major in the News
I’ve had many opportunities to use my philosophy degree to home in on what one politician or another was saying and to find the…
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Philosophy Students Do It
…for good reasons? How about more? That’s a finding of a recent survey conducted at over 100 British universities. So do we add this…
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Philosophers Hired Outside of Academia
At the suggestion of a friend I am creating a new page at Daily Nous for people to list their successes finding employment outside…
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Philosophy Student Wins on “The Voice”
The Voice is a popular televised singing competition on NBC. The finale of its sixth season aired last night, and the winner is Josh Kaufman, who…
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Should the Philosophy Job Market Ditch Letters of Recommendation?
Over at the Justice Everywhere blog, Anca Gheaus (Sheffield) takes up the question of whether the practice of asking for, reading, and giving weight…
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Anja Jauernig (Pittsburgh) to NYU
Anja Jauernig, currently associate professor of philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, has accepted a senior offer from New York University, starting in January,…