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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,…
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Laurence Goldstein (1947-2014)
Laurence Goldstein, a professor of philosophy at the University of Kent, has died. Before joining the department at Kent, Goldstein had held appointments at…
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Now That I’ve Got Your Attention…
We can ask, what is attention, anyway? The folks over at Brains, the group blog on the philosophy and science of minds, are currently…
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Philosophy: “Something scientists should embrace”
Just having the graduate students and Sara [Goering, associate professor of philosophy] present in our space and asking us questions raises our consciousness, our…
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Report on the Yale Case from IHE
Inside Higher Ed reports on the recent social-media publicizing of allegations of sexual misconduct against “a professor of philosophy at Yale University.” (previously here and here,…
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A More Animated Than Usual Chomsky
The world is a very puzzling place. If you’re not willing to be puzzled, you just become a replica of someone else’s mind. Is…
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Philosophy Festival in Cologne this Week
Today is the start of phil.Cologne, a week-long philosophy festival featuring an international slate of philosophers taking up a wide range of questions. Also…
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Ethics? There’s An App For That
The Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University has developed an Ethical Decision Making app. The app…asks the user to consider the…
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The Legality of Hiring for Diversity
There is a great discussion on the thread about diversity in philosophy departments at undergraduate institutions, with many thoughtful comments and constructive suggestions still…
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Another Philosopher Gets a Google Doodle
Check out the Italian Google page for a google doodle marking what would have been the 296th birthday of Italian mathematician and philosopher Maria…
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David Armstrong (1926-2014)
David Armstrong, a philosopher known for his work in metaphysics and the philosophy of mind, has died. He had retired from the University of…
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Watch What You Say Online, Profs
The new policy says that faculty and staff of the state’s six universities, 19 community colleges and six technical colleges may not say anything…
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Diversity at Undergraduate-Oriented Departments
In the 50-plus years of its existence, the philosophy department has offered only one tenure-track position to a woman, and zero positions to people…
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Andrew Cullison (SUNY Fredonia) to DePauw
Andrew Cullison, currently at SUNY Fredonia, has accepted a position at DePauw University as associate professor of philosophy and director of the university’s Janet Prindle Institute…
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Do Ethics Courses Make Moral Students?
A recent event at Stanford raised the question of what good ethics courses do, with a particular focus on the question of whether such…
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Judges Citing Philosophers, Kant Edition
Last week we had a judge citing Mill in a rather complicated case in England. This week we have a judge citing Kant in…
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$7.5m Grant for Moral Robots
Move over, 6 Million Dollar Man, and make room for the 7.5 Million Dollar Moral Robot. The Office of Naval Research is doling out…
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Acknowledgments for Sale
Have you always wanted to be acknowledged in the preface of a philosophy book, but haven’t had the time or opportunity or insightfulness to…
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Yale Seeks Information About Sexual Misconduct
Jason Stanley (Yale) writes: I just met with Professor Stephanie Spangler, Yale’s Deputy Provost for Health Affairs and Academic Integrity and also the University’s…