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More on the Lack of “Significant” Women Philosophers
Noah Berlatsky, writing in The Atlantic, responds to Charles Murray’s claim that there have been no significant women philosophers.
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Advice for Grad Students and Other Conference Goers
The Pacific APA is in session and so it might be a good time to share this helpful post about good conference-going behavior (via Hannah Bondurant).…
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Mental Illness in the Academy
Last month The Guardian published a couple of pieces on mental illness in academia. The first was a blog post on the “culture of…
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A Philosophy Video Game
The makers of the video game, The Old City, say that it is “philosophically founded,” and this article about the game uses some version…
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An “Oh, Yes!” for Continental Philosophy
Last month saw the opening of the Scottish Centre for Continental Philosophy at the University of Dundee. At their inaugural workshop, James Williams (Dundee)…
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More Millions for Mele
Alfred Mele (Florida State) has won another enormous grant from the Templeton Foundation, this time for $4.5 million, for his project on the philosophy…
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Teaching Philosophy in Prisons
Currently over two million people in the United States are in prison, and about nine million worldwide. There are many questions worth asking about the…
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Accessing PhilPapers From Campus
PhilPapers announces that starting on July 1st, 2014, full access to the PhilPapers site from an institution of higher education will be by institutional…
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Running Commentary
If there were a pill that could replicate all the benefits of running—heath, looks, even enjoyment—would you keep running? In my experience, the longer…
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Is This Letter Addressed To You? Or you? Or you?
Dear Ambiguous Commentator, Hi there. I don’t think we’ve met, but I appreciate your interest in the blog and I’m flattered that you have…
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Philosopher Gets Google Doodle Treatment
The 888th birthday of Spanish Muslim philosopher Averroes (Ibn Rushd) is celebrated with a Google Doodle today, but not everywhere. Check out Google Spain…
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New Report on Adjunct Faculty
A new study on contingent or adjunct faculty has been released. The New York Times comments on it, and then itself comes in for…
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The Philosopher-Politician Reflects
We all think we can teach politics, but there is some almost tragic sense in which it can only be learned… by the mistakes…
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What Is Philosophical Progress?
Writing in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein (previously) argues that philosophy is making progress, and argues for a particular conception of…
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Nicholas of Cusa on the Radio
2014 is the 550th anniversity of the death of 15th Century German philosopher Nicholas of Cusa (aka Nicolaus Cusanus), and you are probably asking yourself…
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What is Happiness?
Everyone thinks happiness is at least sometimes good, but what is it? Dan Haybron (St. Louis University) takes on some traditional accounts and defends…
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Ernesto Laclau (1935-2014)
Ernesto Laclau, an Argentine political theorist at the University of Essex, has died. Laclau worked in the continental post-Marxist tradition, and is known for…
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Philosophers win Guggenheim Fellowships
Philosophers Eva Feder Kittay (Stony Brook), L.A. Paul (UNC Chapel Hill), and John Palmer (University of Florida) are among the 2014 Guggenheim Fellowship winners. (via Leiter)
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Philosopher’s Carnival #162
Recent posts from all over the philosophy blogosphere are selected and summarized at Aesthetics for Birds in the new Philosopher’s Carnival. Lots of interesting…
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Same Old Song and Dance?
Maybe you’ve always thought there was something off about Ayn Rand, but I bet you weren’t thinking off-Broadway. Well this May, The Anthem, a theater production…