public philosophy
Administration Sets Police on Peaceful Student Protestors
Milagros Peña, president of Purchase College, State University of New York, authorized campus and local police to forcibly break up what appears to be a peaceful gathering of student protestors, in a continuing trend across the country. (more…)
Arruzza from New School to Boston University
Cinzia Arruzza, currently associate professor of philosophy at The New School, will be moving to Boston University‘s Department of Philosophy, where she will be the Maria Stata Professor in Classical Greek Studies. (more…)
Gardiner from Tennessee to Tulane
Georgi Gardiner, currently associate professor of philosophy at the University of Tennessee, is moving to Tulane University, where she will be associate professor of philosophy and of gender and sexuality studies. (more…)
Italian Philosopher Prosecuted for Criticizing Politician’s Views
Donatella Di Cesare, a professor of philosophy at Sapienza University (Rome), has been charged with “criminal defamation” for describing a politician’s views as “neo-Hitlerite.” (more…)
Campus Protests about Israel and the Palestinians (several updates)
This post is for discussion of the ongoing campus protests against Israel’s response to the October 7th, 2023 attack on it by Hamas, and in support of the Palestinians. (more…)
Philosophers Among New American Academy of Arts & Sciences Fellows
The American Academy of Arts & Sciences has announced its newly elected members, and a number of philosophers are among them. (more…)
Daniel Dennett (1942-2024)
Daniel Dennett, professor emeritus of philosophy at Tufts University, well-known for his work in philosophy of mind and a wide range of other philosophical areas, has died.
The End of the Future of Humanity Institute (updated)
The Future of Humanity Institute (FHI) at the University of Oxford closed earlier this week. (more…)
Say Hello to this Philosopher’s ExTRA
Appropriately enough, Luciano Floridi (Yale), known for his work in the philosophy of information and technology, may be the first philosopher with a… well, what should we call this thing? (more…)
Kogelmann from West Virginia to Purdue
Brian Kogelmann, currently an assistant professor in the John Chambers College of Business and Economics at West Virgina University, has accepted a position as associate professor of philosophy and political science at Purdue University. (more…)
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The Challenges of a Large Interdisciplinary Project (guest post)
Over the past decade or so we’ve seen philosophers win sizable grants for projects involving multiple teams of researchers with different disciplinary and institutional homes.
Defamatory Remarks Prompt Resignations & Legal Restructuring at Philosophical Society
Four members of the executive committee of the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain (PESGB) resigned in the wake of complaints that Impact, the society’s journal, published defamatory remarks about a philosophy graduate student. (more…)
The Case for a Peer Review Market (guest post)
“The academic peer review system as it currently stands is frustrating and dysfunctional for many of those who participate in it.” (more…)
Ernst Wolfgang Orth (1936-2024)
Ernst Wolfgang Orth, professor emeritus of philosophy at University of Trier, has died. (more…)
On Book Reviews
There has been discussion among some philosophers on social media about the decline in the number of book reviews published by Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (NDPR). (more…)
Sexual Harassment, Advice, and Institutional Failure
Imagine you have seen or been told of sexual harassment in your department, or experienced it yourself, and that you reported it, and that nothing happened: no one was held accountable, nothing official was said about it, nothing was done to decrease the likelihood of it happening again. (more…)
Article’s Acceptance “On Hold” Following Complaints on Social Media
An article that was accepted for publication in a special issue of The New Bioethics is now “on hold” following postings critical of the article on X (Twitter). (more…)
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Reprint Fees: Higher than You Thought
Putting together an anthology or volume of collected works? You might want to check your budget. Reprint fees can can be pretty high. An article from Kant-Studien could run you over $4500. One from Phenomenology & Philosophical Research? Almost double that, though it depends on the particular article. (more…)
Manhattan College Betrays Faculty
Don’t take a job at Manhattan College, says Manhattan College. (more…)
Philosophers: the Original “Dishabituation Entrepreneurs”
“We have come to believe that it is not possible to understand the current period—and the shifts in what counts as normal—without appreciating why and how people do not notice so much of what we live with.” (more…)
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Ankeny from Adelaide to Wageningen
Rachel A. Ankeny, currently Professor of History and Philosophy at The University of Adelaide (soon to be Adelaide University with a merger with University of South Australia in 2026), will be moving to Wageningen University, the Netherlands, where she will be Chair and Professor of the Philosophy Group. (more…)
Dialectica and the Challenges of Converting a Journal to Open Access
A reader recently pointed out that the philosophy journal Dialectica in 2020 became an open access journal, after 15 years of being published by Blackwell-Wiley, but that the journal’s latest issue was dated 2020. What’s going on at this journal? (more…)
Paulin J. Hountondji (1942-2024)
Paulin Jidenu Hountondji, an influential African philosopher, died earlier this month. (more…)
Are Your Students Doing The Reading?
And if they’re not, what can be done to get them to do it? Or is that the wrong way to think about it? (more…)
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