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  • Taking Jokes Too Far in the Classroom (Ought Experiment)

    Welcome back to Ought Experiment! It’s a new semester, and that can only mean one thing: fresh opportunities to go home and torture ourselves…

  • Judge Rejects Ludlow’s Amended Claim Against NU

    From the Cook County Record: A federal judge has rejected a Northwestern University professor’s amended claim against the school, ending another chapter in a complex…

  • A Bias Against Simplicity?

    Kieran Healy (Duke) recently presented a paper entitled “Fuck Nuance” at the American Sociological Association’s annual meeting. He writes: Nuance is not a virtue…

  • The One Statement To Best Restart Philosophy

    If all existing philosophical work—and all records and knowledge of it—were to be destroyed in some disaster, and only one sentence could be passed on…

  • Philosophy Job Placement Data Update

    Carolyn Dicey Jennings (UC Merced) posts that the final report for the Academic Placement Data and Analysis project is complete. She’ll eventually be posting more…

  • Public Philosophy Op-Ed Contest Winners

    The American Philosophical Association’s Committee on Public Philosophy has announced the winners of the latest round of its Public Philosophy Op-Ed Contest, for op-eds…

  • $3.9 Million for “Moral Superstars” Search

    The Beacon Project is a new three-year initiative in psychology and philosophy “to find and define the morally exceptional and better understand how to…

  • Philosophically Interesting Books for Young Kids

    A friend is interested in soliciting philosophically-minded books for young children—ones who are reading, but are not at the chapter-book stage. Here are a few…

  • $2.1 Million for the Meaning of Life

    Jennifer Frey (South Carolina) and Candace Vogler (Chicago) have received a $2.1 million grant for their project, “Virtue, Happiness, and Meaning of Life.” The…

  • SEP, IEP, NDPR, Wi-Phi Weekly Update

    Courtesy of the bloggers at Philosophical Percolations.Below are last week’s additions and updates to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP), the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy(IEP), Notre Dame…

  • Texas Higher Ed Board v. Logic

    With just a few days before the start of the school year, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board has removed from the curriculum a number…

  • North-South Academic Partnership on Poverty

    Global Colleagues is a one-to-one, academic, multidisciplinary partnership program between scholars in the Global North and South working on issues related to poverty. The first cohort…

  • Poster Sessions at Philosophy Conferences

    Poster sessions are normal parts of conferences in the sciences and social sciences, but rare in philosophy. So rare, that some philosophers don’t know…

  • Just One-Third of Published Psychology is Reliable

    A team of 270 researchers have now published the findings from their “Reproducibility Project”—an attempt to replicate the findings in published psychology papers—in Science, and…

  • Political Bias in Philosophy

    Philosophers may be lovers of truth, but that doesn’t mean they are exempt from the cognitive biases that bedevil humans generally. Given that philosophers…

  • Virtual Dissertation Writing Groups

    Joshua Smart at the University of Missouri writes to let graduate students know about Virtual Dissertation Groups (previously): Virtual Dissertation Groups While advisors and committees…

  • APA Responds to Threats to Tenure in Wisconsin

    The American Philosophical Association (APA) has released a statement in response to the recently approved Wisconsin state budget legislation, which removed tenure protections from…

  • New Journal: Australasian Philosophical Review

    The Australasian Association of Philosophy (AAP) has announced that they are starting a new journal, Australasian Philosophical Review, to be launched in March, 2017. The journal…

  • Bacciagaluppi from Aberdeen to Utrecht

    Guido Bacciagaluppi is leaving the School of Divinity, History, and Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen to become Associate Professor in the Foundations of the…

  • What Kind of Jerk Are You?

    Henry Shevlin, a PhD student at CUNY, has posted about the philosophy of jerks: What makes someone a jerk? Is it merely being rude,…