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  • The Last Philosopher in Alaska’s Interior

    As reported last month, the University of Alaska at Fairbanks is losing its philosophy major and eliminating philosophy as its own department. Now, the…

  • The Art of Thought Experiments

    Si-Won Song, a student about to graduate from the University of Puget Sound, has created a series of digital artworks based on well-known philosophical…

  • Crash Course: Metaethics

    Natalia Cecire, a lecturer in English and American literature at Sussex, has embarked upon an interesting project called “Crash Courses for the Desperate”: Lately…

  • Your Strangest-Sounding Philosophical Beliefs

    If philosophy can sometimes sound weird to other philosophers, it can sound really weird to non-philosophers. Imagine (you can do it) you were in a conversation with some…

  • Cartoon Introduction to Philosophy

    The Cartoon Introduction to Philosophy is out! By philosopher  Michael Patton (Montevallo) and illustrator Kevin Cannon, the book stars Heraclitus as the reader’s guide and companion…

  • Annalisa Coliva (Modena) to UC Irvine

    Annalisa Coliva, currently lecturer at the University of Modena and associate director of the Cogito Research Centre in Philosophy, will be taking up a position…

  • How Philosophy Changed Your Students’ Minds

    Jennifer Baker (College of Charleston) asked the students in her introductory philosophy course to report (anonymously) “ideas of theirs that changed after studying some…

  • The Open Logic Text

    The Open Logic Project, instigated by Richard Zach (Calgary) and including Aldo Antonelli (UC Davis), Andrew Arana (UIUC), Jeremy Avigad (Carnegie Mellon), Gillian Russell (Wash U. St. Louis,…

  • A Philosophy Department Is Born

    In an era in which we are hearing more and more about threats to the humanities, including the consolidation and elimination of departments, it…

  • Philosophy & Literary Writings Revisited

    Last week’s post, “Philosophy’s Exclusion of Literary Writings,” asked whether philosophy could be done in the form of fiction or myth or poetry. Around…

  • Wide-Ranging Interview with Michael Ruse (FSU)

    At his new site, What Is It Like To Be A Philosopher, Clifford Sosis (Coastal Carolina) has posted a long and wide-ranging interview with…

  • The Point and Practices of Conferences

    Christy Wampole (Princeton) lays out a series of complaints and concerns about conferences in the humanities, including: We have sat patiently and politely through…

  • Philosophers’ TV Guide

    No, no one has created one yet, but it would be useful. Something close to it is the philosophy page at TV Tropes, which lists…

  • Course Evals from Prisoners and Princetonians

    Sukaina Hirji and Daniel Wodak, two graduate students at Princeton, are currently teaching a class of fourteen prisoners at the Albert C. Wagner Youth Correctional…

  • Confidence & Performance in Philosophy

    There’s an interesting post at Show and Tell about the speaking styles of philosophers. It begins with this: There is a telling anecdote about G.E.M. Anscombe and…

  • Philosophy’s Exclusion of Literary Writings

    Chiara Bottici (New School) was one of the opening speakers at the Night of Philosophy held at the French Embassy in New York City…

  • Update on Changes to US Census Question

    You may recall that this past December, Kathleen Wallace (Hofstra) brought to our attention that the U.S. Census Bureau was considering eliminating from its…

  • Analytic & Continental in Political Philosophy & Theory

    A forthcoming special issue of the European Journal of Political Theory will take up the topic of analytic and Continental approaches in political philosophy and…

  • Conference Fees and Non-TT Faculty (updated)

    Many philosophy conferences charge fees, with one rate for faculty and a lower rate for students. A philosopher who is an adjunct at a…

  • Trouble in Baltimore

    On April 12th, 2015, Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man, allegedly ran away from a Baltimore police officer on a bicycle who had made eye…