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  • Philosophers and Theorists on the Charlie Hebdo Attacks (updated)

    Yesterday, twelve people were shot dead at the Paris office of Charlie Hebdo, a French satirical magazine. It was reported that the gunmen shouted “We have…

  • New Motion in Ludlow Case; Faculty Respond (with updates from Kvanvig, Garthoff, and Lockwood)

    A new motion was filed on January 6th by lawyers for the undergraduate student allegedly assaulted by Northwestern University professor of philosophy Peter Ludlow…

  • Inclusive Philosophy Classroom Best Practices Site

    A new website, Best Practices for the Inclusive Philosophy Classroom, has launched. It is an interdepartmental project, started by Minorities and Philosophy (MAP), which…

  • Teaching As If Our Students Were Not Future Philosophers

    Since most of our undergraduate students are planning to go to graduate school in philosophy and become professional philosophers, it makes sense that the undergraduate philosophy curriculum is typically filled…

  • Amy Allen (Dartmouth) to Penn State

    Amy Allen, currently Parents Distinguished Research Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy and Women’s and Gender Studies at Dartmouth College, will become…

  • APA Wins $600,000 Grant for Undergraduate Diversity

    The American Philosophical Association (APA) has won a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The grant will provide $600,000 over three years to…

  • Joshua Cohen to Join Berkeley Faculty

    Joshua Cohen, who had held appointments at MIT and Stanford before recently moving to Apple University, will be joining the University of California, Berkeley as a Distinguished…

  • New Philosophy of Science Association Officers

    Sandra D. Mitchell (Pittsburgh HPS) has been elected President of the Philosophy of Science Association (PSA). Professor Mitchell will serve a two-year term (from…

  • “Philosophy is for posh, white boys with trust funds”

    Seven philosophers are interviewed in The Guardian in the wake of a recent report by the UK’s Equality Challenge Unit that found that “among non-Stem (science, technology, engineering…

  • Nietzsche’s New Year’s Resolution

    This: I do not want to wage war with the ugly. I do not want to accuse, I do not want even to accuse…

  • X-Phi Grad Programs Wiki

    Another grad program wiki is up — this time for experimental philosophy. It was put together by Joshua Knobe and Christian Mott (both at…

  • Bob Hanna Retires from Colorado

    Bob Hanna retired on December 31st from his position as professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado. Hanna had been “suspended without pay for…

  • Philosophy of Police Violence and Mass Incarceration

    Lisa Guenther, associate professor of philosophy at Vanderbilt University, has developed a new philosophy course, “Police Violence and Mass Incarceration,” which she will be…

  • Laptops, Tablets, and Phones in the Classroom

    I settled on my New Year’s resolution while giving a lecture to 85 masters students. It was one kid who unintentionally suggested the idea. He was…

  • Government Attempts to Interfere in Universities in Macedonia

    Students and faculty in Macedonia have been protesting attempts by the government there to impose state-supervised exams for university graduates. Response to faculty involvement in the…

  • UNC Trying to Fire Jan Boxill

    The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, is trying to fire philosopher Jan Boxill for her role in widespread academic fraud at UNC, according…

  • Bye, 2014

    I wasn’t quite sure how to wrap up the year. A parody of Taylor Swift’s “Shake It Off”? Too cheesy. A video montage of…

  • Philosophy To Be Taught In Ireland’s Secondary Schools

    Philosophy will become a part of the secondary school curriculum in Ireland, according to an announcement by Minister of Education Jan O’Sullivan, reported in…

  • Eduardo Mendieta (Stony Brook) to Penn State

    Eduardo Mendieta, currently professor and chair of philosophy at Stony Brook, will take up a position as professor of philosophy at Penn State, starting…

  • Theory of Jerks

    The jerk himself is both intellectually and emotionally defective, and what he defectively fails to appreciate is both the intellectual and emotional perspectives of…