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News for & about the philosophy profession

  • Updates on Salaita

    For the most recent information about the efforts to reverse the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s decision to rescind Steven Salaita’s offer, see Corey…

  • How White Is Philosophy Compared to Other Humanities?

    Eric Schwitzgebel, inspired by the recent article “What is the State of Blacks in Philosophy?”  by Botts, et al (previously), looked further into the…

  • Recurring Philosophy Conferences

    Elizabeth Harman and Daniel Wodak (Princeton) have created a list of recurring philosophy conferences. It’s a Google document; if you know of any philosophy…

  • Heap of Links

    1. Has a time travel simulation resolved the grandfather paradox? Philosophers of science, let us know (via Ben Stein, Manolo Martinez). 2. A philosopher…

  • Salaita’s Contract to be Forwarded to Board – UPDATED

    UPDATE  [9/2/14]: Ted Underwood, a professor of English at UIUC, tweets: “Regret to say that last night’s report from students appears premature. Faculty have…

  • Philosophy that’s a Pleasure to Read

    “People have been asking me: what will you acquire? In most cases I gave the obvious response about seeking new directions in these fields…

  • $1.5m for New Chair at University of Montreal

    An anonymous donor has provided the University of Montreal with 1.5 million dollars (Canadian) to fund the Aesop Chair in Philosophy. It’s first holder…

  • Heap of Links

    1. “Sometimes a deepening of a view may go so deep as to change its character without actually changing its letter,” says Joseph Raz…

  • Irwin Goldstein (1947-2014)

    Irwin Goldstein, who was a professor of philosophy at Davidson College for 31 years, and who wrote on topics in philosophy of mind, ethics, and…

  • Philosophy Tag

    In the previous game, Charlie Kurth (Washington University in St. Louis) tagged Valerie Tiberius (University of Minnesota). Now, Tiberius makes a move that is…

  • 1st Round Interview Data

    Jaded, Ph.D. one of the hosts of the Philosophy Smoker, is gathering data about first-round interviews in the philosophy job market. There is a…

  • #APSAOnFire

    Way back in the 2000s, at the Eastern APA’s conference hotel in DC, the fire alarms went off in the middle of the night.…

  • Heap of Links

    1. Why are they so angry? Amia Srinivasan (Oxford) makes the case for anger, arguing that it can be a huge source of strength and…

  • The Morality of the Boycott

    Over 500 philosophers have signed on to the boycott of University of Illinois, initiated after it rescinded Steven Salaita’s job offer. Already, the boycott…

  • Blacks in Philosophy in the US

    [Reposting from August in the hopes of further discussion.] In “What is the State of Blacks in Philosophy?” a recent article in Critical Philosophy…

  • Philosophers’ Ethical Non-Monogamy Group

    Carrie Ichikawa Jenkins (British Columbia) and Rebecca Kukla (Georgetown) have informed me that they have created a new, private, “Philosophers’ Ethical Non-Monogamy Group” on…

  • Why Not Skype Interview?

    Over the past few years more and more philosophy departments are moving to a model of hiring that ditches the interviewing of candidates at the Eastern…

  • Heap of Links

    1. A symposium at Boston Review called “Against Empathy,” featuring Paul Bloom, Peter Singer, Nomy Arpaly, Barbara Fried, Jesse Prinz, and others. 2. “Imagine…

  • Indie Film by Philosopher about Job Market

    Shahin Izadi, who received his PhD in philosophy from the University of Wisconsin, must have decided that the academic job market was too easy…

  • What Was I Thinking?

    As I pressed the “publish” button on the “Philosophical Topics of Interest to Women?” post, the old Saturday Night Live commercial for “Chess for Girls!”…