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News for & about the philosophy profession

  • Gideon Rosen on the Humanities’ PR Problem

    Any educated person can rattle off a list of the great achievements of science and technology in the past 50 years: the Big Bang,…

  • Heap of Links

    1. Carrie Ichikawa Jenkins makes some personal resolutions about how to treat other philosophers. 2. Students prefer administering painful electric shocks to themselves rather…

  • The APA Responds to the New York Times

    The New York Times recently published an article on a study about the relative difference in earnings between majors, particularly how much a recession affects…

  • Philosophy Tag

    In the last round, University of British Columbia’s Roberta Ballarin tagged University of Georgia’s Anthony Shiver, and man, he is a fast it. Let’s see who he…

  • The Value of a Liberal Arts Education

    It obviously would not have counted as the survival of, say, Plato’s Academy if, at some point in the waning of Athens’s golden cultural…

  • Official Word on Ludlow from Rutgers

    Following up on an earlier post, according to an official spokesperson at Rutgers, Peter Ludlow will not be joining the Rutgers faculty. “When Rutgers…

  • Insults and Obnoxiousness

    On the second day of this blog’s existence, I wrote a post answering some questions I had received from readers, including this: Is this…

  • Philosophize… Like a Boss

    Bruce Springsteen was photographed reading a book about philosophers lately, and one result has been a jump in sales for the book, Examined Lives…

  • APA Creates Code of Conduct Task Force

    In response to a petition received earlier in the year asking it to develop a professional code of conduct for philosophers, the American Philosophical…

  • Philosophy with the Public

    The widespread perception is that most faculty members do not engage with the public—either because they don’t want to or because they know they…

  • New Site for Philosophical Interviews

    The Center for Cognition and Neuroethics, a joint venture between the Philosophy Department at the University of Michigan-Flint and the Insight Institute of Neurosurgery and Neuroscience (IINN), has launched…

  • Immortality Project Grant Winners Announced

    The Immortality Project at UC Riverside, headed up by John Martin Fischer, has announced the winners of grants totaling $1.5 million. The winners include…

  • Jeff McMahan (Rutgers) to Oxford

    Jeff McMahan, currently Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University, has accepted Oxford University’s offer of the White’s Chair in Moral Philosophy. He will take…

  • Heap of Links

    1. Tonight, some PBS television stations will be airing a documentary on Grace Lee Boggs, a 98-year-old social activist who holds a PhD in philosophy from Bryn…

  • World Cup Philosophy

    Existential Comics covers the Germany v. France game. The goal by Sokratis in the soccer game between Greece and Costa Rica is sort of…

  • Philosophy in Figures

    Ryan Reece, a post-doc in experimental particle physics at UC Santa Cruz, likes “carving out philosophical positions with diagrams.” It’s an interesting project, which…

  • Pasnau on Critiques of Philosophy

    In dismissing philosophy as an antiquated relic of our prescientific past, the scientist is making a very large and dubious assumption: that the abstract…

  • Philosophy Tag

    Last week, Sara Bernstein (Duke) made Roberta Ballarin (University of British Columbia) it. Who’s Ballarin going to tag? Let’s find out… Atomicity is the thesis that…

  • Heap of Links

    1. Charts and graphs may have their place in philosophy, but this is taking things too far. 2. An angel comes to the APA…

  • Eulogy for Sidney Morgenbesser

    Wittgenstein once remarked that you could write a book of philosophy consisting entirely of jokes. We all know who could have authored that book.…