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  • “What’s a well-intentioned single guy to do?”

    Feminist Philosophers has posted an anonymous “open letter” about sexual harassment in philosophy. Part 1 of the letter lists “34 things NOT to say…

  • Varieties of Understanding – Grant Winners

    “Varieties of Understanding: Perspectives from Psychology, Philosophy, and Theology” is a project funded with $4.2 million from the Templeton Foundation, and which is lead by…

  • Science News of Interest

    1. Cosmological study concludes that there should be nothing, rather than something. 2. Those with episodic amnesia are not “stuck in time“, says Carl Craver (Washington…

  • New (?) Corollary of Frankfurt’s Conception of Bullshit

    “The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.” (Seen here but apparently owed to Alberto…

  • Mentoring Project for Pre-Tenure Women

    Louise Antony (UMass) and Ann Cudd (Kansas) are co-directing the 3rd Biennial Workshop for “The Mentoring Project for Pre-trenure Women Faculty in Philosophy”, to…

  • Heap of Links

    1. Heather Douglas (Waterloo) and others on how to fix Canadian science policy (audio here). 2. “Good luck idiots. I hope you enjoy your new…

  • Best Philosophy Book Covers

    I saw this very clever cover for a book on set theory and it got me wondering about good book design in philosophy. Let’s take…

  • Robert Parris Moses Interview (Famous Philosophy Majors)

    Robert Parris Moses “became one of the most influential leaders of the black civil rights movement in the 1960s and afterwards. Martin Luther King called…

  • Philosophers Outside Academia

    Helen De Cruz has begun a series of posts at NewAPPS collating responses to her interviews of several philosophers who left the academy to…

  • A Physicist on Physicists’ Criticisms of Philosophy

    “Philosophers care too much about deep-sounding meta-questions, instead of sticking to what can be observed and calculated.” Finally, the deeply depressing critique. Here we…

  • Why Philosophy is Worthwhile / Rule-Following

    “On occasion, someone will ask you why you’re a philosopher and not a scientist or some other, more obviously respectable, intellectual.” I don’t know…

  • Ludlow’s Future at Rutgers

    Peter Ludlow, who is currently engaged in legal disputes with Northwestern University and its officials regarding alleged sexual misconduct, had been offered a position at…

  • John Searle Assesses and Advises

    Tim Crane interviewed John Searle, and all he got was a lousy t-shirt another dimissal of the state of contemporary philosophy: “It’s in terrible shape!”…

  • Heap of Links

    1. Is it exploitative or otherwise wrong to travel to Brazil to see the World Cup? Daniel Campos asks what an ethical fan should do. 2. For…

  • Inclusiveness in Philosophy

    At present, the small gestures made toward greater inclusiveness can in fact lead only to somewhat more robust representation of people who are all…

  • Pittsburgh Makes Offers to Malink and Whiting – Update

    Update (6/20/14): Both Whiting and Malink have deferred deciding on their offers until Spring 2015. Meanwhile, Whiting will be a Visiting Professor at Pitt…

  • Philosophy Tag

    Hey, remember Philosophy Tag? Someone got called home for dinner or something in the middle of the last game and that was that for…

  • Arvan and Others on Unger

    The primary value of Unger’s critique of philosophy may be that it generates good and thoughtful responses. There was Schliesser’s the other day, and also the post…

  • From Advertising to Philosophy to…?

    Meanwhile, elsewhere*  in The Weekly Standard, Abigail Lavin, an advertising and marketing professional who recently obtained her master’s degree in philosophy from Columbia, reviews…

  • Yale Sexual Misconduct In The Weekly Standard

    The Weekly Standard has an article about the sexual misconduct allegations against a well-known professor of moral and political philosophy at Yale (previously). No…