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  • Heap of Links – Long Weekend Bonus Edition

    1. I’ll have the Frege Legs with Russell Sprouts, please. 2. Steven Nadler on the Jewish ban of Spinoza and the relation between wisdom…

  • Heap of Links

    1. “No one goes into the humanities for reasons political, professional, or merely personal. We do so because devoting ourselves to some particular field…

  • SC Philosophers Ask: Is the State Legislature Silencing Gay Voices?

    Julinna Oxley (Coastal Carolina) and Diane Perpich (Clemson), both philosophy professors who head up the women’s studies programs at their respective universities, have written…

  • The $4.8 Million Experience

    Samuel Newlands (Notre Dame), L. A. Paul (North Carolina), and Michael Rea (Notre Dame) have won a grant of $4.8 million from the Templeton Foundation…

  • McMahan Offered White’s Chair of Moral Philosophy

    Oxford University has offered the prestigious White’s Chair of Moral Philosophy to Jeff McMahan (Rutgers). The chair is currently held by John Broome. Recent…

  • Ask a Long-Dead Philosopher

    If you could ask a long-dead philosopher any one question, who would you you pick, and what would you ask? (For our purposes here,…

  • Colorado Professor Allowed Back On Campus

    Dan Kaufman, who had been barred since March for unspecified reasons from the University of Colorado, where he is associate professor of philosophy, is…

  • Heap of Links

    1. Jeff Sebo talks about moral status while drawing very fast. And well. Hmmm, maybe he isn’t the one drawing. 2. If privacy is…

  • Philosophy Major in the News

    I’ve had many opportunities to use my philosophy degree to home in on what one politician or another was saying and to find the…

  • Philosophy Students Do It

    …for good reasons? How about more? That’s a finding of a recent survey conducted at over 100 British universities. So do we add this…

  • Philosophers Hired Outside of Academia

    At the suggestion of a friend I am creating a new page at Daily Nous for people to list their successes finding employment outside…

  • Philosophy Student Wins on “The Voice”

    The Voice is a popular televised singing competition on NBC. The finale of its sixth season aired last night, and the winner is Josh Kaufman, who…

  • Should the Philosophy Job Market Ditch Letters of Recommendation?

    Over at the Justice Everywhere blog, Anca Gheaus (Sheffield) takes up the question of whether the practice of asking for, reading, and giving weight…

  • Anja Jauernig (Pittsburgh) to NYU

    Anja Jauernig, currently associate professor of philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, has accepted a senior offer from New York University, starting in January,…

  • Laurence Goldstein (1947-2014)

    Laurence Goldstein, a professor of philosophy at the University of Kent, has died. Before joining the department at Kent, Goldstein had held appointments at…

  • Now That I’ve Got Your Attention…

    We can ask, what is attention, anyway? The folks over at Brains, the group blog on the philosophy and science of minds, are currently…

  • PIP #1: Huebner Interviews Maffie

    A “pip” is defined variously as a small fruit seed, a dot on dice or dominoes, an exemplar. It is a verb meaning to…

  • Philosophy: “Something scientists should embrace”

    Just having the graduate students and Sara [Goering, associate professor of philosophy] present in our space and asking us questions raises our consciousness, our…

  • Report on the Yale Case from IHE

    Inside Higher Ed reports on the recent social-media publicizing of allegations of sexual misconduct against “a professor of philosophy at Yale University.” (previously here and here,…

  • A More Animated Than Usual Chomsky

    The world is a very puzzling place. If you’re not willing to be puzzled, you just become a replica of someone else’s mind. Is…