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  • Philosophy Festival in Cologne this Week

    Today is the start of phil.Cologne, a week-long philosophy festival featuring an international slate of philosophers taking up a wide range of questions. Also…

  • Ethics? There’s An App For That

    The Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University has developed an Ethical Decision Making app. The app…asks the user to consider the…

  • The Legality of Hiring for Diversity

    There is a great discussion on the thread about diversity in philosophy departments at undergraduate institutions, with many thoughtful comments and constructive suggestions still…

  • Another Philosopher Gets a Google Doodle

    Check out the Italian Google page for a google doodle marking what would have been the 296th birthday of Italian mathematician and philosopher Maria…

  • David Armstrong (1926-2014)

    David Armstrong, a philosopher known for his work in metaphysics and the philosophy of mind, has died. He had retired from the University of…

  • Watch What You Say Online, Profs

    The new policy says that faculty and staff of the state’s six universities, 19 community colleges and six technical colleges may not say anything…

  • Heap of Links

    1. A Henry David Thoreau tumblr. 2. “Jean-Paul Sartre was literally obsessed with crabs. Also, mescaline.” That and other weird facts about some famous existentialists.…

  • Diversity at Undergraduate-Oriented Departments

    In the 50-plus years of its existence, the philosophy department has offered only one tenure-track position to a woman, and zero positions to people…

  • Andrew Cullison (SUNY Fredonia) to DePauw

    Andrew Cullison, currently at SUNY Fredonia, has accepted a position at DePauw University as associate professor of philosophy and director of the university’s Janet Prindle Institute…

  • Do Ethics Courses Make Moral Students?

    A recent event at Stanford raised the question of what good ethics courses do, with a particular focus on the question of whether such…

  • Judges Citing Philosophers, Kant Edition

    Last week we had a judge citing Mill in a rather complicated case in England. This week we have a judge citing Kant in…

  • $7.5m Grant for Moral Robots

    Move over, 6 Million Dollar Man, and make room for the 7.5 Million Dollar Moral Robot. The Office of Naval Research is doling out…

  • Acknowledgments for Sale

    Have you always wanted to be acknowledged in the preface of a philosophy book, but haven’t had the time or opportunity or insightfulness to…

  • Philosophy Tag

    Last week we introduced Philosophy Tag, with Dana Howard (Ohio State) tagging Daniel Silvermint (Connecticut) for his piece, “Resistance and Well-Being.” That made Silvermint it. Let’s see who…

  • Yale Seeks Information About Sexual Misconduct

    Jason Stanley (Yale) writes: I just met with Professor Stephanie Spangler, Yale’s Deputy Provost for Health Affairs and Academic Integrity and also the University’s…

  • Pigliucci the Pugilist

    You and a number of your colleagues keep asking what philosophy (of science, in particular) has done for science, lately. There are two answers…

  • Dennis McKerlie (1948-2014)

    Dennis McKerlie, a professor of philosophy at University of Calgary, has died. Professor McKerlie worked in moral and political philosophy. His final book, Justice Between…

  • The Philosophy and Science of Creativity

    Scientific American has published an excerpt from the introduction to The Philosophy of Creativity: New Essays, a new collection edited by Elliot Samuel Paul (Columbia) and Scott…

  • Grading Shortcuts

    For years I provided very extensive comments on students’ papers. What stopped me was one of them, finally, saying “thank you.” It immediately struck…

  • Weinberg Donates $7.7m to Michigan

    No, not me. Nor, alas, anyone related to me (as far as I know). But Marshall Weinberg, a University of Michigan alumnus, has donated…