Guide to Graduate Programs in Philosophy Based on Job Placement and Student Experience (guest post)
Academic Placement Data and Analysis (APDA) is a resource for prospective philosophy graduate students and others to learn about how well particular graduate programs do with getting their graduates jobs, and what it is like to be a student in those programs. (more…)
Free Software for Advanced Logic Courses
Students nowadays might struggle in more advanced logic courses not just because the material is difficult, but because they’re used to learning logic with software, which is commonly used in introductory courses, but less so in higher-level ones. (more…)
Using “Distant Reading” to Complement Close Reading
“I don’t think the computers will ever replace the people when it comes to interpreting philosophical texts. It’s rather that we humans can use computers to help keep ourselves honest and unearth patterns that would be difficult to detect if we did everything manually.” (more…)
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update
The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources and new reviews of philosophy books… (more…)
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How Does This Year’s Academic Philosophy Job Market Look?
At this point in the job market last year, there were 65 advertisments for positions in academic philosophy advertised at PhilJobs. What about this year? (more…)
An Empirical Approach to the Analytic-Continental Divide
What’s the difference between analytic philosophy and Continental philosophy? In a new paper, a pair of researchers use a computer analysis of the content of different journals to test one way the distinction is sometimes characterized. (more…)
Project on Kantian Democracy Wins $1.38 Million Grant
Reidar Maliks, professor of philosophy at the University of Oslo, has won a grant of 12,000,000 Norwegian kroner (approximately $1.38 million) to support his project, The Kantian Foundations of Democracy. (more…)
The “Practical Inertia” of Racism in Philosophy
“Through practical inertia, we end up duplicating what we’ve been handed down by our chauvinistic and often racist intellectual forebears, even if we have no intention to be racist.” (more…)
Greene from UCL to UCSB
Amanda Greene, currently associate professor of philosophy at University College London, has accepted an offer of associate professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). (more…)
Faculty at Rhodes College Urge Cancellation of Online Talk by Peter Singer (updated)
The Department of Philosophy at Rhodes College is scheduled to host an online event tomorrow (Wednesday) afternoon on pandemic ethics, featuring a conversation with Peter Singer (Princeton) and the philosophers at Rhodes. Faculty in other departments at the College have called for Singer’s invitation to be rescinded, owing to their understanding of his views about d..
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New Research Group on Agency and Responsibility to Host Public Lecture Series
There’s a new network of researchers working on questions on agency and action, free will, moral responsibility, moral psychology, and related topics—the Agency and Responsibility Research Group (ARRG)—and it’s launching an open access lecture series. (more…)
Advising Software Says Philosophy Majors Have Two Career Options
Some universities and colleges are spending money to have their students use a career advising software, TypeFocus, that appears to be based on pseudoscience, biased against the humanities, and severely misinformed. (more…)
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update
The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources and new reviews of philosophy books… (more…)
Demographics in Philosophy Seeks Web Developer
The Demographics in Philosophy project is seeking a volunteer web developer. (more…)
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Evidence for a Probabilistic Turn in Philosophy (guest post)
“If our data is representative of the philosophy literature, then the use of formal methods in philosophy changed starkly over the course of just a single decade.” (more…)
Renzo to Head KCL’s Centre for Politics, Philosophy and Law
Massimo Renzo has been appointed as the new Yeoh Tiong Lay Chair and Director of the Yeoh Tiong Lay Centre for Politics, Philosophy and Law at King’s College London (KCL). (more…)
Letter Protesting Midwestern State University’s Treatment of Nathan Jun (updated)
There’s currently an effort underway to gather signatures for a letter in support of philosopher Nathan Jun, who resigned from his tenured professorship at Midwestern State University following the university’s maltreatment of him in regard to freedom of speech and medical-related issues. (more…)
Notre Dame Hires Hamkins from Oxford and Montero from CUNY
The Department of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame has made two senior hires: Joel David Hamkins, currently professor of philosophy at the University of Oxford, and Barbara Gail Montero, currently professor of philosophy at City University of New York (CUNY). (more…)
Maclure from Laval to McGill
Jocelyn Maclure, previously a professor of philosophy at Laval University, has been hired by McGill University as the Stephen A. Jarislowsky Chair on Human Nature and Technology. (more…)
$20 Million Donation for Philosopher-Led Center for Formal Mathematics at CMU
Jeremy Avigad, professor of philosophy and mathematics at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), will be leading the new Charles C. Hoskinson Center for Formal Mathematics, funded by a $20 million donation from entrepreneur Charles C. Hoskinson. (more…)
Kymlicka Wins Chauveau Medal
Will Kymlicka, professor and Canada Research Chair in political philosophy at Queen’s University, is the recipient of the 2021 Pierre Chauveau Medal. (more…)
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Charles Mills (1951-2021) (updated)
Charles W. Mills, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), has died. (more…)