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Students Protest, a Philosopher is Knifed, and Faculty are Unpaid in Serbia

Natalija Jovanović, dean of the Philosophy Faculty at the University of Niš in Serbia, was attending a student protest when a woman who opposed the protest reportedly threatened to throw acid on her and then cut her with a knife. (more…)

Trump Halts All Federal Grants (update: OMB Rescinds Order)

“To the extent permissible under applicable law, Federal agencies must temporarily pause all activities related to obligation or disbursement of all Federal financial assistance… Each agency must pause: (i) issuance of new awards; (ii) disbursement of Federal funds under all open awards; and (iii) other relevant agency actions that may be implicated by the executi..

Scholars Protest Flawed Evaluation of Polish Institute of Philosophy and Sociology

Scholars are objecting to a decision by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education to let stand what they’re calling a “flawed and unconstitutional” evaluation of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IFiS PAN). (more…)

Protests & Universities

“A university is special to the extent that it is a place where teaching and learning replace fighting and grandstanding.”

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How Is Your Administration Spying on You?

The administration at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, has been secretly video-recording at least one of its professor’s courses. (more…)

Srinivasan on Open Letters, Protests, Free Speech, and Academic Freedom

Amia Srinivasan’s specialty, it seems to me, is making sense of moral ambivalence: detecting, dissecting, and sometimes defending its reasonability, even in the face of unavoidable and urgent decisions. (more…)

Should Universities Protect Protest Speech?

“It is important to insist that, contrary to the Chicago Principles, deliberation and protest are fundamental forms of free expression.” (more…)

NYU Philosophy Graduate Students Call for Divestment

“Six months on from the brutal Hamas attacks of October 7th, more than 34,000 Palestinians have been killed… Some 1.9 million people… have been displaced. Over two hundred aid workers have been killed during the conflict. At least 103 reporters are dead… Gaza is facing a famine. As long as it continues to invest in war, NYU is implicated in this devastation. D..

Administration Sets Police on Peaceful Student Protestors

Milagros Peña, president of Purchase College, State University of New York, authorized campus and local police to forcibly break up what appears to be a peaceful gathering of student protestors, in a continuing trend across the country. (more…)

Dear University President, You Could Run Out the Clock

“It’s been shocking how impoverished, craven, and imprudent the leadership of the Anglophone’s wealthiest and flagship universities have been this past year.” (more…)

Italian Philosopher Prosecuted for Criticizing Politician’s Views

Donatella Di Cesare, a professor of philosophy at Sapienza University (Rome), has been charged with “criminal defamation” for describing a politician’s views as “neo-Hitlerite.” (more…)

Emmanuel College Dissociates from Cofnas (updated)

Emmanuel College, Cambridge University has “cut ties” with Nathan Cofnas, a philosopher on a Leverhulme Trust fellowship there, because of his research on race and intelligence. However, Cofnas retains his fellowship as part of the Faculty of Philosophy at the university, so it is unclear whether this is merely a symbolic gesture by the college or a decision that af..

Hobart and William Smith Colleges Fails Its Faculty and Its Students

Mark D. Gearan, president of Hobart and William Smith Colleges, has removed political theorist Jodi Dean from her courses because she authored a pro-Palestinian blog post, published on April 9th. (more…)

University Revokes Philosopher’s Visiting Professorship over Signing of “Philosophy for Palestine” Letter (updated)

The University of Cologne yesterday withdrew its invitation to Nancy Fraser (New School) to take up its 2024 Albertus Magnus Professorship, a visiting position that the university considers a “special honor,” because Professor Fraser had been one of several hundred signatories of the “Philosophy for Palestine” open letter published last November. (more…)

Article’s Acceptance “On Hold” Following Complaints on Social Media (updated)

An article that was accepted for publication in a special issue of The New Bioethics is now “on hold” following postings critical of the article on X (Twitter). (more…)

Educational Gag Orders, etc. in the US

What are state legislatures across the United States doing to limit academic freedom and otherwise interfere in education? (more…)

Leverhulme Trust to Investigate One of Its Philosophy Fellows at Cambridge (updated)

The Leverhulme Trust, a philanthropy in London which provides grants and fellowships to scholars across a range of disciplines, has launched an investigation of one of its early career fellows who works in philosophy at the University of Cambridge. (more…)

Philosophers may be known for disagreeing with each another, but an agreement last year by a thousand of them helped lead to the creation of a new journal and a cautionary tale to publishers about the importance of editorial independence and academic freedom. (more…)

Speech, Campuses, Antisemitism (guest post)

“If we don’t resort to censorship, we need to think more about the responsibilities of all actors involved with this difficult speech… This suggests an important role for colleges: helping students to exercise these responsibilities rather than simply trying to control them through speech codes.” (more…)

JPP Still Accepting Submissions Despite No Editorial Team

Several months after the entire editorial team departed from the Journal of Political Philosophy owing to the decision of its publisher, Wiley, to fire the journal’s founder and longtime editor-in-chief, Robert Goodin (see here), its website says that the journal is “edited by renowned international scholars from world-leading centres of thought” and is still accep..

Session on the Journal of Political Philosophy at Upcoming APA

The upcoming Eastern Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association (APA) will include a session on the Journal of Political Philosophy, in light of the uproar following the decision of its publisher, Wiley, to fire the journal’s editor and founder, Robert Goodin (ANU). (more…)

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