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What We Assume Undergraduates Know

As teachers, we have certain basic expectations of our students, and from our own perspectives, some of these expectations may be so basic that we may not think to tell the students about them. (more…)

Desperate Honesty (guest post)

“I abandoned classics for philosophy in large part because that was where the refuters were. Now people can’t stop telling me I am wrong.”

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Philosophy Through Comics (guest post)

Can you do philosophy with comics? “Yeah, sure, easy.” But why do it? (more…)

NUS Philosophy Apologizes for Rejection Email Mishap

To its credit, the Department of Philosophy at National University of Singapore, in a timely manner, emailed some applicants to its recently advertised open rank position to inform them that they were no longer being considered for the job. Unfortunately, the email addresses of all of the recipients of the rejection letter were visible in the “cc” section of the mes..

On Norms for Public Philosophy

In a recent article in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Anastasia Berg, assistant professor of philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and an editor at the ideas magazine The Point, lays out what she thinks good public philosophy will do. (more…)

Media Training for Philosophers

Luara Ferracioli, senior lecturer in political philosophy at the University of Sydney, will be taking part in a program “designed to nurture the communication skills and media awareness of our emerging thinkers to help them share their knowledge and expertise with audiences seeking credible material and informed debate.” (more…)

Philosophy of Science Communication: an Introduction & an Interview (guest post)

Philosophy of Science Communication is not just the Philosophy of “Science Communication,” but also the Communication of “Philosophy of Science”. Philosophy of science is not well-known outside of the philosophical discipline. (more…)

An Online Trove of Ethics Case Studies

The Media Ethics Initiative at the University of Texas, Austin “exists to promote and publicize research on the ethical choices involved in media use.” One of the ways it has done this is by creating a large, varied and free online collection of ethics case studies. (more…)

Writing Philosophy and Developing Curricula with Undergrads

Some professors see their students, at least sometimes, as partners in education, but Matthew Slater, professor of philosophy at Bucknell University, does impressive work to make that partnership a reality.

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A Note On Making Discussions Here Better

We often have vigorous and contentious discussions in the comments here at Daily Nous, and this past week—with its focus on philosophizing about transgender issues—was no exception (see here and here).

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Research on Public Attitudes Towards Philosophy & Philosophers

“Science communication is a profession in its own right with journals, higher degrees and careers paths,” notes philosopher Brendan Larvor (Hertfordshire). Yet there does not appear to be much of a “philosophy communication” analog. He notes, “so far as I know there is no research on public attitudes towards philosophy and philosophers.” (more…)

Don’t Turn It Off (guest post by Danielle Wenner)

The following is a guest post * by Danielle Wenner, assistant professor of philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University. It’s a response to Monday’s post, “When To Turn It Off.” (more…)

Grad Students: What Would You Tell Your Fellow Students, But Can’t?

First we asked what graduate students would like to say to their professors, but felt like they couldn’t. Then we asked what professors would like to say to graduate students, but couldn’t. Less for the sake of exploring all of the available logical space (but of course partly for that) and more because it was requested and might be of some use, we shall now take up..

Profs: What Would You Tell Your Grad Students, But Can’t?

Comments are still coming in on yesterday’s post, “Grad Students: What Would You Tell Your Prof(s), But Can’t?” In future posts we’ll take up some of the recurring themes in those comments. In the meanwhile, a friend proposed that we hear from the other side. That could be interesting and constructive (I say, suggestively). And so: (more…)

The Biggest Problems Facing Science — How Different is Philosophy?

A few reporters at Vox conducted an unscientific survey of scientists to unpack the sense they’ve been getting that “science is in big trouble.” The result is a list of the seven biggest problems facing science, based on responses from 270 scientists. (more…)

Improving Journal – Author Communication

A philosopher who prefers to remain anonymous recently wrote in with some complaints about a journal. Among them:

The editor and editorial staff have been for at least the last three months, and continue to be, completely unavailable via both email and the submissions manager.

In this particular case, the problem began to be resolved when I passed along the co..

How to Talk about the Philosophy Job Market with those on the Market

A philosopher currently on the job market writes in:

I wanted to start a thread/have a place for job market candidates to talk about what is, and is not, helpful for our friends/mentors/professors/colleagues to say around this time of year.

The job market is, by all accounts, abominable (and not only for those of us who don’t land jobs—there are different stre..

More on the Stubblefield Sexual Assault Case

As reported yesterday, owing to accusations of repeatedly sexually molesting a man with cerebral-palsy, Anna Stubblefield has been placed on administrative leave without pay from her position as chair of the Department of Philosophy at Rutgers-Newark (Rafaella De Rosa is the acting chair of the department; Stubblefield does not appear on the list of faculty in the d..