Tag: funding
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Time for Philosophy’s COI Policies to Grow Up (guest post) (updated)
“Philosophy’s broadening impact has generated increasing interest from industries looking to partner with academic philosophers. Ties are now especially common between philosophers and technology…
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When There’s no Fun in Funding: External Research Money, Ethics-Washing, and Positive Academic Freedom (guest post)
Governments and firms are turning to philosophers and other scholars more and more in regard to the ethics of developing and regulating technology. Yet…
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How (and Why) to Organize a Zero-Budget Conference (guest post)
“Obtain free publicity for your conference by writing a post for Daily Nous in which you get to mention it.”
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New: Political Theory Funding Database for Postdocs & other Early Career Researchers
A researcher in political theory has developed a new resource for early-career scholars working in political theory, political philosophy, and related fields.
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Philosophers Selected as Ambassadors for the European Research Council
The European Research Council (ERC) has launched a new “Ambassadors for the ERC” program.
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Trump’s Attacks on Universities, A Continuing Series (updates)
Trump administration officials yesterday revealed that the president has ordered that $1 billion of federal funding for Cornell University and $790 million of federal…
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Cancellation of NEH Grants Begins (updated)
Cultural groups across the country received notices yesterday of the abrupt cancellation of their National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grants, according to The New…
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Philosophy Department Survival Strategies: Alumni Relations
Alumni can have a surprisingly strong voice in university and college decisions, and they can also help individual departments in various ways. What is…
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Philosopher to Lead New Animal Sentience Center
The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) will be launching a new center focused on “studying the feelings of other animals scientifically”…
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Columbia, Trump, and the Peril of Appeasement
On March 13th, the Trump administration sent Columbia University a list of demands it must meet as a precondition for restoring $400 million in…
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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……
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NYU Receives $6 Million for Mind, Ethics, & Policy Center
New York University has received $6 million in donations for an endowment to support the creation of the Center for Mind, Ethics, and Policy…
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Philosophy as Luxury Good
Several years ago, a session at a meeting of the American Philosophical Association (APA) on “new funding organizations and the direction of philosophy” took…
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House May Vote To Eliminate All NEH and NEA Funding
Representative Scott Perry, a Republican from Pennsylvania, has proposed two amendments to the House Interior Appropriations bill (H.R. 4821) that would eliminate all funding…
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NEH Creates New Funding for Ethics & AI Research
The Biden administration yesterday called for legislation about and regulation of artificial intelligence (AI), the development and implementation of which will involve expertise in…
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Sanders Foundation Now Supporting Philosophy’s Diversity Reading List
The Diversity Reading List (DRL) (previously), which gathers and organizes philosophical texts written by authors from groups that have typically been underrepresented in philosophy and…
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NEH Grants Recently Awarded to Philosophers
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) recently announced its latest grant awards. Recipients include several philosophy faculty.
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To Admit or Not Admit? The Question of Unfunded Philosophy PhD Students
Under what conditions, if any, should a graduate program in philosophy admit PhD students for whom it cannot provide funding?