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What Philosophical Idea Or Position Do You Find The Scariest?

It’s Halloween, and philosophers everywhere are dressing up as obscure ideas and concepts that they’ll have to spend too much time explaining. Costumes are fun, but let’s not forget the horror, shall we? (more…)

The Ideas Faculty are Too Scared To Defend: A Follow-Up

Last week I wrote about the Great Academic Absorption and asked about the ideas it left unabsorbed, or squeezed out. At the time, I wrote: “Since this is a blog largely for academic philosophers, let’s limit answers to our area of expertise: philosophy (as broadly construed as you’d like). Which philosophical or philosophy-related ideas are students not being expose..

Which Ideas Are Students Protected From? Which Are Faculty Fearful to Defend?

Here are some empirical claims about higher education in the United States. In comparison to 100 years ago:

There are fewer or weaker institutional, social, and material obstacles to non-white-male people entering academia.
Academics today regularly and with institutional approval study a greater number of topics, including topics previously thought taboo or unwo..

A Database of Philosophical Ideas

PhilosophyIdeas is a searchable database of philosophical ideas compiled by Peter Gibson and built by Martin Berry. Users can search and sort ideas by theme, author, and text. The site has been around for years, but somehow escaped my attention until recently when I saw a tweet from Gibson: “Latest upload. Now over 17,000 philosophical ideas in the catalogue, each o..

The Most Disruptive Philosophical Idea

On the occasion of its 85th anniversary, Businessweek put together a list of the 85 “most disruptive” ideas during the past 85 years. Containing some predictable entries like the birth-control pill and email, as well as some odd ones such as kitty litter and name-brand jeans, the list offers not one philosophical idea. It is, of course, a business magazine; no surpr..