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Philosophy Department Survival Strategies: Course Offerings and Majors

This is the second installment in the occasional series, Philosophy Department Survival Strategies. The topic is how the number and types of philosophy courses affect the health of the philosophy major program.

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Philosophy Summer Programs for Undergraduates – 2025

Please use the comments section on this post to share information about Summer 2025 Programs in Philosophy for college undergraduates. (more…)

Teaching the Practical Value of Philosophy

Philosophy departments tout the practical, transferrable skills of philosophy majors that will help them succeed in a wide range of careers: critical thinking, clear communication, creativity, identifying questions and problems. Yet, as Jonathan Webber (Cardiff) puts it, “philosophy students often struggle to see how the work they do cultivates these abilities.” (mo..

The Honor Society for Philosophy Students Aims to Grow

Phi Sigma Tau is an honor society for undergraduates in philosophy. It currently has over 230 chapters in the United States at various institutions of higher education, and is looking for faculty to serve as officers for its national leadership. (more…)

Careers of Philosophy Majors

You majored in philosophy as an undergraduate, but decided not to pursue any further degrees in philosophy. What are you doing now? (more…)

Open Doors Philosophy Academy

The Open Doors Philosophy Academy is a philosophy summer program for undergraduates that is “designed to give individuals from groups traditionally underrepresented in academic philosophy a taste of graduate student life as well as various forms of support useful in applying to and flourishing in Ph.D. programs in Philosophy.” (more…)

Are Your Students Doing The Reading?

And if they’re not, what can be done to get them to do it? Or is that the wrong way to think about it? (more…)

How To Write A Philosophy Paper: Online Guides

Some philosophy professors, realizing that many of their students are unfamiliar with writing philosophy papers, provide them with “how-to” guides to the task.

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Demographic Trends in the US Philosophy Major, 2001-2022 (guest post)

How many philosophy majors are there, who are they, and how has this changed over the past twenty years? (more…)

Philosophy Summer Programs for Undergraduates – 2024

Please use the comments section on this post to share information about Summer 2024 Programs in Philosophy for college undergraduates. (more…)

The Ignorance Next Door, and What to Do about It

Philosophers sometimes complain about how colleagues in other fields don’t know enough about what philosophy is and what philosophers do, even as said colleagues make pronouncements about philosophy, or decisions that affect philosophy department, or changes to curricula or requirements relevant to philosophy course offerings, and so on. (more…)

Two of Wesleyan’s Graduating Philosophy Majors Earned Their Degrees While Incarcerated

Two philosophy majors graduating this year from Wesleyan University earned their degrees while incarcerated. (more…)

Study Abroad Courses in Philosophy

Have you taught a “study abroad” or “destination” course in philosophy? Do you have any ideas for a good one? (more…)

Philosophy Internship Programs for Undergraduates

Does your philosophy department have an internship program, whereby an undergraduate can get credit for being an intern with a non-university organization or business? (more…)

A Philosophy Department Is Born

The University of California, Merced now has a Philosophy Department. (more…)

Summer Programs in Philosophy

Reminder: if you are running a summer program or summer school in philosophy, there is a place to list it to make it more visible to potentially interested parties. (more…)

Philosophy Major at Utica Targeted for Elimination

The president of Utica University, Laura Casamento, at the prompting of Utica’s Board of Trustees, has recommended that the university no longer offer students the opportunity to major in philosophy. A petition has been launched to protest the proposed elimination of the philosophy major. (more…)

The Guardian’s 2022 Philosophy Rankings

The Guardian has released its rankings of UK universities at which to study philosophy. (more…)

The Philosophy Major Continues to Recover and Diversify in the U.S. (guest post)

The number of college students graduating with degrees in philosophy continues to increase, as does the gender and racial diversity of this group. (more…)

Assigning Public Philosophy Projects to Undergraduates (guest post)

In some of his recent courses, Daniel Munro, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto, has tried assigning something different from the traditional essays and exams: creative public philosophy projects. (more…)

How Does Your University Count Double Majors?

The philosophy major program at the University of Nebraska, Kearney (UNK) is facing elimination, mainly over issues of low enrollments and numbers of majors, and one issue of contention between UNK’s Department of Philosophy and administration is how students double-majoring in philosophy and another field should be counted. (more…)

Save Philosophy at Bloomsburg

“In its desperate need to scapegoat something other than its own misadventures overbuilding, over-spending on everything but education… BU finds itself unable to fulfill its central mission: educational opportunity across that wide swath of disciplines that define a university.” (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…)

Logic Course Breaks University of Sydney Enrollment Record — Or It Doesn’t

Over 2200 students at the University of Sydney are currently enrolled in “Philosophy 1012: Introduction to Logic,” setting a university-wide record for highest enrollment in any course the university has ever offered. (more…)