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APA Adopts New Policy on Religious Institutions that Discriminate Against Gay Men and Women
Posted on November 19, 2009"Party Line Continentalists" versus Philosophical Scholars of the Continental Traditions
Posted on November 14, 2009Most Philosophers Teaching in PhD-Granting Canadian Department Earned Their PhDs Outside Canada
Posted on November 13, 2009Queen's College, Oxford Creates Scholarship to Support Iranian Philosophy Students in Honor of Student Murdered During Pro-Democracy Protests Earlier This Year
Posted on November 11, 2009Two Devastating Indictments of the Health "Reform" [sic] Bill Making Its Way Through Congress
Posted on November 11, 2009Law and Philosophy Fellowship at University of Chicago Law School for 2010-11
Posted on November 09, 2009Why it is not fruitful to discuss Nietzsche interpretation with postmodernists
Posted on November 06, 2009Do the "Folk" Really Believe in Objective Standards of Moral Right and Wrong...
Posted on November 05, 2009Interested in Legal Philosophy: Just a PhD in Philosophy, or a JD as Well?
Posted on November 02, 2009Job Placement Information: Which Departments Have Good Sites, Which Not So Good?
Posted on November 01, 2009What kind of background needed for graduate work in philosophy of physics?
Posted on October 29, 2009Someone Needs to Advise Shannon Brownlee and Jeanne Lenzer to Stop Digging
Posted on October 27, 2009Shannon Brownlee and Jeanne Lenzer: Dangerously Stupid Journalists of the Month
Posted on October 24, 2009British Bureaucrats are Insane and Will Destroy Higher Education if Not Stopped
Posted on October 18, 2009Attention APA: You are Causing a Lot of People a Lot of Grief They Don't Need!!!
Posted on October 08, 2009Cultural Barometer: Obama is in Trouble When "Saturday Night Live" Turns on Him
Posted on October 07, 2009Does Having Publications Hurt a Candidate for Jobs at Schools Whose Primary Mission is Teaching?
Posted on September 23, 2009Massive Fee Increases in the Offing for University of California Students
Posted on September 17, 2009Steven Weinberg Has Been Tone Deaf to Philosophy Since He Was an Undergrad!
Posted on September 06, 2009Australian Radio Program about Philosophy (imagine that!) Covers the Troubles at Melbourne
Posted on September 05, 2009Ben-Gurion Professor Calls for Selective Boycott of Israel to End Settlements and "Apartheid" Status of Palestinians; Israeli Officials Call for His Firing , University President Joins Denunciations
Posted on August 24, 2009Neil Levy (Melbourne CAPPE & Oxford) Wins Australian Eureka Prize in Ethics
Posted on August 20, 2009Breaking News: "Double Li" in Chicago's Chinatown is a Good (and Cheap) Restaurant
Posted on August 17, 2009And now for a *really* important: is there a good Chinese restaurant in Chicago?
Posted on August 13, 2009"Reject without comment" option at journals: would philosophers want that?
Posted on August 06, 2009The Texas Taliban Never Rest: Done Trying to Wreck Science Education, They Move on to History
Posted on July 29, 2009Texas Tech's Walter Schaller Spearheads Petition Protesting Appointment of Disgraced Former AG Alberto Gonzales
Posted on July 28, 2009Reaction Formation Watch: State Senator Paul Stanley, Republican of Tennessee
Posted on July 24, 2009What Hitler Learned from the US Advertising Industry (and the Industry was proud!)
Posted on July 23, 2009More on "Enduring Questions" and the NEH--and Why Philosophers Should Be "Worried"
Posted on July 20, 2009Medieval Philosophy Scholar John Marenbon (Cambridge) Elected to the British Academy
Posted on July 16, 2009The NRC Releases Its "Methodology" for Ranking Graduate Programs (Ranking to Follow...)
Posted on July 10, 2009Attention State University Faculty in Colorado: You Have Almost No Remedy if the Regents Violate your First Amendment Rights!
Posted on July 09, 2009Things are bad enough with the swine flu pandemic without the UK Minister of Health...
Posted on July 06, 2009Philosopher Wayne Sumner (Toronto) Wins Molson Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Humanities
Posted on June 25, 2009California Budget Crisis Update: 8% Pay Cut for University of California Faculty in the Offing
Posted on June 19, 2009Budget Crisis at Florida State University: Layoffs of Tenured Faculty in the Works?
Posted on June 17, 2009On-Line Reading Group on Lee Braver's Recent Book on "Continental Anti-Realism"
Posted on June 16, 2009Are Moral Philosophers Perceived by Their Peers as Being Moral Ethical in Their Conduct?
Posted on June 08, 2009The Ethics of Teaching in a Small Department and Obligations to the Students
Posted on June 06, 2009Open Access Journals in Philosophy: Why Aren't There More, and More Better Ones?
Posted on June 01, 2009And Now for Something Completely Different: Some Philosophically Nuanced Work in the NY Times!
Posted on May 27, 2009Philosopher Aseel al-Awadi One of First Four Women Elected to Parliament in Kuwait!
Posted on May 18, 2009Does the NY Times Not Realize That Stanley Fish is Philosophically Incompetent?
Posted on May 18, 2009Israel Advocacy Group in Canada Tries to Shut Down Academic Conference at York U in Toronto
Posted on May 15, 2009Wright to Leave St. Andrews Altogether and Establish New "Northern Institute of Philosophy" at Aberdeen
Posted on May 13, 2009Publishing Philosophy While Outside the Academy; Getting Back Into Academia After Being Away
Posted on May 07, 2009One More Day to Vote on the Most Important Philosophers of the Pre-Modern Era!
Posted on May 07, 2009You knew it was coming: who were the most important philosophers of the pre-modern era?
Posted on May 04, 2009More Survey Fun: The Most Important Philosopher of the Early Modern Period Prior to the 19th-Century?
Posted on April 18, 2009Letter to APA from David Hoekema (Calvin) Regarding Petition to APA Regarding Discrimination Against Gay Men and Women
Posted on April 17, 2009New On-Line Study Examining Connection Between Personality Traits and Philosophical Beliefs
Posted on April 16, 2009Even Some High-Flying Capitalists Are in Disbelief at the Corruption of the Obama Bailout
Posted on April 13, 2009Today's Pacific APA Business Meeting in Vancouver and the Motion for the APA to Enforce Its Existing Anti-Discrimination Rules
Posted on April 09, 2009Classic NY Times Article Noting that Gay Men Face Persecution and Murder in Iraq...
Posted on April 08, 2009REMINDER: Motion Regarding APA's Discrimination Policy to be Presented at Pacific Meeting
Posted on April 08, 2009Murphy Letter to APA Regarding Discrimination Against Gay Men and Women Now On-Line With Signatures
Posted on April 08, 2009Final Version of Murphy Letter to APA Opposing Action Against Schools that Discriminate Against Gay Men and Women
Posted on April 02, 2009U.K. Philosophers Speak Out in Support of Preserving Philosophy at Liverpool
Posted on March 31, 2009Motion Regarding APA's Discrimination Policy to be Presented at Pacific Meeting
Posted on March 26, 2009Financial Aid Offers for PhD Students: Is There a "Normal" Amount These Days?
Posted on March 19, 2009Ross Douthat, Well-Known Ignoramus about Philosophy, To Be New "Conservative" Columnist at NY Times
Posted on March 13, 2009APA Members Oppose Discrimination Against Gay Men and Women by a Margin of More than 30-1
Posted on March 11, 2009Deciding Between Admissions Offers: The Importance of Visiting/Talking With Current Students
Posted on March 06, 2009Draft Letter by Mark Murphy (Georgetown) on the APA's Policy Regarding Ads from Schools that Discriminate Against Gay Men and Women
Posted on March 06, 2009Polling Science Marches Forward: A Run-off for Best Philosopher of the Past Two Hundred Years!
Posted on March 04, 2009Let's Settle This Once and For All: Who Really Was the Greatest Philosopher of the 20th-Century?
Posted on March 01, 2009A Counterpetition to the APA Emerges: Discrimination Against Gay Men and Women Really Isn't Discrimination!
Posted on February 26, 2009Belmont University Philosophy Department Says Its Hiring Practices Have Been Wrongly Characterized
Posted on February 24, 2009So people have been saying, "Philosophers are getting on Facebook, you should too."
Posted on February 16, 2009Petition to the APA Regarding Advertising by Institutions that Discriminate Against Homosexuals
Posted on February 13, 2009Arizona's Richard Healey Wins 2008 Lakatos Prize in Philosophy of Science
Posted on February 04, 2009Some Schools Increase Hiring to Take Advantage of a Weak Academic Job Market
Posted on February 03, 2009Philosophy Radio Comes to North Dakota (and anywhere with Internet access)...
Posted on January 30, 2009Should Journals Publish the Name(s) of the Referee(s) of Accepted Articles?
Posted on January 24, 2009Choosing Between Graduate Study in a Philosophy Department vs. a History and Philosophy of Science Program?
Posted on January 23, 2009Top Ten Faculties in "History of Analytic Philosophy (including Wittgenstein)" in the English-Speaking World
Posted on January 21, 2009Top 11 Faculties in "General Philosophy of Science (excluding philosophy of the special sciences)" in the English-Speaking World
Posted on January 16, 2009Top Nine Faculties in "Philosophy of Language" in the English-Speaking World
Posted on January 15, 2009Preview of the Overall Survey Results for the New PGR: Breadth Has Rewards!
Posted on January 12, 2009PGR Surveys End Tomorrow (Friday, January 9) at Noon (Central Standard Time in the U.S.)
Posted on January 08, 2009Do Young Philosophers Have a "Sense of Entitlement" or Are They Just Internalizing the Expectations of Their Teachers?
Posted on January 08, 2009To Those Participating in the PGR Surveys: Please Make Sure to Click "Submit Information" Every 20 Minutes or So!
Posted on December 14, 2008New "National Research Council" Ranking of Grad Programs Across All Fields Due Out in February
Posted on December 12, 2008Penultimate Draft Faculty Lists for 2008 Surveys: Last Chance for Additions/Corrections
Posted on November 23, 2008Philosopher Hacking Honored by SSHRC of Canada with "Gold Medal" for Research
Posted on November 16, 2008Karl Kraus's Favorite Journalist Thomas "No Ideas and the Ability to Express Them" Friedman...
Posted on November 15, 2008Historian of Early Modern Philosophy by Day, Syd Barrett Reincarnated by Night!
Posted on November 03, 2008The Republicans Could Still Win Through the Tried-and-True Method of Suppressing the Vote
Posted on October 20, 2008"The Epistemic Status of the Human Sciences: Critical Reflections on Foucault"
Posted on October 20, 2008Law and Philosophy Fellowship at the University of Chicago Law School, 2009-2010
Posted on October 08, 2008Summary of Faculty Changes in Ranked U.S. PhD Programs Since Fall 2006 PGR Surveys
Posted on October 05, 2008A Clear Explanation of the Current Financial Crisis and a Proposed Solution
Posted on October 02, 2008Haidt on Moral Psychology, Religiosity, and the "New Atheism" (Nadelhoffer)
Posted on September 30, 2008Now We Know Why the McCain Camp Would Prefer There Not be a Vice-Presidential Debate Either
Posted on September 25, 2008New Blog Soliciting and Posting Announcements about Conferences and "Calls for Papers"
Posted on September 23, 2008Prospective Students (esp. those from overseas): Watch Out for "Underfunded" Programs and High Teaching Loads!
Posted on September 22, 2008Summary of Faculty Changes in Ranked U.S. PhD Programs Since Fall 2006 PGR Surveys
Posted on September 19, 2008V-P Pick Palin Belonged to Political Party Supporting Secession of Alaska from the United States
Posted on September 02, 2008The Imprudent Wing of the Republocrat Party's Convention May be on Hold Due to a Hurricane...
Posted on September 01, 2008The "Prudent Wing" of the Ruling Class Party in the U.S. Has Its Annual Convention
Posted on August 27, 2008Two New Volumes in "The Routledge Philosophers" Series: Carman on Merleau-Ponty, Della Rocca on Spinoza
Posted on August 26, 2008Programs Discouraging Graduates From Applying to Non-Research Institutions?
Posted on August 19, 2008The Philosophical Lexicon: quaint diversion or instrument of hegemony? (Hellie)
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