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Video Introduction to Experimental Philosophy
Comedian Eugene Mirman explaining a famous study from the new ‘experimental philosophy’ movement. * * * For more on experimental philosophy, see “Quick Introduction to Experimental (Situationist?) Philosophy” and visit the blogs, Experimental Philosophy and The Garden of Forking Paths...

The Woods from Stanford to Indiana
Allen Wood (Kant, 19th-century German philosophy), Ward W. and Priscilla B. Woods Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University, and Rega Wood (medieval philosophy), Research Professor of Philosophy at Stanford, have accepted senior, tenured offers from the Department of Philosophy at...

My Mother Was Like, What Are You Going to Do With That
According to an article in yesterday?s New York Times, the number of philosophy majors at various college campuses around the country, as well as the number of colleges offering a major in philosophy, has been ?ballooning...

Bix on Analytical Legal Philosophy
Brian Bix (University of Minnesota Law School) has posted On Philosophy in American Law: Analytical Legal Philosophy (ON PHILOSOPHY IN AMERICAN LAW, Francis J. Mootz, III, ed., Cambridge University Press, 2009) on SSRN...

Bailey on Intersectionality & Feminism
Alison Bailey (Illinois State University) has posted On Intersectionality and White Feminist Philosophy on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Feminism and academic philosophy have had lots to say to one another...

Marilyn and Robert Adams from Oxford to North Carolina
Marilyn Adams (medieval philosophy, philosophy of religion) and Robert Adams (metaphysics, ethics, early modern philosophy, philosophy of religion), both leading figures in their fields at Oxford University (and previously at Yale, UCLA, and Michigan), have accepted senior offers from the...