Posts tagged with: "philosophy" Results 541 - 560 of 20,496
Sorted by Relevance | Sort by Date
RSS Subscribe: 20 results | 100 results
12 Dec 2018, 4:33 am by Brian Leiter
One salutary development in the interim--perhaps due to the public outrage in 2017 over the abuse of Rebecca Tuvel by the usual suspects--is increasingly visible and vocal resistance to the "bloodthirsty mob of wacko philosophy profs" by... [read post]
28 Apr 2022, 6:30 am by NELB Staff
Torben Spaak (Stockholm University) has published "Legal Philosophy and the Study of Legal Reasoning" on SSRN. [read post]
26 Jul 2010, 5:50 am by Brian Leiter
When it comes to writing letters for graduate philosophy programs, I know what they're looking for and what to say.... [read post]
28 Nov 2016, 9:14 am by Brian Leiter
So with nearly 800 responses to yesterday afternoon's poll, here are the results: What subject did you almost major in (or undertake postgraduate study in) other than philosophy? [read post]
12 Jun 2019, 8:00 am by D Daniel Sokol
Competition Policy and the Free Market Philosophy: A Moral Justification By: Bos, Iwan (Organisation and Strategy) Abstract: Few today would doubt the need for competition rules in a free, marked-based society like the United States of America. [read post]
22 Sep 2016, 4:44 am by Brian Leiter
Following up on this post, and once again taking account of faculty changes since the fall 2014 PGR, here's an attempted update of the top (3.5 or higher) programs for 19th-century Continental Philosophy for 2016-17, again by rough "clusters" of... [read post]
19 Nov 2021, 4:11 am by Brian Leiter
Continuing with the specialty previews, below the fold are the top 9 programs in ancient philosophy (with median and mode scores in parentheses after each school's name): Group 1 (1-5) (rounded mean of 4.0) Cambridge University (4, 4) New York... [read post]
13 Jan 2015, 6:38 pm by Brian Leiter
Heres' the e-mail I got from the proprietor(s): Someone reported the Philosophy Metametablog to Google for spam activity, and Google has shut down the blog with an option to reopen it. [read post]
7 Nov 2011, 5:14 am by Brian Leiter
Here are the results for Philosophy of Language: Group 1 (1-4): rounded mean of 4.5 (median, mode) New York University (4.5, 5)... [read post]
17 Nov 2021, 10:29 am by Brian Leiter
Continuing with the specialty previews, below the fold are the top 4 programs in philosophy of mathematics (with median and mode scores in parentheses after each school's name): Group 1 (1) (rounded mean of 5.0) Harvard University (4.8, 5) Group... [read post]
28 Dec 2012, 4:31 am by Brian Leiter
Since antiquity, philosophy has been centrally concerned with what we usually call metaphysics and epistemology (what exists, and what can we know about what exists?) [read post]
3 Feb 2016, 6:35 am by Brian Leiter
In my interview with Clifford Sosis awhile back, I observed regarding the illiberal culture in parts of philosophy cyberspace that: I have no crystal ball, so I can’t tell you whether there will be...a return to the core values of... [read post]
12 Apr 2010, 8:19 am by Brian Leiter
Uygar Abaci, Philosophy University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Kant's Critical Theory of Modality: A Basis for a Moral Metaphysics 2.... [read post]
16 Jan 2011, 12:50 pm by Brian Leiter
...it contains links to some pieces readers have recently sent me (scroll towards the end), including Slate's pretty good piece on Nietzsche and the obituary for Matthew Lipman, a leader in introducing philosophy into the lower school curricula. [read post]
26 Apr 2017, 12:05 pm by Paul Caron
Jennifer Bird-Pollan (Kentucky) presented Philosophy and Wealth Transfer Taxation at Georgetown yesterday as part of its Tax Law and Public Finance Workshop Series hosted by John Brooks and Itai Grinberg: Tax policy discussions are dominated by economic theories, and often do not involve philosophical analysis. [read post]
3 Oct 2014, 7:35 am by Brian Leiter
Benj Hellie (Toronto) wrote to the researchers mentioned in Wednesday's story about fields in which women are under- and over-represented among doctoral recipients to inquire "where Philosophy falls in the ranking of the 'Gender Imbalance' paper. [read post]
24 Sep 2015, 1:02 pm by Brian Leiter
So the earlier poll gave us a "top ten" list of generalist philosophy journals, but since it omitted too many possible "top twenty" contenders, we're going to run a new poll to identify 11-20. [read post]
8 Nov 2012, 12:12 am by Green
This essay, the seventh in my series about the environmental experiences of an environmental law professor in China, continues the discussion I began last time about how different underlying environmental philosophies held by American and Chinese people can lead to... [read post]
30 Mar 2011, 5:45 am by Brian Leiter
MOVING TO FRONT FROM MARCH 24 (originally posted February 18) It's that time of year again...I am opening comments on this thread for people to post news about junior, tenure-track hires in philosophy departments, i.e., hires made during this year... [read post]