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4 May 2017, 11:36 am by Brian Leiter
Philosopher Mark Newman, Chair of the Philosophy Department at Rhodes, kindly gave me permission to share the following: I'd like to express my own personal and deep thanks to you for all of the support you've given Rebecca over the... [read post]
20 Nov 2021, 5:20 am by Brian Leiter
Continuing with the specialty previews, below the fold are the top 7 programs in philosophy of cognitive science (with median and mode scores in parentheses after each school's name): Group 1 (1-3) (rouned mean of 4.5) New York university (4,... [read post]
7 Mar 2016, 6:04 am by Brian Leiter
It is good that someone who actually knows something about philosophy has taken the time to respond to the endless ignorant and error-ridden drivel produced by the University of North Texas fakers Frodeman and Briggle. [read post]
5 Jun 2017, 6:12 am by NELB Staff
Recently posted to SSRN: "Mind and Rights: Neuroscience, Philosophy and the Foundations of Legal Justice" MATTHIAS MAHLMANN, Chair of Legal Theory, Legal Sociology and International Public Law The main question explored is: What is actually the relationship between human thought,... [read post]
16 Sep 2015, 3:37 am by Brian Leiter
A civil engineer in Sweden writes: I am not a professional or academic philosopher, my interest in philosophy came to me rather lae in life, with family, house, daytime job already being factors in my life. [read post]
16 Aug 2020, 10:13 am by Brian Leiter
I don't usually post these kinds of announcements, but these are unusual times and this is notable: philosopher Daniel Cohnitz (Utrecht) writes: The 10th European Congress of Analytic Philosophy will go online tomorrow (August 17) with about 300 contributed papers,... [read post]
29 May 2013, 12:56 pm by Brian Leiter
Professors Jeff Jordan and Alan Hajek write with the following information: Abbas Khosravi Farsani was until this January, a graduate student in Philosophy, at the University of Isfahan, Iran. [read post]
12 Jun 2016, 6:00 pm by Christopher Pynes
Let me begin by thanking all the people who signed the Change.org petition to save the WIU philosophy major. [read post]
21 Nov 2016, 10:13 am by Brian Leiter
Next year's Fellow will teach the Law & Philosophy Workshop with Martha Nussbaum on the "'Environment and Animal Rights' (including, e.g., philosophical discussions of the moral status of nonhuman animals and the philosophical... [read post]
1 Apr 2016, 4:25 am by Brian Leiter
Jason Brennan (Georgetown) on his experience replying to critics (most recently, of his views about the adjunct problem): The philosophy blogosphere has a quite a few people, writing anonymously, who write nasty, angry, and dishonest invective against others, but then... [read post]
1 Feb 2014, 10:23 pm by Patrick S. O'Donnell
Some readers may be interested in my contribution to Catarina Dutilh Novaes’ post, “Philosophy as Conversation,” at the New APPS blog. [read post]
10 Jan 2013, 5:31 am by Brian Leiter
MOVING TO FRONT FROM DECEMBER 28, 2012 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]
17 Aug 2010, 3:22 pm by Brian Leiter
I don't usually do these kinds of announcements, but opportunities like this for students in philosophy of law... [read post]
31 Jan 2013, 9:55 am by Brian Leiter
Angie Jachim, a philosophy student at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, is working on a senior thesis "research project concerning the moral and political temperature of contemporary American culture. [read post]
20 Jun 2022, 4:42 am by Brian Leiter
Here; an excerpt: Under a reform introduced by President Macron’s government, the philosophy paper counts for between 4 and 8 per cent of the overall Baccalauréat mark, compared with up to 18 per cent until 2020. [read post]
4 Dec 2015, 5:13 am by Brian Leiter
But when you notice that only 365 PhDs in philosophy were awarded in 2004, you get an idea of how things have gone very wrong. [read post]
15 Nov 2021, 4:31 am by Brian Leiter
Continuing with the specialty previews, below the fold are the top 16 in philosophy of language (with median and mode scores in parentheses after each school's name): Group 1 (1-6) (rounded mean of 4.5) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (4.8, 5)... [read post]
2 May 2023, 10:40 am by Brian Leiter
I reached out to philosopher Ernest Sosa, who has long been involved with three Wiley journals: as Editor of Philosophical Issues, and Editor-in-Chief of Nous and Philosophy & Phenomenological Research. [read post]
16 Sep 2013, 4:49 am by Brian Leiter
...though a graduate in Chicago's version of HPS is cross-appointed to Philosophy at Yale. [read post]