Friday, March 30, 2012

Graduate School Is a Means to a Job

One of the most common questions I hear from graduate students, whether they are in their first or their final year, is what they can donow to prepare for the academic job market.

Excellent question. As a graduate student, your fate is in your own hands, and every decision you make—including whether to go to graduate school at all, which program to go to, which adviser to choose, and how to conduct yourself while there—can and should be made with an eye to the job you wish to have at the end. 

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Wednesday, March 28, 2012

ELIXR and "On Course"

The MERLOT ELIXR project is intended to develop and test new collaborations amongst faculty development centers and online resource repositories, and their website -- http://elixr.merlot.org/ -- has some very interesting materials on strategies for the first day of class.  There is also a free website called "On Course" that has a lot of student success strategies and inventory tests that students can take. Some of these will help students focus on their own attitudes, and strengths and weaknesses.
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Philosophy Bites - Links to the First 176 Episodes

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Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Please post talks/confrences on philevents.org

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Passing as a Philosopher

" Professor Dotson's post touches on an underestimated problem in academic philosophy: the professional pressure to pass as mainstream philosophers " More HERE

I find this particularly interesting because as a Masters student looking to go onto a PhD, there is extreme pressure to conform ones work to what will look good as a PhD application. I have felt stifled at some point. Some of my research I feel would limit my chances of getting in if I were to try an publish it. At this point I'm just trying to get minor scholarly publications rather than things I feel very passionate about. Any thoughts? 

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Adrian Moore: difference between analytic and continental

"I think it's much more useful to focus on hiring and citation networks than on questions of style or of content or method. That's because I do not think we can produce a finite list of necessary and sufficient condition to create a clean distinction between the two groups. In other words, there's no essential definition that wouldn't produce easy counter-examples, so that figures usually associated with one side or the other would be mis-classified. "

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David Chalmers gets Tenure Position at NYU

"David Chalmers (philosophy of mind and language, metaphysics), who in addition to his appointment at the Australian National University has been a regular Visiting Professor of Philosophy each fall at New York University, has accepted a tenured appointment at NYU as Professor of Philosophy."
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Thursday, March 22, 2012

Grants and Scholarships Guide for 2011

Books


A great resource: 

Scholarships, Grants & Prizes 2011

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Monday, March 19, 2012

Free Phil lectures (Religion)

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Saturday, March 17, 2012

Philosophy Foundation Publication (Philosophy for children)

The Philosophy Foundation (formerly The Philosophy Shop - an educational charity that does philosophy in schools: www.philosophy-foundation.org ) have recently signed a contract with Crown House Publishing to produce a book called 'The Philosophy Shop'. A mix of ideas / stimuli / thought experiments / activities / (very) short stories / questions / pictures / music to get people thinking philosophically and about philosophy.

The proceeds of the book are going towards The Philosophy Foundation charity, to help realise the charity's aims which include being able to support disadvantaged children who want to study philosophy at University, supporting philosophy in schools in deprived areas, and bringing the benefits of learning good thinking to children that might not otherwise get such an opportunity.

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Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Philosophy in Grade-school Education - Radio Talk

Philosophy in Education

Philosophy Now Radio Show #30 | 

Philosophy in Education

Should schools teach philosophy? When literacy and numeracy levels have not improved in 55 years, shouldn’t teachers be concentrating on improving the three Rs rather than introducing a fourth? Peter Worley, co-founder and CEO of The Philosophy Foundation, talks with Michael Hand from the Institute of Education and Stephen Boulter from Oxford Brookes University about whether children can do philosophy, and if schools should teach it, how should it be done? First broadcast on 13 March 2012 on Resonance FM.

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