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Existentialism is the root of the Tea Party?
I found this both funny and disturbingly dangerous. It is automatically suspect when anyone takes there definition of a philosophical systems out of the american heritage dictionary. I feel that a movement like existentialism is dangerous in the sense that in describing the human condition, almost everyone is involved, associating it with a political movement then has great weight. I'm not a political animal myself, but this just seems inappropriate. Any thoughts?Join me on Twitter or Facebook for updates. Please email suggestions, links and questions to PhilosoraptErs@gmail.com
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
PGR 2011 is up!
Saturday, December 3, 2011
100 Reasons NOT to Go to Graduate School
A cite dedicated to the plague of problems revolving around graduate school and academia in general. Many of these I believe are legitimate and should be addressed. Many of these are already listed but I look forward to including some of these into List of Issues/Changes for Professional Philosophy
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Join me on Twitter or Facebook for updates. Please email suggestions, links and questions to PhilosoraptErs@gmail.comWittgenstein's archive rediscovered in Cambridge
A rediscovered archive could shed new light on the work of renowned philosopher, Ludwig Wittgenstein.
Professor Arthur Gibson, from the University of Cambridge, has been examining books and papers which disappeared from public view in 1941.
He believes that one of these could be the 'pink' or 'yellow' book Wittgenstein's pupils thought existed.
He said there was also a handwritten Brown Book which differs from the version that was published.
More HERE
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Grad School as a Game
Post-docs have to Pay for Application Fees (even though its a job)
Because of the job market these days, a large number of fresh of the press PhD students, particularly in philosophy, are doing post-doctorate fellowships. As is brought up in the below article, it is strange that universities charge an application fee because technicaly it is a job, not an degree program which one is applying for.
"Postdoctoral applicants in the humanities say they find themselves in a comparable situation as some university departments are charging an application fee. Some irate applicants have been lighting up a discussion board on the Internet to complain about the fees. While fees are the norm for applying to earn degrees, most say they are unusual for postdoctoral fellowships, which are jobs" Read more: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2011/12/02/fee-postdoctoral-programs-irks-applicants#ixzz1fS8cyLXk
Inside Higher Ed
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Wednesday, November 30, 2011
CFP: Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
We are pleased to inform you that the call for papers for the 2012 meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy has been posted.
(All of the following information is also available on our website: www.spep.org.)
Call for Papers for the 51st Annual SPEP Conference
51st Meeting of the
Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
Thursday, November 1 — Saturday, November 3, 2012
Rochester Riverside Convention Center
Hyatt Regency Rochester
Rochester, NY
Host Institutions:
Rochester Institute of Technology
Nazareth College
The Executive Committee of SPEP invites:
COMPLETE PAPERS (no more than 3,000 words) with abstracts (75-100 words)
and
PANEL PROPOSALS consisting of one panel abstract (no more than 500 words) and complete papers (no more than 3,000 words per paper).
Papers and panels from diverse philosophical perspectives in all areas of Continental Philosophy are welcome.
All submissions will be considered under a blind review process.
PLEASE SEND ALL PAPER AND PANEL SUBMISSIONS DIRECTLY TO THE SECRETARY-TREASURER.
Instructions for Submissions
Submitting Paper and Panel Proposals:
1. A person may submit only one paper for consideration each year. If you have a book under consideration for a special session, you may still submit a paper for consideration.
2. All submissions must be submitted electronically. Please send your submission directly to the Secretary-Treasurer, Shannon Mussett, at mussettspep@gmail.com
3. Electronic Receipt Deadline: 11:59 p.m. EASTERN STANDARD TIME,
Wednesday, February 1, 2012.
4. The subject line of the email should read: 2012 SPEP Submission.
5. Your submission should contain TWO ATTACHMENTS:
1) Abstract AND Submission in one document prepared for blind review. Even if you are submitting a panel proposal, the panel abstract and all of the papers should be in one document. See “Format of Submissions” for more information.
2) A Cover letter that provides detailed contact information (including physical and electronic addresses) of the author(s), lists the word count of the paper(s), and indicates whether the author wishes to have the paper considered for “Best Submission by a Graduate Student” or “Best Submission by a Junior Scholar” (please be sure to indicate how you meet the eligibility requirements; for a full description and eligibility conditions of each prize, please see below under “Prizes”). In addition, if you anticipate the need for audio/visual equipment should your submission be accepted in the 2012 SPEP Conference program,please indicate exactly what you will need in your cover letter.
Format of Submissions:
All abstracts for single papers must include five key words. This will help the Executive Committee group single papers into panels when the conference program is being organized.
Single-paper submissions must include complete papers (of no more than 3,000 words exclusive of notes and references) and abstracts (of no more than 100 words).
Panel proposals must include a title, an abstract of no more than 500 words for the panel as a whole, and complete papers (no more than 3,000 words exclusive of notes and references) for each paper in the panel.
Since papers and panel proposals are chosen through an anonymous review process, names and addresses of authors must be stated only on one separate cover sheet and omitted from the abstracts, papers, and footnotes. The word count for papers should appear on the cover sheet; papers that exceed the 3,000 word limit will not be considered. Please use gender-inclusive language in accordance with the “Guidelines for Non-Sexist Use of Language” published by the APA and available at: http://www.apaonline.org/publications/texts/nonsexist.aspx.
Notification:
- Notification of receipt of your submission: Upon receipt of your submission, you will receive an automated electronic acknowledgement from the Secretary-Treasurer indicating she has received your email and its attachments. If you do not receive a response within one day, please send a follow up e-mail to ensure that your submission has been received.
- Notification of Inclusion in the 2012 SPEP Conference Program: Authors of single-paper submissions and the panel organizers of panel-submissions will hear from the Executive Committee by June 1, 2012 whether their submission has beenaccepted/rejected for inclusion in the 2012 SPEP Conference Program.
Prizes:
There are two monetary prizes available: the best submission by a junior scholar and thebest submission by a graduate student. To be eligible for the SPEP Junior Scholar Award you must have earned a Ph.D. in the last five years (no earlier than January of 2007). All currently enrolled graduate students are eligible for the SPEP Graduate Student Scholar Award.
Each monetary prize is $500.00 plus a travel and hotel allowance. In addition, two non-monetary honorable mention prizes will be awarded. All of the award-winning submissions will be selected through an anonymous review process. You must declare your desire to be considered for an award and your status as a graduate student or as a junior scholar on the cover sheet that accompanies your submission, which has been prepared for blind review. Winners will be notified by June 1, 2012.
Nominating Books for Current Research Sessions:
Postmark Deadline: Wednesday, February 1, 2012
In order for a book to be considered for a special session, a letter or email from the author to the Book Selection Committee Chair and to one of the Co-Directors requesting such consideration is required.
Send to:
Shannon Winnubst (Chair of SPEP Book Selection Committee)
100 Clinton Heights Avenue
Columbus, OH 43202
Eligible Books: Authors or publishers are encouraged to send two copies of monographs on topics of interest to continental philosophers, published on or after January 1, 2009.
Notification:
The Committee’s recommendations will be forwarded to the Executive Committee, and the authors of the books chosen for Current Research Sessions will be notified by June 1, 2012.
For further information, please contact either one of the Executive Co-Directors:
Anthony Steinbock
Department of Philosophy
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale, IL 62901
Amy R. Allen
Department of Philosophy
Dartmouth College
6035 Thornton Hall
Hanover, NH 03755
amy.r.allen@dartmouth.edu
SPEP Website: http://www.spep.org
Members of SPEP are also encouraged to submit their papers to the APA for consideration. Guidelines for submission can be found at:
Monday, November 28, 2011
Emerging Trends in Continental Philosophy,
Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
2011.11.35 View this Review Online View Other NDPR Reviews
Todd May (ed.), Emerging Trends in Continental Philosophy, 252 pp., vol. 8 of Alan D. Schrift (ed.), The History of Continental Philosophy (8 vols.), University of Chicago Press, 2010, 2700pp., $800.00 (cloth), ISBN 978022670461.
Reviewed by Emanuela Bianchi, New York University
The eighth and final volume of Alan D. Schrift's monumental and immensely valuable series, The History of Continental Philosophy, attempts the almost impossible task of identifying and tracking the current continental philosophy scene, and specifically surveying developments over the last fifteen years. As with any historical project that begins to merge with present-day concerns, what is of lasting or canonical significance is difficult to discern as contours or identifiable movements of wave or backlash have not yet quite emerged. Accordingly, the volume is bound to frustrate any practicing philosopher who will inevitably find glaring lacunae in relation to his or her own partial and particular perspective -- for each of us involved in the philosophical enterprise (and especially the typically engagée continental philosophical enterprise) naturally finds our own areas of concern the most pressing, for why else would we work on them? It is a tricky task, then, to review a book that may in fact be of the greatest value to those approaching the discipline from the outside, whether as students or as scholars in other disciplines, from within continental philosophy. Nonetheless, in its breadth, and in the mostly astute strategies of the authors faced with this almost impossible task, the volume covers a great deal of important ground for anyone who wishes to discern in broad brushstrokes the multiple facets of continental philosophy today.
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Philosophy Events Website!!!!
Philevents: HERE
I would strongly suggest you submit your events here. At least in California, I'm willing to travel an hour or two for a colloquia but most of the time I dont know about them. Hopefuly I will be able to email professors at the UC and CSU systems and get them to regularly submit their event. Talk to your professors and get them to make this a staple for you and me!!
The Following description comes from David Chalmers Blog:
Yet another new project from the PhilPapers team: PhilEvents, a website devoted to upcoming events in philosophy. PhilEvents has a database of hundreds of forthcoming events. You can search it in many different ways: by subject, by location, and by various combinations of subject, location, and so on. You can use this to set up RSS feeds for searches on subjects and locations of interest.
Sunday, November 20, 2011
A Petition to the White House to Reinstate the Tax-Exemept Status of Grad Student Stipends
From Leiter:
Reader Jeffrey Lee McMahan calls my attention to this petition, which readers should consider signing.
Saturday, November 19, 2011
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Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Ethics of Philosophy Qusetion
If we actually belive that philosophy can help people and we take into consideration the age old saying; "first food, then philosophy". Should we then focus our attention on those who have food an can therefore benefit from our inquiries, or should we work to make the large number of people who don't have food, able to address philosophy?Join me on Twitter or Facebook for updates. Please email suggestions, links and questions to PhilosoraptErs@gmail.com
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Plato, Not Prozac!
Plato, Not Prozac!: Applying Eternal Wisdom to Everyday Problems.
I thought this sounded interesting although I haven't read it myself.
"If you're facing a dilemma -- whether it's handling a relationship, living ethically, dealing with a career change, or finding meaning in life -- the world's most important thinkers from centuries past will help guide you toward a solution compatible with your individual beliefs. From Kirkegaard's thoughts on coping with death to the I Ching's guidelines on adapting to change, Plato, Not Prozac! makes philosophy accessible and shows you how to use it to solve your everyday problems.
Gone is the need for expensive therapists, medication, and lengthy analysis. Clearly organized by common problems to help you tailor Dr. Lou Marinoff's advice to your own needs, this is an intelligent, effective, and persuasive prescription for self-healing therapy that is giving psychotherapy a run for its money."
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Saturday, October 29, 2011
Fake Job Searches
I was astonished that this takes place. Did you know that departments actually post jobs when they have already chosen a candidate? This is so offensive. Purposely waisting other peoples time is so disrespectful.
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Philosophical Gourmet Report 2011: Large Changes in Department Rankings
Some departments have made some significant jumps on the new Philosophical Gourmet Report.
Detailed information HERE
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Northwestern University from #41 to #31
in the UK
University of Leeds from #12 to #6
In Canada
a three-way tie for #2 among McGill, British Columbia, and Western Ontario
In Australasia,
Melbourne now in top 5
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
The Problems of Law School
WITH apologies to show business, there’s no business like the business of law school.
Peter and Maria Hoey
Multimedia
GraphicLaw School Tuition Soars
The basic rules of a market economy — even golden oldies, like a link between supply and demand — just don’t apply.
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Applying to Jobs More Than Once
Some really interesting discussion on this topic both at Philosophers Anonymous and the Philosophy Smoker
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Video: What is philosophy's place in modern life?
New video
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Question: What is philosophy's place in modern life?
Michael Sandel
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Jobs For Philosophers now up
Some great comments HERE about this post from The Philosophy Smoker:
Join me on Twitter or Facebook for updates. Please email suggestions, links and questions to PhilosoraptErs@gmail.com194 ads, which is substantially better than last year's 157. There are another 48 web-onlies.In October of '09, there were 140 in the print version; in October '08, there were 267; in '07, we had 347.
The History of Continental Philosophy review
Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
2011.10.10 View this Review Online View Other NDPR Reviews
Thomas Nenon (ed.), Kant, Kantianism, and Idealism: The Origins of Continental Philosophy
Reviewed by J. M. Fritzman, Lewis & Clark College
This is the first of eight volumes in the series The History of Continental Philosophy. In his introductory chapter, Thomas Nenon notes that, in contrast to analytic philosophy, continental philosophy developed through a deep and sustained dialogue with Kant's philosophy and those thinkers influenced by it in France and Germany during the nineteenth century. He is correct; Kant's philosophy begins its rehabilitation in analytic philosophy with the 1966 publications of Jonathan Bennett's Kant's Analytic and Peter Strawson's Bounds of Sense: An Essay on Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. He also observes that, although Kant's philosophy has now been appropriated by both analytic and continental philosophy, the other philosophers discussed in this book have generally been ignored in analytic philosophy.
Sunday, October 9, 2011
new job resource
The PhilPapers team is announcing a new service: PhilJobs, an online database of philosophy job advertisements. The database is to include philosophy job ads of all sorts and from all over the world, and will be searchable in many different ways. We hope that it provides a useful service both for people advertising philosophy jobs and especially for philosophy job candidatesJoin me on Twitter or Facebook for updates. Please email suggestions, links and questions to PhilosoraptErs@gmail.com
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
21 Years of Philosophy for children in the UK:
The following is taken from philosophyshopfoundation@groups.facebook.com:
The first class of Philosophy for children in the UK was held in Langbank Primary School, Scotland in October 1990. To mark the 21 years, our Patron, Catherine McCall and Langbank Primary school are hosting a Celebration that will bring together the original 5 year old children who pioneered 'p4c' in the UK (who are now 26 years old) with the current Langbank children doing philosophy in 2011. There will be videos and live demonstration with the children. The event will be hosted at Langbank Primary School on Friday October 14th from 1.30 - 3.30 p.m. For more details visit
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The first class of Philosophy for children in the UK was held in Langbank Primary School, Scotland in October 1990. To mark the 21 years, our Patron, Catherine McCall and Langbank Primary school are hosting a Celebration that will bring together the original 5 year old children who pioneered 'p4c' in the UK (who are now 26 years old) with the current Langbank children doing philosophy in 2011. There will be videos and live demonstration with the children. The event will be hosted at Langbank Primary School on Friday October 14th from 1.30 - 3.30 p.m. For more details visit
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=219694758087364
What College Professors & Lecturers are Paid
Honestly, its better than I thought it was. I wonder how close these numbers are to philosophy specific pay. Keep in mind that the survey size is just under 1700, and I'm not sure how they verify the information.
See more for numbersTuesday, October 4, 2011
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
58 Philosophy Jobs now at Phylo
This has actually become more successful than I thought it would be. The site was started as a reaction to the APA's badly done website and their unreliable JFP (Jobs For Philosophers). It seems to be proving it self not only as a reactionary movement to wake up the APA but a viable alternative.
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Phylo Jobs is a free listing of job openings for academic philosophers. Listings are accepted from department or search committee chairs (or their authorized representatives) and verified for accuracy before appearing below.--
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Monday, September 26, 2011
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Phylo Jobs - New Philosophy Job list
Phylo Jobs is a free listing of job openings for academic philosophers. Listings are accepted from department or search committee chairs (or their authorized representatives) and verified for accuracy before appearing below. To find a listing, enter any information the search box below, or use the advanced search to filter listings based rank, AOS, or other criteria. For unofficial, user-provided information on the status of a position, please visithttp://phylo.info/jobs/wiki.Join me on Twitter or Facebook for updates. Please email suggestions, links and questions to PhilosoraptErs@gmail.com
How do Graduate Councils Work?
This is an open question to anyone who could share information about the topic. I'm trying to set up a graduate council in my new MA program to address some issues that the students are having. As an undergraduate, there was a graduate council at my institution but I was never informed about how it worked. The general idea is that there would be an open dialogue between students about the program and then the results of that would be passed on to the chair in an organized fashion. Aside from that, I am unsure of how they work and would greatly appreciate any information on how other institutions organized something like this.
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Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Philosophy in High school
Posted Tuesday 13 September 2011 in the Guardian
"We share the view that introducing philosophy lessons in the classroom from a very early age would have immense benefits in terms of boosting British schoolchildren's reasoning and conceptual skills, better equipping them for the complexities of life in the 21st century, where ubiquitous technology and rapid social change are the order of the day"More HERE
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PHD Comics
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Philosophy Comic Books
- So perhaps this is old news but I just found it. Evil Twin comics put out a bunch of comics on philosophy and while the accuracy is debatable, the enjoyment is free flowing. If comics are your thing, also check out Logicomix (about Russel), sadly Logicomix is not free.
Click to read:
The general site is HERE
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Markkula Center for Applied Ethics News Letter
September 2011 Newsletter
Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University
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Tuesday, September 13, 2011
A Nice Article for Your Parents/Significant Other to Read
Particularly if your studying continental philosophy. Sometimes expressing why philosophy is important to you is very hard especially to people outside the discipline. HERE is a good intro peice from NY times' Stone, that might give them a glimpse.Join me on Twitter or Facebook for updates. Please email suggestions, links and questions to PhilosoraptErs@gmail.com
Monday, September 12, 2011
Tacit Accusations and Looking for Plagiarism
Some entertaining comments regarding the program TurnItIn and how it relates to plagiarized papers and tacitly accusing students HERE.
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New Book: Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly, "All Things Shining"
Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly, All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age, Free Press, 2011, 254pp., $15.00 (pbk), ISBN 9781416596165.
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They open All Things Shining with a promise of no less than deliverance from the boredom, nihilism and despair that they think characteristic of our "secular age:"
anyone who is done with indecision and waiting, with expressionlessness and lostness and sadness and angst, and who is ready for whatever it is that comes next; anyone with hope instead of despair, or anyone with despair that they would like to leave behind, can find something worthwhile in the pages ahead. (xi)
Full review HERE
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Philosophy Taught in Prison
Philosophy is now being taught in the prison system? This is an interesting development. It's not currently accredited but there is a movement to get it there. Aside from the value to convicts, this could create some news state funded positions, at least for those who like a bit of excitement. According to Wikipedia, there are 2,292,133 adults currently incarcerated (2009) and a further 86,927 juveniles (2007) searving sentences in the US. Not to be completely insensitive that is a large potential student body. Full article HERE
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Pluralist Guide: Even Handed Assesment
The following is an article that seems rather even handed when talking about the Pluralist guide for graduate programs in philosophy. There has been a rather heated debate about the validity of such a guide.
The full article is HERE
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This is an article on how to publish academic papers. It is not specifically on philosophy but from other articles I have read it's approximately right.Join me on Twitter or Facebook for updates. Please email suggestions, links and questions to PhilosoraptErs@gmail.com
Sunday, September 4, 2011
Ageism in Philosophy
An Interesting Post and Comments HERE
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A Criticism of the Method of Scholarly Publication
I ran across this thanks to Leiter. Its an interesting article on how academic publishing is really taking advantage of academics. It seems like Open Journals could be one solution.
"[in] an article by George Monbiot on the economics of academic publishing, regarding journals in particular, with the suggestive (but spot-on) title of 'Academic publishers make Murdoch look like a socialist'. As well said by another tweep, the article "will shock everyone except academics". Indeed, none of it is news to us, and the bottom-line is pretty simple: academic publishers get everybody to work for them for free (authors, peer-reviewers, most of the editing work), and then go on to charge ridiculous amounts of money for journal subscriptions. And yet, we are stuck with them, because the discipline depends crucially on journal publishing."
Full article HERE
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Effectiveness of Track Programs: University of West Georgia
The following is a response from Robert Lane, Associate Professor of philosophy at West Georgia University. It's a response to some questions I had regarding their Pre-law track program.
Some interesting tid bits: over 1/3 of their philosophy students are Pre-law. 15 have already graduated, 6 of which applied to law. No other faculty were required, and no classes had to be added.
This is very close to the story about University of Alabama's Pre-Law Track program. Basically they were able to increase enrollment, with no major change to their department structure. Perhaps a shift into track programs will not increase jobs or solve other problems as I had hoped. It defiantly seems like a viable plan for increasing enrollment and by so doing increasing departmental funds.
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Etymological Study Tool
This is a great study tool if your looking into some Greek etymologies or studying the use of a word in philosophy. It's simple to use and also gives the authors who use the word as well as page numbers ect... Find it here: Greek word Study Tool. It uses several different reference materials for its sources.
I believe the above project was actually started over at Harvard and then tufts adopted a more user friendly approach which only included Greek. The Harvard Version is called Pollux: Archimedes Project Dictionary Access. This actually contains more information (Latin, Sumerian.....) but at least for me its harder to use.
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100 Free Online Philosophy and Theology Courses
A list of 100 free philosophy and theology courses can be found HERE
Or see list below.
Philosopher's Canival (Aug 29, 2011)
Greetings to everyone in philosophy land. Today PhilosoraptErs is hosting The Philosopher's Carnival, which is a project started to help philosophy bloggers receive some attention for the posts they believe are their best and to help summarize them into a post for readers. There were a limited number of submissions for this edition of the Philosophers Carnival, some submissions were omitted because they were off the topic of philosophy or contained limited philosophical interest. I hope you enjoy the submissions for this edition
Philosopher's Canival (Aug 29, 2011)
Greetings to everyone in philosophy land. Today PhilosoraptErs is hosting The Philosopher's Carnival, which is a project started to help philosophy bloggers receive some attention for the posts they believe are their best and to help summarize them into a post for readers. There were a limited number of submissions for this edition of the Philosophers Carnival, some submissions were omitted because they were off the topic of philosophy or contained limited philosophical interest. I hope you enjoy the submissions for this edition
Friday, August 26, 2011
CFP: Brown University Graduate Philosophy Conference (Open Topic)
- The 6th Annual Shapiro Graduate Philosophy Conference Presented by the Philosophy Department at Brown University, Providence, RI Nov. 11th and 12th, 2011
- Keynote Speaker: Allan Gibbard (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
- We invite papers of high quality in any area of philosophy. Applicants must submit papers electronically as .pdf, .doc, or .rtf files. Please submit as separate documents: 1. a cover sheet with author information, 2. an abstract without any author information (maximum 150 words), and 3. a paper without any author information (maximum 3,000 words)
- New submission deadline: September 1st, 2011 Please submit in blind review format, with all identifying information on the cover sheet only. Each page should be titled and numbered. Email submission address:
- For more information contact Phil or Brett at
Thursday, August 25, 2011
AAPT nominations for 2012-2014 Teaching Fellows
This notice is available at the American Association of Philosophy Teachers website.
You can also find it on In Socrates' Wake HERE
The American Association of Philosophy Teachers (AAPT) seeks devoted, excellent philosophy teachers to serve as 2012-2014 AAPT Teaching Fellows. Teaching Fellows will receive a small stipend ($500) and serve a two-year term August 15, 2012-August 14, 2014. Fellows will advance the teaching of philosophy. This may include mentoring newer teachers, blogging on the AAPT website, facilitating teaching and learning workshops, or other activities.Join me on Twitter or Facebook for updates. Please email suggestions, links and questions to PhilosoraptErs@gmail.com
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Effectiveness of track programs: University of Alabama
The following is an email sent to me by one of the professors at the University of Alabama's Philosophy department. I wrote him asking a series of questions about how their Pre-law track had worked out, if it had attracted more students, etc... It tells a very interesting story of how they saved their department with their track programs.
The pre-law concentration is one of many moves made on the department’s behalf when I was our chair and we were threatened with losing the right to offer a major in philosophy...
So we didn’t just save ourselves; we saved ourselves by adding to the ways in which we can do something valuable for the students at our university.....
I would recommend it to any department that has someone who finds the law interesting...
Thursday, August 18, 2011
The Importance of Thinking like a Colleague at Interviews
The new financial situation the university situation has found it self in has changed the way that job interviews are looked at by hiring committees. In an article on Inside Higher Ed, Cheryl Reed and Dawn M. Formo, advise graduate students to starting think like colleagues rather than researchers.
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Fast Web's Scholarship Search
I have been using Fast Web's scholarship finder for the last couple of months. It's a great system that is easy to use and understand. It gathers a large number of scholarships from many different arenas. You set out criteria for what kind of scholarships your interested in and they send you an email each time a new scholarship that meets your criteria comes up.
While there are a very limited number of directly philosophical scholarships, there are many which only require you to submit an essay on some topic or another. We philosophers are good at coming up with persuasive arguments so I believe we could smash the competition on these sort of scholarships.
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CSU Long Beach: Growing Department?
I have recently noticed that CSULB has taken an ad out on Leiter Reports which at this time of year is about $350 a month. When applying to MA's I was able to apply to all the CSU philosophy MA programs for free because of my financial situation. I just received my financial aid statement from csulb which included a grant for nearly $7000 dollars a year. If there wasn't another program that suited my interest, this would be a tempting offer for a prospective MA student because usually grants and fellowships are not given to MA students. $14000 off your student loans could really help you out after graduating.
These seem to suggest that they have some extra cash to spend, perhaps their department is growing?
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"Philosophers' Carnival" Hosted on PhilosoraptErs
The Philosophers' Carnival Will be hosted here on August 29th. I encourage anyone interested to submit their work!
Philosophers' Carnival project, which aims to showcase the best philosophical posts from a wide range of weblogs. We invite submissions from bloggers and readers, and collate the submitted posts into one big round-up (or "carnival") every three weeks, offering a brief summary of each entry, and a link to the complete post.
I was hoping the carnival I host could center around issues in professional philosophy such as pre-college philosophy, racism/sexism in philosophy, the adjunct plight, pedigree vs. publishing, effectiveness of track programs, how to build a better job/phd ratio and other issues like these. For some information on these issues click HERE. While these submission will be preferred, feel free to submit on other topics as well.
Submissions Wanted:
We need submissions for posts to include in the carnival. Do you have a philosophy blog? If so, simply choose a favourite from among your recent posts, and use the BlogCarnival submissions form to submit the link.
For more information visit philosophers' carnival
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