Moved forward from
Tue, May 24, 2011.
This post has now received many more comments and is quite a bit more usefull. I found the comment on the bottom of this post particularly interesting.
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Monday, May 30, 2011
'Great Courses' free: Philosophy and the Modern Age
Philosophy and the Modern Age (you tube) , this is one of the "Great Courses" from the teaching company. If I had watched this as a undergraduate I would have had better overall view of philosophy.
Starts really simple gets more interesting later on. covers a lot of topics, See below.
Starts really simple gets more interesting later on. covers a lot of topics, See below.
The videos are not organized on youtube.
Here is each video listed in order:
Fordham Epistemology and Ethics Workshops
http://peasoup.typepad.com/From Pea Soup Blog:
Starting next year, Fordham will be hosting a series of epistemology and ethics workshops at its Lincoln Center Campus in Manhattan. For the 2011-2012 academic year, speakers will include...:
Sunday, May 29, 2011
CFP: PACIFIC SOCIETY FOR WOMEN IN PHILOSOPHY
CALL FOR PAPERS AND PANELS
PACIFIC SOCIETY FOR WOMEN IN PHILOSOPHY
ANNUAL FALL MEETING
November 4-5, 2011
California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA
Host: Nellie Wieland, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of
Philosophy
This year’s theme is “Recognition.” P-SWIP welcomes explorations
of this theme from all philosophical traditions.
#More
Recognition can take the forms of legal entitlement,
compensation, associative obligations, group identity, or targeted exclusion. We invite discussion of the ways in
which recognition succeeds and fails, when we are (mis)recognized in loving
relationships or through community solidarity, or when we are (mis)recognized
and granted or denied rights, inclusion, or identities. We would like to encourage historical,
critical, moral/political, phenomenological, and other approaches to this
theme.
Although “Recognition” is our theme this year, P-SWIP
welcomes submissions on any relevant topics in feminist philosophy.
Essays should not exceed 4000 words, standard format, prepared for
anonymous review, and submitted electronically in WORD or PDF formats.
Draft or otherwise incomplete submissions will not be accepted.
Submission deadline: September 1, 2011
P-SWIP has a small number of travel
grants available for graduate students and underemployed philosophers. Please
indicate with your submission materials if you are interested in applying for
one of these grants.
Please submit essays to Emily S. Lee, Executive Secretary, Pacific
SWIP at
e...@fullerton.edu.
Notification of acceptance will be made by September 29, 2011.
Come join us and celebrate women in philosophy!
Emily S. Lee,
Assistant Professor
Department of Philosophy
California State University, Fullerton
Fullerton, CA 92834
657-278-3694
e...@fullerton.edu
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Videos: ALL Bryan Magee's Philosophy Interviews ((tags: media, free)
FINALLY! All Bryan Magee's philosophy interviews in one place (HERE)
I highly recommend these interviews. It's really interesting to watch the philosophers we read in action.
Quine, Dreyfus, Derrida, Singer, Ayer, Searle, Williams, Marcuse and others
Found on Leiter reports
Join me on Twitter or Facebook for updates. Please email suggestions, links and questions to PhilosoraptErs@gmail.comCombined BA & MA Philosophy Programs
I recently posted about Florida State University having a combined BA & MA program. Essentialy one applies for the MA program in junior year, so before normal PhD applications, and spends an extra year in that philosophy program. The real change is that you start taking graduate courses early. By taking graduate courses early, before the BA is awarded, your able to count graduate courses for both MA and BA. There are a couple of different approaches to this that I have found so far.
List of Colleges and plans:
Cycorp: Ontological Engineering
This is interesting but I really don't know what to think of it. apparently Timothy S. O’Keefe, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Georgia State University, was employed by them....
Ontological Engineering (OE), a term coined at Cycorp, is a methodology for representing knowledge about the world in a way that computers can reason about it. This introductory course will familiarize you with Cyc's powerful knowledge representation capabilities and tools and will provide ample opportunity to use those tools to represent semantic information in Cyc. Friday, May 27, 2011
Wikipedia:Get to Philosophy
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The object of this game is to click on the first link in an article and repeat the process. About 93% of all articles seem to lead eventually to the article Philosophy. The rest get stuck in two-article loops. Now, isn't that fascinating?
Full article HERE
Forida State University Combined BA and MA in Philosophy
I just recently ran across this somewhat strange but very innovative Philosophy program.
"The combined bachelors/masters degree programs provide academically talented students an opportunity to complete a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in a shorter time span".
This seems like a great way for students to ease themselves into graduate student life. I know that my letters of recommendation and writing sample would have been better if I had another year in UCSC.
It seems to me what this program really does is let the GREAT candidates go off to Phd's, but offers the decent candidates the opportunity to hone their skills in an academic environment.
Some information about this philosophy program HERE
Thursday, May 26, 2011
2011 Philosophical Gourmet Report - Faculty List
The third draft of the 2011 Philosophical gourmet report faculty list is up HERE.
Other articles of interest:
Professor Richard G. Heck (Brown) - Critique of Philosophical Gourmet
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You can email Suggestions, Questions, and Links to PhilosraptErs@gmail.comFlight of Curiosity from Graduate school
The Stone at the New York times, moderated by Simon Critchley, chair of the department of philosophy of New School in New York, asks:
Must one be endowed with curiosity in order to become a philosopher?
The answer is no, especially for graduate students. What does this mean for our profession?
Stanford and Ancient Philosophy: Alan Code ((tags: Rankings)
Thanks to Leiter for this information. Apparently Stanford will now be high in ranking for ancient philosophy.
Alan Code, Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University at New Brunswick (and emeritus at Berkeley), has accepted a senior offer from the Department of Philosophy at Stanford University, effective July 1. Code is best-known for his work on Aristotle's metaphysics and logic. At Stanford, he will join, among others, his former student Christopher Bobonich, best-known for his groundbreaking work on Plato's Laws. Stanford is now likely to be among the top choices in North America for students interested in ancient philosophy.
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