Canadian MA Funding

Quick tip for MA applicants: Most US MA programs in Philosophydon't have any funding opportunities. Many Canadian programs do.

Defending the Humanities Through...Philosophy of Mind?

Basically an article about how studies in philosophy of mind show that 'science' or hard facts about the world do not give us a complete set of knowledge. Thus humanities programs should be encourage. Braced partially on the work of  David Chalmers. 

Found on "In Socrates' Wake" a blog about teaching philosophy

See full article HERE.

GRE cut off

Are there GRE cut offs in philosophy? Respondents to this question on Lieter Reports. The answers so far suggest not, but they do suggest that students with low GRE scores usually have less impressive records, letters and writing samples. Responses also suggest that if GRE scores are low then the applicant needs to make up for it in other parts of the application.
Around 700 is the mark that one needs to reach in order to avoid a critical eye.
http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2011/03/are-some-schools-using-undisclosed-gre-cut-offs-in-admissions-decisions.html

Philosophy Publications and Hiring Practices ( Pedigree?)

This is a questions sent to Lieter. Professionals comment on the state of the profession.

Two questions:
 1: Does philosophy, as a profession, have a route for philosophers to dig themselves out of their professional qualification? That is, if one did not go to a top 10 school, does philosophy, as a profession, have a way for exceptional philosophers to distinguish themselves?
 2. What do we do about this lack?

Using Visual Logic Models for Evaluating/Presenting Programs

By using logic modeling, philosophy programs can present in an easily acceptable visual format how their program prepares students. I use logic maps all the time when I evaluate arguments, why not use them to explain why your department is best. There have been great leaps forward in psychology of infographics, perhaps we could apply this to philosophy programs?

Undergraduate Philosophy Journals

A short list and description of undergraduate philosophy journals. It looks really good on a graduate application if one has a publication even if it is in an undergraduate journal.

CFP: Philosophy of Sport?

Here is a call for papers on the philosophy of sport. Philosophy of sport is rather new and was started in the 1960's. I have been seeing philosophy of sport mentioned quite a bit on the internet lately but am very ignorant of it's nature myself.  The philosophy of sport definition from Penn State:

Article: In the Basement of the Ivory Tower

Professor X suggests that many students should not go to college even though this places his own position as an adjunct in jeopardy.

read the article here

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/06/in-the-basement-of-the-ivory-tower/6810/1/

Top Ten Philosophy Programs Comparative

Just a nice simple table for comparing.

CV: Number of Graduate Conferences?

This is a question I found on a forum. It deals with the number of graduate conferences one should have on a CV. A summarized version of all comments included.

Survey Results: Philosophical Beliefs

The PhilPapers Survey was a survey of professional philosophers and others on their philosophical views, carried out in November 2009. The Survey was taken by 3226 respondents, including 1803 philosophy faculty members and/or PhDs and 829 philosophy graduate students.

Philosophy for Children: Ethics Question about The Little Red Hen

A post from Talking Philosophy. This is a good example of how one could engage children in philosophy from an early age. By using the story of The Little Red Hen, one can ask a child to investigate the ethics of fairness and selfishness.