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• A Bit More on How to Interpret RAE Results...
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• Tales from the American Oligarchy
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• To Those Participating in the PGR Surveys: Please Make Sure to Click "Submit Information" Every 20 Minutes or So!
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• New Philosophers' Carnival is...
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• Attack on Academic Freedom at Tel Aviv University
• In Memoriam: Andrzej Zabludowski (1938-2008)
• PGR Update
• "The Oxford Handbook of Continental Philosophy"
• MacBride from Birkbeck to Cambridge
• Please Post Information about Cancelled Job Searches Here
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• Advice for Job Interviews
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• Princeton University Press Blog
• "Boiled Nonsense" for Lunch
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• In Memoriam: C.B. Martin (1924-2008)
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• More Fun with Ayn Rand
• Draft Faculty Lists for New PGR Surveys for 08-09
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• The "pre-eminent world publisher of academic philosophy"?
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• "Naturalizing Jurisprudence: Three Approaches"
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• A New Kripke Article
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• New Philosophers' Carnival is...
• Stich Answers "Five Questions"
• Writing Samples in Job Applications: How Long?
• Nietzsche for your IPhone?
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• "Debate Fallacy Bingo"
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• Watching the Presidential Debate Like Reading Sartre???
• Jerry Dworkin Rebuts Charge of "Hackery"!
• Friday 'Poem': "We do indeed need saving"
• October JFP
• The Controversy over the European Journal Rankings Initiative
• Science Education Under Attack in Texas...Again!
• Blame it on Ayn Rand
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• Department of Freudian Slips?
• The Study of Chinese Philosophy in the U.S.: The Discussion Continues
• Law and Philosophy Fellowship at the University of Chicago Law School, 2009-2010
• Teaching philosophy in Africa
• Summary of Faculty Changes for Non-US Departments
• New Philosophers' Carnival is...
• Summary of Faculty Changes in Ranked U.S. PhD Programs Since Fall 2006 PGR Surveys
• An Endorsement of Obama
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• Financial Crisis Hitting University Payrolls?
• Well-Informed Article on Experimental Philosophy...
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• Solve a Logic Puzzle, Win a Book!
• Australian Philosophical Association "Ranks" Journals
• John McCain, "low-ranking monkey"
• An Open Apology to Ignorant Yahoos
• The Hazards of Name-Dropping "Kant"
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• Wenar from Sheffield to King's College Law School
• New Blog Soliciting and Posting Announcements about Conferences and "Calls for Papers"
• Why Is This Presidential Election Even Close?
• Prospective Students (esp. those from overseas): Watch Out for "Underfunded" Programs and High Teaching Loads!
• New Philosophers' Carnival is...
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• The Five Stages Not of Confronting Death...
• Summary of Faculty Changes in Ranked U.S. PhD Programs Since Fall 2006 PGR Surveys
• Returning Guest Blogger: Thomas Nadelhoffer
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• The Most Brutally Honest Philosophy Job Ad Ever Written?
• E-Mail Problems
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• More Fun with ID Apologist Steve Fuller
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• New Philosophers' Carnival is...
• Everything that is wrong with Obama's campaign style...
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• "Spot the Logical Fallacy" Party
• Three Philosophers Win "Wiscdom" 100K Grants from U of Chicago
• Sarah Palin: "Show Mom"
• Philosopher LeRoux Elected to Royal Society of Canada
• SSHRC Grants to Canadian Philosophers
• Friday Poem: "Unpacking"
• Yahoos, Brownshirts, and Hypocrites
• Ignorant Yahoo Update
• How Are You Celebrating "Metaphysical Awareness Month"?
• Sterelny Wins 2008 Nicod Prize
• V-P Pick Palin Belonged to Political Party Supporting Secession of Alaska from the United States
• PhD Admissions and the Job Market for "Older" Students/Candidates
• Ten "Polite" Bits of Advice for Academic Search Committees
• A word about my comments policy
• The Imprudent Wing of the Republocrat Party's Convention May be on Hold Due to a Hurricane...
• Achinstein from Johns Hopkins to Yeshiva
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• Friday Poem: "The Objects in My Room"
• Appiah and Knobe on Identity Politics
• The "Prudent Wing" of the Ruling Class Party in the U.S. Has Its Annual Convention
• Two "Philosophers" on Evil
• Philosopher's Annual Addendum
• Two New Volumes in "The Routledge Philosophers" Series: Carman on Merleau-Ponty, Della Rocca on Spinoza
• "You know you live in Canada..."
• New Philosophers' Carnival is...
• Philosophy in High School in Australia
• "The State of the Vocation"
• L.A. Paul, the political blogosphere's favorite...
• The Differences Between "Liberals" and "Conservatives"
• Programs Discouraging Graduates From Applying to Non-Research Institutions?
• Philosopher Brooks on the "Five Secrets" of Publishing Success
• Philosopher's Annual 2007 Winners
• Oxford DPhil in Philosophy of Language Wins Olympic Silver in Rowing!
• A Map of PhD Programs in Philosophy in the U.S.
• PGR Update
• Woozley Memorial Updates
• The Philosophical Lexicon: quaint diversion or instrument of hegemony? (Hellie)
• Loeb v. Railton on Moral Realism
• Sarkar Has ID Apologist Steve Fuller for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner
• New Philosophers' Carnival is...
• Where are the Assistant Professors of 1996-97?
• Albert v. Carroll on Philosophical Issues in Quantum Mechanics
• A Testimony to the Power of Philosophy
• The Philosophical Lexicon is Back!
• Philosophy of Time
• Questions from a New Journal Referee
• "Pea Soup," The Ethics Blog
• World Congress Update (J. Stanley)
• Job Market Troubles Even in Physics
• Kamp to Take Half-Time Post at Texas
• More Trouble for Humanities Support in Britain?
• Kelly on the Renewed Interest in Phenomenology
• Where are the Assistant Professors of 1996-97?
• Five Dollars for a Pillow on an Airline?
• August Advertising Discount
• Economist Meets Philosopher...
• New Philosophers' Carnival is...
• Friday Poem: "Olympiad"
• A Proposal about Single-Submissions and Timeliness of Refereeing of Articles
• "Nietzsche's Naturalism Reconsidered"
• Simons from Leeds to Trinity College Dublin
• Philosopher Meets Intellectual Historian
• New Contact Info for...
• XXII World Congress of Philosophy (J. Stanley)
• Parkes from Hawaii to University College Cork
• A Brief Reply from the Chronicle of Higher Ed
• An Open Letter to the Chronicle of Higher Education: Please, Oh Please, Could You Publish Something about Philosophy by Someone Who Knows Something (even a little!) about the Subject?
• Steve Poole on Steve Fuller: "It’s intellectual quackery like this that gives philosophy of science a bad name."
• Friday Poem: "900#"
• Paul Gowder has a blog...
• Philosophers Elected to the British Academy
• Experimental Philosophy and Experimental Syntax (J. Stanley)
• What Kripke Should have Said (J. Stanley)
• Kripke Responds to the Challenge of Experimental Philosophy
• My Teaching at Chicago Next Year
• Husband Sends Death Threat to Biologist Myers from Wife's Work E-Mail Account and She Loses Her Job
• Amazingly Conscientious Translator!
• Do Senior Faculty Have an Obligation to Retire at Some Point?
• Biologist Myers (aka Pharyngula) Under Attack from the 'Catholic League'
• New Philosophers' Carnival is...
• Cohen from Arizona State to Arizona
• Memorial notices for Mark Sacks
• Friday Poem: "Alone"
• Quine at 100 (J. Stanley)
• The Brewing Economic Meltdown and the Philosophy Profession
• Penn Philosophy Department to Occupy Building Newly Renamed for a Gossip Columnist
• Anthropologist Encounters Experimental Philosophy...
• Judging a Book...by Its Title!
• Philosopher Hillary Bok remembers Jesse Helms
• "Philosophy Talk" in the News
• Max Horkheimer Died 35 Years Ago Today
• The Driving Cultures of Southern Europe
• Dadahead, where are you?
• Friday Poem: "Out of some dodge of fate"
• Two Young Philosophers Win Ryskamp, Burkhardt Fellowships
• Articles Related to Philosophy at 'The Nation'
• Pelletier from Simon Fraser Back to Alberta
• Five Philosophers Win ACLS Fellowships
• New Philosophers' Carnival is...
• Philosophers Writing on Wittgenstein: Sympathetic but Critical?
• Open Access Philosophy?
• Something Sensible on Iran
• Friday Poem: "My Age While I Read Rimbaud"
• A Puzzle About Heller (the US Supreme Court Case Invalidating the DC Gun Ordinance)
• Discussing John Yoo and Academic Freedom on the Radio
• Philosophers with Style...
• Stephen Stich (Rutgers) Wins First Gittler Prize from the APA...
• Thomas Nagel's Honorary Degree from Oxford...
• "Rising Stars" Redux
• New Philosophers' Carnival is...
• Remembering George Carlin, Moral Philosopher
• Tenure Letters: Some Questions
• Charles Taylor Wins Kyoto Prize in "Arts & Philosophy"
• Glanzberg Declines Cornell, To Remain at UC Davis
• Are You a Better Philosopher If You Pose for Pictures with Famous Philosophers and Intellectuals?
• Albert v. Carroll on the Philosophy of Time
• In Memoriam: Mark Sacks (1953-2008)
• Proops from Michigan to Texas
• Keller to Victoria U, Wellington
• How Many Libraries Have Your Books?
• Hegel Meets Pittsburgh
• "Rising Stars"
• Four Philosophers Answer Questions about Philosophy: Its Purposes, Nature, History
• Charles Taylor Co-Authors Government Report on the Integration of Immigrants in Quebec
• Friday Poem: "A Vow Forsaken"
• Kronz from Texas to NSF
• Paul from Arizona to North Carolina
• New Philosophers' Carnival is...
• Specialty Areas in the PGR
• UC Riverside's New Class of PhD Students
• New Biography of Rorty by a Sociologist
• Philosopher Interested in Studying Law for a Year Seeks Advice
• The Subprime Mortgage Crisis "for Dummies"
• Nottingham Graduate Student and Employee Arrested and Threatened with Deportation...
• Sreenivasan from Toronto to Duke
• A Useful Set of Links to the Job Placement Pages...
• Waldron on the Prohibition of Hate Speech
• Brown Student Expelled (!!!) For Throwing a Pie at Thomas "No Ideas and the Ability to Express Them" Friedman
• Information about MA and PhD Programs in Chinese Philosophy?
• Braun from Rochester to Buffalo
• A Good Year for Philosophy with the Newcombe Fellowships!
• Leave it to a law professor to come to the defense of the honorary degree for Schlafly
• Something Reasonably Sensible on Iran
• A Favor, Once Again
• List to Split Between Government and Philosophy at LSE
• Centenary of Quine's Birth is Coming on June 25...
• NYU's Nagel Wins Rolf Schock Prize...
• The History of Philosophy in 90 Seconds
• Alan Wolfe Is Clueless About Philosophy
• "Logic for Politics"
• Reading Janaway Reading Nietzsche
• In Memoriam: Arthur W. Burks (1915-2008)
• Egan from Michigan to Rutgers
• Recent Texas Philosophy PhD Making History as Female Candidate for Parliament in Kuwait
• Friday Poem: "Memphis to Austin Talking"
• Doris Turns Down UCSD, to Remain at Wash U/St. Louis
• Strong Statement by a Wash U Law Professor on the Schafly Honorary Degree Scandal
• What sorts of people should there be?
• UK Philosophers Tackle the "Business Model" Being Forced on British Universities
• The Appalling Buffoon Oliver Kamm...
• More on the Schafly Honorary Degree Scandal
• A Temporary Reprieve for the PhD Program at Florida?
• Prinz from North Carolina to CUNY Grad Center
• Geuss on Rorty (and on Geuss)
• New Philosophers' Carnival is...
• A Philosopher Confronts a Terminal Diagnosis
• Life in a Small Philosophy Department
• "Continental Philosophy" Blog Under Attack from a Hacker!
• Hillary Clinton's Downfall
• An Honorary Degree for Phyllis Schafly???
• Friday Poem: "What game is this"
• Ludlow from Toronto to Northwestern
• Foreign Policy's "Top 100 Public Intellectuals": Several Philosophers Make the List
• A Third, and Final Call, to Sign the Petition in Support of the Florida PhD Program
• Nietzsche: Channelling McDowell on Consciousness?
• Memorial for Michael Frede
• A Second Call to Sign the Petition in Support of the Graduate Program in Philosophy at the University of Florida
• Show Your Support for the Philosophy PhD Program at Florida, and for the Importance of Philosophy in the Curriculum
• Cindy Sheehan Running for Congress...
• Budget Cuts Result in U of Florida Eliminating Its PhD Program
• Steup from St. Cloud to Purdue
• How to Count Affiliated/Cognate Faculty for Purposes of the PGR Surveys?
• Wall from Bowling Green to U Conn
• Memorial Service for J.L. Ackrill on June 14
• Shapiro from Michigan to Yale Law School
• G.A. Cohen's Valedictory Lecture...
• Kudos to the Longshore Workers!
• Happy May Day...
• Tenure-Track Hiring by Philosophy Departments, 2007-2008, Part II
• Best Beach, Best Food, Best Town on the Costa Brava?
• A Nietzsche Journal with Scholarly and Philosophical Standards?
• Nussbaum on Moyers
• Campus Visits by Prospective Students: What are the Norms? What is the Ideal? What are People's Impressions?
• Arizona's Paul Pursued by UNC As Well
• New Philosophy Fellows of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences Announced
• New Philosophers' Carnival is...
• USC Makes Bid for Salmon at UC Santa Barbara
• Friday Poem: "Reading Sartre's 'Baudelaire' (and other Haiku excuses)"
• Someone Who Thinks Even Less of Leon Wieseltier's Philosophical Acumen Than We Do!
• Job Placement Information on Departmental Websites
• A U.S. Presidential Election Update
• Philosophy Made Easy Through Simple Poems!
• Advice Sought on Summer Travel in Southern Europe
• Philosophy Students and Standardized Tests
• Will Demographics Result in a Job Crunch in the Near Future?
• Any Pattern to This Year's Graduate Admissions in Terms of Yield?
• How to Dance Your Way to a Job
• Funny--On Academic Bad Manners
• Philosopher/Biologist Sarkar Wipes the Floor with Another Discovery [sic] Institute Charlatan
• Watson to Retire at UC Riverside, and Move Full-Time to USC
• Friday Poem: "To Have Lived This Long"
• Four Senior Hires for UC Davis: Antonelli, Copp, Oshana, & Landry
• Once More Into the Academic Freedom/John Yoo Fray
• "The Journal of Half-Baked Ideas"
• Paul Campos, Serial Advocate for Punishing Professors for Their Ideas
• UCSD Votes Out Offer to Wash U's Doris
• New Philosophers' Carnival is...
• How to Best Prepare for Job Interviews at Schools with a Primary Emphasis on Teaching
• In Memoriam: A.D. Woozley (1912-2008)
• Priest from Melbourne to CUNY
• Allen Wood, Immanuel Kant, and George W. Bush
• "American Freedom Campaign" Organizing E-Mail-Campaign to Fire John Yoo
• Dorr, Moss from Pittsburgh to Oxford
• Clark from Colgate to UC Riverside
• Cassam from Cambridge to Warwick
• Wingo from U Mass/Boston to Colorado
• McGill TAs on Strike!
• Another Tenured Hire for UC Riverside: Jaworska
• Perry to Retire at Stanford, Move Half-Time to UC Riverside
• John Rawls Too "Selfish" to Hold Highest Professorial Rank at University College London
• Tenure-Track Hiring by Philosophy Departments, 2007-2008, Part II
• Two Philosophers Win Guggenheim Fellowships for 2008
• The New York Times on the rise in Philosophy Majors (J. Stanley)
• Demopoulos Wins Killam Research Fellowship
• Friday Poem: "The Candidate"
• Should a Philosophy Grad Student at a Non-Anglophone University Write His/Her Dissertation in English?
• The Change in the Formatting on Posts and Comments
• Deciding Between Admissions Offers: The Importance of Visiting/Talking With Current Students
• Faculty Changes in the Last Year and the Overall Rankings
• Advice for Undergraduates about Strengthening Their Applications to Grad Programs
• More Philosopher Podcasts!
• New Philosophers' Carnival is...
• Is the Capacity for Moral and Religious Beliefs Innate?
• How Do UK PhDs Outside Oxbridge Fare on the US Market?
• Penn State Philosophy Recoups by Plundering Memphis
• Friday Poem: "Girl at the Electronic Catalogue"
• "In Praise of Realism (and Against 'Nonsense' Jurisprudence)"
• In Memoriam: Hazel Barnes (1915-2008)
• Driver & Sorensen from Dartmouth to Wash U/St. Louis
• Oxford's Hawthorne to Take Up Part-Time Position at Princeton
• Friday Poem: "Thoughts After Snyder's Poem"
• Why major in Philosophy (J. Stanley)
• 5th Anniversary of the U.S. War of Aggression Against Iraq
• Commemoration of Susan Hurley
• Philosophy on TV!
• Freud on the Arab-Israeli Conflict in 1930
• New Philosophers' Carnival is...
• Dershowitz and Plagiarism, Again
• Talkative Students
• Busy March
• JD/PhD Programs: A Comment
• Walzer Excoriated
• Updates to the Memorial Notices for Mothersill and Rosenberg
• Friday Poem: "Trio"
• Belot and Ruetsche from Pittsburgh to Michigan
• Mark Twain's "The War Prayer"
• Carroll from Temple to CUNY Grad Center
• Notre Dame Makes Bid for Arizona's Paul
• Berkeley Makes Offer to Reginster at Brown
• Was Nietzsche a Fictionalist?
• Senior Offers that Prospective Students Should Inquire About with the Relevant Departments
• Tenure-Track Hiring by Philosophy Departments, 2007-2008
• Chomsky on Iraq and the Presidential Election
• Jesseph from NC State to South Florida
• New Philosophers' Carnival is...
• Friday Poem: "Elevator Ride"
• Visiting Professors from Abroad Finding it Harder to Get Into the U.S.
• The Bush Presidential Library and Institute at Southern Methodist University
• Breaking News: Diebold Mistakenly Releases Results of 2008 Presidential Election Early
• Reading Philosophy
• In Memoriam: Jay Rosenberg (1942-2008)
• Graham from Wake Forest to Georgia State
• Buffalo Makes Bid for Braun at Rochester
• Braun from Rochester to Buffalo
• It's Tough to Spell "Nietzsche"!
• What is philosophy?
• Bertram on Castro
• Yale Law School Makes Bid for Legal Philosopher Shapiro at Michigan
• New Philosophers' Carnival is...
• Experimental Philosophy on Bloggingheads TV!
• Friday Poem: "Flyer"
• Rouse on Two Kinds of Naturalism
• Is the "Rule of Recognition" a Conventional Rule?
• More Bad News for Philosophy in the UK: The Fall 2008 AHRC Research Leave Competition Has Been Cancelled
• Chicago's Nussbaum Declines Harvard, Brown Offers, Will Remain at Chicago
• Leiden's Philosophy Department in Trouble!
• Obama is a Nietzsche Man!
• Tenure-Track Hiring by Philosophy Departments, 2007-2008
• University Support for Faculty Who Win External Fellowships
• New Gender, Race and Philosophy Blog...
• An American Presidential Election Update
• New Philosophers' Carnival is...
• A Huge Cut in Postgraduate Funding for Philosophy in the UK?
• Friday Poem: "Unafraid'
• Including Letters of Recommendation from Students in a Dossier?
• Nietzsche Attack Ad
• Hot Topics in Ethics?
• Wilcox from Temple to San Francisco State
• Eight Philosophers Win NEH Fellowships
• Väyrynen from UC Davis to Leeds
• Where to start LEMMings Reading?
• In Memoriam: Mary Mothersill (1923-2008)
• It's not often that Ronald Dworkin and I are invoked in support of the same proposition...
• Philosopher Hendricks Receives Leading Research Excellence Prize in Denmark
• New Chinese Philosophy Blog
• Supreme Court in Need of Philosophy of Language Class (J Stanley)
• Publishing Advice for Graduate Students
• "Secular Philosophy"...
• The Best Philosophy Papers of 2007?
• The Democratic Contest...as Seen from Britain
• New Philosophers' Carnival is...
• Calhoun from Colby to Arizona State
• Philosophers named after birds, fish, body parts, occupations, etc.
• Friday Poem: "What We Do"
• Those Funny Logicians
• Duke Makes Offers to Norman, Sreenivasan
• Pope Quotes Feyerabend, and Gets in Big Trouble at Leading Italian University
• What Kind of Philosophy Gets in the News? (J. Stanley)
• At this rate, Jerry Fodor will end up as a Poster Boy for the Discovery (sic) Institute!
• Do We Know Our Own Minds?
• Honderich/McGinn Dispute Makes the New York Times!
• Legal Positivists Run the Bristol Zoo!
• Posting Drafts of Papers on the New SSRN-Like Service
• Stanford's Bobonich Declines Rutgers Offer
• "As a profession, is philosophy in a better or worse state than it was in 1997?"
• New Philosophers' Carnival is...
• There's juggling...
• Friday Poem: "Metropolitan Museum (7/22/98)"
• Kant's Critique of Pomobabble
• In Memoriam: Peter Hare (1935-2008)
• New: Oxford Studies in the Philosophy of Law
• In Memoriam: Emmanuel Eze (1963-2007)
• Philosopher of Language Stern to Remain at Chicago, Turning Down Rutgers and Toronto
• A Google Curiosity
• The Woods from Stanford to Indiana
• The 2008 U.S. Presidential Election
• The "Best" of 2007
• Farewell to Hellie and Wilson's "For the Record" Blog!
• Law School
• How is the Eastern APA Going?
• Remembering Some of the Philosophers Who Died During 2007
• "Santa Claus Comes to Wall Street"
• Texas to Consider Licenscing Creationist Institute to Grant Degrees to Science Teachers!
• Politically Correct and Non-Legally Binding Holiday Wishes
• "How the APA Stole Christmas"
• One Flew over the cuckoo's nest? (Edmundson)
• Friday Poem: "A Talk with A. Zagajewski"
• Honderich/McGinn Dispute Makes the Guardian
• Rutgers Makes Offers to Dorr, Moss at Pittsburgh
• Other Resources for Applying to Graduate School
• Death with Shelly Kagan (Edmundson)
• Why Sometimes It's Nice to be Editor of the PGR
• The Duke Lacrosse Case: An Expose of KC Johnson
• "I've looked at brains from both sides now"
• New Philosophy Listserve for North America
• Some Muddled Philosophy of Science Makes the New York Times
• New Philosophers' Carnival is...
• 2007 Winners of Leverhulme Prizes in U.K. Announced
• On Intuitions in Philosophy
• The Pointlessness of Arguing with Most Denizens of the Blogosphere
• Rated "R" for "Metaphysics"
• Philosophy Job Market Wiki
• Ubermunsch Snacks!
• In Memoriam: Peter Lipton (1954-2007)
• Think of the Search for a Job as a "Marathon," Not a "Sprint"
• Advertising on this Blog...Again
• Freeman's Rawls Favorably Reviewed...
• Where Tenure-Track Faculty at the Top 20 U.S. Departments, 2007-08, Earned Their PhDs
• Longuenesse on "Analytic" and "Continental" Philosophy
• WTO Director Recommends Marx to Understand Contemporary Capitalism
• Advice about Submitting Manuscripts to Publishers
• A Favor
• Experimental Philosophy Makes the New York Times
• Immanuel Kant: "Wrong on metaphysics, wrong on ethics, wrong on aesthetics"
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