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Should Departments Be Required to Rent "Suites" at the APA Hotel for Interview Purposes?

Deborah Mayo (Virginia Tech) writes: Am I the only female who thinks it silly in 2010 to force departments to pay many hundreds of dollars (coming right out of our budget) to exclude a certain piece of furniture in the...

Switching from Quarters to Semesters: More or Less Work?

Philosopher Michael Cholbi (Cal State-Pomona) is soliciting opinions and taking a poll.

Alternative Options and "Back-Up Plans" for Philosophy PhD Students Facing a Very Bad Job Market

In the earlier thread on the job market, a couple of commenters asked for a separate discussion of options that PhD students might consider as they confront a job market that may be unusually austere. I am opening comments here...

In Memoriam: Margaret Osler (1942-2010)

A well-known scholar of the history and philosophy of science, Professor Osler spent most of her career at the University of Calgary. The Calgary memorial notice is here. (Thanks to Richard Zach for the pointer.)

"Conservativism and Counterrevolution"

This is an instructive essay by political theorist Corey Robin (Brooklyn College/CUNY Grad Center) that puts contemporary American conservativism and its pathologies and peculiarities in some intellectual-historical context: Download Raritan essay It appears in the summer 2010 issue of Raritan;...

Another new philosophy blog...

...from the grad students at Colorado/Boulder.

"Marty Peretz's Emptiness and the Corruption of Harvard"

Another well-deserved "whack," this time from the political theorist Alan Gilbert (Denver).

Philosophers (and others) on logic

A nice collection of quotations, courtesy of David Marans (St. Thomas/Miami).

A Short Intellectual Biography of G.A. Cohen

By a longtime Oxford colleague, Michael Rosen (now at Harvard), presented at a recent memorial conference at Columbia University. It's a good read, and illuminating also for its capsule history of Marxist thought. Rosen makes a particularly useful point, I...

NPR Has a New Academic Blog, "Cosmos and Culture"...

...that includes philosopher Alva Noe (CUNY Grad Center).