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More Photos of Philosophers by Steve Pyke

I see he has now many of the new ones on-line. They'll be out in book form from OUP in a few months.

What will this year's job market be like?

We'll have more concrete evidence soon, since we're a month or so away from the October JFP. I have no special "inside" information, just accumulated anecdotal evidence. My best guess is that we will see more jobs this year than...

Barack Obama: Friend of Torture

More change we can believe in.

More New Philosophy Books

Some recent books that publishers and/or authors kindly sent me: After Herder: Philosophy of Language in the German Tradition by Michael N. Forster (Oxford University Press, 2010). (This is a very important collection, that anyone working in German philosophy of...

Any philosophy students (undergraduate or graduate) thinking about law school...

...or JD/PhDs will be interested in this. Shoot me an e-mail if you have additional questions.

Philosopher of Religion Keith Parsons Calls It Quits

This is striking: Over the past ten years I have published, in one venue or another, about twenty things on the philosophy of religion. I have a book on the subject, God and Burden of Proof, and another criticizing Christian...

Philosophy Calls for Papers and Conference Announcements

If you're not familiar with this useful site, check it out.

Labor Day in the United States

This holiday has become increasingly ironic in the plutocratic United States. Ralph Nader has a decent essay to mark the occasion.

Whatever happened to "Dadahead"?

I ask periodically, but still don't know. Such a wickedly funny blog! Where else could one go for the wild "Republicans are Perverts," or lovely excoriations of "Insta-Ignorance", Michelle Malkin, James Taranto, and other miscellaneous "right-wing crazies"? Dadahead, come back!

Memorial Conferences in Honor of Paul Hoffman (UC Riverside) and Nelson Pike (UC Irvine)

John Martin Fischer (UC Riverside) writes: We will have a memorial conference in honor of Paul Hoffman on Friday, December 10 at UC Riverside. The main speakers will be Jennifer Whiting (Toronto) and Robert Adams (UNC, Chapel Hill). The public...