The University of Toronto’s Centre for Ethics invites applications for its Visiting Faculty Fellowships. For the academic year 2010-11, two fellowships will be awarded to outstanding scholars and teachers interested in writing and conducting research about ethics during a year in residence at the University […] Read More
Feminism, Science, and Values June 25-28, 2010 The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada In June 2010, the International Association of Women Philosophers (http://www.iaph-philo.org/ ) will be meeting at The University of Western Ontario. This will be the organization's first meeting in Canada and […] Read More
Dear all: We have posted the ad below for a senior ethics and political philosophy job at the University of Toronto in the JFP. Since we'll start looking at applications before the print version of the JFP is out, I wanted to call your attention […] Read More
BBC has estimated that, in the UK, about 85.000 women were raped in the year 2006. In the US, during the same year, 92.455 rapes were reported to law-enforcement officers and we know that there were far more unreported cases than that. These sorts of numbers support […] Read More
The new better alternative to the philosophy journals wiki is here at http://www.andrewcullison.com/journal-surveys/. It's brought to you by Andrew Cullinson, who has done a fantastic job putting this together. I encourage you all to make good use of it and to help get the word […] Read More
In my recent thinking about the ethics of suicide, I've been compelled to confront a methodological issue in practical ethics that I'd not really given much thought to before now. (Nor, as best I can tell, have other ethicists thought much about the issue either.) […] Read More
We've all had our own horrible experiences with journals — long delays, sloppy or uncharitable referee reports, apparently hasty or otherwise defective decisions, etc. You can share yours here and achieve catharsis! Or if you're well adjusted, you could just share for sharing's sake. Anyway, […] Read More
The Philosophy of Religion Group is issuing a call for papers for its session at the 2010 American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting on the topic of Religious Toleration.
The following comment, from an anonymous NEH reviewer, was posted over at IHE due to some (length-related?) problem with posting it here. It is worth reading.