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.
Workshop: "Naturalism: Ethical and Metaphysical"University of LeedsSeptember 18-19, 2009 This workshop brings together researchers interested in issues concerning naturalism in moral philosophy and in metaphysics and epistemology. Registration for the workshop is now open. More details about the workshop and registration can be found at: […] Read More
Once again the NEH has announced the “Enduring Questions” grant competition: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/EnduringQuestions.html The announcement raises many troubling questions.