Month: September 2014
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By: Samir Chopra Rarely, if ever, does the term 'intellectual property' add clarity to any debate of substance–very often, this is because it includes the term 'property' and thus offers an invitation to some dubious theorizing. This post by Alex Rosenberg at Daily Nous is a good example of this claim: Locke famously offered an account of the justification of private…
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By: Eric Winsberg The question is inevitably arising as to whether there is, at present, a phenomenon of internet shaming going on on the various blogs and other social media. I think we should take seriously the concern that there is. That's one thing I like a lot about this post by Simon Cabulea May. He…
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The emergence of republicanism as a major stream in political theory and philosophy, as well as history of political ideas, since I suppose the 1980s, but since the late nineties for political philosophy in the normative Rawlsian style, is a highly welcome phenomenon from my point of view. That does not mean I have no…
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By: Eric Winsberg Here's how students in other disciplines apparently choose a PhD program (h/t Bryce Huebner) http://www.andyfugard.info/choose-a-phd-programme This strikes me as extremely good advice, and in the modern age of the information overload, a perfectly adequate method once a prospective graduate student knows where to start. That suggests to me that…
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by Carolyn Dicey Jennings Over the past three years I have collected and reported on placement data for positions in academic philosophy. (Interested readers can find past posts here at New APPS under the "placement data" category, two of which have been updated with the new data, several posts at ProPhilosophy, or the very first post on placement…
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By: Eric Winsberg The story about Leiter and the PGR is covered in the CHE here. I certainly hope that those who have been putting pressure on Leiter to step down from his Editorship of the PGR will find the remedy he proposes in the article insufficient and will keep up the pressure on him…
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by Carolyn Dicey Jennings The following ideas and arguments were central to my dissertation work, and are now published as an article in Philosophical Studies. I include them below in a much shortened format for those readers short on time, but high on interest (but hopefully not literally). The ultimate claim of this work is that top-down…
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By Catarina Dutilh Novaes Today my research group in Groningen (with the illustrious online participation of Tony Booth, beaming in from the UK) held a seminar session where we discussed Fabienne Peter’s 2013 paper ‘The procedural epistemic value of deliberation’. It is a very interesting paper, which defends the view that deliberation has not only…
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Many of you will have seen the following Facebook update posted by both David Chalmers and Jason Stanley (it’s astonishing how events in the philosophy profession unfold over at Facebook!): Over the past day or so, 24 members of the advisory board of the Philosophical Gourmet Report have signed a letter saying that they value…
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