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    • Horseshoes, Hand Grenades, and the APA’s “Code of Conduct”

      by Edward Kazarian and Leigh M. Johnson A little over two years ago, more than 600 philosophers petitioned the American Philosophical Association to “produce a code of conduct and a statement of professional ethics for the academic discipline of Philosophy.” The immediate motivation for the petition was several high-profile cases of sexual misconduct by philosophers,…

    • On the APA’s method for anonymizing papers for review

      I'm not sure that the APA has this right. The APA guidelines for submitting papers state: All papers are anonymously reviewed. Author's name, institution, or references pertaining to the identity of the author must be removed from the paper, abstract, notes, and bibliography. Papers containing such identifying references may be rejected. There are at least…

    • CFP: Conference on Diversity in Philosophy

      Over at Feminist Philosophers, they've posted the CFP for a conference on Diversity in Philosophy that, I'm proud to say, is being hosted and co-sposored by my alma mater, Villanova University, along with Hypatia and the APA's Committee for the Status of Women.   The conference will be held at Villanova on May 28-30, 2015 and the deadline…

    • cool search field on PhilJobs

      In the discussion at the phil smoker on the philjobs appointments page a lot of interesting issues are raised, including: whether one should put one's adjuncting jobs on it, how post docs seemed to only be available to people from the most prestigious schools, the extent to which one can infer affirmative action from the…

    • Thanks for having me!

      By Amy Ferrer, APA Executive Director Having now reached the end of my week as a guest blogger here at NewAPPS, I must thank the NewAPPS team for the opportunity, and again, in particular, John Protevi and Eric Winsberg. Thanks as well to my co-authors, Peggy DesAutels and John Heil, for joining me as co-authors.…

    • Funding for diversity—How can we do more?

       By Amy Ferrer, APA Executive Director The APA has a longstanding commitment to support—financially and otherwise—efforts to make philosophy more diverse and inclusive. For a number of years the APA has provided small grants through our annual $25,000 grant fund (supported by the Eastern Division), many to programs focusing on diversity: NYSWIP, the California Roundtable…

    • Diversity, publishing, and the Journal of the APA

      By Amy Ferrer, APA Executive Director, and John Heil, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the APA No doubt you’ve heard, over the last year or so, about the impending launch of the new Journal of the American Philosophical Association. With the editorial board having been announced earlier this month, the journal is now a living,…

    • Site Visit Program: A Needed Service to the Profession

      By Amy Ferrer, APA Executive Director, and Peggy DesAutels, Site Visit Program Director Since the report of the site visit to the University of Colorado Boulder went public, there has been quite a bit of discussion about the site visit program, how it works, what its reports are meant to do, and so on. In authoring…

    • Important Feminist Philosophers post on Colorado

      Many of the issues discussed on our thread are carefully addressed there. Link.

    • University of Colorado Boulder Chancellor replaces chair, suspends grad admissions, and makes other moves to ensure new culture for Philosophy Department after APA report finds sexual harassment and discrimination

      Chancellor's announcement: Earlier today, the campus announced that Professor Andy Cowell will head our philosophy department at CU-Boulder. Professor Cowell is a professor of French literature and a former chair of two departments, French and Italian and linguistics. This change was made to improve the climate in philosophy for our faculty, staff and students and, specifically,…