The following is a guest post by Amy Ferrer, APA Executive Director When I wrote a blog post on diversity issues more than a year ago during my guest series on Leiter Reports, I said the following: Perhaps the most powerful tool we have to increase diversity in philosophy is data collection: there are many…

The following is a guest post by Amy Ferrer, APA Exectutive Director   Before putting up my first substantive post later today, I want to take a moment to thank the folks at NewAPPS for having me, and especially John Protevi and Eric Winsberg, who will be moderating comments and working with me along the…

Starting this Monday, and probably going all next week, Amy Ferrer, the executive director of the APA, will be doing a series of guest posts here on NewAPPS.   She will be talking about the site visit program, about the new APA journal, and about the APA's diversity funding efforts.  She will also try to…

So this claims.   I have no insight into whether he is exaggerating the importance of the recent decision, but its an interesting claim.   I, for one, would probably welcome the outcome–though the consquences of these things are hard to predict.

For those of you who don't follow these sorts of things, there was a major announcement today in Physics/Cosmology.   The "BICEP2" group claims to have found (signs of) gravitational waves in the cosmic background microwave radiation.   This could give us a window into what happened in the very ealiest moments after the big…

While Neil deGrasse Tyson tries (probably in vain) to renew the nation's interest in space exploration, all the recent action in space seems to involve commercial ventures.    Is it time then, to start thinking about private property rights in space?  Interesting discussion of it here .      

Henceforth, we will have a new commeting policy here at New APPS.  The default setting for the blog will now be that comments will have to be approved by the author of the blog post before they appear on the blog.  In other words, the author of each individual post will be responsible for pre-moderating…

In comments here at Schliesser's blog. Follow up comments should be directed there.

NBC Chicago article here: Northwestern University professor Peter Ludlow, the target of a sexual harassment complaint by a female student, filed a response to that woman’s lawsuit in Cook County Court on Friday, denying her allegations and stating that she was the real aggressor.  Daily Northwestern article here: Philosophy Prof. Peter Ludlow responded Friday to a…

With all the stories in the news lately about bitcoins, and with our recent discussions of the role of central banks in creating money, I thought I would post two recent articles/blog posts that I think provide a good analysis of the present situation as well as some good proposals for what the future of…