Given the recent guest post on this issue, some of us thought it appropriate to post a link to this statement, written by three APA members with disabilities, on the APA’s practices with regard to members with disabilities.    I (and the other bloggers I have communicated with) take no stand on this, and merely pass…

No. No.  Not THAT controversy.   I just got back from a meeting at the insanely cool Carnegie Observatory in Pasadena, California (Hubble's old digs) with Wendy Parker, Paul Humphreys, James Ladyman, and  many extremely interesting and engaging astronomers.   (Barry Madore and Wendy Freedman were our hosts, and Stacy McGaugh, Bill Saslaw, Alar Toomre…

Unfortunately various pressures on my time, including the flow of news about the struggle with the government block on Twitter in Turkey, led me to miss Catherine Dutilh Novaes very useful post The night twitter went down, and miss the opportunity to comment in a timely manner. As I am in Istanbul, teaching at Istanbul…

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…