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Women in Philosophy Behaving Badly? Or Madly?

...that eventually it will all be alright, many women find good—but not always so good—reasons to remain within its fold. What we have learned, though, is that the taint of...

Anti-Nuclear Anti-Colonial Feminism

...forgotten. Luckily for the industry, this erasure is relatively easy in a world that disqualifies such womxn from epistemic credibility. The view that nuclear is best for the common good...

Linguistic Justice and Neoliberalism in Academia

...of their demands is: “To evaluate, as a rule, publications, presentations, proposals and submissions without giving undue weight to their authors’ linguistic style, fluency or accent.” Common sense would support...

“The Writing Workshop”: Increasing Representation in Philosophy

...and there is a correlation between publication and tenure rates, there is good reason to strategize how to improve women publication rates in top philosophy journals. It is unclear whether...

Why Location Matters When Choosing A Graduate School

When deciding where to go to graduate school, it is common to think of a state’s politics as tangential. You may take issue with those politics on principle, but if...

Reports from Abroad: Dr. Hsiang-Yun Chen

...several classic problems over intentionality are intimately connected and that anaphoric resolution is at the heart of their common solution. I’ve also worked on linguistic forms that presumably express the...

Think What Academia Does to People: Beauvoir contra Precarity

A current practice in academia is the use of casual or fixed term work. Non-tenure track teaching positions are one example. Research also takes the shape of fixed term projects,...

Reports from Abroad: Professor Peter Adamson

...I really enjoyed my years at King’s and still have a fond and close relationship with the philosophers there. But I did have good family reasons for moving to Germany,...

Prudent Reserve in Academic Administration

...committing a bad act for the sake of a very great good. [iv] Tenure was developed to ensure academic freedom for faculty. There is a good reason the job protections...

APA Blog: Ricardo Friaz

...problems they are facing and need support with. If you are tenure-track faculty, unionize or join your union, and recognize that the struggles of your non-tenure-track coworkers are your struggles...