The Ethics of Gauging PhD Applicants’ Interest Before Offering Admission or Financial Support
Here's one way philosophy PhD admissions could go: Your program offers admissions to the N top-rated applicants, figuring that X% will accept. If the...
Tweeting Philosophy: Interview with TrueSciPhi’s Kelly Truelove
Kelly Truelove is a technologist with a Ph.D. in physics and long-running interests in philosophy and online communities. On TrueSciPhi.org, he publishes lists and analytics...
Philosophical Fiction: Interview with Helen de Cruz
Helen De Cruz is a senior lecturer (associate professor) in philosophy at Oxford Brookes University. She is co-author of A natural history of natural theology (MIT...
Short Story Competition: Philosophy Through Fiction
We are inviting submissions for the short story competition “Philosophy Through Fiction”, organized by Helen De Cruz (Oxford Brookes University), with editorial board members...
Philosophers on the (Green) Market
A slight, gray-haired woman walked up to the table, smiled, and got straight to business. She took out a piece of paper on which...
What Institutions, Departments, and Individuals Can Do to Help Adjuncts
Part Three of a Three-part Series on Adjunct Teaching and Student Learning (Part 1 / Part 2)
Here a few things we can do—some at very...
How Philosophy Neglects Its Most Vulnerable Students
Part Two of a Three-part Series on Adjunct Teaching and Student Learning (Part 1)
There are two academias, and our discipline is focused on the wrong...
Climate Change and Individual Responsibility
Few dispute that scientists have physically measured an average increase in global average surface temperature of “0.85°C…between 1880 and 2012”. The best hypothesis to explain...
Ten Rules of Thumb for Op-Ed Writing
As a former philosophy professor turned journalist, I have firsthand experience of both academia and the news industry, and the unwritten rules that govern...
Teaching Between (In)Justice and Care
Part One of a Three-part Series on Adjunct Teaching and Student Learning
Take your job. Teach your usual course load and maintain your research program. Add...