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  1. Abdul Ansari's avatar

    I am shell shocked. Dale was an exemplary and creative moral philosophy, rigorously engaged with the most foundational issues across…

  2. David Wallace's avatar

    This is sharply at variance with my understanding of the situation. The general consensus for some while has been that…

  3. David W Shoemaker's avatar

    This is shocking and tragic news. I’ve known Dale since we tried to hire him at Bowling Green State way…

  4. Dan Dennis's avatar

    On the plus side, advances are being made in missile defence – including in laser technology (‘star wars’) – which…

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    Yes, Ellsberg’s experience was in the 50s and 60s. I don’t know enough about these issues to have anything meaningful…

  7. Mark's avatar

    I haven’t read The Doomsday Machine, but wasn’t Ellsberg’s experience in the 50s and 60s? When Eisenhower was writing pre-delegation…

Site for Sharing Information About Philosophy Job Market (Leiter)

Here.  I can not vouch for the reliability of the information on this site, though it appears it may be run by the Chronicle of Higher Education.  But like any "wiki" site, information is posted anonymously, so it is hard to know whether it is reliable or not.  On the off chance that it does have some valuable information, I supply a link.  (Thanks to Professor Christian Perring at Dowling College for calling it to my attention.)

UPDATE:  A philosopher on the job market writes:

Don’t know if I’m the first to point this out, but the APA interview wiki is not run by the Chronicle, but grew out of discussions that took place on the "Chronicle Forum" (which is basically a chat room where you can post comments and questions about anything related to higher education).  About this time of the year last year, dozens (if not hundreds) of academics used to post questions on the Chronicle Forum asking "has anyone heard if school X has contacted its candidates for the MLA, APA, AHA, etc."  Someone finally got the bright idea to create a wiki for all the various academic disciplines so people could self-report any schools that had contacted them for interviews (and not just for APA, but of course for all the academic disciplines).  Don’t know who the brave soul was who took the time to do it, but it started last year and was restarted again this year approximatley 3 or 4 weeks ago.

As you correctly note, the information is all self-reported, so it has no "official status," and according to posts on the Chronicle Forum, the wikis for some disciplines may have been hacked.  But as far as I can tell from this year’s ancient philosophy positions (I’m on the market and have a pretty good grape vine from other ancient people), the list is quite accurate.

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