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I would note that there are a lot of structural reasons why senior staff might produce less research than people…
There is a slippery inference from the premise that we have struggled to converge on important philosophical truths to the…
I can corroborate Jason’s remarks about the UW System’s implementation of post-tenure review. In part because I was a participant…
The Wisconsin legislature made UW system implement post-tenure (5-year) reviews several years ago. The statutory requirements were fed into the…
Sorry, this may be a bit off topic, but if done well, I would really welcome some equivalent of a…
Isn’t one of the problems in this interesting converation how we define “philosophy”? Is philosophy just what is taught and…
I don’t think I misread the paper. Its lament is clear. (It’s a good paper, in style and substance, even…
This is a fairly compact summary on themes covered by Professor Saul and others at the Feminist Philosophers blog and in other writings. My sense is that sexual harassment, which seems to still be far more common in philosophy than, say, academic law, has a lot to do with it. The APA really ought to take a leadership role on this issue and there are some indications that it may before too long.
(Thanks to Jean Kazez for the pointer.)
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