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User-editable spreadsheet listing philosophy jobs

Brian Leiter

Shaun Wallace, a PhD student in Computer Science at Brown University, asked me to share the following:

We at the Brown HCI research lab built a user-editable spreadsheet containing over 150 current Philosophy faculty job postings. We thought it might be useful for graduate students on the job hunt:

https://drafty.cs.brown.edu/ajobs/#!data?-?2~Philosophy

Anyone can freely edit basic columns; such as subfield, search chair information, deadlines, who is interviewing, etc…

Personal/Private Data: If you SIGN-UP to create an account, you will have access to additional columns to track your status and private notes for each position. Only you can see this information. 😉

Our hope is to expand this system across other fields to better support the broader academic job market. To help connect those on the job hunt to universities by leveraging the efforts of both parties to keep this dataset current and up-to-date. 

Not sure how necessary this is in the era of PhilJobs, but it promises to include some additional information.   Comments/thoughts from readers welcome.

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2 responses to “User-editable spreadsheet listing philosophy jobs”

  1. grad student

    This spreadsheet appears to have broader coverage of adjunct postings than PhilJobs. It also includes postings from confessional schools that are barred from posting on PhilJobs (e.g., Wheaton College).

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  2. Job Market Candidate

    As someone who is actively using PhilJobs, I don't find the Brown Project to be helpful. If anything, it's much less useful. Although as grad student notes it is more comprehensive, it doesn't seem to have a function to ignore those jobs you don't want. The benefits of PhilJobs is that you can save jobs you are interested in and then export them to a spreadsheet. From my perspective, an uneditable spreadsheet seems overwhelming (uneditable in the sense that you can't remove rows, or at least, I don't see this without having to create an account, which I'm not willing to do). Further, having played around with the Brown spreadsheet, there are inconsistencies in how dates are inputted that make its sorting function less than useful (though I think the Brown folks could easily remedy this). The AOS and AOC listings are not that helpful either. It categorizes the jobs into very broad fields (Philosophy) and it only seems to include one subfield (e.g., Bioethics). In reality, most jobs on PhilJobs will include several AOCs as part of the wish list. To get to the actual listings on Brown's spreadsheet, you have to double click the 'link to apply' box, copy the hyperlink, and then paste it into a browser. On PhilJobs, there's simply a page that already contains this information with easy-to-use hyperlinks. Again, you can then create a similar spreadsheet using PhilJobs but it will be customized and more customizable. The only other 'plus' to the Brown spreadsheet is that it allows for crowdsourcing about whether interviews have been scheduled (at least, I think this is what "Who is Interviewing" means). But, the Philosopher's Cocoon already has a page dedicated to job-market updates, and I think the Cocoon is more useful since elaboration on the nature of the interview is easier in a comment (e.g., whether it has moved on from Skype to fly outs).

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