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Obviously what’s changed in the meantime is how much this has become a buyer’s market (and thus, an arms race…
I have done this (used the writing sample as the job talk material) as a junior candidate in the Uk,…
I did it both ways: job talk/job paper, job talk/not job paper. Got offers when the job talk was the…
Palazzo Massimo alle Terme. The garden frescoes from the villa belonging to Livia (wife of emperor Augustus) are a miracle,…
I am on the hiring side of things. I think the inverse argument holds as well–if the candidate has a…
Capuchin Crypt: A crypt decorated with the bones of 3,000+ Capuchin friars. So metal.
It seems to me one can say the readiness potential or this or that antecedent correlated brain signature is not…
Professor Wainwright, a leading contributor to philosophy of religion over the last half-century, was emeritus in philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, where he spent most of his career. There is a brief memorial notice from the UWM department here, which links to an obituary.
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