July 2026
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New APA Job Market Mentoring Program accepting applications
Philosopher Amy Berg, Chair of the relevant APA Committee, kindly calls to my attention this new program (more details here), which should be helpful to philosophy job seekers this coming year. Kudos to Professor Berg and the APA for this initiative.
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An open letter calling for disclosures of conflicts of interest in publications by philosophers
I was pleased to be asked to sign this well-done letter by philosophers of science Craig Callender (UC San Diego) and Cailin O’Connor (UC Irvine), which is now public and taking signatures from any interested philosophers. From the letter: In recent years, philosophical writing on areas such as climate change, technology, misinformation, and artificial intelligence…
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On friendship (and Chomsky and Epstein)
Philosopher Peter Ludlow comments.
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A fitting July 4th essay for an America in which that malevolent buffoon is still President
Here (the full essay is behind a paywall, alas–but here are some excerpts).
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U of Tennessee pays $1.9 million to assistant professor wrongfully fired…
…for exercising her First Amendment rights after the murder of Charlie Kirk. She did not, however, get her job back, but my guess she will walk away with more than one million of the settlement. Hopefully these kinds of payouts will teach spineless administrators something the next time the exercise of First Amendment rights offends…
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If there is really a budget crisis at Exeter, why are all the cuts coming from humanities and social science?
A propos this earlier post, another Exeter faculty member asks, [W]hy, even if they need to make savings, are these overwhelmingly concentrated on humanities and social sciences? 85% of all staff placed at risk of redundancy (445 out of 523 FTE) are based in HASS (humanities and social sciences). That amounts to a 30% cut…
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A video of the 2026 Schock Prize symposium with the laureate lecture by Bas van Fraassen…
….as well as remarks by the four commentators: Hans Halvorson, James Ladyman, Michela Massimi, and Kyle Stanford.
On reviewing this thread I realize there is a deeper point that is usually missed. Consider the behavior of a…