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I’ll be at Princeton next Tuesday to give a public lecture on academic freedom…
…thanks to a kind invitation from the philosophy majors. Hope to see some readers there. I got my BA in philosophy from Princeton in 1984, and the only faculty member I had a class with who remains is Mark Johnston (he had just started in Spring 1984, and was quite tolerant of my irresponsibly missing…
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Empedocles finally publishes something new!
Well, not exactly, but an old manuscript has been newly discovered. (Thanks to Peter Kail for the pointer.)
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Declining Admissions Offers in a Timely Way
MOVING TO FRONT, SINCE RELEVANT AGAIN (originally posted 2011) ============================================ Keith DeRose (Yale) writes: Since prospective graduate students read your blog for information and advice on applying to graduate programs, I was wondering whether it might be a good idea for you to run a short post on an important way that applicants can help…
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Deciding Between Admissions Offers: The Importance of Visiting/Talking With Current Students
MOVING TO FRONT FROM LAST YEAR (SINCE TIMELY AGAIN–originally posted March 6, 2009) Applicants to PhD and MA programs are now receiving offers of admission and, if they are lucky, are beginning to weigh choices between different departments. I want to reiterate a point made in the PGR, namely, that students are well-advised to talk to current students at…
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A note about memorial notices
MOVING TO FRONT FROM FEBRUARY, 2025 AS A REMINDER ABOUT THE NEW POLICY I have never tried to post memorial notices for all the many teachers of philosophy who die in a given year (I just do not have the time for that). I have tried to limit memorial notices to those who are…
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Martha Nussbaum talks about “opera and democracy”…
…the subject of her new book.
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Information on the European job market in philosophy?
MOVING TO FRONT FROM APRIL 2025–STILL HIGHLY RELEVANT, FOR THE OBVIOUS REASONS A philosophy PhD student, concerned about the political situation in the US, writes: “My questions about the European market are pretty basic: I’d want to know where jobs/post-docs are posted, whether there is any discernable hiring season, if the materials that European applications…
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Klenk from Delft to UTN
Michael Klenk (metaethics, normative ethics, ethics of technology), Assistant Professor of Philosophy at TU Delft, has accepted appointment as Professor of Practical Philosophy at the University of Technology Nuremberg (UTN), effective April 2026. (UTN is the first newly founded public university in Bavaria since 1978 and aims to integrate the liberal arts and social sciences…
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“Pink slime” fake news websites: a case study of the right-wing propaganda machine
The ideologists of the right never rest, and one of their tools is to dress up propaganda and lies as “news.” This expose is very illuminating.
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Philosophy of AI explained…
…at the “Explaining AI” podcast, relying on a paper by two philosophers (which is now forthcoming in Philosophical Studies).
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Habermas on the “Axial age”
I was intrigued by this review by Andrew Buchwalter of volume 3 of Habermas’s huge history of philosophy. In particular, I was struck by Professor Buchwalter’s description of Habermas’s discussion of the so-called “Axial Age”: Occurring in the period between 800 and 200 BCE, the Axial Age reflected the ascendance of the major world religions,…
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In Memoriam: Malcolm Budd (1941-2026)
Professor Budd, who was the emeritus Grote Professor at University College London, was best-known for his work in aesthetics, but had wide-ranging philosophical interests, ranging from philosophy of mind to Nietzsche and Wittgenstein. There is a bit more about his work and career at the British Academy page. I never met Professor Budd, but was…
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Today in Trump’s violations of international law and human rights
What they’re doing to Cuba and its people probably qualifies.
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Korsgaard’s 2022 Dewey Lecture now available…
…at the APA website.
I respond to this report here https://jasonstanleyantifascist.substack.com/p/on-the-philosophical-muddle-that