Complement with Ruefle on why we read and her stunning color spectrum of sadness, then revisit Ursula K. Le Guin’s “Hymn to Time” and physicist Brian Greene’s Rilkean reflection on filling our finitude with meaning. If, as they say, poetry…
How many tenure track positions in philosophy were advertised during the 2020-2021 job market season? Related: Much Fewer Academic Philosophy Jobs Advertised This Season Second, according to a report from Marcus Arvan (Tampa), who regularly tracks this information, there were just…
“Google’s conduct would not have misled all reasonable users in the classes identified; but Google’s conduct misled or was likely to mislead some reasonable users within the particular classes identified,” he ruled. Angela Lang/CNET Subscribe to CNET Now for the…
Relatedly, Nathan Ballantyne (Fordham), in his continued look into the history of the APA, recently came across statements from the organization’s Board of Officers from 40 years ago about the job prospects for new PhDs in philosophy. The 1979 statement,…
Kay Rosen, “Echoes” A study of papers published in academic science journals on the topic of “cave science” found that “papers containing higher proportions of jargon in their titles and abstracts were cited less frequently by other researchers.” If we…
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St. Olaf College is home to the Howard and Edna Hong Kierkegaard Library. [Portrait of Soren Kierkegaard by Fabrizio Cassetta/LAUTIR] “We are thrilled to know our resources for teaching Christian philosophy, as well as 19th-century continental philosophy (including critics of…
At the peak of the meme’s popularity near the tail end of 2013, Palmer, an Australian marketer for one of the world’s largest tech companies, made a joke combining two of the internet’s most talked-about topics: cryptocurrency and Doge. It…
The remedy, of course, is not to bend the reality of an impartial universe to our will. The remedy is to calibrate our expectations — a remedy that might feel far too pragmatic to be within reach in the heat…
He died two weeks ago. (via David Braun) Professor Gettier had interests in philosophy of language, metaphysics, and logic, but was known for his work in epistemology—famously, for his 3-page article, “Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?“, published in 1963 in Analysis.…
