Five Secrets to Publishing Success

Here’s a nice article by Thom Brooks with tips on publishing.
(HT: Leiter)

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Cognitive Neuroscience, Moral Psychology and Psychopathology

Interesting stuff right here.

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Whatever Makes a Person Human Seemed Somehow Missing*

JJ at Feminist Philosophers posted a recent case of a child who appears to have had little social contact for the first five or six years of her life. As JJ notes, feral children, while thankfully rare, are interesting to theorists for a variety of reasons. Questions about the nature of language, human capacity for [...]

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Achieving a Philosophical Etiquette

In November of last year I shelled out lots money and put an extensive amount of effort into attending the Society for Phenomenology and Existentialist Philosophy’s annual conference in Chicago. Eventually I made it and found myself listening to both good and bad papers, drinking many a cup of coffee from Cafe Descartes (their motto [...]

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Does Balderdash Remain Constant in the Universe?

Perhaps!
(See 59:00, give or take a few seconds.)

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Evolution, the Environment, and Responsible Knowledge…

is the subject of an upcoming conference hosted by The University of Central Florida Department of Philosophy, the QEP for Information Fluency, the UCF Office of Student Rights and Responsibilities, and AAC&U’s Core Commitments Grant.

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CFP: Metaphysics of Everyday Life

Themes from the work of Lynne Rudder Baker.
A Graduate Student Philosophy Conference
Keynote Address: Lynne Rudder Baker (U-Mass)
Friday April 24, 2009
University at Buffalo
Call for Papers
In her 2007 release, The Metaphysics of Everyday Life: An Essay on Practical Realism, Baker states, “Reality comprises everything there is. It is not the province solely of specialists, but is well [...]

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On Parliamentary Procedure

Liberty is the ability to do what I want, when I want, without interference, in order that some good may be accomplished. Politics is the interaction with others in an attempt to influence the outcome of events. A large part of political activity takes place in local deliberative meetings where public policy is decided.
Parliamentary procedures [...]

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Philosophy and… Porn?

Have you ever wondered how one could use the philosophies of Arthur Schopenhauer beyond the use as a topic of an essay? Well a gay-male porn company apparently has found an interesting use!

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Problem with Zarathustra

I was reading Thus spoke Zarathustra, and I am trying to understand what Nietzsche is trying to say in the entry called, On Reading and Writing, where Zarathustra says, “I would believe only in a god who could dance.”
Anybody have any thoughts?

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Standards of Philosophical Excellence

A reader recently submitted the following question for other FSPB readers:
Recent discussion at the Splintered Mind about PhD application and admittance made me go over a question that’s been on my mind for a while. I have been a student at one fairly prestigious regional university and one less prestigious university. As a student, I [...]

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ya tusahyatekhwahlakhwa tslatok^hti tslata•sé•

And you thought translating German was hard!
According to this article, the title of this post is a single Oneida word that means, “the two of them went around to the other side of the altar again.”
The word is formed, according to linguist Cliff Abbot, by “add[ing] nine prefixes to the simple root verb “-tase-“, which [...]

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Women Philosophers Update

A while back, I interviewed Professor Emerita Kate Lindemann about the website women-philosophers.com.
Professor Lindemann has added many new women philosophers to the website since that time and I encourage you to check out all the interesting information on the site.
There is also information about how to incorporate the work of women philosophers into your courses. [...]

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Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession

Those who followed and/or participated in our discussion on UF’s threatened PhD in Philosophy and the current budget cuts colleges and universities are facing might also be interested in looking at the highlights of the AAUP Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession.
(Warning: It’s not good news.)
(Many thanks to Feminist Philosophers.)

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Couldn’t pass this up

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0508/10649.html
Excerpts from McClellan’s upcoming book which are highly critical (though not uniquely so) of the current White House and the President (Bush) in particular.  These excerpts were “leaked” today (May 27) to the media.
http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/FedCrimes/story?id=4941724
“Intelligence” and “law enforcement sources” made it a point to “inform” ABC news today (May 27) that they are “expecting” Al Qaeda [...]

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Very Cool

Via Richard Brown, I’ve learned that MIT’s Department of Linguistics and Philosophy has made its courses available online right here. You can check out lecture notes, practice tests and homework.

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Muslim Girls reach out

Here is a good link for educators who want to help shape a global understanding of religion and cultural diversity and who are looking for new tools.
The magazine is clever, hot, fun, and contemporary. It is targeted for college age young female adults. You can get it free at:
http://www.muslimgirlworld.com/mgmag/2class.cfm

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No Elimination of UF’s Ph.D. … Yet

This observation just in from Sabrina Jamil:
Not sure how many are aware, but a revised version of the proposal has passed.
Although the Ph.D. program was not eliminated, admissions to the program are frozen until at least 2012. There is a 60 day window for additional changes to be made. More from the Gainesville Sun here:
http://www.gainesville.com/article/20080514/NEWS/383568383/1002/NEWS/UF_trustees_approve_budget_cuts_with_revisions_
This [...]

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The 69th Philosophers’ Carnival

…is here.
~Q

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UF President Machen calls for a new university budget that eliminates the PhD program in philosophy

President Bernie Machen has proposed that UF’s Ph.D program in philosophy be eliminated (along with Ph.D program in Romance Languages and Literatures with concentration in French and Ph.D. program in German) to help balance the university’s budget. Here is the same information presented in .pdf format; the relevant information is on page 7.
UPDATE (Vitz, 05/06/08): [...]

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Opting Out of Gen Ed Math?

Should an introductory logic course satisfy a college’s or university’s general education math requirement? A reader wants to know:
I have a two-part question for the blog readership:
1. Are there any colleges or universities in Florida that will permit an Introduction to Logic course to satisfy part of their math Gen Ed requirements? My understanding from [...]

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3rd Annual Undergraduate Philosophy Conference

at
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Keynote Speaker:
Professor Susan Bordo
Otis A. Singletary Chair in the Humanities
University of Kentucky
Author of the Pulitzer Prize nominated book Unbearable Weight
Call for Papers

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A Word to the Wise, Kids

Read the secondary lit.

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Students Bring Razor Blade Laced Muffins to Philosophy Class

I know it sounds absurd, but…well, it’s supposed to be.
(HT: PJMB)

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Sweet Deal

Via the wonderful SWIP-L list, I’m informed of a new collection of essays called Global Ethics: Seminal Essays (Eds. Pogge and Horton). Here’s a blurb from the publisher:
In recent decades, there has been an explosion of interest in global ethics — the study of ethical issues with significant global dimensions. This book, a companion volume [...]

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