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Archive for the ‘Job Market’ Category
Two-Year Post Doc
Posted in Job Market on October 19, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Career Advise for Philosophers
Posted in Job Market, News & Notes on September 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Here, compliments of Inside Higher Ed.
Job Opening (Fall 2009)
Posted in Job Market on May 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA, Jacksonville, FL. One-year Visiting Assistant Professor, beginning fall semester 2009. Rank/salary dependent on Ph.D. status. Ph.D. preferred. AOS and AOC open, but the program has teaching needs in gender/race theory, philosophy of science/epistemology, and Asian/comparative philosophy. 8 courses/year (4/semester), undergraduate, possible graduate instruction. The successful candidate will mostly teach lower division [...]
How Can Non-Elite PhD Programs Help Their Students?
Posted in Grad School, Job Market, Teaching Philosophy on January 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Should they encourage them to publish?
(HT: Leiter)
Anonymous Application Dossiers
Posted in General Interest, Grad School, Job Market on January 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
There’s a very interesting discussion at PEA Soup about the possibility of anonymous job applications to avoid, among other things, potential pedigree bias.
Bad Job Market News
Posted in General Interest, Grad School, Job Market, News & Notes on December 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The scoop on the humanities at Inside Higher Ed.
Elon: An Exception to the Rule
Posted in General Interest, Job Market, News & Notes, Teaching Philosophy on December 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Inside Higher Ed has an article about Elon University’s attempts to go against the grain and become less reliant on contingent faculty. Excerpt:
The percentage of faculty members who are off the tenure track keeps going up, and they are quite possibly in the majority in American higher education. Administrators have justified the hiring pattern — [...]
Thinking about Implicit Bias
Posted in General Interest, Grad School, Job Market, News & Notes, Teaching Philosophy on November 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Feminist Philosophers have begun a series of posts on implicit bias and hiring practices. As readers may remember from discussions last year, women are only about twenty percent of philosophers, making philosophy among the worst in the humanities with regard to sex parity. Statistics are similarly dismal for racial and ethnic minorities.
There have been [...]
Upcoming Events and Calls for Papers
Posted in CFPs, Conferences, General Interest, Job Market, News & Notes on December 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A Public Lecture at the University of North Florida
“Freewill and Neuroscience”
Al Mele
Florida State University
Thursday at 7:30 – 9:00 P.M., in Building 50/1202
Skills to Pay the Bills
Posted in General Interest, Job Market, News & Notes on November 21, 2007 | 5 Comments »
That’s right, kids! Philosophy students have skills to pay the bills.
UPDATE 11/24/07: The article linked to above is under discussion here, here and here.
Speaking of Jobs for Philosophers…
Posted in General Interest, Job Market on November 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Readers might like to check out this discussion over at Brian Leiter’s blog about how committees decide who gets interviewed for those jobs.
So, I bet you think there aren’t any jobs for philosophers…
Posted in General Interest, Job Market on November 13, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Although there are other job opportunities, here is an extensive list of open teaching positions in philosophy across the country.
Some Interesting Discussions
Posted in Ethics, General Interest, Job Market, News & Notes, Philosophy of Religion on May 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
…are going on around the blogosphere.
A fresh approach to a burning question at Prosblogion: Gratitude and the Existence of God.
A recent post at the Leiter Reports Group Blog discusses practical issues regarding Area of Specialization and Areas of Competence. Don’t miss this if you are interested in Philosophy careers or are creating your CV.
Also, [...]
Women in Philosophy
Posted in Job Market, News & Notes on May 1, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Brit Brogaard’s discussion of the APA report on the status of women in philosophy is worth a look. Check it out.
- Rico Vitz
Congratulations
Posted in Job Market, News & Notes on March 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
… to two more of my former UC-Riverside colleagues, Matt Talbert on his appointment at West Virginia University, and Jessica Ludescher on her appointment at Seattle University.
- Rico Vitz
Congratulations …
Posted in Job Market, News & Notes on March 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
… to my former UC-Riverside colleagues Dan Speak, on his appointment at Loyola Marymount University, and Josh Rust, on his appointment at Stetson University.
- Rico Vitz
