Leiter Reports has a page up for posting junior philosophy hires.We at University of Missouri – St. Louis hired John Brunero, a graduate of Columbia who works in ethics and political philosophy.My alma mater, History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, placed 10 candidates out of 10. …
R. Frigg and S. Hartmann, Models in Science, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, (Spring 2006 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), forthcoming URL =https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2006/entries/models-science/>.The Stanford Encyclopedia Entry on scientific modeling is out (since February 27, 2006). The authors are among the organizers of the upcoming conference on Models and Simulations. I expect …
Experimental philosophy is a recent philosophical movement. In spite of the name, its proponents do not attempt to do philosophy by conducting experiments. Strictly speaking, they don’t conduct experiments at all (at least in the literature I’ve read).They conduct surveys, however, in which they ask for subjects’ opinions on a …
Since Slate published an article on so called “experimental philosophy,” the debate on it has escalated in the blogosphere. Good ways into the discussion are here and here. Hopefully I’ll post something on it soon.
A. Brook and K. Akins, eds., Cognition and the Brain: The Philosophy and Neuroscience Movement, Cambridge, CUP, 2005.A collection of articles by a group of good philosophers of neuroscience, on a wide range of topics (theory in neuroscience, representation, “visuomotor transformation,” color, consciousness). Should be of interest to most philosophers …
Several people asked me what the good philosophy journals are. I can’t say about all areas of philosophy, but I have compiled an informal and provisional ranking based on Leiter’s ranking plus commentaries that were posted on his website in the past. It contains journals that publish in philosophy of …
In a previous post, I wrote some observations on the philosophy job market. I wish to thank the many people who posted insightful comments (some of them here) and questions. A few clarifications might help. As I said before, these are rough generalizations. Every department is different, every committee is …
