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A Seminar with Simon Critchley | July 15-24, 2010The return to religion has become perhaps the dominant cliché of contemporary theory. Of course, theory often offers nothing more than an exaggerated echo of what is happening in reality, a political reality dominated by the fact of religious war. Somehow we seem to have pass (Read More)
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of little practices in philosophy departments that, well, if not exactly stink, then are definitely off.The prize may go to the department that keeps a web calendar named after urinals you might have seen in Paris, le pissoir.**Can you top that? Get even close? If so, please let us know! ** Many thanks to someone who mi (Read More)
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Slavoj Zizek “The Uses and Misuses of Violence” LectureDate: Tuesday, November 17, 2009Time: 7:30 pm to 9:30 pmLocation: Nunemaker Auditorium, Monroe HallSlavoj Zizek is a professor at the Institute for Sociology, Ljubljana and at the European Graduate School EGS who uses popular culture to explain the theory of Jacques Lac (Read More)
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Rupert Dickinson was, he says, sacked for his Green beliefs. Today’s Guardian reports thatIn today’s ruling, Mr Justice Michael Burton decided that: “A belief in man-made climate change, and the alleged resulting moral imperatives, is capable if genuinely held, of being a philosophical belief for the purpose of the 2003 Rel (Read More)
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it’s pretty great to see feminists getting awards! Please help if you can!——————————-The Philosophy of Science Association Women’s Caucus plans to offer a prize biennially for the best published book, article, or book chapter, in English, in the area of feminist philosophy of science. Nominations, including self-nominatio (Read More)
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Louis Althusser (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). (Read More)
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Brian Leiter writes:
Rae Langton (MIT) calls my attention to the detailed report compiled by the Australasian Association of Philosophy. Surely the American Philosophical Association could manage something similar.
I really do think there’s a lot of great momentum building around these issues right now.
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Professor Manners is reprinting a column of hers below. It is topical in this season of job seeking, but her primary motive this time is not to address those looking for employment. Rather, she has been concerned about the extensive discussion on the web about why there are so few women in philosophy. (See comments on p (Read More)
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Gail Collins, a columnist for the NY Times, has written WHEN EVERYTHING CHANGED The Amazing Journey of American Women From 1960 to the Present. The NY Times review provides vignettes from the sixties that can see bizarre, even to those of who lived through that period: in 1960 … a secretary, Lois Rabinowitz, went to cour (Read More)
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Brian Weatherson has a nice post up, ruminating on the maleness of reading lists for intro philosophy courses.… I had the idea the other day of putting together a syllabus for an intro philosophy class that only featured female authors. I’ve seen several such classes with all male reading lists, but I’d never seen an all fe (Read More)
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Dana McCourt, writing in The Edge of the American West, says:I think the stereotype that contemporary analytic philosophy is just too tough for most women has more to do with how philosophers would like to see themselves rather than anything particular about women’s aptitude….And adds this speculation:Moreover, three genera (Read More)
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The following notice is being circulated to the women’s studies faculty at my university (which I’ll call the “XYZ University”). It’s intriguing to think of doing this for philosophy in various countries. What would we need? For starters:Active interest on the part of departmentsA group of advisors with the relevant exp (Read More)
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You know, I’m really struck by what a potentially great point in time this is for tackling the gender gap in philosophy. I just keep hearing about project after project. And here’s another great one:We are seeking suggestions for papers to include in a database ofwomen-authored papers that would be suitable for undergradu (Read More)
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We’ve had a request for names from a department working on material for an introductory philosophy course. If you can think of any, please do leave a comment or send via contact-us. Thank you in advance for any help anyone can offer!Can anyone name women who are prominent in public life (novelists, poets, judges, tv intervi (Read More)
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The Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy presents:WHAT IS A UNIVERSITY FOR?MSCP SPRING WORKSHOP 2009www.mscp.org.auWhy were universities created? Has that purpose substantially changed or become outmoded? Is the only form of rationality economic rationality? Is higher education a public good, or just a public cost? Ar (Read More)
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