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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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Filed under: Recipe Rehab with Tanya Zuckerbrot, Nutrition & SupplementsCelebrity dietitian and motivational life coach Tanya Zuckerbrot, author of www.ffactordiet.com and founder of www.skinnyandthecity.com, has helped thousands of people lose weight and keep it off with her program. Her philosophy? Tanya believes you shou (Read More)
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Call for Papers 34th Annual Conference of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature at the University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, May 24th-30th, 2010Cultures of Differences: National, Indigenous, HistoricalFor submissions and more information, please visit http://iapl.info/Deadline for Submissions: Oc (Read More)
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This is the second of the posts I’m writing here in response to recent discussions of women in philosophy. It’s great to see the gender imbalance getting so much attention. But it’s a huge shame that so little attention has been devoted to the powerful role very likely played by stereotypes and biases in perpetuating it (m (Read More)
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I’ve been given the opportunity to write a couple of posts here about recent discussions of women in philosophy, in which I’ve played a role. A few of us women philosophers were interviewed for The Philosophers’ Magazine, for a piece on the low numbers of women in philosophy. We talked about many things: the steady drop-off (Read More)
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Accounts of human action in many parts of philosophy tend to depend on the idea that action is to be characterised in terms of following norms or rules. This gives considerable emphasis to the idea of self-consciously determining yourself to do something, according to a rule. This model has considerable consequences for how (Read More)
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Are you up for tenure and/or promotion? Dare we ask how that is going?Maybe you are finishing your dissertation and/or going on the job market? How are job prospects looking to you? Is your department enough of a help?Or: What do you think about the relation (or lack thereof) between feminist philosophy and analytic met (Read More)
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A review of NDPR Negri, In Praise of the Common”>Cesare Casarino, Antonio Negri, In Praise of the Common: A Conversation on Philosophy and Politics by Jason Read:In Praise of the Common is a difficult book to categorize; neither a collection of interviews nor a collection of essays, it combines both formats, becoming in the (Read More)
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A NY Times review yesterday judges that a new book on network theory is both obvious and brilliant. Connected, by Christakis and Fowler, provides a comprehensible look at a fairly new way of thinking about causation and social groups.**It occurred to me in looking at the review that perhaps much of our thinking about how (Read More)
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Universalists interpret the Bible to mean that "eternal" punishment is just a long period of suffering for wicked people before they are converted and reconciled to God. My good friend Tom Talbott, professor of philosophy at Willamette University, thinks this. see this review of his book, which gives an account of how he ar (Read More)
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