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Yesterday I posted data for tenure-track placement from this past year. The data below include postdoctoral, VAP, and instructor hires sourced from PhilAppointments. Please check the data and make corrections in comments or by email (cjennings...

Interview by Richard Marshall. ‘When it comes to neuroscience itself, the chief agenda is one about coming to terms with the shocking magnitude of the basic task: to investigate the most complex object in the known universe with a set of methods and...

I came across this interesting blog post by Alex Dunn, "By Definition, Philosophy is for White Men", which takes up a very different aspect of Peter Unger's now-notorious 3 quarks daily interview: namely, Unger's treating everything that has any clear...

Because the primary medium of social life is language - it forms the basis for intentional action, shared meaning, and collective organization - attention to the ambiguities and slippages between different linguistic forms is useful in explaining how...

In a recent post I asked why Professor Leiter had decided to replace reputational rankings with impact studies in his law school rankings, while sticking with reputational surveys in philosophy. In response Professor Leiter made the following claim:...