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Category Archives: Where Is Philosophy Going?
A New American Philosophical Association Organization?
This past week, philosophy’s top blogger Brian Leiter posted a poll on a quite interesting topic: Would you leave the [American Philosophical Association] and join a new dues-charging professional philosophy association that does much of what the APA does, but without … Continue reading
The Fate of Civilizations
Should a philosopher be interested in the trajectory of civilizations, from their rise to dominance in a region, and then the reasons why a civilization seems to lose its collective capacity and go into decline? Most professional philosophers are not, … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Media, Philosophy, Where is Civilization Going?, Where Is Philosophy Going?
Tagged Age of Decadence, Anita Hill Clarence Thomas, Brett Kavanaugh, Christine Blasey Ford, cycles of civilizations, higher education, John Bagot Glubb, love of money, sexual harassment, sexual misconduct, Supreme Court, The Fate of Empires, What Should Philosophy Do?
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Why Is Philosophy Important? An Expanded Comment
Daily Nous, the philosophy blog, posted a recent query raising this question in response to an undergraduate who had fallen in love with the subject. Presumably she’d gotten some flak from friends or maybe family. The blog’s editor, Justin Weinberg … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Language, Philosophy, Where is Civilization Going?, Where Is Philosophy Going?
Tagged A Free Man's Worship, academic philosophy, analytic tradition strengths and weaknesses, daily nous, George Carlin, Justin Weinberg, linguistic analysis, philosophy critical thinking, philosophy worldview, The Responsibility of Intellectuals, why is philosophy important, Wittgenstein, worldviews
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“Should I Pursue a Doctorate in Philosophy These Days?”
Should you even consider getting a doctorate and going into academic philosophy today? Even if you find the subject endlessly fascinating, and you have talent for it? The question comes up occasionally on forums. Someone I am “friends” with on … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Higher Education Generally, Philosophy, Where Is Philosophy Going?
Tagged academia in decline, academic philosophy, academic politics, Adjunct faculty, adjunctification of academia, bullshit jobs, conservatives in academia, doctorate in philosophy, education in decline, Hypatia controversy, marginalized groups philosophy, Neoliberalism, neoliberalism academia, PhD in philosophy, Philosophy, philosophy blog, pursue a doctorate, pursue a PhD, Rebecca Tuvel, social media addiction, Tuvel controversy
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Philosophers and Social Media: A Comment
Those who read last week’s note will probably say, “Wow, that was a short break!” This is a comment, though, not a stand-alone essay like many of its predecessors. This despite it’s getting longer than I intended. Should philosophers “do” social … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Media, Philosophy, Where Is Philosophy Going?
Tagged academic politics, Brian Leiter, Facebook censorship, Facebook jail, keyboard commando, marginalized philosophers, online etiquette, philosophy and Facebook, philosophy and social media, philosophy blogs, Rebecca Kukla, Trump voters
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Academia Embarrasses Itself Again: the Hypatia Affair
The last time I wrote a piece of this sort, an exposé of academic philosophers embarrassing themselves, it caused me some problems. I try to learn from my mistakes, and what I learned from that occasion could be set down … Continue reading
April Book Potpourri: Kipnis, Stanley, Jorjani, More …
Over recent months and weeks any number of items have come to my attention that could have been blog entries, had I complete information about them. For example, there is the just-released book by Laura Kipnis, Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campuses (Harpers, 2017), as of this writing listed as #1 bestseller in feminist theory on Amazon.com. Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Books, Philosophy, Where Is Philosophy Going?
Tagged "alt-right", antimaterialism, Arktos Media, Brian Leiter, Feminism, How Propaganda Works, Jason Reza Jordani, Jason Stanley, Laura Kipnis, mass incarceration, paranormal phenomena, Peter Ludlow, Prometheus and Atlas, Sexual Paranoia, Socrates, Socrates Tenured
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