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2 days ago · The editors, in consultation with the Advisory Board, made some changes to the specialty categories for the 2024 PGR. Most minor, "Ancient Philosophy" was changed to "Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy," to reflect the fact that, while ancient Greek and Roman philosophy dominates in Anglophone departments, there are other ancient philsophical traditions.
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Nov 7, 2024 · In Memoriam: Bernard Manin (1951-2024) An influential political theorist, Professor Manin was probably best-known among philosophers for his contributions to democratic theory. The political theorist Melissa Schwartzberg, Chair of the Department of Politics at NYU, kindly shared this memorial notice (below the fold): Political theorist...
Explaining "sociological idealism" - Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog
Mar 7, 2024 · Posted by Brian Leiter on March 07, 2024 at 06:55 AM in Hermeneutics of Suspicion | Permalink. "Sociological idealism" was Charles Mills's term for one kind of critique of ideology in Marx, namely, a critique of views that, incorrectly, treat ideas as the primary cause of events in the socio-economic world. Marx's target was the Left Young...
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A soon-to-be PhD student writes: I am an incoming philosophy PhD student at a university in a major U.S. city. While I have been fortunate enough to receive funding and a stipend for the duration of my program, I find myself increasingly worried about getting by with rising inflation and costs of living — especially considering that the stipend is the same for all five years.
"Marx" in the Routledge Philosophers series - Leiter Reports: A ...
Sep 28, 2023 · Posted by Brian Leiter on September 28, 2023 at 11:54 AM in Hermeneutics of Suspicion, Navel-Gazing | Permalink. Jaime Edwards and I delivered the penultimate draft of our manuscript on "Marx" to the press yesterday. I'm sure we'll be making revisions after getting referee reports and feedback at a conference on the manuscript in early January ...
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In Memoriam: Robert J. McKim (1952-2024) A longtime member of the Departments of Philosophy and Religion at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he was emeritus, Professor McKim wrote widely in philosophy of religion, applied ethics, and also in the history of modern philosophy. The Illinois memorial notice is here.
Travels abroad, and some observations about philosophy
This conference was a good reminder of how utterly morally ridiculous and trivial so much of analytic philosophy has become. The final event was the 30th Biennial World Congress of Philosophy of Law & Social Philosophy (IVR), this one in honor of Hegel and Rawls. Outside the Anglosphere, the IVR is the major event in the field of legal philosophy.
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Oct 31, 2021 · Philosopher Alex Guerrero (Rutgers) shares some useful information, most of which rings true to me. (One additional note, regarding applicants with publications in good journals: Professor Guerrero tells me on FB that about 5-8% of applicants to Rutgers have publications, but many of those are coming out of terminal MA programs or …
Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog: Year in Review
Sep 11, 2024 · 2020, a record-breaking year on the blog. There were more than 3.7 million visits to the blog in 2020--a record--and nearly 4.6 million page views (not a record, but higher than the prior year). This was all the more notable given my blogging hiatus last July. Thanks, dear readers, for your continued interest.
On Wittgenstein's early private notebooks - Leiter Reports: A ...
Apr 5, 2022 · The fact that philosophy, even in its technical forms, is the expression of an outlook that defines who someone is. “To do philosophy is to explore one’s own temperament, and yet at the same time to attempt to discover the truth,” the novelist-philosopher Iris Murdoch wrote. She was on to something, I believe, even when the subject-matter ...
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