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4 days ago · Of all the stupid and venal things he did--declaring a fake "national emergency" at the Southern border, withdrawing from the Paris Climate accords, withdrawing from the World Health Organization--the most ominous was pardoning all those convicted for participation in the stormtrooper riot on January 6, 2021, including those convicted of …
Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog
Jan 14, 2025 · Lateral moves/retirements since the 2024 Philosophical Gourmet Report: 2024-25 edition. In addition to the separate posts announcing (generally tenured) faculty moves, I will keep a running list of all lateral moves (and retirements and deaths) not reflected in the faculty lists for the 2024 PGR (some moves that took place...
Stipends for philosophy PhD students at top programs in the U.S.?
2 days ago · Previous discussions on the blog have noted the bad funding situation for PhD students in philosophy in Canada.. The situation in the U.S., where many (but certainly not all) of the top programs are private (all are public in Canada), is more complex. In 2023-24, Princeton and Yale were offering stipends of $50,000, Chicago was offering $45,000, Berkeley was offering $40,000, and NYU was ...
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Three models of a PhD program faculty: Princeton, MIT, Pittburgh
Oct 9, 2024 · On what I will call the "Princeton model" the center of gravity of the department is in contemporary areas of metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of language, mind and science, and parts of value theory, but having at least one faculty member covering the major periods of the history of Western philosophy (ancient, early modern, Kant, less …
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Oct 31, 2020 · News and views about philosophy—both the subject and the academic profession—as well as other aspects of university life and political culture, including academic freedom, neoliberalism, identity politics, and Marxism.
Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog
The "undecided" or "waivering" voters have no idea what's going on and do not understand cause and effect. Consider this from the latest NYT polls showing an essential tie in the key Northern battleground states:. The polling results fit a recurring theme with voters in battleground states: Many tend to believe that Mr. Trump’s time in office helped people like them, and they worry that Ms ...
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Reader Scott Newstok called my attention to this very interesting LRB review essay of John Guillory's latest attempt to look at the history and organization of literary studies as a field. A brief excerpt: For Guillory, the pivotal development in the whole story was the arrival of ‘criticism’ as the dominant approach in the 1920s and 1930s, whether in the form of I.A. Richards’s ...
Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog: Year in Review
Dec 27, 2014 · News and views about philosophy—both the subject and the academic profession—as well as other aspects of university life and political culture, including academic freedom, neoliberalism, identity politics, and Marxism.
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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.