More jobs for philosophers 10 Oct 201110 Oct 2011 Well there are as many jobs as there were before, but they are now accessible from another jobs site. Here’s the announcement: The PhilPapers team is pleased to announce a new online database of job ads in philosophy: PhilJobs. The database is to cover jobs in philosophy of all types from all over the world. It is searchable in many different ways (including AOS and geographic parameters). Search parameters can be saved and can be used to generate email alerts. Ads from PhilJobs will soon start appearing in PhilPapers’ content alerts and certain sections of the site. Posting and viewing ads on PhilJobs is free. David Chalmers has more details on the project here. If you are advertising a job in philosophy, we encourage you to submit the advertisement to PhilJobs. If you are seeking a job in philosophy, we encourage you to search for jobs on the site. Any feedback would be welcome, either through the feedback form on the site or through posting on the PhilJobs discussion forum. Philosophy
Metaphysics The nature of stochastic events in a block universe 26 Oct 201126 Oct 2011 Recently I had a paper accepted for Zygon in which I argued that God could create a universe with Darwinian accidents as a block universe. For those who have mercifully escaped the rigours and tribulations of the philosophy of time, a block universe is the entirety of the universe over… Read More
Ecology and Biodiversity The mind of the ecological engineer 27 Oct 201127 Oct 2011 I watched a very interesting documentary episode recently, entitled “All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace” (a phrase of poet Richard Brautigan’s), in which the maker Adam Curtis put forward the view that ecology was founded (at least in its modern iteration) in direct analogy with the view of… Read More
Academe Synthese News 16 Jul 201116 Jul 2011 This post will give updates of the boycott status and I will move it to the top when it is updated. Update: Mohan Matthen asks if we are increasingly finding legal intervention in academic publishing. PD Magnus withdraws a paper from a Synthese special issue. The Status Page is now… Read More