Kwame Anthony Appiah1 Academic literary scholarship in the United States covers a vast range of languages and genres. A large number of scholars write and teach about literature written in English around the world, many focusing especially on British and North American writing. But you can also study: literature in many other European languages, from […]

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Nancy Cartwright, professor of philosophy at Durham University and the University of California, San Diego, has been selected as the recipient of the 2026 Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in th...

Salary is competitive and commensurate with qualifications and experience, while also considering internal equity.The primary responsibility of this position is to advance the research, teaching, publ...

The History of Philosophy of Science (HOPOS) is a relatively new yet rapidly growing field. Emerging from diverse approaches within the history and philosophy of science, it encompasses a wide range…

Studies show that engineering students are open to discussion of ethics; however, their overall understanding of it tends to be narrow and their engagement decreases over the course of their educat...

Jia Chen (Fudan University),“Rhythm, Nature, and Art in Dewey” The notion of rhythm constitutes a pivotal position in Dewey’s later aesthetic writings. It can be read from several points of view: mat...

The more I get into philosophical and philosophy-adjacent discussions of current-generation “artificial intelligence” (large language models and the like), the more dismayed I am not to see any discus...

We’re back after too long! But good news, this is a two-parter! You’ll hear from us again NEXT WEEK. This one is a conversation about AI and Higher Education. Yeah, AI again. More about why that is soon. We talk about the following pieces in this episode: Marc Watkins, “Can We Justify College?” Carlo Rotella, “I’m a Professor. AI Has Changed My Classroom, but Not for the Worse.” Patrick Lin, “Why We’re Not Using AI in This Course, Despite Its Obvious Benefits” We also mention one old blog post of mine: “Either the Precarity That Fuels the Banking Model of Education Goes, or We All Do”

The more I get into philosophical and philosophy-adjacent discussions of current-generation "artificial intelligence" (large language models and the like), the more dismayed I am not to see any discus...

When I was first hired as a junior professor of philosophy in 1987, I joined a department (at Stony Brook University) that had three “wings” – one in continental philosophy, one in systematic philosop...

And I hope you have, I want to invite you to check out my new Podcast "Stuff is Contingent With Andy and Matt." Every two weeks me and my buddy Matt Brown will share about an hour of conversation digg...

The Popular Arts Conference (PAC) invites submissions for our 19th Annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, September 3-7, 2026. PAC is an annual academic conference for the studies of the popular arts,…

NEW YORK—Insisting your fate was sealed the moment you clicked the link, a report released Tuesday found that you will be fired for reading this headline about Charlie Kirk. “Shortly after you navigat...

Synthese - According to the standard account, early analytic philosophy clashed with Pragmatism when Moore and Russell attacked the James-Schiller theory of truth from 1908 onwards. While recent...