Daniel Dennett, professor emeritus of philosophy at Tufts University, well-known for his work in philosophy of mind and a wide range of other philosophical areas, has died. Professor Dennett wrote...

Five boxes of previously unknown transcriptions of lectures by G.W.F. Hegel have been found. The materials were discovered by Klaus Vieweg (Jena) in the archives of the Archdiocese of Munich and...

Ian Hacking, emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto and an influential figure in the philosophy of science, has died. Professor Hacking is well known for his work across a...

Edmund L. Gettier III, professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, has died. Professor Gettier had interests in philosophy of language, metaphysics, and logic, but...

The Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain is investigating the editorial processes at one of its journals, Impact: Philosophical Perspectives on Education Policy (Wiley), after its latest...

Charles W. Mills, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), has died. Professor Mills was well known for his work in social and political...

The following is a guest post* from Sophie Allen (Keele), Elizabeth Finneron-Burns (Warwick), Jane Clare Jones, Holly Lawford-Smith (Melbourne), Mary Leng (York), Rebecca Reilly-Cooper (Warwick), and...

Kate Manne, associate professor of philosophy at Cornell University, has won the 2019 Book Prize from the American Philosophical Association (APA) for her Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny. The APA...

Saul Kripke, one of the most influential analytic philosophers of the 20th Century, has died. Professor Kripke was well-known for his work in philosophy of language and logic, with his Naming and...

“The linguistic turn is over. We partied hard, got hungover, and now we’re trying to live as respectable adults… Today, a new revolution is brewing. Analytic philosophy is in the midst of a social...

Jason Stanley, professor of philosophy at Yale University, has accepted a permanent visiting position at the Kyiv School of Economics in Ukraine. Beginning in the summer of 2024, he will be in...

Some philosophy professors, realizing that many of their students are unfamiliar with writing philosophy papers, provide them with “how-to” guides to the task. [Originally posted on January 15, 2019....

Judith Jarvis Thomson, professor emerita of philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and one of the most influential moral philosophers of the past 50 years, has died. Professor...

The Journal of the History of Philosophy has announced that the winner of its 2021 Book Prize is Karen Ng, associate professor of philosophy at Vanderbilt University. Professor Ng won the prize for...

Silvia De Toffoli, currently a postdoctoral fellow in philosophy at Princeton University, has won a Wallenberg Academy Fellowship, which comes with funding of over 1 million euros over the next five...

The executive, associate, and advisory editors and all of the editorial board members of one of the most influential journals in moral and political philosophy, Philosophy & Public Affairs, have...

You may know that Sci-Hub is a means by which to freely access academic research that normally requires a subscription or purchase. Did you know its founder, Alexandra Elbakyan, is a philosophy...

Gilbert (Gil) Harman, professor emeritus of philosophy at Princeton University, has died. Professor Harman was an influential philosopher well known for his work across a wide range of areas in...

Philosophy of AI is a new, peer-reviewed, online, open-access philosophy journal. The journal is the creation of the Society for the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence. The journal’s editors-in-...

How many philosophy podcasts are there? At least 60 Over 80 Over 100 and they take a variety of forms. Andrew Lavin (CSU Chico, Butte College, Feather River College), himself the host of the podcas...

Harry Frankfurt, emeritus professor of philosophy at Princeton University, whose work on free will has been highly influential, has died. Professor Frankfurt was well-known for his work on freedom...

The latest development in “things that make you think our universe is a simulation created for the entertainment of more advanced beings” is that a philosopher is being pilloried online for how she...

Jerome (“Jerry”) Borges Schneewind, professor emeritus of philosophy at Johns Hopkins University, well-known for his work on history of philosophy and ethics, has died. Professor Schneewind wrote...

The actual dean of an actual college of arts and sciences at an actual university has actually recommended replacing striking instructors with artificial intelligence apps. Last week, graduate...

“Independent scholar finds new John Locke manuscript” was the tag on an entry in the Heap of Links a couple of weeks ago. Since then, several publications have covered the story. New Locke is hot...

Results from the 2020 PhilPapers survey, with responses from nearly 1,800 philosophers (mainly from North America, Europe, and Australasia), to questions on a variety of philosophical subjects and...

Data engineer and developer Joseph DiCastro has created a visualization of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP) through which users can search for entries and see the connections between...

Kate Manne is interviewed by Céline Leboeuf. Why Philosophy? Kate Manne interviewed by Celine Leboeuf What is philosophy to you? I’m going to take a slight liberty with this question of interpreting...

The Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) received a gift of $25 million in honor of philosophy professor David Kaplan and Renée Kaplan, who was a clinical...

Robert H. Kane, professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin, has died. David Sosa, chair of the Department of Philosophy at UT Austin, shared the following memorial notice:...

Åsa Wikforss, professor of philosophy at the Stockholm University, has been chosen as the newest member of the Swedish Academy, an “independent cultural institution, founded in 1786 by King Gustaf...

Ariel Roffé, a philosophy PhD student at the University of Buenos Aires has created a website that features the random generation and automatic correction of logic exercises. The site, Taut, can...

A new website features autobiographical essays by philosophers who were first-generation college students. Launched today, First Generation Philosophers already has contributions from Helen De Cruz...

Charles D. Parsons, professor emeritus of philosophy at Harvard University, has died. Professor Parsons was known for his work on the philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of logic, Kant, and...

“If our data is representative of the philosophy literature, then the use of formal methods in philosophy changed starkly over the course of just a single decade.” In the following guest post*,...

“It’s war, the soul of humanity is at stake, and the discipline that has been in isolation training for 2000 years for this very moment is too busy pointing out tiny errors in each other’s technique...

A large selection of W. V. O. Quine’s correspondence—4495 pages of communication between Quine and 153 other philosophers—has been made online available at the Virtual Archive of Logical Empiricism...

The 2021 Nicholas Rescher Prize for Systematic Philosophy has been awarded to Thomas Nagel, emeritus professor of philosophy and law at New York University. The Rescher Prize “is intended to counter...

The Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto has received a donation of CA$2.5 million and matching funds from the university’s Faculty of Arts & Science to create a CA$5 million endowed...

Well-known philosopher John Searle, who began teaching at the University of California, Berkeley in 1959, has been stripped of his emeritus status there owing to the finding that he violated the...

David Enoch, professor of philosophy and law at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is the recipient of a roughly $1 million grant for a project called “Liberalism Rekindled”. The grant is from Israel...

Over 450 academics, many of whom work in moral and political philosophy, have signed onto the “Montreal Declaration on Animal Exploitation.” The declaration condemns treating animals as mere “objects...

“What subjects are now being confronted at the frontiers of philosophical inquiry, breaking from the familiar philosophical concerns of canonical figures like Plato, Locke, and Descartes?” That was a...

“There are many reasons to expand the story we tell about philosophy.  But a main reason is just that the best, most interesting, and even the correct answers to philosophical questions that interest...

Philosopher Zena Hitz, tutor at St. John’s College, is the winner of the 2020 Hiett Prize in the Humanities. The Hiett Prize in the Humanities, awarded annually by the Dallas Institute of Humanities...

Stephen White, associate professor of philosophy at Northwestern University, died yesterday. Professor White worked on topics in moral philosophy and practical reasoning, with an emphasis on questi...

Every few years, it seems, someone new will learn of the work of philosopher Stephen Kershnar (SUNY Fredonia), share their shock, amusement, or outrage about it on social media, and cause a brief...

How many philosophy podcasts are there? At least 60 Over 80 Over 100 and they take a variety of forms. Andrew Lavin (CSU Chico, Butte College, Feather River College), himself the host of the podcas...

In the following guest post*, Perry Hendricks, a productive Ph.D. student at Purdue University, offers some advice for his fellow graduate students about publishing and writing. Publishing: A Guide...

María Lugones, Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Binghamton University, has died. Professor Lugones worked in feminist...

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has recently announced its Future Leaders Fellowship Grant winners, and among them is a philosopher working on episodic memory. Ali Boyle, assistant professor of...