Lawrence v. Texas, invaliding state sodomy laws, was one of the decisions in which the U.S. Supreme Court cited a foreign case, and a comment asks whether I think the decision was wrong. I think it ...

...that are in fact offered already by every philosophy department in the country. This is really quite bizarre: The [new grant] program, which goes public today, will grant up to $25,000 each for ...

Yesterday and today, the New York Times ran stories about the "Intelligent Design" scam and the Discovery [sic] Institute--except they failed to describe it correctly as a scam and they failed to ...

Charles Hermes, a PhD student at Florida State University, invited me to post the following letter he has sent to the APA: After withdrawing my application, I began to worry that I have not completely ...

A senior female philosopher at a top department writes: I think it is easy for people to forget how intimidating professors can seem to undergrads. It's interesting: I took a degree in a science field ...

Here. It's notable, among other things, for airing doubts about the "civility" nonsense, and for actually putting some of the now notorious "tweets" in a pertinent context--Twitter, for the obvious ...

...and are getting richer faster: New government data indicate that the concentration of corporate wealth among the highest-income Americans grew significantly in 2003, as a trend that began in 1991 ...

Not sure if "everyone" knew these, but philosopher Dan Kaufman (Missouri State) is definitely on to something interesting about the evolution (or devolution) of cultural norms (in part due to the ...

These are the results of the "overall" faculty quality survey for U.K. programs. The top five are as follows (mean and median scores followed in parentheses): ...

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Six plaintiffs joined [Stanford student] Kalea Woods ’20 in the class action lawsuit filed against Stanford and seven other universities implicated in the college admissions bribery scandal in an ...

This CHE article suggests as much: Experts on [the AAUP's] standards-setting Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure revised the definition of financial exigency in 2013. Under the previous ...