I recently received an email from a student who earned a really solid D on an exam. The student was sort of asking if there was anything I c...

I was taking a look at my teaching evals (and no, I'm not revamping my stuff for the fall yet. God.) and got typically angry at the par...

As everyone now knows, the APA did not book an overflow hotel for the Eastern Division Meeting in New York. Some people seem very angry with...

The comments on the Kalamazoo thread highlight the lack of transparency in the hiring process. I think we can all agree that we would like ...

There was a discussion last week at Philosophers Anonymous about whether an applicant who applied for a job last year and didn't get an ...

I subscribe to a lot philosophy journals's RSS feeds. While I think it's wonderful that almost every philosophy journal has an RSS f...

I kind of miss the landrush, when we'd all line up and start running when JFP came out. The irregular trickle of jobs just feels less ex...

There have been several recent discussions concerning concerning the best way for interviewees to deal with interviewers who ask so-called ...

Consider the principle of charity. Here's a nice description of the principle from Gary Hatfield in his guidebook to Descartes' Medi...

Hat tip to PZ Myers : ( original at Bob the Angry Flower ) But this seems to me to get Anselm exactly backwards. Anselm would say that for ...