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

This was posted by Anonymous on the previous thread, and warrants attention: Wow. So I just read a letter of rec for a job candidate (I'...

I've had some time to read through and (hopefully) digest McGinn's recent blog posts and related commentary, and I (a) am too lazy t...

In comments , anonymous 6:59 provides a refreshingly even-handed perspective. I would quibble with the word 'will' in the first sen...

In comments here , "40yearsold, noTT" promised a story. Here it is: Dear Readers: I'm a 40 year old philosophy instructor with...

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...

A request was made in comments when this topic last arose for a discussion of why we should care about the difficulties faced by women in ph...

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 ...