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Advice for people who start graduate school in the midst of a pandemic
Posted 9 hours ago at The Philosophers' Cocoon
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My story of public engagement (guest post by Kevin Zollman)
This is the second installment of our series on publishing popular philosophy books. This is a guest post by Kevin Zollman, at Carnegie Mellon University, c0-author (with Paul Raeburn) of The Game Theorist's Guide to Parenting: How the Science of Strategic Thinking Can Help You Deal with the Toughest Negotiators... Continue reading
Posted Jul 28, 2020 at The Philosophers' Cocoon
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The epistemic value of philosophy stans
Have you had an obsession, or a more enduring love for a philosopher that you only know through their work? Have you felt a sense of friendship, or at any rate, a sense of fellow-feeling with philosophers in the past? I asked philosophy twitter this question, and received a range... Continue reading
Posted Jul 23, 2020 at The Philosophers' Cocoon
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12 Tips for Success in Philosophy Graduate School, guest post by Liz Jackson
Guest post by Liz Jackson, Ryerson University, reprinted from her personal website. I graduated from Notre Dame in 5 years. I finished my dissertation in my 4th year, and had 4/5 dissertation chapters published by the time I defended (Nov. of my 5th year). My 5th year, my first year... Continue reading
Posted Jul 20, 2020 at The Philosophers' Cocoon
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How do we support Black Philosophers in our field?
This is the fourth installment of our series on how to counter racism in philosophy, and as philosophers. This entry is written by Johnathan Flowers, Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Worcester State University, Worcester, Massachusetts I honestly don’t know. I don’t know how we would begin to support Black Philosophers... Continue reading
Posted Jun 9, 2020 at The Philosophers' Cocoon
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Being philosopher in Serbia
This is the twentieth installment of The Cocoon Goes Global, a series that gives a sense of what the philosophy profession looks like outside of the Anglophone West. This guest post is written by Ljiljana Radenovic, who is Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy, University of Belgrade. Her main... Continue reading
Posted Jun 8, 2020 at The Philosophers' Cocoon
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Meeting At the River: Anti-Racism and Relationships of Solidarity*
This is the third installment of our series on how to counter racism in philosophy, and how to counter racism as philosophers. This guest post is written by Audrey Yap, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Victoria Non-Black people of colour like me might find themselves feeling lost... Continue reading
Posted Jun 4, 2020 at The Philosophers' Cocoon
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The Case for Teaching (by Saba Fatima)
This is the second installment of our series on how to counter racism in philosophy, and as philosophers. This entry is written by Saba Fatima, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and host of the podcast She Speaks: Academic Muslimahs One of the main reasons I decided... Continue reading
Posted Jun 3, 2020 at The Philosophers' Cocoon
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Taking Others Seriously as Anti-Racism in Philosophy
This is a first installment for a series on anti-racism in philosophy, written by guest authors. This entry is written by Alexus McLeod, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Asian/Asian American Studies at the University of Connecticut. In the wake of recent events, there has been lots of discussion on how... Continue reading
Posted Jun 2, 2020 at The Philosophers' Cocoon
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Wise thoughts: Summaries of classic philosophical works in words of one syllable
Philosophy is notable for its jargon, so it is a good exercise to try to summarize its classic works in short texts of just one syllable. The past few days philosophers have provided such summaries, as a game in pandemic times, maybe inspired by this classic paper. It also makes... Continue reading
Posted May 25, 2020 at The Philosophers' Cocoon
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What we owe our undergraduate students
You probably do not have the bandwidth now to deal with the question of how to appear optimally groomed for your students. Many of us face very uncertain job prospects (e.g., adjuncts, graduate students in teaching positions, people on VAPs). Many of us need to juggle homeschooling our kids, not... Continue reading
Posted Apr 16, 2020 at The Philosophers' Cocoon
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Clarity
How are you feeling? If you are like me, you've been in lockdown in your house for several weeks now. Likely, your experiences are unlike anything you've felt before. Because of the ubiquity of your experiences--weird as they are--they seem too banal to write down. Yet, it's important to do... Continue reading
Posted Apr 13, 2020 at The Philosophers' Cocoon
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Vanity of vanities: why the pandemic should perplex us, but not disempower us in our academic work
Right now, lots of academics are struggling with doing research. The Covid-19 pandemic has ushered in a host of adverse circumstances including fear, job uncertainty, job loss for some of us (especially on fixed-term contracts), a gloomy academic market outlook for grad students and others on the market, a makeshift... Continue reading
Posted Apr 3, 2020 at The Philosophers' Cocoon
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Teaching painful things in an unjust world
This is a guest post by Audrey Yap, Department of Philosophy, University of Victoria, on how, and whether to incorporate Covid-19 material in their classes. At this particular time, when many course instructors are transitioning, or preparing to transition, to different kinds of instruction amid a global pandemic, many of... Continue reading
Posted Mar 30, 2020 at The Philosophers' Cocoon
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What's happening to spring/summer 2020 conferences?
I realize lots of things are uncertain now, but I am curious about what is happening to conferences you would normally be speaking at, or that you are (co)organizing that were scheduled for the spring of 2020. I am co-organizing a conference at Saint Louis University for June 22-23 2020... Continue reading
Posted Mar 23, 2020 at The Philosophers' Cocoon
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Philosophical Research after the Virus (guest post by Eric Steinhart)
This is a guest post by Eric Steinhart, William Paterson University Most of us are acutely aware of the extreme impact of the virus on our teaching (it’s SARS-CoV-2, but I’ll just call it the virus). We’ve been suddenly forced to move our entire teaching loads into new formats very... Continue reading
Posted Mar 17, 2020 at The Philosophers' Cocoon
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Dealing with Learning Management System (LMS) Infrastructure (Guest post by Johnathan Flowers)
Posted Mar 16, 2020 at The Philosophers' Cocoon
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New series: COVID-19 teaching transition -- Fritz McDonald on the basics of teaching online
My university, like many others across the world is moving to teach online in the light of the Covid-19 pandemic. Given that many of us have little prior experience with this (I personally have none), the Cocoon thinks it is useful to host a series on this. Anyone with experience... Continue reading
Posted Mar 12, 2020 at The Philosophers' Cocoon
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The philosophy profession in Israel
This is the nineteenth installment of The Cocoon Goes Global, a series that gives a sense of what the philosophy profession looks like outside of the Anglophone West. Today's entry is by Dr. Samuel Lebens, Research Fellow at the University of Haifa. Israel is a country of approximately 9 million... Continue reading
Posted Mar 5, 2020 at The Philosophers' Cocoon
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What are the academic virtues?
Which virtues do we value? There are big cultural variations. For example, the virtue of honor does not have a place in American society at large (as Tamler Sommers discusses in his recent book on the topic), but it still seems prized in some subcultures, such as in sports (taking... Continue reading
Posted Feb 26, 2020 at The Philosophers' Cocoon
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What it is like to be a philosopher in Turkey
This is the eighteenth installment of The Cocoon Goes Global, a series that gives a sense of what the philosophy profession looks like outside of the Anglophone West. Today's entry is by Dr. Saniye Vatansever, Assistant Professor at Bilkent University. Disclaimer: I am a Turkish woman who taught in several... Continue reading
Posted Feb 17, 2020 at The Philosophers' Cocoon
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What is it like to be a philosopher in Costa Rica?
This is the seventeenth installment of The Cocoon Goes Global, a series that gives a sense of what the philosophy profession looks like outside of the Anglophone West. Today's entry is by Dr. Laurencia Sáenz Benavides, Invited Professor at the School of Philosophy or the University of Costa Rica Twitter:... Continue reading
Posted Feb 14, 2020 at The Philosophers' Cocoon
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What is it like to be a philosopher in Taiwan?
This is the sixteenth installment of The Cocoon Go... Continue reading
Posted Feb 13, 2020 at The Philosophers' Cocoon
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What is like to be a philosopher in Panama?
This is the 15th installment of The Cocoon Goes Global, a series that gives a sense of what the philosophy profession looks like outside of the Anglophone West. This is a guest contribution by Ruling Barragán, Adjunct professor of philosophy at the Universidad de Panamá. Country Profile. The Republic of... Continue reading
Posted Feb 10, 2020 at The Philosophers' Cocoon
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Professional philosophy and authenticity
To set a price for oneself whereby one becomes no longer a person but merely a cog! Are you co-conspirators in the current folly sweeping over nations, which, above all else, want to produce as much as possible and to be as rich as possible? Your concern ought to hold... Continue reading
Posted Feb 8, 2020 at The Philosophers' Cocoon
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