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3 PhD Studentships and 1 MA Studentship at Reading for 2009-10.

By Geoffrey FerrariTue, 03/24/2009 - 8:07pm

Reading's Philosophy Department invites applications for 3 PhD studentships and 1 MA studentship to begin in October this year. Deadline for these applications: 31 March '09. For further information, contact: Vanessa Combeer - v.a.combeer@reading.ac.uk

PhilPapers: A new online resource

By Geoffrey FerrariThu, 01/29/2009 - 12:06am

David Chalmers has organized PhilPapers, a great new online resource for philosophers. PhilPapers describes itself as "a comprehensive directory of online philosophy articles and books by academic philosophers." Chalmers explains it in more detail. (I've added PhilPapers to the Postgrad Wiki.)

A lesson in logic

By Geoffrey FerrariFri, 01/23/2009 - 10:40pm

I was very amused to read this diagnosis of several fallacies in a comment on someone's blog.

Philos-L posts and the future of this website

By Geoffrey FerrariWed, 01/21/2009 - 10:23am

You may be wondering what has happened to the Philos-L posts that appeared here daily before Christmas. I plan to bring these back asap, once I have automated the process for posting them. To do that, I'll need to brush up on my php coding skills.

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Philos-L and other Masters and PhD Newbie Advice!

By Geoffrey FerrariWed, 01/21/2009 - 10:17am

What advice would you give to someone just starting their Masters or PhD? The most obvious advice I can think of is to join the Philosophy in Europe mailing list, otherwise known as Philos-L (http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html). But what advice would you give? What do you know now that you wish you'd known when you started?! The best advices collected here will eventually be transferred to our postgrad wiki.

The Philosophy Gossip blog

By Geoffrey FerrariSun, 01/11/2009 - 1:26pm

Get [and post] your philosophy-related and quite probably epistemically irresponsible philosophy gossip here.

PHILOS-L Digest - 9 Dec 2008 to 10 Dec 2008 (#2008-344)

By Geoffrey FerrariThu, 12/11/2008 - 12:16pm

Topics of the day:

 1. Wittgenstein's map: the consensus
 2. UPCOMING DEADLINE -- Dune CFP
 3. CFP: Mediterranean Worlds: Cultures of Interpretation
 4. BSET 2009: last CFP
 5. CFP: Visions of Humanity in Cyberculture, Cyberpunk and Science Fiction
    (Oxford: July 2009)
 6. On line discussion of Orthodox
 7. On Line Discussion of Orthodox Mysticism (and applications to the
    Philosophy of Food)
 8. Request for references: is being intelligent always good?
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