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Being, Freedom, and Method: Themes from the Philosophy of Peter van Inwagen

30. November 2018 Philosophy News News

2018.11.28 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews John A. Keller (ed.), Being, Freedom, and Method: Themes from the Philosophy of Peter van Inwagen, Oxford University Press, 2017, [More]

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APA Awards Grants to Seven Projects for 2018–2019

29. November 2018 Philosophy News News

The American Philosophical Association is pleased to announce that it will provide grants to seven philosophy-related projects in the 2018–2019 fiscal year. For more information ... Read [More]

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Uwe Johnson, the Faulkner of East Germany, wrote a 1,700-page tome describing America's empty grandiosity. Is it the most ambivalent immigration novel ever written?

29. November 2018 Philosophy News News

Uwe Johnson, the Faulkner of East Germany, wrote a 1,700-page tome describing America's empty grandiosity. Is it the most ambivalent immigration novel ever [More]

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Can something become nothing? In an absolute sense. It seems impossible

29. November 2018 Philosophy News News

ShareExistenceRead another response about ExistenceCan something become nothing? In an absolute sense. It seems impossible intuitively speaking, but I have hard time figuring out a logically strict [More]

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Early Career Research Spotlight: Josh Dohmen

29. November 2018 Philosophy News News

This edition of the Early Career Research Spotlight focuses on the work of Josh Dohmen. He is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy in the Department ... Read [More]

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Religion vs. Science: What Religious People Really Think. By Elaine Howard Ecklund and Christopher P. Scheitle

29. November 2018 Philosophy News News

Religion vs. Science: What Religious People Really Think. By EcklundElaine Howard and ScheitleChristopher P.. Oxford University Press, 2017. 224 pages. $29.95 (hardcover), $19.99 [More]

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Hyman's analysis of atheism and some interesting Indian parallels

29. November 2018 Philosophy News News

Gavin Hyman explains in his 2007 contribution to Martin's Cambdride Companion to Atheism as well as in his 2010 A Short History of Atheism that atheism is always the refusal of a given form of [More]

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Read Lucia Berlin and you’ll think: “Here is a woman who really knows what it’s like to vomit.” Patricia Lockwood explains

29. November 2018 Philosophy News News

Read Lucia Berlin and you’ll think: “Here is a woman who really knows what it’s like to vomit.” Patricia Lockwood [More]

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New sharing functions

29. November 2018 Philosophy News News

Several weeks ago, the buttons for sharing posts disappeared due to Typepad's new security protocols. There is a finally a workaround: namely, the social media buttons now located on the left [More]

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You Can’t Keep a Good Idea Down: Reviving the Journal Survey Project

28. November 2018 Philosophy News News

The Journal Survey Project was very popular when it was first launched in April 2017. The post announcing it was shared widely and became one ... Read [More]

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