In the face of disasters

January 22nd was the day when lies and apathy could no longer hold down the truth. Overnight, news broke out that the number of confirmed and suspected Coronavirus cases had been vastly underreported, that it had spread far and beyond due to inaction and censorship, and that the medical system could no longer hold its…

I think I thought I saw you try

The Philosophers’ Cocoon has been running a “What it’s like to be a philosopher around the world” series, which I thought was a great idea in shedding light on the sociological status of non-western philosophy, a great complement to the recently proclaimed interest of many departments to diversify their philosophical curriculum (as witnessed through job…

Is philosophy a talent field?

I haven’t been posting much, partly because I’ve been busy with job applications. Today will be a short one. As I was writing a research proposal, I went back and reread this 2015 study Expectations of brilliance underlie gender distributions across academic disciplines, by Leslie, Cimpian, Meyer, and Freeland. The study investigates the phenomenon where different…

Men and the “Philosophical Society”

Men are more likely to make misogynistic arguments; so are philosophers. Could this be the explanation of gender disparity within philosophy? Today, Daily Nous published a guest post by Christina Easton titled Women and the “Philosophical Personality”, with the provocative hypothesis: Research suggests that there is a cognitive task on which philosophers tend to perform…