Resources for Students and Philosophers

Information about finding jobs, choosing graduate programs, writing undergraduate papers, and publishing scholarly work.

Resources in this category:

Brown Electronic Article Review Service in Moral and Political Philosophy
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Philosophy/bears/homepage.h...

This service attempts to speed up the pace of academic conversation in moral and political philosophy by electronically publishing short but substantial reviews of articles that have appeared in the last six months. Without the need to print or mail anything, BEARS can publish reviews within days of receiving them.

Counteracting the Philosophical Gourmet Report
http://frege.brown.edu/heck/philosophy/aboutpgr.php

A response to the "Philosophical Gourmet Report" written by Richard Heck of Brown University. The original content, published while Heck was at Harvard, has gone out of publication; however, Heck has updated his views in this short essay that is largely critical of "The Philosophical Gourmet Report,its impact on philosphy graduate programs, and the discipline as a whole.

Jobs for Philosophers
http://www.sozialwiss.uni-hamburg.de/phil/ag/jobs/

"Job advertisements in philosophy world-wide, postings in any language. Ordered by date of posting, more recent postings first. Three pages: Europe, America, Asia/Africa/Australasia." Most postings are for faculty positions in higher educational institutions.

Martin Young's Guide to Undergraduate Philosophical Writing
https://eee.uci.edu/programs/philoswr/

A short, simple guide for writing undergraduate philosophy papers created by a doctoral student at the University of California Irvine.

Philosophers' Imprint
http://www.umich.edu/~philos/Imprint/index.html

"Philosophers' Imprint" is a refereed series of original papers in philosophy, edited by philosophy faculty at the University of Michigan, with the advice of an international board of editors, and published on the web by the University of Michigan Digital Library. The mission of the "Imprint" is to promote a future in which funds currently spent on journal subscriptions are redirected to the dissemination of scholarship for free, via the Internet. Although the "Imprint" is edited by analytically trained philosophers, it is not restricted to any particular field or school of philosophy.

The Philosophical Gourmet Report
http://www.philosophicalgourmet.com/default.asp

A ranking of graduate programs in philosophy in the English-speaking world. Contains both general rankings and rankings by specialty. Rankings are based on reputation surveys of program faculty completed by 266 philosophers throughout the English-speaking world.

Philosophical Humor
http://consc.net/phil-humor.html

Humorous tidbits for the light-hearted philosopher.

PhilSci Archive
http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/

"An electronic archive for preprints in the philosophy of science. The goal of the Archive is to promote communication in the field by the rapid dissemination of new work." At present, the PhilSci Archive contains 864 documents, which visitors may browse by subject, year, or conference/volume.

Stephen's Guide to the Logical Fallacies
http://onegoodmove.org/fallacy/welcome.htm

Provides definitions and examples of various logical fallacies, and how to contradict them. Organized by type of fallacy.