Philosophy

The National Research Council says its new ratings methodology makes it impossible for any department to claim any ordinal rank. That didn't stop Penn State's philosophers.

Cornell's president urges leaders in higher education to mount campaign on behalf of NEH and NEA and of disciplines that feel under siege.

The university's first truly sweeping academic review doubles down on graduate programs, but would gut more than two dozen departments.

Shit happens.

That's reality, according to Daniel Petersen, who has taught philosophy for 21 years at Hawaii Community College and the University of Hawaii at Hilo. And it's a reality he shared -- in those words -- with his students. Now he says he is sharing that reality in the collapse of his teaching career, which he attributes to the aftermath of a complaint from the father of a student over a few instances of profanity in his class at the community college.

Defying trends, Mellon Foundation puts up $10 million to get the state of Wisconsin to do the same for its flagship university.

Amid a major blizzard, many philosophers can't get to their annual meeting -- and some job candidates lose shots at in-person interviews.

University moves to eliminate or change 40% of its degree programs so that science can receive more emphasis. Philosophy survives; classics does not.

New panel is charged by bipartisan quartet of Congressmen to find 10 ways to strengthen the humanities and social sciences.

Prominent scholars gather to argue for the importance of their fields to the future of democracy.

Philosophers debate whether to isolate sexual harassers by minimizing contact with them and ending the practice of inviting them to appear at conferences.