Today's post is something of a follow-up to my first post in this series, where I explained how my experiences have led me to doubt several things that appear to conventional wisdom in the profession. In the comments section of Helen's follow-up post relating various philosophers' answer to the question of whether they would choose a…

Yesterday, one of my philosopher friends on facebook hosted a thread on the question, "Knowing what you now know, would you do it [i.e. seek a career in philosophy] all over again?" Perhaps unsurprisingly, the answers people gave were all over the map, with some saying of course they would, others saying of course they…

On several occasions I've been asked, "What will happen to the Cocoon once you're no longer an early-career philosopher?" The short answer is that I plan to continue it as long as early-career people find it helpful. There wasn't much support out there for early-career philosophers when I was a grad student and job-marketeer, and…