The Philosophers' Cocoon
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Owned & Moderated by Marcus Arvan (University of Tampa)
Contact: marvan@ut.edu
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recent posts
- How to handle self-citation in manuscripts?
- Classic papers every analytic philosopher should read? (and have they changed?)
- When does a paper (revised from the ground up) count as a “new paper”?
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- Conference suggestions for someone moving to Europe?
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Category: Non-TT Faculty
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In our most recent "how can we help you?" thread, a reader asks: I am hoping to do a bit of crowdsourcing in order to get a sense of the norms of other departments when it comes to non-tenure stream faculty being involved and voting in tenure stream job searches. As a bit of context,…
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In our newest "how can we help you?" thread, a reader writes: I have a question concerning problematic supervisors at the non-TT faculty level: I've been non-TT faculty with a 4/4 load at an R1 with a good PhD program for three years now. The person who makes the teaching schedule (who is not the…
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Laurence B. McCullough (Distinguished Emeritus Professor, Baylor) writes in: As a retired professor, I follow your blog to keep up with what is happening in the world of philosophy. I spent my career as a medical educator. In the Baylor Center we (Baruch Brody and I, then the only two senior faculty) had a program…
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In our newest "how can we help you?" thread, concerned non-TT writes: I'm wondering if we can get a conversation going about vulnerably employed (i.e., non-TT) faculty dealing with university administrators' unethical decision not to enforce COVID vaccination requirements for those on campus for the coming AY. In countries with access to ample vaccines like…