Philip L. Quinn Fellowship in Philosophy to be established at the National Humanities Center

... It is especially gratifying that a distinguished and much-loved member of the academic world admired the National Humanities Center and that his co-executors have chosen to memorialize him here. It speaks to the place that the Center holds in the hearts and minds of American scholars, and it is fitting that Philip Quinn's intellectual and ethical commitments in the profession be transmitted thus to future generations of philosophers.

New content on Blip.tv channel.

After a long testing period, TeXlive 2009 was released yesterday. This is a great LaTeX and XeLaTeX distribution for every OS.

If nothing else, this is just plain amusing. For philosophers using LaTeX, who need a symbol code, but are too lazy or impatient to look through symbols-letter or symbols-a4.pdf? Draw a symbol, get a code, here!

Leiter reports the initial stats on the latest Jobs for Philosophers. (Spoiler: It doesn't look good so far.)

I know a lot of philosophers on here also are active on Twitter. Thought you'd like this.

Well, almost - it's a painted donkey rather than a painted mule.

Andrew Cullison seeks feedback for his improvement on the Philosophy Journal Wiki.

Teaching philosophy in prison.

More in the comment thread about why our colleagues in the humanities think we are "arseholes" and "football hooligans". Not sure what if anything there is to contribute to this discussion.