This blog post, motivated, I think, by some talk about the usefulness of philosophy over at richarddawkins.net, offers a definition and defense of philosophy. Probably not much you didn't already agree with but I like when philosophers defend the profession (especially from scientists).

Not good.

Leiter points to a write up by Brink on graduate school in philosophy. As Leiter says, sensible advice.

How do GRE scores figure into grad school applications? Good question...

Tim Williamson discusses vagueness at Philosophy Bites.

A brief recap of a recent community forum in which Alvin Plantiga and Mike Rae discussed the "new atheism" and their responses to it as Christian philosophers. Includes link to a podcast of the discussion.

Another contribution from the recent workshop on Experimental Philosophy in Cologne. Joachim Horvath explores the bearing of meta-epistemological commitments on the relevance of X-Phi for the methodology of epistemology.

A contribution from the recent workshop on Experimental Philosophy in Cologne. Thomas Grundmann defends intuition-based philosophy against Weinberg's charge of "hopelessness".

Brooks on journal rankings from Australia. Hat tip Leiter.

A good case is made by Andy for supporting free access to the soon to be available white space.