I don't know if 2009 will be the year, but it does seem like a major shift is on the horizon...

It'd be interesting to see whether this holds true of philosophy profs. Also, averages are one thing, but another interesting stat would be, what's the M/F ratio of, say, the top 20% of researchers. And of the bottom 20%.

Details of DFW's work in philosophy. His use of Montague semantics to undermine an argument for fatalism. Author makes interesting connections with a tension in his literature.

Jonathan Wolff yearns for the brevity in writing formerly honed by the precis exam [HT: Leiter]

I've started to wonder whether higher education software shouldn't simple be abandoned in favor of using a wide range of Web 2.0 apps that are now available. This article is predicting this will happen.

Photographer Steve Pyke's series of philosopher portraits (2001-2006).

David Chalmers and David Bourget are working on a taxonomy of philosophy in order to assist in tracking online papers in philosophy. Seems like a very worthwhile endeavor to significantly improve online philosophy resources. Check out the explanation and call for feedback here.

Sad, funny, and true...

Eric Schwitzgebel (UCR) and Fiery Cushman (Harvard) are conducting a moral sense test to test moral intuitions about hypothetical scenarios. It looks like they're looking for people with philosophy degrees (i.e., the sympoze user demographic)

GMU drops their Endnote license and provides a useful website explaining how to migrate from Endnote to Zotero