How do current graduate students in philosophy PhD programs perceive their financial situation? In the following guest post, Carolyn Dicey Jennings (UC Merced) shares information about current gr...
https://dailynous.com/2024/04/09/2023-survey-results-graduate-student-income-guest-post/
The Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto has received a donation of CA$2.5 million and matching funds from the university’s Faculty of Arts & Science to create a CA$5 million e...
https://dailynous.com/2024/01/08/toronto-philosophy-receives-5-million-endowment-for-new-chair/
Several years ago, a session at a meeting of the American Philosophical Association (APA) on “new funding organizations and the direction of philosophy” took up, among other things, the influ...
Representative Scott Perry, a Republican from Pennsylvania, has proposed two amendments to the House Interior Appropriations bill (H.R. 4821) that would eliminate all funding for the National End...
https://dailynous.com/2023/11/02/house-may-vote-to-eliminate-all-neh-and-nea-funding/
The Biden administration yesterday called for legislation about and regulation of artificial intelligence (AI), the development and implementation of which will involve expertise in the the ethic...
https://dailynous.com/2023/10/31/neh-creates-new-funding-for-ethics-ai-research/
The John Templeton Foundation, the largest single funder of philosophical projects in the United States, has eliminated its “Philosophy and Theology” department. A new funding area, called �...
https://dailynous.com/2023/07/17/future-of-templeton-philosophy-funding-uncertain/
The White’s Chair of Moral Philosophy at University of Oxford was established in 1621 with a donation from clergyman Thomas White. 400 years later, a new donation has resulted in the position, ...
https://dailynous.com/2021/10/25/oldest-professorship-in-philosophy-gets-new-name/
“The depth of the conflict in the Department is troubling.” That’s from a report by Jennifer A. McHugh, an outside lawyer appointed by the Ohio attorney general’s office to investigate al...
https://dailynous.com/2021/05/26/koch-use-causes-rift-in-philosophy-department/
The Department of Philosophy at McGill University received C$2 million (approximately $1.5 million) donation to establish an endowed chair in philosophy of technology. The donation is from Canad...
The following is a guest post* by Philippe Huneman, Professor and Director of Research at Institut d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences (CNRS / Paris I Sorbonne). A Threat to the Quality...
The Angell Snyder School of Business at Ottawa University, a private, Christian college in Kansas, has received a $500,000 grant to fund a new professorship in ethics. The professorship is funded...
https://dailynous.com/2019/11/11/ottawas-business-school-receives-500000-ethics-professorship/
The Department of Philosophy at Saint Louis University (SLU) recently received a $2 million gift which it will use to fund endowments for a faculty chair and a student scholarship. The donation...
https://dailynous.com/2018/10/04/slu-philosophy-receives-2-million-gift/
“Are we on the cusp of a philosophy giving golden age?” That’s a question asked in a recent article at Inside Philanthropy. Noting two recent large gifts to philosophy departments ($75 m...
https://dailynous.com/2018/08/14/philanthropy-philosophy-fleeting-fad-fertile-future/
The following is a guest post* by Lisa Herzog, assistant professor or political philosophy and theory at the School of Public Policy at the Technical University of Munich (Technische Universität...
https://dailynous.com/2018/01/29/private-money-political-philosophy/
The Department of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University will be receiving a $75 million gift from William H. “Bill” Miller III, an investor who was once a philosophy graduate student at th...
https://dailynous.com/2018/01/16/johns-hopkins-philosophy-receive-75-million-gift/
A couple of weeks ago I set up a poll asking about whether philosophy graduate students took out student loans while in their PhD programs. This is, of course, not a scientifically sound way of g...
https://dailynous.com/2017/06/08/nearly-40-philosophy-phd-students-loans-school/
Don’t get a PhD in philosophy if you have to pay for it. That is standard advice for those considering doctoral study in philosophy. An inability to obtain a funded position as a PhD student m...
https://dailynous.com/2017/05/23/student-loans-graduate-study-philosophy-poll/
Christopher C. Davis studied moral philosophy and practical theology at the University St. Andrews, graduating in 1987. Nearly 30 years later, he has just donated $5 million to his alma mater to ...
https://dailynous.com/2016/12/20/former-student-donates-5-million-st-andrews-chair-philosophy/
The Department of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota has received a $1.23 million donation from Stephen Setterberg. Dr. Setterberg is the president of PrairieCare, a mental health provide...
https://dailynous.com/2016/07/28/univ-minnesota-philosophy-receives-1-23-million-donation/
The American Philosophical Association (APA) has announced that it is creating a travel fund for philosophers of color. According an APA press release, the fund is aimed at supporting “philoso...
https://dailynous.com/2015/03/02/new-apa-travel-fund-for-philosophers-of-color/