I’ll be away for the next couple of days, so today’s papers blog is the last one for a bit.

The new JFP is out, with 322 jobs. Like last year I’ll be doing a breakdown of the jobs available by rank, area, location (in a philosophy dept or not) and (a rough-and-ready measure of) attractiveness. The first thing to note is that 322 is a lot higher than 254, the number of jobs in last year’s edition. The breakdowns (and November’s ads) may reveal things are worse than last year, but the first impression is that things are much better.

And just a reminder that Cornell’s job, number 7 in the JFP, is a genuine position, not a merely possible position.