Not all of these are from current employers, but that’s the theme.

• As Carrie notes “below”:http://tar.weatherson.org/2008/01/15/more-great-jobs-at-arch/, there are two new postdocs being advertised at Arché, connected to the methodology project. I assume that philosophers from a lot of different areas would be viable candidates for such positions. Actually, I’d rather hope that it doesn’t turn into an entirely M&E focussed discussion. My “most prominent contribution”:http://brian.weatherson.org/counterexamples.pdf (PDF) to methodology debates started from the idea that epistemologists should copy some trends from work in ethics. But such contributions may be better made by an actual ethicist. Anyway, these positions are highly recommended; arguably they are a better way to start your career than most tenure-track jobs.
• I’m not employed by the “Ammounius Foundation”:http://www.ammonius.org/ but they are teaming with one of my colleagues, Dean Zimmerman, to again run an “Essay Competition for Younger Metaphysicians”:http://www.ammonius.org/younger_scholars/2008.html. Actually you don’t have to be a metaphysician to enter the competition, you just have to submit a metaphysics paper. Details “here”:http://www.ammonius.org/younger_scholars/2008.html for whoever is interested.
• Many of you will have seen that Cornell is “in the news”:http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/12/books/12feud.html?em&ex=1200373200&en=24b96d107ca2b3a2&ei=5087%0A over the most famous book review of the last few years. I had several comments drafted about this, but they were mostly ripoffs from comments on related topics by “Bill Simmons”:http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/071026 and “Clive James”:http://torch.cs.dal.ca/~johnston/poetry/bookofmyenemy.html, so maybe I should leave it go.
• We’re going to be trialing a new initiative with “Philosophy Compass”:http://www.blackwell-compass.com/subject/philosophy/, namely using TAR for comments threads on articles. Blackwell have made three articles available free of charge to get this off the ground, and I’ll be posting links and comment threads later this afternoon.