Some Blog Highlights from 2009

These were posts that attracted unusual amounts of attention and discussion during the past year:

Thomas Nagel Jumps the Shark, Part II (December)

Does Academia, Including Philosophy, Exclude People Based on Class? (December)

"Party-Line Continentalists" versus Philosophical Scholars of the Continental Traditions (November)

Philosophy Referee Hand Signals (November)

Nietzsche and Ayn Rand:  A Brief Comment (November)

Carlin Romano Does It Again (October)

Why aren't there more women in academic philosophy?  (October)

Alex Rosenberg on Cochrane and Economics (September)

Best of the Summer Blog (links to posts June-August)

The 20 "Most Important" Philosophers of All Time (May)

Francis Beckwith:  Intelligent Design Apologist or Not? (May)

Acquiring Substantial Debt While in Grad School:  How Much?  How Common?  (April)

Inside the Mind of Religiously-Inspired Bigots (March)

The Highest Quality "General" Philosophy Journals in English (March)

Which Person Do You Most Wish the Media Would Stop Referring to as a 'Philosopher'? (March)

Gourmet Reports for Other Disciplines? (February)

The APA and Discrimination Against Homosexuals...Again (February)

Do Young Philosophers Have a "Sense of Entitlement" or Are They Just Internalizing the Expectations of Their Teachers? (January)