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Every time I am approached by a potential MA or PhD student I take it as part of my responsibility to tell them there is no functioning academic job market in Australian philosophy and there hasn’t been one in more than a decade.

Chronicle of Higher Education@chronicle.com

Humanities dissertations have fallen by 49 percent since 2015, compared with a drop of 4.5 percent in the social sciences, according to a new analysis of nearly 445,000 dissertations in these two fields over 65 years. Explore the data: https://chroni.cl/4yxUZ4S

chronicle.comHumanities Dissertations Have Declined Far More Steeply Than Those in the Social Sciences, Report FindsThe American Academy of Science and Letters analyzed 443,543 dissertations over 65 years, looking at how the numbers changed over time and the language they used.

Solilequn

@selwyndavis.bsky.social

what do philosophers do as a job, aside from teaching other philosophers that is?

Patrick Stokes

@patrickstokes.com

Officially the job is 40% teaching, 40% research, 20% service. In practice, teaching (including admin and grad student supervision) and service (i.e. all the non-teaching admin, meetings etc - but not refereeing, which doesn’t count) tends to constrain research time, but not research obligations.

Patrick Stokes

@patrickstokes.com

If you meant “what other jobs do philosophy grads do,” a lot end up in policy and stuff like that. I know at least one person working outside academia whose job title is “philosopher” but that’s kind of uncommon!

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Solilequn

@selwyndavis.bsky.social

it does seem that the role of philosopher has become specialised into other disciplines. if someone's job was Philosopher, what do they do?