If you’re a philosopher who reads blogs, you’ve no doubt already read about it elsewhere, but it can’t hurt to spread the word (and link to the site to bring it up in Google!), so here it is. There is an on-going effort to provide a supplement site to the Jobs For Philosophers supposedly hosted by the American Philosophical Association (since they can’t get their act together). I’ll copy-paste the actual announcement from The Philosophy Smoker:

Chris Sula and I [David Morrow] have revamped the Phylo site to create an actual jobs board to (ahem) supplement the JFP. The URL is the same as the old wiki: http://phylo.info/jobs. As of today, we’ll start accepting job postings in that space from departmental representatives only. Following Harry Brighouse’s advice, we’ll also require a link to an external site (e.g., an announcement on the department’s web site) to verify each post’s authenticity. We’re moving the job wiki to http://phylo.info/jobs/wiki. People will still be able to post unofficial updates there. We’re still in the process of updating the wiki software to play nicely with the jobs board, but it will be up well before anyone needs to post status updates. In the meantime, watch the main jobs board to find out about job openings..

This is indeed good news, even though personally I have never been on the US job market. However, I did recently attempt to join the APA (the website appears to be down again). I’m not sure if anyone received my application, the application form was difficult enough to find. We’ll see if I ever hear back from them. I’m following the developments in the US job market with some interest, since you never know if I’ll actually have to enter it one day… I’m also planning to attend the Eastern APA meeting this December, in Washington D.C., primarily because I will be in the area anyway (more info about that soon), but also because of general interest in the whole ordeal, and because there should be some interesting talks, e.g. the keynote by none other than Kit Fine.