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2023 Survey Results: Graduate Student Income (guest post)
How do current graduate students in philosophy PhD programs perceive their financial situation? (more…)
The Challenges of a Large Interdisciplinary Project (guest post)
Over the past decade or so we’ve seen philosophers win sizable grants for projects involving multiple teams of researchers with different disciplinary and institutional homes.
New: The International Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind (guest post)
Last year, Gualtiero Piccinini (University of Missouri, St. Louis) and Inês Hipólito (Macquarie University) launched the International Society for the Philosophy of the Mind Sciences (ISPSM). (more…)
The Case for a Peer Review Market (guest post)
“The academic peer review system as it currently stands is frustrating and dysfunctional for many of those who participate in it.” (more…)
How Many People Are Applying for Philosophy Jobs? (guest post)
How many people went on the philosophy job market this past cycle?
Reviving the Philosophical Dialogue with Large Language Models (guest post)
“Far from abandoning the traditional values of philosophical pedagogy, LLM dialogues promote these values better than papers ever did.” (more…)
Reducing Time to Degree in Philosophy Doctoral Programs (guest post)
The median time-to-degree for a PhD in philosophy in the United States is nearly 7 years. Is that too long? (more…)
Using Generative AI to Teach Philosophy (w/ an interactive demo you can try) (guest post)
Philosophy teachers—Michael Rota, a professor of philosophy at the University of St. Thomas (Minnesota), is about to make your teaching a bit better and your life a bit easier. (more…)
Philosophy’s Digital Future (guest post)
“The crucial question for any academic system is how filtering works. Information is cheap. What we want is some way to identify the most valuable information.” (more…)
American Philosophers Should Condemn the War in Gaza (guest post)
“American academic philosophers should speak out to condemn the Israeli assault on Gaza.” (more…)
Philosophers, Should You Pay to Publish Your Paper? (guest post)
“In a survey of 27 philosophy of science journal editors we conducted in 2023, many, if not most of them, did not know that they were working in a transformative journal.” A what now? (more…)
2023 Philosophy Primary Job Cycle Report (guest post)
What did the Fall 2023 philosophy job market look like? (more…)
Moral Philosophy as War Propaganda (guest post)
“The hellish reality of this war is transfigured by philosophers into abstract thought experiments and technical prose.” (more…)
Is There A Sound Philosophical Method? (guest post)
“Is there a sound method for constructing and assessing philosophical theories—one capable of generating theories, in diverse subfields, that deliver philosophy’s ultimate goal?” (more…)
Demographic Trends in the US Philosophy Major, 2001-2022 (guest post)
How many philosophy majors are there, who are they, and how has this changed over the past twenty years? (more…)
Speech, Campuses, Antisemitism (guest post)
“If we don’t resort to censorship, we need to think more about the responsibilities of all actors involved with this difficult speech… This suggests an important role for colleges: helping students to exercise these responsibilities rather than simply trying to control them through speech codes.” (more…)
Disproportionate and Intended Harm to Innocents in Israel’s War in Gaza (guest post)
“Experts on just war disagree on what precisely counts as permissible proportion. But clearly this is grossly disproportionate.”
Israel, Hamas, and “Blowback” (guest post)
“The proportionality constraint is backward-looking in the following sense: to determine how bad a prospective harm is for a potential innocent victim, we sometimes need to look at what that victim has suffered in the past, and whether we’re responsible for what they’ve suffered” as well as “whether we should have acted differently in the past thereby avoiding the n..
Proportionality, Psychic Harm, and the Day After (guest post)
“Once we count psychic harm, it looks like Israel’s war might be proportional. But it could be proportional only if the Israelis aren’t imposing on basically all Gazans a greater psychic burden than the psychic burden that Israelis hope to avoid,” which could be the case “if Israel takes it upon itself, as soon as possible, to reassure the Gazans that Gaza will not ..
The Rise of English as the Global Lingua Franca of Academic Philosophy (guest post)
“We think it is more or less inevitable at this point that English will be the global lingua franca of academic philosophy for the foreseeable future. We also think it is for the most part a good thing. But it has also produced some problems…” (more…)
Condemnations, Moral Guidance, and Gaza (guest post)
“The absence of moral guidance by philosophical condemners conveys that they do not think of Israelis as friends whom they want to morally improve. Perhaps, worse, it reflects the sense that there is something morally improper about providing Israelis with guidance and advice…” (more…)
There Is No Military Objective In Gaza (guest post)
“There is no feasible or achievable military goal, legitimate or otherwise, for Israel’s bloody campaign in Gaza.” (more…)
Percent of U.S. Philosophy PhD Recipients Who Are Women: A 50-Year Perspective (guest post) (updated)
Has there been a recent uptick in the percentage of women among philosophy PhD recipients? (more…)
How Not To Intervene In Public Discourse (guest post) (several updates)
“I think that philosophers (and other intellectuals and academics) can sometimes offer valuable contributions to public discourse. Still, I think this letter is a paradigmatic example of how not to do so.” (more…)
Israel, Hamas, and the Narratives of Atrocity (guest post)
“The need to stop the narratives that rationalize what is indefensible is clear. How to stop such narratives is not.” (more…)
Team Philosophy (guest post)
“There are clear advantages to team science… Would this model work for philosophy?” (more…)
Proportionality and Responsibility in the Israel-Hamas Conflict (guest post)
What do the “moral constraints that apply to defensive force” imply in a situation as complicated as the conflict between Israel and Hamas? (more…)
Journal of Political Philosophy Update (guest post)
The following is an update on the Journal of Political Philosophy, whose advisory board resigned following a decision by the journal’s publisher, Wiley, to fire its editor, Robert Goodin. (more…)