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How to Flirt at a Conference: a Harm Reduction Post (guest post)
A year ago today, I put up a guest post by a philosophy professor writing under the pseudonym “Alex Rails”. (more…)
Graduate Admissions in the AI Era
Are applicants to your graduate program using AI to create their admissions materials? Do you know? How? And what, if anything, should your department do about it? (more…)
Does Your Department Have an AI Policy? Here’s Edinburgh’s
Has your department instituted an AI policy? If so, whom does it govern, and what does it say? What should such a policy say? (more…)
AI & Philosophy Readings for Undergraduate Courses
Artificial intelligence is relevant to so many philosophical subfields, and its increased presence in our lives makes it a ripe topic to cover in philosophy courses. (more…)
Online Philosophy Resources Monthly Update
Here’s (usually weekly, but during the summer, monthly) report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, and new podcast episodes.
If You Think You’re Refereeing an AI-Written Submission, What Should You Do?
You’re refereeing a paper and you come to suspect it was substantially and/or illicily written by an LLM. What should you do? (more…)
University of Wyoming to Drop Philosophy Major
As for Fall 2027, incoming students at the University of Wyoming will no longer be allowed to major in philosophy. (more…)
Thomas E. Hill, Jr. (1937-2026)
Thomas E. Hill, Jr., professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, has died. (more…)
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Summer Fiction Reading
I don’t know about you, but I read more novels during the summer than any other time of year. (more…)
A Scene from the AI Flooding of Academic Journals
“We recently received a double-digit number of submissions from authors in the Far East… where we had strong evidence of machine generated content. Nothing made much sense in these papers, the authors, with their yahoo and aol type email addresses, frequently supplied false university affiliations, among other glaring problems. I suspected that these submissions w..
George Graham (1945-2026)
George Graham, professor of philosophy at Georgia State University, has died. (more…)
Four Philosophy Professors Among New British Academy Fellows
The British Academy has announced the selection of 92 new fellows, and four philosophy professors are among them. (more…)
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A Meta-Epistemological Reason for Rejecting AI-Written Philosophy
“The fact that you, an expert human, generated the text is evidence that the view is worth thinking about—more so than if the text were generated by an LLM.” (more…)
How to Give a Killer Job Talk (guest post)
“Talks are not merely communication: they are also a performance… So many talks that could have been successful end up flopping because they’re not serious performances.” (more…)
The Demise of Reading?
“Americans are probably reading more words than ever before. What has changed is what they read, and how. People are bombarded with emails, text messages, X posts, Reddit threads, Instagram captions. This explosion of textual fragments has come at the expense of devoting sustained attention to longer written works that convey rich and complicated information. ” (mo..
Free Web-Based Logic Software (guest post)
Interested in completely free, browser-based, instructional logic software? (more…)
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Philosophy, Brain Studies, and the Value of Curiosity
An op-ed about curiosity published in the New York Times yesterday will resonate with many philosophers. (more…)
New Mentoring Program Focuses on Philosophers from the Global South
The Centre for Ethics, Law and Public Affairs (CELPA) at the University of Warwick has announced a mentorship program that “aims to support academics from groups underrepresented in moral, legal, and political philosophy, particularly researchers without established connections to elite institutions and scholars from the Global South.” (more…)
The Philosophy Job Market Deepfake (guest post)
Have you heard? AI companies are hiring philosophers! (more…)
Luke Fenton-Glynn (1982-2026)
Luke Fenton-Glynn, a philosopher at Monash University, and before that, University College London, has died. (more…)
Prestige, Career Paths, and Job Satisfaction Among Recent Philosophy PhDs (guest post)
Philosophy PhDs whose family backgrounds are higher in socioeconomic status are more likely to earn their doctorates from more prestigious programs. The graduates of more prestigious PhD programs are more likely to prefer academic employment to non-academic employment, and to obtain it. (more…)
APA Launches Job-Market Mentoring Program
The Committee on Academic Career Opportunities and Placement of the American Philosophical Association (APA) has launched a new academic job-market mentoring program. (more…)
Time for Philosophy’s COI Policies to Grow Up (guest post) (updated)
“Philosophy’s broadening impact has generated increasing interest from industries looking to partner with academic philosophers. Ties are now especially common between philosophers and technology companies producing AI products. These changes call for discipline-wide reflection on the norms of research integrity.” (more…)
Philosophers Working in or with AI Firms & Organizations (updated)
(Originally published on March 17th, 2026.)
To what extent has the development of AI over the past several years led to non-academic work for academically-trained philosophers? (more…)