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Your One Piece of Philosophy Grad School Advice

If you could give beginning philosophy graduate students just one piece of advice, what would it be?

October 6, 2026
A History of U.S. Philosophy Via APA Presidencies (guest post)

With which universities have APA Presidents been affiliated?

October 6, 2026
Philosopher Among New AI2050 Senior Fellows

David Danks, professor of philosophy, artificial intelligence, and data science at the University of Virginia, has been awarded a $1 million three-year senior fellowship…

October 6, 2026
Ioanna Kuçuradi (1936-2026)

Ioanna Kuçuradi, a leading Turkish philosopher, has died.

October 5, 2026
Philosophers Among Recent ARC Future Fellowship Winners

The Australian Research Council last month announced the winners of its latest round of Future Fellowships.

October 5, 2026
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Recent additions to the Heap of Links…

October 5, 2026
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

This is the report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, new podcast episodes, recently published open…

October 5, 2026
A Request from an AI (updated)

People in the philosophy world sometimes write to me seeking help with problems they’re having, asking me to look into some issue or event,…

October 2, 2026
Overwhelming Cheating

In a comment on an earlier post, a professor suggested as a topic for discussion, “Academic integrity violations becoming commonplace (analog, not just AI!)…

September 30, 2026
Mini-Heap

Links of to interesting stuff elsewhere…

September 30, 2026
A Philosopher Among the MacArthur Fellows

Felipe De Brigard, professor of philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience at Duke University, principal investigator at the Imagination and Modal Cognition Lab, and core faculty…

September 29, 2026
Analytic Philosophy and McCarthyism: A New Look (guest post)

To what extent is the “the story about the analytic turn” in philosophy a story about politics?

September 29, 2026
A Little More Logic & Semantics Every Day

A few years back, I posted about the “Daily Logic” and “Daily Semantics” project of Josh Dever, professor of philosophy at the University of Texas…

September 29, 2026
AI in Peer Review: Practices & Policies

“The key question is not whether AI is used, but how it is used.” That’s from Springer Nature’s policy on using AI when peer…

September 28, 2026
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

This is the report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, new podcast episodes, recently published open…

September 28, 2026
New Study on AI’s Philosophical Skills

Sebastian Thrun, a computer scientist, entrepreneur, and adjunct professor at Stanford University (whose projects have included Waymo, Google X, Google Street View, and more)…

September 25, 2026
Mini-Heap

New links…

September 25, 2026
Philosophy Teaching Resource Updated

TeachPhilosophy101, a free and helpful collection of resources and ideas for teaching philosophy, has recently been updated.

September 24, 2026
Nussbaum Wins Kluge Prize

The Library of Congress announced this week that it is awarding the 2026 John W. Kluge Prize for the Achievement in the Study of…

September 24, 2026
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

This is the report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, new podcast episodes, recently published open…

September 24, 2026

Heap of Links

“The best investment in education is to become the most human human—-a challenging, fulfilling, exciting pursuit that connects us across generations” — an interview with Christa Acampora, philosopher and dean of Arts & Sciences at UVA
“What would happen if we tried to live without the mythology of agency at all?” — It's worth pondering, since "agency is just an internal command hallucination," says Alexander Douglas
“Reading List” is a free Mac app for keeping track of papers to read — philosophy PhD student Hayden Kajercline created this productivity tool for researchers, with help from Claude
How should we react to scary predictions about AI? “First: by asking questions” — "If you believe predictions uncritically, it amounts to obeying in advance," says Carissa Véliz
“I feel unbelievably lucky that I was able to make philosophy my profession” — Karen Ng reflects on her path into philosophy, at #first-genphilosophers
The ordinary concept of knowledge “doesn’t work at all the way philosophers said it does” — a round-up of studies shows how weird the philosophers' version of the concept is
1000 or so psychiatrists were asked to diagnose standardized clinical case vignettes. “Two doctors agreed on the diagnosis only 55% of the time” — What does this tell us about psychiatry? Or about other fields in which experts disagree?
Where Aristotle taught Alexander — "this newest dig may be the most revealing yet, offering insight into the specifics of Alexander the Great’s education"
Over 4000 of the Justice Department’s lawyers have left their jobs since Trump’s second term began — The New Yorker on the moral dilemma facing some government employees: resign and avoid complicity, or stay and resist where one can?
Underappreciated philosophy published between 1970-2019 — some old posts to which you can still add works that should be better appreciated
The AI threat to independent student writing is not necessarily a threat to student learning — what's needed, says Joe Cruz, are courses "in which ideas are expressed in real time and analytical thought unfolds as a debate or an oral defense or a group discussion"—and small enough classes to make that work
Would you take a pill that allows you, with no ill health effects, to permanently forgo sleep? — Rebecca Lowe thinks you have no good reason not to, though she neglects to consider that sometimes it's the world that needs a break from you
Fifty essays in the philosophy of paleontology — by Max Dresow at the Extinct blog
“Asking whether [an AI] model ‘has a world model’ leaves much unresolved. Our findings point toward mechanistically studying its world modeling; uncovering the structures it learned [and] the world modeling capacities that recruit these” — further research on the internal representations of AIs
Sixty Years of Philosophy in America — Ernest Sosa's Dewey Lecture from the 2024 APA Eastern Division Meeting
“You’re responsible for other people’s learning of this material, so you better know it at a higher level yourself” — for 20 years, the Socrates Project at the University of Toronto has hired senior philosophy undergrads to run weekly tutorials for introductory students
“Suddenly, my problems stop being problems in the world. They become problems in my head. The problem is no longer: ‘my job is demoralizing, but I can’t leave it’… It’s: ‘I have a chemical imbalance that prevents me from enjoying life'” — Justin Garson on “the pathologizing tendency”
A political theorist and a comedian discuss the American presidency — "The Oath and the Office" is the podcast of Corey Brettschneider & John Fugelsang
An “evidence revolution” has taken place in medicine and other fields over the past 50 years — but, as Benjamin Santos Genta asks, there's still the question: "what counts as good scientific evidence?"
“Behind the scenes at Ethics” — editor Douglas Portmore shares how the journal works

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Keith Tipton on Overwhelming Cheating
The only mass cheating I can remember in the news involved our military's academies. Noplace else. I don't doubt groups of cheaters get tossed out now and then,…
Xxxxxx on Your One Piece of Philosophy Grad School Advice
I am a third year PhD student at a top university and successful by all possible metrics. The best advice that I repeatedly received and ignored was “don’t…
Kenny Easwaran on Your One Piece of Philosophy Grad School Advice
Another piece of advice: The people around you (generally) want to help you, but the professors in your department mostly completed their PhD in a different decade than…
Kenny Easwaran on Your One Piece of Philosophy Grad School Advice
Make sure you have some friends who are grad students in your department, some friends who are grad students in other departments at your same university, and some…
Meme on Your One Piece of Philosophy Grad School Advice
Respect. And, yeah, it’s gonna be rough…
Jared on Your One Piece of Philosophy Grad School Advice
Talk! Speak up regularly in seminars. Ask questions at conferences, colloquia and workshops. Start conversations with department faculty, or visiting faculty, whose work interests you. It's tempting to…
Zach Thornton on Your One Piece of Philosophy Grad School Advice
Piggybacking to offer my version of this advice: While in grad school, hours spent on writing is probably the biggest bottleneck to publishing. This is because your program…
historygrrrl on Your One Piece of Philosophy Grad School Advice
Get a hobby. (Nb. Drinking is not a hobby. Neither is online shopping.) There will be bad days in graduate school. Sometimes, there will be more bad days…
Ichabod Crawford on Your One Piece of Philosophy Grad School Advice
I'd suggest to tune out the noise and just focus on Top 5 publications. That will be the gold standard that can distinguish the wheat from the chaff…
Travis on Your One Piece of Philosophy Grad School Advice
If you have any interest at all in practical ethics, get some genuine multidisciplinary experience. There are a lot more jobs if you can both be a philosopher…
Writing, your reward. on Your One Piece of Philosophy Grad School Advice
Write for 2-3 hours each AM.
Alida Liberman on Your One Piece of Philosophy Grad School Advice
I heartily agree with this! Depending on your program, you may have to seek professional development about teaching through outside sources — the profs who are teaching and…
Bob Bishop on Your One Piece of Philosophy Grad School Advice
Deliberately develop your teaching skills. Here are some ways to do that: Read books on teaching (e.g., Make It Stick, What the Best College Teachers Do, and Slow…
Sam Duncan on Your One Piece of Philosophy Grad School Advice
Ha fair enough. So then I'd keep 1. Then again I think don't do it is best and really all that needs to be said. Especially since most…
Meme on Your One Piece of Philosophy Grad School Advice
Sometimes, when you’re hanging out at the bar with non-philosopher friends, and someone is like “I used to hate beer, but now I love it,” don’t be all…

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