Faculty Sues University over Plato-Banning Policy
Texas A&M is being sued by a group of professors and the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas over a policy that led to, among other things, a professor being banned from teaching Plato’s Symposium, the cancellation of an “Ethics and Public Policy” course, and the closure of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program. (more…)
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Kershnar Case Moving to Trial Phase
In 2022, Stephen Kershnar, distinguished teaching professor of philosophy at SUNY Fredonia, was told by his university president, Stephen H. Kolison, Jr., that he was no longer allowed to be on campus or have any contact with anyone on campus except a few administrators and university police. Why? (more…)
International Students & Conservative Students: How Are They Doing In Academic Philosophy? (guest post)
“Conservative and international students face different challenges: one feels forced to self-censor while the other reports fewer job opportunities. No significant impact on employment is found for either but conservative respondents report higher rates of satisfaction in philosophy.” (more…)
New: Journal of Mathematical Philosophy
The Journal of Mathematical Philosophy is a new open-access journal. (more…)
David Berman (1942-2026)
David Berman, Fellow Emeritus of Trinity College Dublin, has died. (more…)
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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…)