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New Digital Editions of Hegel, Schelling

Giuliano Infantino, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto, has created new, freely accessible digital editions of the works of Hegel and Schelling.

November 10, 2026
John Heil (1943-2026)

John Heil, emeritus professor of philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis and Durham University, has died.

November 10, 2026
Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)

“We are frankly stunned to find a focus… on intemperate social media posts, papers that didn’t after all get retracted, and books being published…

November 9, 2026
David Lyons (1935-2026)

David Lyons, emeritus professor of philosophy and law at Boston University, has died.

November 9, 2026
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

New and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, new podcast episodes, recently published open access philosophy books, and more…

November 9, 2026
University of Cape Town vs. Free Speech

Mark Oppenheimer, a lawyer in South Africa whom readers may know as the co-host of the popular Brain in a Vat philosophy podcast, is…

November 6, 2026
The Enhanced SEP Experience, Version 2

Five years ago, Andrew Shen created a browser extension, SEP+, that improved the experience of using the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy in various ways.…

November 5, 2026
Philosopher-led Team Nets $2.91 Million in Grants for Project on Safeguards of Liberalism

A team of researchers led by Purdue University associate professor of philosophy J.P. Messina has been awarded a nearly $2.91 million in funding for…

November 4, 2026
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New links to interesting stuff elsewhere…

November 4, 2026
New Philosophy Journal Rankings by Citations in SEP in IEP

A philosopher who has “long been skeptical of journal rankings” based on polls or Scopus data has developed a new way of assessing philosophy…

November 3, 2026
Wichita State to Eliminate Philosophy Major

Administrators at Wichita State University (WSU) in Kansas have decided that students at the university should no longer be able to major in philosophy.

November 3, 2026
Building AI That Can Do Philosophy Better Than Us (guest post)

“Our central ambition is philosophy on demand: philosophical judgment of exceptional depth and quality, available quickly enough to inform consequential decisions.”

November 2, 2026
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

New and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, new podcast episodes, recently published open access philosophy books, and more…

November 2, 2026
Mini-Heap

New links to check out…

October 30, 2026
Humanist Gets Religious Exemption from Using AI at Work

A research administrator at the University of Kentucky objected on religious grounds to the pressure the university was putting on him and other employees…

October 30, 2026
When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel

You may not believe this, but philosophers sometimes work in ignorance of research programs, bodies of literature, methodologies, and findings outside of philosophy that…

October 29, 2026
“A Failure of Expectation Calibration”

A team of researchers conducted a three-year study of philosophers’ judgments about the philosophical capabilities of generative artificial intelligence. Their finding: “As participants became…

October 28, 2026
Underrepresentation of Non-Native English Speakers in Philosophy: Findings from over 100,000 Papers (guest post)

The “largest and most systematic study of linguistic inequity in academic philosophy to date” was recently published.

October 28, 2026
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New links…

October 28, 2026
New: Oxford Studies in Philosophy of AI and Computing

A new annual series and accompanying conference has been launched: Oxford Studies in Philosophy of AI and Computing (OSPAIC).

October 27, 2026

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“Equality talk can feel so disorienting! Even among philosophers, it consistently promises more than it delivers” — some clarity might come from looking at the concept's history, argues Teresa Bejan
We’re trained to anticipate objections and couch our claims in caveats, but is that what today’s communication context calls for? — "The caveat is dead," says Joshua Miller
“[H]ow quickly… we get from wanting (of course rightly) to protect women and girls from violence—to actually imposing a new risk of violence upon them” — Sophie Grace Chappell writes to JK Rowling
Is pervasive substantive philosophical disagreement evidence for skepticism about philosophy? — "What kind of skepticism?" asks Duncan Pritchard. Pyrrhonian or Academic?
Some authors of articles published in philosophy journals are not disclosing that they used AI in writing them — and they should, says Amos Wollen
It took a philosopher who was a medical doctor to argue for the social utility of vice. Why? — John Callanan and Blain Neufeld discuss Bernard Mandeville, "the wickedest man in Europe"
“The technologies with which we are increasingly interconnected lack the complex interiority required for real intelligence to arise” — Melanie Challenger on how GPS, AI, etc. threaten bodily intelligence
“The path to becoming a researcher seemed shrouded in mystery; academia felt like a distant realm” — Markus Schrenk shares his journey from first-gen college student to successful, prize-winning philosophy professor
“It’s not as though my… research is informed by my politics. I feel it’s the other way around. My politics is informed by my research” — Lea Ypi is interviewed about politics and universities
Critic: “You, ChatGPT, are a bad Bayesian. Rather than assess an interlocutor’s counterargument as better or worse than expected, you tend to just agree with it.” — ChatGPT: "You're right"
“We have a real need to be needed. And yet many forces… appear to be making us feel redundant. Are we building a world in which no one is particularly necessary? Do we already live in such a world?” — Joshua Rothman on being needed
Dreams can come true it can happen to you — if someone forgets to renew a software license
Explanations are “mental acts, not just facts” — Chaz Firestone looks at Tania Lombrozo's new book on explanation
“What shape is this paradox?” sounds like a category mistake — but mathematicians have an explanation for why the Condorect Paradox is in the shape of a Klein bottle
“The tragedy is that many people today are deprived of both good company and good solitude. They do not feel truly met by others, and they do not feel at home in themselves” — Amir Zadnemat on loneliness (via The Browser)
Is metaphysics about looking for some kind of fundamental level? Does reality come in levels? If so, do they stand in relations of fundamentality? Might it be levels all the way down? Why down? — Kit Fine and Timothy Williamson debate metaphysics
“Real relationships with people are what’s good for us. And if we don’t get that, even if we don’t know we don’t get it, it’s still bad for us.” — Valerie Tiberius is interviewed on Minnesota Public Radio about the limits of AI "friendship"
Kant thought the indigenous people of the Americas were a race “too weak for hard work, too indolent for assiduous labor and unsuited to any cultivation” — but, as Arnaud Pelletier notes, that not what his source said. So why did Kant say it?
“Proportional to student body size,” the number of students majoring in philosophy at Harvard is “about 10 times the national average” — why is philosophy doing so well there?
A philosophy prof’s mission statement: “reproducing the foundations of Western civilization, one lecture at a time” — one challenge, says Joseph Heath, is that "the two sets of governing principles in our society—liberalism… and capitalism—are second-best arrangements"

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Callie on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
Felix, you acknowledge having read only the abstract, and from that you manage to conclude that the entire paper is question-begging. You then characterize the paper’s arguments, motivations,…
Mark Robert Taylor on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
That is a helpful response, thank you. I suppose then what I mean to ask is whether you think GC views now, going forward, ought to be ostracized…
Felix on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
That's Horribly Persecuted Philosopher, OBE. Don't you even read her columns in the papers?
Jimmy Doyle on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
Chris, you make it sound as though you faced a stark choice between slandering a horribly persecuted philosopher and giving everyone the impression that you approved of the…
Jason Stanley on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
We have now had a decade of very powerful people whining about how terribly they have been oppressed and their speech chilled, and using this to represent themselves…
Meme on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
I think you’re ignoring a plausible implication of their comment, which I noted re: harm.
Felix on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
Now, I’ll admit that the latter comment could be read more weakly (e.g., it’s about *valuable* scholarship). It's not just that it could be read like that; it's…
Meme on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
Sorry, but your experience is in fact metaphysically impossible.
Kevin Harrelson on New Digital Editions of Hegel, Schelling
Based on about one hour spent scrolling around the Hegel page, this seems to me to be a very high-level resource. It's user friendly and smartly arranged. More…
Michel-Antoine Xhignesse on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
I guess I'll go on record and say that I think this response is pretty fair and even-handed (more so than the report, in my opinion), and I…
Felix on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
I don't know where you are getting the idea that I am opposed to GCs "get[ting] a fair hearing," which is what you read Bettcher and Saul as…
Meme on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
“We do not say Stock should not be permitted to say the things she does. We believe in the principles of academic freedom.” “Rather, our concern is that…
Felix on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
What are you talking about?
Felix on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
Jon, we can read the letter. It doesn't call for "driv[ing] Stock out," no matter what unnamed "students" might invoke it to claim. It does, correctly, draw attention…
Meme on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
“We’re not opposed to Stock’s academic freedom. But actually, it’s a mistake to think she’s even exercising it.” This seems to imply something pretty convenient for those against…

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