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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
Back

One day, I’m posting here about how to address AI risks, the next, Daily Nous suffers from a “critical error” and goes down for…

September 24, 2026
An Open Letter from Academics about AI Risk / Life Without the Internet & the Case for Non-Network Redundancy

There has been an increase in concern over AI destroying humanity, most recently spurred by tweets from former Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon about how…

September 12, 2026
How Different Are Philosophers? (guest post)

“Do philosophers really think differently than non-philosophers?”

September 10, 2026
Mini-Heap

New links…

September 10, 2026
Fewer and Fewer Students Earn Degrees in the Humanities

20 years ago, nearly 15% of the undergraduate degrees conferred in the United States were in the humanities.

September 9, 2026
Placement & AOS

Which areas of specialization have been correlated with higher placement into “permanent” (typically tenure-track or tenured) positions over the past few years?

September 8, 2026
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

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

September 7, 2026
Free to Be Experimental Philosophy

“But is this actually philosophy?”

September 4, 2026

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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
“Cambridge philosophy gave Scruton a sense of the distinction between real thinking and fake thinking… a sense of when a conclusion had been too easily won” — a look at the early years of Roger Scruton
“Once students see language in an Aristotelian way, nobody talks about what a chatbot thinks or feels.” — when teaching students about LLMs, don’t forget they know almost nothing about that second "L"
Effective altruism may seem “bonkers” to some, but “what do our elders propose as a replacement? Aristotle? Arendt? Marx? A life in community? A life of the mind? Worst of all, more dialogue?” — Harry Levov, a student, attends an Effective Altruism conference
The theme of the 33rd edition of Artissima, a contemporary art festival in Turin, is inspired by Martha Nussbaum — the theme: “the flexible, acrobatic body” of “art, guided by fancy – the forward projection of fantasy”
“50 Things Every AI Working with Humans Should Know” — a short story by Ken Liu
“We need a moratorium on new rules and new software purchases until we’ve pruned what does not serve the fundamental mission of teaching and learning and in fact gets in the way of it” — Barry Lam on higher ed's techno-bureaucratic bloat, in the Boston Globe

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David Wallace on AI in Peer Review: Practices & Policies
Well, sure, but: “do not use any tech product outside a narrow whitelist that excludes all the major providers” is a lot more radical and difficult than “do…
Michel on Overwhelming Cheating
This is why our department now requires all exams to be in person, even for online courses, and for 60%+ of assessments to be conducted in person. Otherwise…
Dee on AI in Peer Review: Practices & Policies
There's plenty of great products outside the Google-verse. Replace Gmail with FastMail. You won't regret it.
Eric on Mini-Heap
Re 1 — A response to Williams College philosophy prof. Joe Cruz on the importance of writing, from a Williams alum: https://danieldrezner.substack.com/p/im-a-college-professor-writing-is
Daniel Weltman on Underappreciated Philosophical Writing of the Past 50 Years, Part 3: 1990s
Alan Sidelle's "On the prospects for a theory of personal identity" in Philosophical Topics 26 (1-2): 351-72. 1999.
Louis F. Cooper on Analytic Philosophy and McCarthyism: A New Look (guest post)
"…[A] political columnist could praise John F. Kennedy’s actions during the Cuban Missile Crisis because he displayed 'a harshness of which the intellect only of the logical empiricist…
Kate on AI in Peer Review: Practices & Policies
Sorry you're right, not sure how i missed that but i did
Milan on An Open Letter from Academics about AI Risk / Life Without the Internet & the Case for Non-Network Redundancy
This seems to carry risks of political repression. Various countries have recently restricted internet access to suppress political protest/unrest. One reason these attempts had limited to success is…
WiseGuy on A Philosopher Among the MacArthur Fellows
of course.. they gave it to him and not me.
David Wallace on AI in Peer Review: Practices & Policies
Let’s stipulate that Dropbox genuinely has no ties to AI companies. What about using Gmail or OneDrive? I don’t see how one could consistently (e.g.) abjure using Gemini…
David Wallace on AI in Peer Review: Practices & Policies
That’s my (4): no objection in principle but it is probably sensible to draw a bright line.
Meme on New Study on AI’s Philosophical Skills
Surreptitiously
Michael on A Philosopher Among the MacArthur Fellows
Yes, memory is narrative storytelling using context triggered neurological networks. Freud speculated about memory traces, Friston called the Bayesian probability clouds.
Luca Barlassina on A Philosopher Among the MacArthur Fellows
Amazing! Congrats!
Patrick Lin on New Study on AI’s Philosophical Skills
I assume they'll be using the rigorous standard set by the US Supreme Court: "I'll know it when I see it."

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