Month: June 2019

Faculty Moves

Greco from Saint Louis to Georgetown

June 11, 2019

John Greco, currently the Leonard and Elizabeth Eslick Chair in Philosophy at Saint Louis University, will be moving to the Department of Philosophy at…
Daily Nous Features

Mini-Heap

June 11, 2019

Here’s the latest Mini-Heap…
Public Philosophy and Outreach

Philosophers On the Ethics and Politics of Abortion

June 10, 2019

This year, nine U.S. states have passed legislation that bans early abortions in an attempt to provoke a challenge to the abortion rights protected by the…
Uncategorized

Gertrude Ezorsky (1926-2019)

June 10, 2019

Gertrude Ezorsky, professor emerita of philosophy at Brooklyn College and the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center, died this past April. The…
Awards Grants Honors

Winners of Sanders Prize in Metaethics Announced

June 10, 2019

The Marc Sanders Foundation has named the authors of two papers the winners of its 2019 Metaethics Prize.
Daily Nous Features

Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

June 10, 2019

Here’s the weekly report on new entries in online philosophical resources and new reviews of philosophy books.
Lives of Philosophers

Joan Callahan (1946-2019)

June 7, 2019

Joan Callahan, professor emerita of philosophy at the University of Kentucky, has died.
Daily Nous Features

Mini-Heap

June 7, 2019

Another Mini-Heap…
News

APA Election Results

June 6, 2019

The results of the 2019 American Philosophical Association (APA) elections have now been announced.
Daily Nous Features

Mini-Heap

June 6, 2019

A new Mini-Heap…
Uncategorized

Trans Women and Philosophy: Learning from Recent Events

June 5, 2019

“I am a trans woman and a philosophy grad student, and I have decided to leave the discipline and seek a non-academic job because…
Daily Nous Features

To φ Or Not To φ

June 4, 2019
Awards Grants Honors

Scruton Honored by Polish Government

June 4, 2019

English philosopher Roger Scruton was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland by Polish President Andrzej Duda earlier today.
Uncategorized

“Philosophers for Future” – Focusing Philosophical Work on Climate Change

June 4, 2019

There is now a call for philosophers to join with others who have been protesting the lack of action on climate change.
Research

The Cute Dog Project

June 3, 2019

A group of undergraduates at Northeastern University studying philosophy, political science, computer science, data science, economics, and other subjects teamed up on a surprisingly…
journals

Australasian Journal of Philosophy Reaches Out to Historians

June 3, 2019

The Australasian Journal of Philosophy (AJP) has been making efforts to publish more history of philosophy.
Faculty Moves

Schoubye from Edinburgh to Stockholm

June 3, 2019

Andres Schoubye, currently lecturer in the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences at the University of Edinburgh, has accepted an offer of a senior lectureship in the…
Daily Nous Features

Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

June 3, 2019

Here’s the weekly report on new entries in online philosophical resources and new reviews of philosophy books.

Latest Comments

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."
Nicolas Delon on New Study on AI’s Philosophical Skills
How do you get credit anonymously?
Meme on New Study on AI’s Philosophical Skills
Still need someone to start it (I’m more of an “ideas guy who will take all the credit” myself).
Jukka on AI in Peer Review: Practices & Policies
That's a laudable editorial practice. But AI & Society and a social contract between readers and journals: well, I turn to Jill; https://jilltxt.net/misaligned-citations-and-llm-generated-scientific-fraud/
Dee on AI in Peer Review: Practices & Policies
And if evidence of bad behavior from Dropbox comes to light, I'll trust them less than I do at the moment. Many of us have used Dropbox for…
Kate on AI in Peer Review: Practices & Policies
Just on point 2. I don't really think that editors are asking for reviewers to know what *you* think of it in a way that excludes what you…
Sander Verhaegh on Analytic Philosophy and McCarthyism: A New Look (guest post)
Thanks Conner, interesting suggestion! I guess the list of philosophers targeted by Red hunters is too short to draw any firm conclusions. But even this short list does…
Protrepticus on New Study on AI’s Philosophical Skills
“What exactly do you mean by…?” There is a potential demarcation problem here. Before asking whether AI can ‘do philosophy’, we need some account of what counts as…
Conner Schultz on Analytic Philosophy and McCarthyism: A New Look (guest post)
Thanks, Sander—this was an interesting read, and I appreciate you bringing (much needed) archival data to bear on this debate. Some aspects of the McCarthyist thesis have long…