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 WollenIt 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 universitiesCritic: “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 neededDreams can come true it can happen to you
— if someone forgets to renew a software licenseExplanations 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"“Philosophy: head and heart”
— Stephen Darwall's 2024 Dewey LectureIs there anything to the concept of “intrinsic human dignity”?
— yes, says Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, and "it names a burden as much as a distinction"“Intuition is the cognitive means by which the conceptual structure of a situation is revealed to us”
— whether that situation is a stylized thought experiment or a real world experience, says Marc A. Moffett
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World Philosophy Day at UNESCO
Indeed! Although the U.S. is formally withdrawing from UNESCO at the end of next year: https://psodmusings.wordpress.com/2025/11/20/world-philosophy-day-2025/ Jonardon Ganeri has proposed a model for truly cosmopolitan philosophy (link at the post) which is perfectly fitting for this celebration!