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Adjunct-AR on Journal of the APA to Go Open Access

I suspect we will see significantly fewer young scholars publishing in the Journal of the APA as a result of this change. Myself, as a […]

Brian McCarty on David Charles McCarty (1953-2020)

I am one of David's first cousins. He was a singularly brilliant scholar and I enjoyed speaking to him from time to time. His father was on […]

Adam Piovarchy on Moral Progress & Moral Philosophers

Thanks Dan, I agree the heuristic 'x is an operative norm, therefore x is good' exhibits a certain flaws with many counterexamples and objections. But […]

c b on Journal of the APA to Go Open Access

I am cautious about the flip, although I appreciate the good intentions. At the moment Cambridge's APC, the APC the blog post says will apply […]

Robert Landbeck on Moral Progress & Moral Philosophers

"changing some old, harmful norms and replacing them with better ones" But at what point do we or can we discover that tradition, both faith […]

Daniel Greco on Moral Progress & Moral Philosophers

Really interesting piece and response, thanks for sharing. I want to stick up a bit for an idea in the Schliesser piece: "not all affective […]

Dan Kelly on Moral Progress & Moral Philosophers

Thanks for your comment, Adam. To your first point, our position is that people are likely to experience affective friction whenever there is an incongruity […]

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There seems to be a conflict between what interpersonal ideals like solidarity ask of us and what individual ideals like virtue or autonomy ask of us -- but distinguishing between different kinds of solidarity can help here, argues Samuel Dishaw (UNC Chapel Hill)
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Reflections on the point of philosophy job market advice -- from Trevor Hedberg (Arizona), responding to an earlier post from Marcus Arvan (Tampa)
“Let us debunk the ignorant claim that philosophy has not progressed as a discipline” -- Brian Ball (Northeastern U. London) & Patrycja Kaszynska (U. of the Arts London) respond to an attack on philosophy departments
“Maybe the famous philosopher’s inclusion in the game necessitates renaming it ‘Magic: The Symposium'” -- Socrates is now part of the 'Magic: The Gathering' game
Why do people feel algorithm aversion? -- an attempt to identify it and its causes, from Cass Sunstein and Jared Gaffe (Harvard)
“The real revolution at the heart of ‘Structure’ was a paradigm shift in scientific narrative. Who gets to tell the story of a field?” -- Audra J. Wolfe, writing at The New Republic, looks back at Thomas Kuhn's famous work (via Paul Wilson)
An obstacle to moral progress: “affective friction” -- it's "when a person’s norm psychology is misaligned with the rules and customs around her," say Daniel Kelly and Evan Westra (Purdue)
“Thinking Bodies” is a new podcast focused on feminist philosophy -- hosted by Anna Mudde (Regina) and Kristin Rodier (Athabasca)
“Philosophy plays three invaluable roles in an undergraduate liberal arts education…” -- Martha Nussbaum's letter in defense of the threatened philosophy program at UNC Asheville
A new video game, “Pro Philosopher 2: Governments & Grievances”, will be released later this year -- it's focused on political philosophy, and you can check out the demo here
“The assumption of obligatory identity change can imply that our myriad other identities will necessarily be flattened or even lost” -- Anastasia Berg (UC Irvine) on whether motherhood is really a transformative experience
Is this going to be David Hume’s pop culture moment? -- Hume scholars, get ready for the next installment of The Hunger Games series, which author Susanne Collins is based on the philosopher's idea of "implicit submission"
The path a scientific example took from obscurity to world fame runs through two philosophers and a science fiction author -- a cultural history of Schrödinger's Cat
“An agent’s assumptions about their situation… are not above question” -- Richard Yetter Chappell (Miami) on the risks of applying judgments about thought experiments to real-world cases
Three fake philosophy journals made it into Elsevier’s widely used Scopus database -- philosophers Tomasz Żuradzki & Leszek Wroński (Jagiellonian University) made the discovery
“What gets lost in the memes is why the trolley problem matters” -- Kieran Setiya (MIT) on the famous example, why Thomson changed her mind about it, and its application to recent events
“She’s one of those philosophers, like Simone Weil or Alasdair MacIntyre, whose name calls to mind a unique and immediately recognizable way of thinking. Or at least, Rose’s name would do that, if she were better known” -- Maya Krishnan (Oxford/Chicago) on the philosophy of Gillian Rose, who wrote six books prior to her death in 1995 at age 48
“The principle of institutional neutrality lends itself to being used in a merely cynical way” -- Anton Ford (Chicago) on Israel, Hamas, and the institutional neutrality of universities
“I realized then, with shock, that our disagreement was not about the capabilities of machine learning models at all. It was about the capabilities of human beings” -- Shannon Vallor (Edinburgh) on the ideology of "superhuman" technology, and on appreciating the human and the humane
“[Marcus Aurelius] says, if you’ve ever seen a hand or a foot or a leg severed off from the rest of the trunk, that’s what we make of ourselves when we cut ourselves off from each other” -- Nancy Sherman (Georgetown) and Margaret Graver (Dartmouth) discuss stoicism, its popularity, and its lesser-appreciated aspects, on NPR's "On Point"
“We’re not supposed to admit it when we feel stupid, or underappreciated, or jealous, or that we cared so much about something that when it didn’t go our way we felt shattered” -- mathematician Danny Calegari (Chicago) on the personal dimensions of professional disappointments and failure
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“Bernard Williams’ Historical Self-Consciousness” -- Harvard's 2024 Whitehead Lectures, by Miranda Fricker (NYU)
“Even if in a piece of music its structure, sounds, intentions, and goals are set there is something inherently puzzling in it” -- Giulia Lorenzi (Warwick) on "places in which imagination may play a role in enjoying, perceiving, and producing music"
“Simplicity remains the key. / I’m no conceptual acrobat / Who postulates as if it’s free; / My convenient myths are only that.” -- Quine's "On What There Is", the poem, by Brad Skow (MIT)
You might not have heard the philosophy lectures of Michael Sugrue, who died recently, but hundreds of thousands of others have -- "The type of professor you'd ditch class to go and listen to," says one YouTube commenter
“Liberalism is the broad tradition that may well underlie who so many of us are in all walks of life, from family to the workplace, from friendship to enmity, from humor to outrage, and everything in between” -- an interview with Alexandre Lefebvre (Sydney), who is against mere "political" liberalism

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