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Tenured professors are losing their jobs left and right in the US. So I don’t know if the lesson to draw is that “continuing” is […]

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Predictably, the spread of years of neoliberal economic management and corporatisation at universities provides the context for this type of behaviour by the ACU. Presumably, […]

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It's about a dying democracy, something that ties right back to Socrates and hemlock.

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“A lot of academic writing is formulaic and routine. Rarely does anything break out of the conservative mold of traditional article structures” -- John Danaher (Galway) on how academics might benefit from John McPhee's "elaborate and playful approach" to writing
What does it mean to be “liberal all the way down”? -- Alexandre Lefebvre (Sydney) talks about the personal and the political with Robert Talisse (Vanderbilt)
“A key part of the study of human rationality is a theory of rational inquiry for bounded agents” -- David Thorstad (Vanderbilt) discusses "inquiry under bounds"
“If you picture being at home now but with your router destroyed and your phone disconnected—that is really not what it was like” -- Patricia Marino (Waterloo) would like your help recalling the "textural experience of life before the internet"
“Within a single domain, status is zero-sum—I cannot move up the substack leaderboard without someone else moving down—but status-in-general is not” -- Brad Skow (MIT) on multiple status hierarchies
Advice: “sleep with people for whom sex is as important as it is to you” -- Lillian Fishman asks, "What are we doing when we have sex with someone for whom sex isn’t what it is for us?"
“Aspects of how we organize ourselves ought to be keyed to… the world we hope to build. But we may find that the world as it already has been organized prevents meaningful progress toward that ideal” -- Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò (Georgetown) and others on climate, state, and utopia
“Analytical philosophy… is premised upon certain kinds of dualism… certain kinds of unintelligible distinctions” -- Michael Della Rocca (Yale) in conversation with Hilary Lawson and Sophie Scott-Brown
“Fully programmable DNA rearrangements” -- advances in genetic engineering: "Bridge recombination can universally modify genetic material through sequence-specific insertion, excision, inversion, and more, enabling a word processor for the living genome beyond CRISPR."
“Democracy needs universities like the Kyiv School of Economics to thrive. But democracy also needs to survive. That’s why I’m donating the funds to Come Back Alive” -- news coverage of the donation by Jason Stanley (Yale) of his entire salary as an honorary professor at the Ukrainian university
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)
A tale of two philosophical archives -- Peter Salmon on their origins and significance
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

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