Author: Justin Weinberg

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Mini-Heap

January 10, 2019

Another day, another mini-heap of links for you to check out.
professionalism

Mentoring Workshop for Early-Career Women in Philosophy

January 9, 2019

The Mentoring Project for Early-Career Women in Philosophy, “an ongoing effort to foster mentoring relationships between senior women in the field and women just…
Awards Grants Honors

2018 Journal of the History of Philosophy Best Article Prize Awarded

January 9, 2019

Dario Perinetti, professor of philosophy at the University of Quebec in Montreal, has won the 2018 prize for best article to appear in the Journal…
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Mini-Heap

January 9, 2019

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To φ Or Not To φ

January 8, 2019
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Oxford Students Launch Petition to Have John Finnis “Removed” (Updated)

January 8, 2019

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Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

January 8, 2019

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

Philosopher Involved in Hoax Investigated by University

January 8, 2019

An institutional review board (IRB) at Portland State University has found that Peter Boghossian, an assistant professor of philosophy at the school, ought to have…
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“Philosophy in Plain Arabic” Aims to Bring Philosophy to the Public in the Arabic-Speaking World

January 7, 2019

Bel Arabi Falsafa (“Philosophy in Plain Arabic”) is a new initiative at the American University in Cairo that aims to “democratize access to philosophy and…
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APA Awards 2018 Essay Prize in Latin American Thought

January 4, 2019

Julio Covarrubias, a doctoral student in philosophy at the University of Washington, is the winner of the 2018 Essay Prize in Latin American Thought, awarded…
philosophy

A New Map of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

January 4, 2019

A new visualization of the 2018 edition of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP) maps its entries according to similarities among their word content.
Teaching

Reminder: Summer Programs in Philosophy

January 3, 2019

This is just a reminder that if you are running a summer program in philosophy for either undergraduates or graduate students, email me information about it…
undergraduate philosophy

Philosophy Majors Make More Money Than Majors in any other Humanities Field

January 3, 2019

Among those with bachelors degrees, the median earnings of those who majored in philosophy exceed those of majors in any other humanities field, and…
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Mini-Heap

January 2, 2019

The first Mini-Heap of 2019…
Philosophy and the Sciences

Naturalism, Science, and the Possibility of Philosophy

January 2, 2019

“It is perfectly possible to do philosophy (even metaphysics or epistemology) if you do not believe that your views about mind, language, and reality…
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Mind Chunks

January 1, 2019
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Top Philosophy Profession News & Issues, 2018

January 1, 2019

What philosophy and academic news and issues preoccupied philosophers in 2018?
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Mini-Heap

December 31, 2018

Happy New Year’s Eve Mini-Heap!
Lives of Philosophers

Sophie Oluwole (1936-2018)

December 27, 2018

Sophie Oluwole, professor of philosophy at the University of Lagos (Unilag) and the first woman to receive a PhD in philosophy in Nigeria, has…
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Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

December 25, 2018

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

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“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 Lecture
Is 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
“Professors can’t fix the problem on their own” — Victor Kumar on what university administrators need to do address AI's threat to higher education
“The wall between jus ad bellum and jus in bello, which had sustained his theory for almost half a century, was no longer sturdy” — a profile of Michael Walzer, focusing on his thoughts about just war theory and the Israeli-Palestine conflict
We may think that we lose something significant when AI beats us to a discovery — if we do, Daniel Greco says, that seems to imply we gained something significant, too
“Once upon a time there were a couple of handsome naturalistic philosophers working in and around the philosophy of fiction” — thoughts on new directions in philosophy of fiction, from several philosophers
What is the debate over whether trans women are women even about? — Katie Zhou argues that it's about which facts are granted "the cross-contextual significance and stickiness characteristic of gender"
We’re putting human brain cells into mice brains — One moral risk of this, says Mackenzie Graham, is a decrease in our ability to interpret what mice behavior tells us about their experiences and welfare
The Rawls Game — with instructions, background, advice, and downloadable character cards
“The central question would shift from ‘How do we maximize shareholder value?’ to ‘How do different forms of organization distribute power, risk and reward — and which should we strengthen?'” — Chris Marquis on the case for abolishing, or at least radically changing, business schools
Asking “How did I get here?” may help us reflect on the nature of personal identity in ways that asking “Who am I?” cannot — Marya Schechtman's 2024 Central Division Meeting Presidential Address
“Collecting is a game, but what kind of game? It is an imperfect information game of acquisition” — a theory of collecting, from Steven Hales
“A general human tendency: to overestimate how far we have come in the progress of human knowledge” — a lengthy interview with Thomas Nagel
“Many couples do not survive trauma like this” — A profile of Susan Brison—who was brutally attacked in 1990, and who wrote about it in Aftermath—and her husband, Thomas Trezise, who has now written his own book stemming from those events
“Bad AI Consciousness Takes” Bingo Card — Henry Shevlin's area of specialization is becoming a popular topic in popular discourse, and he can't stand the "cavalcade of terrible takes"
Does the principle of sufficient reason imply panpsychism? If it does, do we then ponens or tollens? — Sam Kimpton-Nye on these questions and the "demand for intelligibility"
PTSD flashbacks may be harmful, but they may also be helpfully “resupplying phenomenal experience” to those who, owing to trauma, are “grasp alienated” — Michaela McSweeney on trauma and "madness-as-strategy"

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Non-Native Post-Doc on Underrepresentation of Non-Native English Speakers in Philosophy: Findings from over 100,000 Papers (guest post)
This is very interesting work. I would add two more (overlapping) hypotheses: (1) Non-natives also publish in their native languages/countries. Non-natives may spend some of their time writing…
Felix on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
Authorship of pseudoscience does indeed seem to count as "subversion of scholarly norms for political purposes," and anti-trans philosophers (yourself included) are very much guilty of that. On…
Felix on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
The sub-report acknowledges the increasingly hostile environment that queer and trans people find themselves in (pages 10-11), but fails to make mention of the active role that anti-trans…
Meme on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
This example makes it hard for me to generalize beyond your experience. Are there other examples you had in mind, perhaps from your engagements with other scholars in…
Moti Gorin on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
Weinberg writes: "People who have been called deluded perverts or transphobic Nazis by each other in political discourse online are unlikely to convince themselves of their opponent’s ability…
Nick Laskowski on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
I'm a metaethicist by training but I've been actively contributing to the social philosophy research community (i.e. publishing, refereeing, conferencing, mentoring, etc.) for about six or so years…
norms are not cheap explanations! on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
I'll take your point on the behaviors by (social media active) *philosophers* of science, but "the philosophy of science applied to covid-related topics had none of this" suggests…
Felix on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
I think pointing out that anti-trans commentary is correlated "with power in a generic national sense" is indeed relevant if one wants to claim that such commentary is…
Eric winsberg on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
Omg. I was accused of being a eugenics supporter. Of agreeing with lt governor of Texas that old people should just die. People i never engaged with blocked…
Meme on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
I’m not mocking anyone, and no, I don’t agree with the tacit implication that every comment on a blog post has to contribute to discussion. Sometimes it’s okay…
On the Market Too on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
Correlations with power can vary across different contexts. A correlation with power in a generic national sense does not entail that the correlation holds within the academy or…
norms are not cheap explanations! on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
Why? (A genuine question. I don't see why the hypothesized social mechanism would be expected to manifest in a population the way you describe, as opposed to many…
norms are not cheap explanations! on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
Diogenes also contributed to the actual discussion
Moti Gorin on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
"Rather, I am just saying that Fine and Rosen overlooked one source of what they characterize as a “distorted” scholarly ecosystem which they find “surprising” and “puzzling”." If…
Dr. M. An adjunct on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
The report concerns specifically politicization of teaching and research, not the overall state of academic philosophy. Dunking with memes is nice and all, but perhaps we should aim…