Did your students use ChatGPT or other LLM tools to cheat on their assignments? If you taught a philosophy course this term, please respond to the one-question poll, below. (more…)

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The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources and new reviews of philosophy books, and a reminder about the new “Open-Access Book Reviews in Academic Philosophy Journals” section… (more…)

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Owing to travel to a place with very spotty internet… (more…)

Please use the comments section on this post to share information about 2023 Summer Programs in Philosophy for high school students. (more…)

As noted last month, the Department of Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London and other units there are facing drastic cuts. The department’s graduate (post-graduate, or PGR) students have now written a letter to the administration objecting to the cuts. (more…)

Open AI recently released ChatGPT, a more conversational and seemingly more linguistically adept language model that is able to “answer follow-up questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises, and reject inappropriate requests.”

Thinking it might be fun to try to see how the language model performs as a Socratic conversation partner, I attempted a r..

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Eric Winsberg, currently professor of philosophy at the University of South Florida, has secured one of the British Academy’s Global Professorships, and will for the next four years be based at the University of Cambridge. (more…)

The Public Philosophy Network (PPN) is putting together a list of venues that publish public philosophy. (more…)

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“When you, as an undergrad, were told, repeatedly, that the odds of securing a good job in academia were long but you decided to roll the dice anyway, how did you rationalize the decision? What did you tell yourself? Be honest.” (more…)

The Department of Philosophy at Penn State, known for its efforts to promote diversity in philosophy (see here and here, for example), will once again be putting on a program for prospective graduate students. (more…)

What are philosophers writing recently about abortion and the pending Supreme Court decision, drafted by Justice Samuel Alito, overturning Roe v. Wade and eliminating federal protections of abortion rights? (more…)

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The University of Bordeaux is launching a new Master’s degree program in “Philosophy in Biology and Medicine.” (more…)