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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Diogenes also contributed to the actual discussion
"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…
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…
Thanks! My language is a clear indication of being disconnected – and being Spanish-English bilingual might be informing my word choices as well. I counted the syllabi -…
I find the Philosophy Report disappointing. The authors do not justify their overall assessment properly. Other disciplinary reports have looked at patterns of topic choice in graduate work,…
CMP: For philosophy of sex and gender, I assume many do, if not most. Trans issues are central questions in philosophy of sex and gender. As for general…
I haven't taught philosophy of sex, gender, feminism focused courses in a while, so starting from that assumption: How many of those syllabi have modules on philosophizing transgender…
It's bizarre, isn't it? Anti-trans philosophers are defending long-held orthodoxy about gender and sex, with their views pretty much cemented into government policy in the US and UK,…
“Academic philosophy is generally healthy in most respects relevant to the work of the Commission.” – Fine and Rosen https://i.redd.it/45qyf7nlll1e1.jpeg
can you remind me, what happened to rebecca tuvel? was she also part of the "high orthodoxy" in academic philosophy? and were the people bullying and cancelling her…
The citation condition of our field, noted in the first footnote, is completely demoralizing. How are we to defend the existence of Philosophy departments that fund research given…
Even if there are many philosophers in a given area who are also activists/political actors, I don't see why they can't be expected to keep the two domains…
Ha, I thought I don't miss these things, but there we go…
It must be wonderful to be a completely secure representative of high orthodoxy in academic philosophy and still get to accuse those speaking for the most vulnerable of…
Neat. arxiv has an endorsement process. given how relatively small Philosophy of AI is and how it is not yet mainstream for philosophers to put preprints on arxiv,…
Speaking from philosophy of science, but outside this topic— is the sarcasm tag actually accurate? It seems to me that diagnosing areas of philosophy as failing to replicate…
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