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October 11, 2022
Organizing for Answers

Suppose the main aim of the enterprise of academic philosophy is to generate philosophical knowledge, and that said knowledge is mainly answers to big…

October 11, 2022
Philosophers Call for more Scientific Research on “Civilization Collapse”

“Civilization collapse [is] the loss of societal capacity to maintain essential governance functions, especially maintaining security, the rule of law, and the provision of…

October 10, 2022
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources and new reviews of philosophy books…

October 10, 2022
The Philosopher Advising Billionaires on Philanthropy

“Advising billionaires on how to give away their money and encourage them to give more is definitely not where I saw my life going.”

October 8, 2022
Philosopher’s Work Chosen as Art Festival Theme

Artissima, a major Italian international contemporary art fair, has chosen a philosophical theme for its 2022 edition: “transformative experience.”

October 7, 2022
Frederic J. Schick (1929-2022)

Frederic J. Schick, professor emeritus of philosophy at Rutgers University, has died.

October 7, 2022
Mini-Heap

New additions to the Heap…

October 6, 2022
Large Grant Awarded to Philosopher for Work on Episodic Memory

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has recently announced its Future Leaders Fellowship Grant winners, and among them is a philosopher working on episodic memory.

October 6, 2022
If You Can’t Beat Them, Join Them: GPT-3 Edition

“How to deal with GPT-3-written essays? Instead of scolding students not to use it, we ask them to generate a ten, choose the best…

October 5, 2022
Over 450 Academics Sign Statement Opposing Animal Exploitation

Over 450 academics, many of whom work in moral and political philosophy, have signed onto the “Montreal Declaration on Animal Exploitation.”

October 5, 2022
New Editor for Locke Studies

The John Locke Society has announced that its journal, Locke Studies, has named a new editor.

October 5, 2022
Mind Chunks

October 4, 2022
Gender in Philosophy Hiring

When it comes to finding a permanent academic position in philosophy, “women have 58–114 percent greater odds than men, or a probability difference of…

October 4, 2022
Mini-Heap

The latest links…

October 4, 2022
Reminder: A Place to Publicize Your Online Philosophy Events

This is just a reminder that if you’re holding an open, live, online philosophy event, you can list it here.

October 4, 2022
A Philosophical Note #for Mahsa: Fighting for Truth in an Epistemologically Polluted Area (guest post)

On September 13th, 22-year-old Mahsa Amini was arrested in Tehran by the “Guidance Patrol” or “morality police” for allegedly not wearing a hijab properly.…

October 3, 2022
A New Topography of Philosophy: Analytic, Continental, and Philosophy of Science

When it comes to mapping the territory of academic philosophy, “the timeworn analytic-continental divide should be replaced with a three-way split, between analytic, continental,…

October 3, 2022
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources and new reviews of philosophy books…

October 3, 2022
2022 Sanders Metaphysics Prize Awarded

David Builes, assistant professor of philosophy at Princeton University, and Michele Odisseas Impagnatiello, a graduate student in philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,…

September 30, 2022

Heap of Links

“We have a real need to be needed. And yet many forces… appear to be making us feel redundant. Are we building a world in which no one is particularly necessary? Do we already live in such a world?” — Joshua Rothman on being needed
Dreams can come true it can happen to you — if someone forgets to renew a software license
Explanations are “mental acts, not just facts” — Chaz Firestone looks at Tania Lombrozo's new book on explanation
“What shape is this paradox?” sounds like a category mistake — but mathematicians have an explanation for why the Condorect Paradox is in the shape of a Klein bottle
“The tragedy is that many people today are deprived of both good company and good solitude. They do not feel truly met by others, and they do not feel at home in themselves” — Amir Zadnemat on loneliness (via The Browser)
Is metaphysics about looking for some kind of fundamental level? Does reality come in levels? If so, do they stand in relations of fundamentality? Might it be levels all the way down? Why down? — Kit Fine and Timothy Williamson debate metaphysics
“Real relationships with people are what’s good for us. And if we don’t get that, even if we don’t know we don’t get it, it’s still bad for us.” — Valerie Tiberius is interviewed on Minnesota Public Radio about the limits of AI "friendship"
Kant thought the indigenous people of the Americas were a race “too weak for hard work, too indolent for assiduous labor and unsuited to any cultivation” — but, as Arnaud Pelletier notes, that not what his source said. So why did Kant say it?
“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

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Max DuBoff on Which Philosophy Ideas Make for Good Costumes? (redux)
A bit late to this thread, but I went as Descartes's wax example for the class before Halloween this year!
Stephen Usins Yeardley on “Fixing” the Definitions of Philosophical Terms
Sorry, sorry, back again… I'll leave with "Heideggian" – someone who prepare the children's ovoid chocolate hunt at Easter…
Stephen Usins Yeardley on “Fixing” the Definitions of Philosophical Terms
In addition, I thought a Universalist was a record of poets who have only written one poem, while a Multiversalist catalogues more prolific poets.
Stephen Usins Yeardley on “Fixing” the Definitions of Philosophical Terms
All funny, so I'll offer a recommendation to find clips from the BBC's antidote to panel games, "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue," and its "Uxbridge English Dictionary"…
Dan on Underrepresentation of Non-Native English Speakers in Philosophy: Findings from over 100,000 Papers (guest post)
I think this is wonderful work. I hope the issue gets some more attention. A thought regarding the second hypothesis. It is usually very easy to identify non-native…
Daniel Muñoz on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
I do! And thank you, Meme. I'm honored you liked the paper.
Felix on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
I'm sorry that you feel that you are being "smeared" for a simple description of actions that you did, in fact, take and continue to proudly promote. It…
Jessie Ewesmont on Humanist Gets Religious Exemption from Using AI at Work
Are you despondent but serious?
Kenny Easwaran on Underrepresentation of Non-Native English Speakers in Philosophy: Findings from over 100,000 Papers (guest post)
I worry that even though these proxies are 90% accurate, those 10% may well be strongly correlated with confounding factors (that also confound a lot of the research…
Kenny Easwaran on “A Failure of Expectation Calibration”
This is a case where both based on the subject matter, and based on the fact that the authors mostly seem to have Chinese names and be based…
Kenny Easwaran on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
It's definitely valuable for a few people to work on a new idea in ignorance of other related ideas. But for an entire literature to develop and remain…
ikj on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
and i *don’t* mean derrida, whom i think isn’t widely taught in lit classes (and hasn’t been for the past 1.5 decades!)
ikj on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
it’s also the case that many lit profs approach their material with philosophical lenses, though contemporary analytic philosophy of literature may not be widely referenced.
Moti Gorin on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
I provided a link to the HHS review above and I suggested that those interested should first direct their attention to the most critical responses, as well as…
Even intraphilosophy on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
Even today when the literature review is probably the easiest it has ever been, one can see in prominent philosophy journals papers which say nothing more than a…

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