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Online Philosophy Resources Monthly Update

The usual weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources and new reviews of philosophy books is a monthly report this…

August 30, 2022
Mini-Heap

The latest links…

August 29, 2022
Lauener Prizes in Philosophy Awarded

The Lauener Foundation for Analytical Philosophy last week awarded its two prizes.

August 29, 2022
Virtual Dissertation Writing Groups

Virtual writing groups for people working on dissertations in philosophy will be forming soon.

August 29, 2022
Paul Humphreys (1950-2022)

Paul Humphreys, Commonwealth Professor of Philosophy at the University of Virginia, has died.

August 26, 2022
2021 Philosopher’s Annual

Philosopher’s Annual has released its 41st volume, covering the literature from 2021.

August 25, 2022
Lam from Vassar to UC Riverside

Barry Lam, who until recently was Associate Professor of Philosophy at Vassar College, and who is well-known as the creator of the popular philosophy…

August 25, 2022
The Philosophy Major Continues to Recover and Diversify in the U.S. (guest post)

The number of college students graduating with degrees in philosophy continues to increase, as does the gender and racial diversity of this group.

August 24, 2022
Several Philosophers Win Recent Templeton Grants

The John Templeton Foundation has awarded a number of grants over the past few months, and a few philosophers are among the recipients.

August 23, 2022
Donald W. Crawford (1938-2022)

The following is an obituary for Donald W. Crawford (UC Santa Barbara, University of Wisconsin), authored by Elliott Sober, his colleague at Wisconsin, and…

August 23, 2022
Penn State’s Programs for Prospective Philosophy Grads from Underrepresented Groups

The Department of Philosophy at Penn State, known for its efforts to promote diversity in philosophy (see here and here, for example), will once…

August 23, 2022
Mini-Heap

Recent additions to the Heap of Links…

August 23, 2022
Philosophers Among Recent NEH Grant Winners

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has announced the winners of its latest round of grants, and several philosophers are among the winners.

August 22, 2022
New Data about Philosophy Graduate Programs (guest post)

In the following guest post, Carolyn Dicey Jennings, associate professor of philosophy at UC Merced, shares some new data about graduate programs in philosophy…

August 22, 2022
Hello Again and Thank You

Well, that went by way too fast.

August 22, 2022
The Philosophy Guild (guest post)

“Most contemporary philosophy writing is just bad writing… How did things go so wrong? It’s tempting to declare that philosophers are simply terrible writers,…

August 16, 2022
Teacher, Bureaucrat, Cop (guest post)

“We can free ourselves up to pursue a wider range of educational goals when we see that fairness is not an absolute demand for…

August 9, 2022
The Philosophy Special (guest post)

“I suspect I’m not alone among philosophers in finding colloquia almost universally frustrating: the speakers are more interesting than the conventional talk allows them…

August 2, 2022
Philosophy News Share: August 2022

As mentioned in my Summer 2022 Plans, to help keep readers up to date with what’s happening in the philosophy world this summer, I’ll be…

August 1, 2022
Online Philosophy Resources Monthly Update

The usual weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources and new reviews of philosophy books is a monthly report this…

July 31, 2022

Heap of Links

The most bizarre plagiarism-related story ever — featuring: a death, an investigator, a dissertation, a mysterious red book, and more
New data on earnings by major and university — though not all universities
“AI poses two different existential threats to [our] valuing practices” — Jordan MacKenzie offers an account of why negative judgments about AI taking over our creative and caring activities are justified
“Submission” is a humorous clicker-style game about starting a career in academic philosophy (or not) — created by Nat Hansen
“The best investment in education is to become the most human human—a challenging, fulfilling, exciting pursuit that connects us across generations” — an interview with Christa Acampora, philosopher and dean of Arts & Sciences at UVA
“What would happen if we tried to live without the mythology of agency at all?” — It's worth pondering, since "agency is just an internal command hallucination," says Alexander Douglas
“Reading List” is a free Mac app for keeping track of papers to read — philosophy PhD student Hayden Kajercline created this productivity tool for researchers, with help from Claude
How should we react to scary predictions about AI? “First: by asking questions” — "If you believe predictions uncritically, it amounts to obeying in advance," says Carissa Véliz
“I feel unbelievably lucky that I was able to make philosophy my profession” — Karen Ng reflects on her path into philosophy, at #first-genphilosophers
The ordinary concept of knowledge “doesn’t work at all the way philosophers said it does” — a round-up of studies shows how weird the philosophers' version of the concept is
1000 or so psychiatrists were asked to diagnose standardized clinical case vignettes. “Two doctors agreed on the diagnosis only 55% of the time” — What does this tell us about psychiatry? Or about other fields in which experts disagree?
Where Aristotle taught Alexander — "this newest dig may be the most revealing yet, offering insight into the specifics of Alexander the Great’s education"
Over 4000 of the Justice Department’s lawyers have left their jobs since Trump’s second term began — The New Yorker on the moral dilemma facing some government employees: resign and avoid complicity, or stay and resist where one can?
Underappreciated philosophy published between 1970-2019 — some old posts to which you can still add works that should be better appreciated
The AI threat to independent student writing is not necessarily a threat to student learning — what's needed, says Joe Cruz, are courses "in which ideas are expressed in real time and analytical thought unfolds as a debate or an oral defense or a group discussion"—and small enough classes to make that work
Would you take a pill that allows you, with no ill health effects, to permanently forgo sleep? — Rebecca Lowe thinks you have no good reason not to, though she neglects to consider that sometimes it's the world that needs a break from you
Fifty essays in the philosophy of paleontology — by Max Dresow at the Extinct blog
“Asking whether [an AI] model ‘has a world model’ leaves much unresolved. Our findings point toward mechanistically studying its world modeling; uncovering the structures it learned [and] the world modeling capacities that recruit these” — further research on the internal representations of AIs
Sixty Years of Philosophy in America — Ernest Sosa's Dewey Lecture from the 2024 APA Eastern Division Meeting
“You’re responsible for other people’s learning of this material, so you better know it at a higher level yourself” — for 20 years, the Socrates Project at the University of Toronto has hired senior philosophy undergrads to run weekly tutorials for introductory students

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Student Philosopher on Your One Piece of Philosophy Grad School Advice
I think students should be encouraged to lean into their dismissiveness with curiosity. If a student is having a strong reaction to a philosopher's argument, seems like a…
Student Philosopher on Those OpenAI Math Results
I don't doubt the purity of the researchers at Anthropic and OpenAI. I just don't think we should see that as mutually exclusive with the financial interests of…
Cameron Buckner on Those OpenAI Math Results
This disanalogy with RLVR is the most important point. They can train to fit the prior dispositions of particular philosophers, they can train in argument validity, but neither…
Preston Stovall on Your One Piece of Philosophy Grad School Advice
Thanks, Mark. I'm sure it's not done this way everywhere, but I've had a couple of people on committees for jobs I've applied to tell me that the…
Michael D Johnson on Mini-Heap
That first link is bonkers
Vincent Carchidi on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
What you describe in the first paragraph – tool use, web search, collaboration with other systems – is not only possible, but practically the norm for people using…
Mark van Roojen on Your One Piece of Philosophy Grad School Advice
Thanks. That's helpful. FWIW, I agree that some strong publication helps get a committee to look further at a file, but I'm pretty sure it extends beyond the…
Eric Steinhart on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
Yes. But I think AI is going to learn how to write proofs well. We’re in the early messy stages.
Nicolas Delon on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
None of this is evidence for the claim you made. It’s basic misinformation.
Mathieu Rees on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
Thanks for your response, which seems fair. I would push back a little in a couple of ways though. First, I still worry about forms of academic bullying.…
João da Rocha Rodrigues on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
"[…] whether you think that the problems of philosophy are not amenable to an approach that uses AI (in addition to human ingenuity)?" They are amenable in the…
David Strohmaier on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
Thank you for the challenge! Finding a stopping point is indeed a major problem in philosophy. I don't have an answer to how to justify a stopping point…
Preston Stovall on Your One Piece of Philosophy Grad School Advice
I take it the reference to wheat and chaff was made from the standpoint of committees who evaluate dossiers in large part (at least initially) on the basis…
David Strohmaier on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
The questions of philosophy are quite heterogeneous, so I don't think there is a general answer to what grounds truth in the case of philosophical problems. Why is…
Mark van Roojen on Your One Piece of Philosophy Grad School Advice
What does this even mean? Who is wheat and who is chaff exactly?

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