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February 22, 2022
How Editors Can Use PhilPeople to Find Referees

At least part of the “referee crisis” in philosophy comes from the fact that many philosophers are never or only rarely asked to referee.…

February 21, 2022
How to Fix the Referee Crisis in Professional Philosophy (guest post)

In the following guest post, Eric Schliesser (Amsterdam) provides a two-step solution to the referee crisis in philosophy.

February 21, 2022
New “Philosophy in Biology and Medicine” MA at Bordeaux

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

February 21, 2022
Walker Wins Journal of the History of Philosophy 2021 Best Article Prize

The editorial team of the Journal of the History of Philosophy (JHP) has announced that the winner of its 2021 Best Article Prize is…

February 21, 2022
Buchak Wins Inaugural Plantinga Prize

The American Philosophical Association (APA) has announced that Lara Buchak (Princeton University) is the winner of its inaugural Alvin Plantinga Prize.

February 21, 2022
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

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

February 21, 2022
Is Peer Review in Philosophy “Broken Beyond Reasonable Repair”?

Over at The Philosopher’s Cocoon, Helen de Cruz (SLU) laments her experiences with peer review from the perspective of an editor trying to get…

February 18, 2022
€2.3 Million Grant for Work on Philosophical Responses to Newton

Three philosophers have been awarded a €2,349,000 grant for their project, “Responses to Newton’s Mathematical-Experimental Paradigm in 18th-Century Philosophy.”

February 18, 2022
Winners of the APA’s 2021 Public Philosophy Op-Ed Contest

The American Philosophical Association (APA) has announced the winners of its 2021 Public Philosophy Op-Ed Contest.

February 17, 2022
“Negative attitudes toward philosophy and philosophers”

Yesterday morning, Laura Kennedy, a writer and freelance journalist who often writes about philosophy (and who recently earned her PhD in philosophy at Trinity…

February 17, 2022
Mini-Heap

Links of interest to those interested in philosophy…

February 17, 2022
Creativity and Pluralism in Philosophy

“Philosophy at its best is a kind of intellectual exploration, and the more methodological and stylistic constraints are placed on it, the less well…

February 16, 2022
Belarusian Philosopher, Imprisoned Since August, Is Now on Hunger Strike

Uladzimir Mackievič (Matskevich), a philosopher in Belarus who has been critical of Alexander Lukashenko, the country’s longtime dictator, has been in prison since last…

February 16, 2022
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February 15, 2022
Non-Academic Career Paths for Philosophy PhDs: What Is Your Department Doing?

According to one recent survey, 14% of philosophy PhDs end up in non-academic employment. On top of that, there are some graduate students who…

February 15, 2022
Philosophy Valentines

Your arguments strong, your conclusions sound. Citations of my work, alas, have not been found. – Reviewer #2

February 14, 2022
Nebraska Board of Regents Cuts Philosophy at Nebraska-Kearney

The ax came down on the philosophy major at University of Nebraska at Kearney (UNK) this past Friday.

February 14, 2022
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

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

February 14, 2022
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February 14, 2022

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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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Felix on Your One Piece of Philosophy Grad School Advice
I think there's probably a distinction to be drawn between incompetence and bad ideas. It seems that bad ideas, and those holding them, can get pretty far. Whether…
David Wallace on Your One Piece of Philosophy Grad School Advice
'I’m not sure what you mean by the “telepathic” point.' You said that "nowadays, in academic philosophy, you need to “implement” [your ideas] by writing them down, publishing…
Student Philosopher on Those OpenAI Math Results
What gets me is so much of what AI optimists promise AI might bring us is possible *now* or not possible with AI at all. Can AI solve…
Student Philosopher on Those OpenAI Math Results
I worry that too few philosophers are working on alignment in ways that are influencing the frontier AI labs.I share this concern. What do you think contributes to…
David Strohmaier on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
I didn't mean to say that these abilities on their own are sufficient to solve problems in philosophy. You are right that these abilities are available and some…
David Strohmaier on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
I am not sure we disagree on the core claims. I agree that philosophy becoming a capital-intensive field raises a variety of issues, especially if incentives are not…
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.

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