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Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

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

February 7, 2022
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February 7, 2022
A Public Database of Referee Service (guest post)

A few years ago, Neil Sinhababu, associate professor of philosophy at the National University of Singapore, wrote about the “publication crisis” in academic philosophy…

February 4, 2022
Comesaña & Sartorio from Arizona to Rutgers

Juan Comesaña and Carolina Sartorio, both currently professors in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Arizona, will be moving to Rutgers University.

February 4, 2022
Which Topics Are Trending in the Work of Philosophy Graduate Students & Recent PhDs?

What areas, topics, and questions are going to be hot in philosophy?

February 3, 2022
Kershnar Cycle Reactivated (several updates)

Every few years, it seems, someone new will learn of the work of philosopher Stephen Kershnar (SUNY Fredonia), share their shock, amusement, or outrage…

February 3, 2022
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Latest links in the Heap…

February 2, 2022
Mind Chunks

February 1, 2022
Philosophy Reading Group “Blueprints” & What’s Not Taught at University

Students and others may be interested in a philosophical topic, yet not have access to a course on it. One option is for them…

February 1, 2022
Former Postdoc Allegedly Threatens Philosophy Department (several updates)

A former postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) yesterday by email made “general threats… against…

February 1, 2022
Bengson & Shechtman from Wisconsin to Texas

The Department of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin is adding John Bengson and Anat Shechtman to its faculty.

January 31, 2022
Virtual Dissertation Writing Groups

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

January 31, 2022
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

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

January 31, 2022
Appiah Named Next President of the American Academy of Arts and Letters

Kwame Anthony Appiah, professor of philosophy and law at New York University, has been elected president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

January 28, 2022
Should Philosophy Grad Programs Interview Applicants?

Recent updates posted at the Grad Cafe by prospective graduate students in philosophy have mentioned the scheduling of admissions interviews at certain departments. Not many…

January 27, 2022
Areas/Topics of Submissions to Generalist Philosophy Journals

Some philosophical areas (and topics) don’t show up often in the pages of prestigious generalist philosophy journals. Is it because the journals don’t get…

January 27, 2022
New Political Philosophy Book Series to Focus on Marginalized Philosophers and Topics

“Transforming Political Philosophy” is an upcoming book series in political philosophy to be published by de Gruyter.

January 27, 2022
Mini-Heap

Recent additions to the Heap of Links…

January 26, 2022
Mentoring Workshop for Early Career Women in Philosophy

The Mentoring Project Workshop, an initiative of the Women in Philosophy Task Force, aims to provide women in the early stages of their careers…

January 26, 2022
New: Annals of Mathematics and Philosophy

A new journal, The Annals of Mathematics and Philosophy, will soon be releasing its first issue.

January 25, 2022

Heap of Links

“The path to becoming a researcher seemed shrouded in mystery; academia felt like a distant realm” — Markus Schrenk shares his journey from first-gen college student to successful, prize-winning philosophy professor
“It’s not as though my… research is informed by my politics. I feel it’s the other way around. My politics is informed by my research” — Lea Ypi is interviewed about politics and universities
Critic: “You, ChatGPT, are a bad Bayesian. Rather than assess an interlocutor’s counterargument as better or worse than expected, you tend to just agree with it.” — ChatGPT: "You're right"
“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

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Junior Faculty on Building AI That Can Do Philosophy Better Than Us (guest post)
Nicely said.
Junior on Building AI That Can Do Philosophy Better Than Us (guest post)
This has to be one of the best ever comments on Daily Nous.
Erik Magnusson on Building AI That Can Do Philosophy Better Than Us (guest post)
Hear, hear.
Jessie Ewesmont on Building AI That Can Do Philosophy Better Than Us (guest post)
I'm skeptical of any project which relies on the premise that philosophers just have too few philosophical opinions to meet the general public's hunger for them.
Alexander Guerrero on Building AI That Can Do Philosophy Better Than Us (guest post)
Wait, so the authors' supposed motivation for the project is that there is so much demand for serious philosophical answers to questions that we have to create a…
Max DuBoff on Building AI That Can Do Philosophy Better Than Us (guest post)
Poe's Law, presumably: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law
Junior Faculty on Building AI That Can Do Philosophy Better Than Us (guest post)
Also, to Justin: I would ask you to seriously reconsider posting things like this in the future.
Junior Faculty on Building AI That Can Do Philosophy Better Than Us (guest post)
I am deeply opposed to this. The creators are doing damage to our community. This involves a fundamental misunderstanding of what philosophy is, and one that is going…
Sam Duncan on Building AI That Can Do Philosophy Better Than Us (guest post)
It seems like at least part of what they are imagining is something like asking this thing for immediate moral judgments. Now even if its judgments were generally…
Student Philosopher on Building AI That Can Do Philosophy Better Than Us (guest post)
concerns about the drive it embodies towards what we might call “philosophical efficiency,” I share this concern. I suppose I see philosophy as an end in itself, and…
sahpa on Building AI That Can Do Philosophy Better Than Us (guest post)
Poe? You mean bot?
Adam on Building AI That Can Do Philosophy Better Than Us (guest post)
nevermind.
naive skeptic on Building AI That Can Do Philosophy Better Than Us (guest post)
Oh, is this a Poe? Apologies if so
naive skeptic on Building AI That Can Do Philosophy Better Than Us (guest post)
Your post is the second comment. Mine was the first. I said nothing about this being an advertisement. What are you referring to? You seem to be responding…
despondent on Building AI That Can Do Philosophy Better Than Us (guest post)
I'm really displeased by some of the comments here. For those of you saying that this is is just an advertisement in essay-form to get (mostly) free labor…

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