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Kah Kyung Cho (1927-2022)

Kah Kyung Cho, emeritus professor of philosophy at the State University of New York at Buffalo, has died.

January 25, 2022
Book Manuscript Workshops

Wouldn’t it be useful to have a group of people read your book manuscript and have a discussion about it with you?

January 24, 2022
Logic and the Law

“‘And’ may be read ‘or,’ and ‘or’ may be read ‘and’ if the sense requires it.”

January 24, 2022
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January 24, 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 24, 2022
Service-Learning in Philosophy Courses

“Moral problems, like global and local food insecurity, aren’t just abstract problems; they are practical problems with practical solutions. It’s important not just to…

January 21, 2022
Which Questions Can’t Philosophy Answer By Itself?

In an interview in The Undergraduate Philosophy Journal of Australasia, Thomas Spiteri asks Peter Godfrey-Smith (Sydney) about “how best to make epistemic progress” answering philosophical…

January 20, 2022
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January 20, 2022
How Do You Teach Your Students To Read?

“A video I recently watched that was meant to help college students learn to read began by saying, ‘Don’t read for class the way…

January 19, 2022
New Book Series to Feature Cross-Cultural Philosophy

The editors of a new book series from Oxford University Press (OUP) that will publish works that “exhibit conversation between traditions or cultural sources…

January 19, 2022
Chaospet

January 18, 2022
Mintz-Woo Wins 2021 Light Award

The International Society for Environmental Ethics (ISEE) has awarded its 2021 Andrew Light Award for Public Philosophy to Kian Mintz-Woo, permanent lecturer at University…

January 18, 2022
Philosophers Among ERC Starting Grant Winners

The European Research Council (ERC) has announced the winners of its recent round of “Starting Grants,” and several philosophers are among them.

January 17, 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 17, 2022
Assigning Public Philosophy Projects to Undergraduates (guest post)

In some of his recent courses, Daniel Munro, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto, has tried assigning something different from the traditional…

January 14, 2022
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January 14, 2022
News About Two Open-Access Philosophy Journals

One philosophy journal has shed its corporate publisher to protect its current open-access status, while another has initiated a funding plan that offers departments…

January 13, 2022
Philosophers Among 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.

January 12, 2022
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January 12, 2022
How to Bring Traditionally Underrepresented Areas of Philosophy into Your Courses

A new initiative taking place this summer aims to “equip philosophy professors with the competency to integrate modules on traditionally underrepresented areas of philosophy…

January 11, 2022

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“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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An adjunct on Building AI That Can Do Philosophy Better Than Us (guest post)
you must think we just fell of the turnip truck. try your song-and-dance routine on shelbyville.
David Thorstad on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
I've spent a long time trying to convince more philosophers of science to do crossover work in this field. Would be great to see more!
Marc Champagne on Building AI That Can Do Philosophy Better Than Us (guest post)
Amen.
MBW on Building AI That Can Do Philosophy Better Than Us (guest post)
I feel like you kids are going about this the wrong way. Make a fun ethics philosophy game, get philosophers to play it, and scrape their gameplay for…
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?

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