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Some Advice about Applying for Interdisciplinary Humanities Fellowships and Grants

The National Humanities Center (NHC) recently announced its fellows for the 2026-27 academic year, and two philosophers are among them.

April 9, 2026
2026 Sanders Prize in Metaphysics Winners Announced

The Marc Sanders Foundation has announced that its 2026 Prize in Metaphysics has been awarded to Ezra Rubenstein and Verónica Gómez-Sánchez (both of UC…

April 8, 2026
Trial Starts Today for Philosophy Lecturer Who Tossed Away Tear Gas Canister Thrown by ICE (updated)

The trial of Jonathan Caravello, a lecturer in philosophy at California State University Channel Islands, begins today. The trial concerns his actions at a protest…

April 7, 2026
Publishing, Teaching, and the Philosophy Job Market (guest post)

How many publications do early career job applicants in academic philosophy have? How many courses have they taught? How have the answers to these…

April 7, 2026
Top University in Iran Bombed

Early this morning, Sharif University of Technology, Iran’s leading technical university, was bombed.

April 6, 2026
New Writings by Empedocles Discovered

The ideas of 5th Century BCE philosopher Empedocles have reached us mostly* through paraphrases or fragmentary quotes of his work by later authors, but…

April 6, 2026
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

This is the weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, new podcast episodes, recently published…

April 6, 2026
Mini-Heap

Items of interest elsewhere…

April 3, 2026
Charles E. Scott (1935-2026)

Charles E. Scott, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Research Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Vanderbilt University and Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Penn State…

April 3, 2026
Philosophy: More Empirical Than Ever

“In the early 1970s, fewer than 10% of articles cited any empirical sources. However, by the 2020s, this grew to over 50%.”

April 2, 2026
Trans-Exclusionary Philosopher Seeks to Exclude Trans Philosopher

Jonathan Pike, a professor of philosophy at Open University who defends trans-exclusionary (aka “gender critical”) views has submitted a formal complaint about the appointment…

April 2, 2026
What Is a Practical Joke?

It’s April Fools Day—a day of jokey trickery, of practical jokes.

April 1, 2026
QS 2026 “World University Rankings” in Philosophy

The 2026 “QS World University Rankings” have been published. These contain rankings by subject matter, including philosophy.

April 1, 2026
Radzik from Texas A&M to Binghamton

Linda Radzik, professor of philosophy at Texas A&M University, will be moving to Binghamton University (SUNY).

March 31, 2026
Alan Musgrave 1940-2026

Alan Musgrave, professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Otago, died this past January.

March 31, 2026
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

This is the weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, new podcast episodes, recently published…

March 30, 2026
Lots More Leibniz

2000 pages of Leibniz, much of it previously untranslated or unpublished, will be published next month.

March 27, 2026
Mini-Heap

Recent additions to the Heap of Links…

March 26, 2026
Texas State Fires Philosophy Professor Over Off-Campus Talk on the Israeli-Palestine Conflict

Idris Robinson, a tenure-track assistant professor of philosophy at Texas State University, is suing several university officials for violating his constitutional rights after they…

March 25, 2026
The Philosophy Curricula in Mid-20th Century UK Universities

Who and what was covered in philosophy courses at UK universities in the 1950s and 1960s?

March 24, 2026

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“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 he 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
“The central question would shift from ‘How do we maximize shareholder value?’ to ‘How do different forms of organization distribute power, risk and reward — and which should we strengthen?'” — Chris Marquis on the case for abolishing, or at least radically changing, business schools
Asking “How did I get here?” may help us reflect on the nature of personal identity in ways that asking “Who am I?” cannot — Marya Schechtman's 2024 Central Division Meeting Presidential Address
“Collecting is a game, but what kind of game? It is an imperfect information game of acquisition” — a theory of collecting, from Steven Hales
“A general human tendency: to overestimate how far we have come in the progress of human knowledge” — a lengthy interview with Thomas Nagel
“Many couples do not survive trauma like this” — A profile of Susan Brison—who was brutally attacked in 1990, and who wrote about it in Aftermath—and her husband, Thomas Trezise, who has now written his own book stemming from those events
“Bad AI Consciousness Takes” Bingo Card — Henry Shevlin's area of specialization is becoming a popular topic in popular discourse, and he can't stand the "cavalcade of terrible takes"

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Reichenbach on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
Fine is not wrong on that score.
Felix on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
That's a good question. I don't think that the amicus briefs actually swayed opinion on the court, but more so that they provided the intellectual legitimization that the…
Meme on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
Oh… my.
Grad student on Mini-Heap
What a great sense of humour S Darwall has – a very enjoyable listen
Noah Gordon on “A Failure of Expectation Calibration”
I'd be curious to hear more about who the evaluators were in the blind evaluation tasks. The human contributors are described as "philosophy PhDs and professors", whereas the…
Noah Gordon on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
I thought we were all clamoring for Kit Fine's opinion on the politicization of music studies.
Jessie Ewesmont on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
Rosen and Fine are some of the greatest metaphysicians to ever live. I think everyone would be better off if they directed the majority of their energies towards…
norms are not cheap explanations! on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
Weinberg offered a thoughtful presentation of a social scientific hypothesis. You offered something much more flippant (which is fine, but was also something whose content surprised me). So…
Shay A Logan on Underrepresentation of Non-Native English Speakers in Philosophy: Findings from over 100,000 Papers (guest post)
That’s not how statistics work.
Meme on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
"submitting amicus briefs to the Supreme Court, and having that very court cite them in support of wide-ranging judicial decisions bearing upon the rights of trans people" Is…
Moti Gorin on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
This is bizarre. For years, there has been a steady stream of articles, both in the peer reviewed literature and in the popular media, doing exactly what you…
KLY on Underrepresentation of Non-Native English Speakers in Philosophy: Findings from over 100,000 Papers (guest post)
Nice work! I do wonder, however, whether the proxies (working in an English-speaking country plus having obtained one’s PhD in one) classify some very accomplished non-native speakers as…
Student Philosopher on New: Oxford Studies in Philosophy of AI and Computing
Fantastic, thanks so much!
John Bengson on Where Intuitions Conflict
Fair question, Vinicius. I consider the worry in §3 and address it via what I call the First and Second Observations, which I take to be on firm…
Really? on Underrepresentation of Non-Native English Speakers in Philosophy: Findings from over 100,000 Papers (guest post)
So, all the professors around the world working in analytic philosophy in non-English languages do not have successful careers? My guess is that at least some of them…

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