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Intuitive Expertise in Moral Judgments (guest post)

“People’s intuitive judgments about thought experiment cases are influenced by all kinds of irrelevant factors… [and] the issue of intuitive expertise in moral philosophy…

June 14, 2021
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June 11, 2021
BJPS Launches “Short Reads”

Are you interested in learning about recent work in philosophy of science but lack the time to read a bunch of articles? Well, a…

June 11, 2021
Philanthropists: Endow a Journal Instead of a Chair

In the comments on a previous post about a new journal, Barry Lam (Vassar) floats a brilliant idea:

June 10, 2021
Joseph Margolis (1924-2021)

Joseph Margolis, professor of philosophy at Temple University, has died.

June 10, 2021
Students from 50 Countries Participate in Philosophy Olympiad

The International Philosophy Olympiad took place last month, with 108 high school students from 50 different countries taking part.

June 9, 2021
New: Online Encyclopedia Philosophy of Nature

A new peer-reviewed open-access philosophy resource aims to “provide high-quality information on, and explanations of, natural-philosophical terms and subject areas and to make these…

June 8, 2021
Recruitment and Hiring Strategies to Make Philosophy More Diverse

The Demographics in Philosophy Project has issued a set of diversity-enhancing recommendations for philosophy department recruitment and hiring practices.

June 7, 2021
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June 7, 2021
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

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

June 7, 2021
New Site Lists Jobs Outside of Academia for People with Advanced Degrees in the Humanities and Social Sciences

Madeline Martin-Seaver, a philosophy post-doc at Auburn University, has created a new site that lists “alt-ac” job openings that would be appropriate for people with…

June 4, 2021
How What It Is Like to Be a Woman in Philosophy has Changed over the Past Decade

How have things changed for women in philosophy over the past decade?

June 4, 2021
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June 3, 2021
Frithjof Bergmann (1930-2021)

Frithjof Bergmann, emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Michigan, has died.

June 2, 2021
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June 2, 2021
Robert Ammerman (1927-2021)

Robert R. Ammerman, emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, has died.

June 2, 2021
Virtual Archive of Logical Empiricism

This Daily Nous item is temporarily unavailable while its historical content completes a security review. The title and publication record are preserved; the original…

June 1, 2021
Results of the Philosophy of Science Association’s Climate Change Survey (guest post)

“There is a clear signal in these results that very many professional philosophers of science want to be working in a more online environment…

June 1, 2021
Sunlight

“Sunlight is the best disinfectant,” the saying goes. It also causes sunburns.

May 28, 2021
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May 28, 2021

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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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DoctorK on Building AI That Can Do Philosophy Better Than Us (guest post)
Justin, to pick up on one point from naive skeptic, would you please consider not posting AI composed work like this guest post? It's horrible to read.
Gestioin urbaine on Building AI That Can Do Philosophy Better Than Us (guest post)
"Developing advanced AI systems for rigorous philosophical inquiry opens exciting new frontiers for decision-making and research.
Joe on Building AI That Can Do Philosophy Better Than Us (guest post)
They see exactly what they're doing and will continue to do it. I'm so fed up seeing people repackage other people's life work in a cheap for-profit manner…
Stefan Milojevic on Building AI That Can Do Philosophy Better Than Us (guest post)
Sorry, I misclicked lol
Stefan Milojevic on Building AI That Can Do Philosophy Better Than Us (guest post)
Lol yes that's totally fair and I don't rThats totally my fault. Regardless, even read as complicity, I think my point still stands
Trey Brackish on Building AI That Can Do Philosophy Better Than Us (guest post)
"What Alex actually wrote was to mock people who use AI because they’re 'too lazy or too busy' to write for themselves, and “too busy” isn’t just laziness."…
Stefan Milojevic on Building AI That Can Do Philosophy Better Than Us (guest post)
What Alex actually wrote was to mock people who use AI because they're "too lazy or too busy" to write for themselves, and "too busy" isn't just laziness.…
Nick on Building AI That Can Do Philosophy Better Than Us (guest post)
"Anyone who takes a shortcut deserves contempt." Which of course is nothing remotely near what Alex actually said. If you read what he wrote, you'll see that he's…
Bianca on Building AI That Can Do Philosophy Better Than Us (guest post)
This article undermines the credibility of your blog. Gross.
Megan on Building AI That Can Do Philosophy Better Than Us (guest post)
what an utterly foolish vision of philosophical inquiry this assumes.
Stefan Milojevic on Building AI That Can Do Philosophy Better Than Us (guest post)
Thanks for asking and I should've been clearer. I'm not saying hard work is bad. If you actually love philosophy, you'll want to think long and hard about…
Matt on Building AI That Can Do Philosophy Better Than Us (guest post)
In the spirit of the post, I’ll make this comment quick and bland: this whole project can get directly in the bin.
Kirsten Egerstrom on Building AI That Can Do Philosophy Better Than Us (guest post)
Thank you.
YourFriendlyNeighborhoodNaturalist on Building AI That Can Do Philosophy Better Than Us (guest post)
I’m wondering if you can say a little more here about the connection to capitalism, because I don’t really follow. Doing hard work, and asking others to do…
DBK on Building AI That Can Do Philosophy Better Than Us (guest post)
Did you notice how OpenAI changed tune after mathematicians' backlash over their initial math slop dumps? Now they're all about acknowledging mathematicians' agency, input and collaboration. It looks…

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