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APA Announces Prizes and Honors

The American Philosophical Association (APA) has announced the winners of several prizes and honors.

May 21, 2021
Heath Wins Donner Prize for Best Public Policy Book

Joseph Heath, professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto, has won the 2020 Donner Prize for Best Public Policy Book.

May 20, 2021
Plutynski Wins 2021 Lakatos Award

The London School of Economics and Political Science has announced that the winner of the 2021 Lakatos Award is Anya Plutynski (Washington University in…

May 20, 2021
OUP’s Prestige Monopoly (guest post)

Oxford University Press (OUP) has an excellent reputation in philosophy and publishes a lot of philosophy books. That seems like a good thing, but…

May 19, 2021
Reminder: Open, Live, Online Philosophy Events

This post is a reminder about the existence of the Open, Live, Online Philosophy Events Spreadsheet.

May 19, 2021
Mini-Heap

Links of interest to those interested in philosophy…

May 19, 2021
Mind Chunks

May 18, 2021
New Journal: Review of Analytic Philosophy

Review of Analytic Philosophy (RAP), a new open-access, peer-reviewed, English-language philosophy journal based in Japan, has just published its inaugural issue.

May 18, 2021
What Video Games to Play in a Philosophy Classroom? (guest post)

“Video games and various scenarios they present can help us not only to better explain and understand philosophical issues and thought experiments, but more…

May 18, 2021
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

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

May 17, 2021
Mini-Heap

The latest additions to the Heap of Links…

May 14, 2021
Philosophers Among the 2021 Newcombe Doctoral Fellows

The Institute for Citizens & Scholars (formerly the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation), has awarded its 2021 Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships, and several philosophy…

May 14, 2021
New Visualization-Based Interface for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Data engineer and developer Joseph DiCastro has created a visualization of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP) through which users can search for entries…

May 13, 2021
Sanders Metaethics Prize Winner Announced

The Marc Sanders Foundation has announced that the winner of its 2021 Prize in Metaethics is Graham Bex-Priestley (University of Leeds).

May 13, 2021
Christoph Jamme (1953-2021)

Christoph Jamme, professor of philosophy at Leuphana University of Lüneburg, has died.

May 13, 2021
Royal Institute of Philosophy Essay Prize Winners

The Royal Institute of Philosophy has announced the winners of its 2020 Essay Prize.

May 12, 2021
Jacques Bouveresse (1940-2021)

Jacques Bouveresse, emeritus professor of philosophy at the Collège de France, has died.

May 12, 2021
Numbers of Senior Hires in Philosophy During Recent Years

Eric Schwitzgebel (UC Riverside) looked into the numbers of senior hires in philosophy made in recent years.

May 12, 2021
Louis Charland (1958-2021)

Louis Charland, professor of philosophy, psychiatry, and health sciences at Western University (Ontario), has died.

May 12, 2021
Philosopher Wins Fellowship for Work on Mass Incarceration

The Whiting Foundation has named Michael Burroughs, associate professor of philosophy and director of the Kegley Institute of Ethics at California State University, Bakersfield, as…

May 11, 2021

Heap of Links

Does the principle of sufficient reason imply panpsychism? If it does, do we then ponens or tollens? — Sam Kimpton-Nye on these questions and the "demand for intelligibility"
PTSD flashbacks may be harmful, but they may also be helpfully “resupplying phenomenal experience” to those who, owing to trauma, are “grasp alienated” — Michaela McSweeney on trauma and "madness-as-strategy"
A look at the very first issue of Mind — Brett Mullins surveys its articles on the occasion of the journal's 150th anniversary
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

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Oslon on Gender, Publications, Teaching, and Satisfaction in the Early Stages of a Philosophy Career (guest post)
The finding that publication gaps barely exist during grad school but widen significantly by first hire is a pattern worth taking seriously. It suggests the problem isn't ability…
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Honoring Ambedkar with a prize in global pragmatism makes so much sense given how directly he applied Dewey's ideas to real struggles against caste and inequality. Philosophy that…
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AGT on Is a “Hardwired Pause” of AI Possible?
Indeed, although not because I was thinking of these points, my comment was intended to be satirical (since I don't expect any kind of pause at all).
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Im afraid that by now NVIDIA and the whole AI ecosphere is too big to fail. if anyone in gov't seriously entertained this, then we would have such…
Zach Thornton on Is a “Hardwired Pause” of AI Possible?
A concern about any temporary pause is that it creates an artificial bottleneck that, once released, will likely result in an overwhelming tsunami of developments. For example, suppose…
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I think the goal of academic philosophy is to systematize the teaching of philosophy through various traditions, making it possible to suspend all existing theories about reality so…
Patrick Lin on Is a “Hardwired Pause” of AI Possible?
Oops, thanks for clueing me in, David. I hadn't read their report since the premise sounded so implausible. After skimming the report now, my assessment and comment still…
Student Philosopher on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
The cost of access to AI is currently being subsidized by investors and taxpayers. The current cost is not economically sustainable.
Dan Hooley on Is a “Hardwired Pause” of AI Possible?
You can verify the destruction of GPUs. I’m not saying that’s the best option, but clearly it is an option.
David Wallace on Is a “Hardwired Pause” of AI Possible?
This is precisely the issue that the report being discussed here is addressing.
Runa on Is a “Hardwired Pause” of AI Possible?
yes. at last.
Patrick Lin on Is a “Hardwired Pause” of AI Possible?
Arms control ain't what it used to be. The main difference for cyberweapons and AI is that there's no plausible verification regime. They're not like bombs which can…
Dan Hooley on Is a “Hardwired Pause” of AI Possible?
For those concerned with regulatory capture, Alex Tabarrok has a great post explaining why this doesn't fit calls to slow down AI progress: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/09/what-regulatory-capture-actually-looks-like.html
Marc Champagne on Is a “Hardwired Pause” of AI Possible?
The fact that we are having this conversation, no matter its outcome, is a welcome change from the Mr.-Magoo-walking-into-traffic/Jesus-take-the-wheel approach of many.

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