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March 29, 2021
Absurdist Video Edits of Philosophers Talking

Saul Kripke, Kit Fine, Timothy Williamson, John McDowell, Jonathan Schaffer, Graham Priest, Robert Brandom, and other philosophers are the unwitting stars of films created…

March 28, 2021
Cambridge Hires Dewar and Fine

Neil Dewar, currently assistant professor at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, and Sarah Fine, currently senior lecturer in philosophy at King’s College, London,…

March 26, 2021
Summer Programs in Philosophy for High School Students, 2021 Edition

Please use the comments section on this post to share information about 2021 summer programs in philosophy for high school students.

March 25, 2021
“Hey Sophi”, or How Much Philosophy Will Computers Do?

While we have seen increased use of computing in philosophy over the past two decades, the continued development of computational sophistication and power, artificial…

March 24, 2021
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March 24, 2021
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March 23, 2021
Andrew Levine (1944-2021)

Andrew Levine, emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, adjunct professor of philosophy at the University of Maryland, College Park, and…

March 23, 2021
Stephen White (1983-2021)

Stephen White, associate professor of philosophy at Northwestern University, died yesterday.

March 22, 2021
Philosophy Grad Program Applicants’ Thoughts about the Application Process (guest post)

An informal survey of applicants to philosophy graduate programs, conducted in the Philosophy Graduate Applicants Facebook, Grad Cafe, and elsewhere online, provides some information…

March 22, 2021
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

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

March 22, 2021
Anderson & Russell Win 2021 Sanders Prize in Philosophy of Religion

The Marc Sanders Foundation has announced that it has awarded its 2021 prize in Philosophy of Religion to Charity Anderson (Baylor University) and Jeffrey Sanford…

March 22, 2021
Philosophy Majors Nominated for an Oscar

Kenny and Keith Lucas, aka The Lucas Brothers, both philosophy majors at The College of New Jersey (prior to both attending law school, both…

March 19, 2021
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March 19, 2021
Restall from Melbourne to St. Andrews

Greg Restall, currently Professor of Philosophy at the University of Melbourne, will be moving to the University of St. Andrews, where he will be the…

March 18, 2021
Advice About Undergraduate Philosophy Journals

A professor sends in a query about advising students on undergraduate philosophy journals.

March 17, 2021
To φ Or Not To φ

March 16, 2021
Cabrini University to Cut Philosophy Major

Cabrini University, a Catholic College in Pennsylvania, has announced that it is eliminating several programs, including its philosophy major.

March 16, 2021
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March 16, 2021
New: The British Society for the Theory of Knowledge

The British Society for the Theory of Knowledge (BSTK) is a new organization “dedicated to furthering philosophical research in epistemology.”

March 16, 2021

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“The technologies with which we are increasingly interconnected lack the complex interiority required for real intelligence to arise” — Melanie Challenger on how GPS, AI, etc. threaten bodily intelligence
“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

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1. I don't believe Graham's comment, above, was AI-authored. Perhaps I'm wrong about that, but in any event… 2. Please review the comments policy, which includes the following:…
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So how do we go about finding the best justified answer to the question: Is Pensatura overall good or bad for philosophy? And how do I create the…
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Thanks for the engagement, everyone. It's been great seeing all of the different perspectives on our project, including via email. Lots of good ideas on how to apply…
AGT on Wichita State to Eliminate Philosophy Major
Action plan and degree production. What more is there to say.
Ugh on Wichita State to Eliminate Philosophy Major
This is especially disheartening. Not only because it appears the administration was unclear as to where the goal posts were, but the department — from it's website, at…
Claire Katz on Wichita State to Eliminate Philosophy Major
It’s also a false dilemma that the choice is between a liberal arts education and workforce preparation. The humanities (and especially philosophy) are so much more than providing…
Juan Galis-Menendez on Wichita State to Eliminate Philosophy Major
This is a pattern I have seen for years in the US — eliminating philosophy, sometimes history, some arts courses and much more from the university curriculum because…
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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.
Felix on Building AI That Can Do Philosophy Better Than Us (guest post)
I admit that I didn't even read the guest post, assuming that it was wholly or mostly AI-generated. But I read your comment, assuming that it was not.…
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…
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Stefan Milojevic on Building AI That Can Do Philosophy Better Than Us (guest post)
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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.…

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