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New Commenting Platform

A new commenting platform, implemented as of this morning, is one of the more noticeable results of recent work on the site. Check it…

February 20, 2021
Journal of the History of Philosophy 2020 Best Article Prize

The Journal of the History of Philosophy has announced that the winner of its 2020 Best Article Prize is Jari Kaukua, professor of philosophy…

February 19, 2021
Mini-Heap

New links of possible interest to those interested in philosophy…

February 19, 2021
New: The Philosopher & The News Podcast

“The Philosopher & The News” is a new podcast of conversations with philosophers to discuss “the ideas hidden behind the biggest news stories.”

February 19, 2021
Harvard Declines to Consider Cornel West for Tenure (Updated)

Cornel West is threatening to leave his position at Harvard University following a decision by university officials to not honor his request that he…

February 19, 2021
Andreas Teuber (1942-2021)

Andreas Teuber, associate professor of philosophy at Brandeis University, has died.

February 18, 2021
Asking Authors about Interpretations of & Objections to Their Work

“Time and again, papers identify a lack of clarity, an ambiguity or a contradiction in the work of others. They then go on to…

February 17, 2021
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February 17, 2021
To φ Or Not To φ

February 16, 2021
Summer 2021 Philosophy Programs for Graduate Students

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

February 16, 2021
Mini-Heap

New additions to the Heap of Links…

February 16, 2021
Robeyns Wins AcademieKus Award from Dutch Education Labor Union

Philosopher Ingrid Robeyns, who holds the Chair in Ethics of Institutions at the Ethics Institute of Utrecht Universit, has won the AcademieKus (“Academy Kiss”) Prize…

February 15, 2021
“To Think Or Not To Think”: A Video About Whether To Go To Grad School In Philosophy

“Why did my professors always encourage me to live the philosophical life, yet suddenly change their tone when asked about graduate school? I thought…

February 15, 2021
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

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

February 15, 2021
New: The Saudi Journal of Philosophical Studies

The Saudi Journal of Philosophical Studies is a new semi-annual, multi-lingual, peer-reviewed philosophy journal.

February 12, 2021
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February 12, 2021
Rescher Prize Awarded to Thomas Nagel

The 2021 Nicholas Rescher Prize for Systematic Philosophy has been awarded to Thomas Nagel, emeritus professor of philosophy and law at New York University.

February 11, 2021
The Four-Sentence Philosophy Paper

Some philosophy professors have been assigning their students four-sentence papers to write. Why do this?

February 10, 2021
Effort Launched to Save Job of Philosopher at University of St. Andrews

An effort is underway to protest the decision of the University of St. Andrews to fail to make permanent the contract of a philosopher…

February 10, 2021
Chaospet

February 9, 2021

Heap of Links

“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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GoodForSpecialists on New Philosophy Journal Rankings by Citations in SEP in IEP
It is interesting that specialist journals do surprisingly well by these metrics. I'm looking in particular at the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism and the British Journal…
Michelle Mason Bizri on Building AI That Can Do Philosophy Better Than Us (guest post)
Amen.
Kenny Easwaran on Building AI That Can Do Philosophy Better Than Us (guest post)
I in general see much more potential for value in applications of AI than many other commenters here. But I pretty much agree about this one.
Kenny Easwaran on Building AI That Can Do Philosophy Better Than Us (guest post)
I think there is value in philosophy as an end-in-itself. But when your only defense of something rests on it being an end-in-itself, your arguments are completely unpersuasive…
Kenny Easwaran on Building AI That Can Do Philosophy Better Than Us (guest post)
I agree. I'm slightly dreading the work I've agreed to do in being an evaluator for the AI philosophy competition (though I'm also definitely curious how many of…
Caligula's Goat on Building AI That Can Do Philosophy Better Than Us (guest post)
Hopefully this falls within the comments policy because this is not about whether Clay's new comment is AI written or not but, instead, about how AI use erodes…
Qqq on Building AI That Can Do Philosophy Better Than Us (guest post)
Sorry, my mistake
Junior on Building AI That Can Do Philosophy Better Than Us (guest post)
"It’s been great seeing all of the different perspectives on our project." So far as I can tell, the perspectives were all pretty uniform.
Justin Weinberg on Building AI That Can Do Philosophy Better Than Us (guest post)
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:…
Qqq on Building AI That Can Do Philosophy Better Than Us (guest post)
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…
Graham Clay on Building AI That Can Do Philosophy Better Than Us (guest post)
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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