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New links of interest to those interested in philosophy…

January 13, 2021
How Should Departments Credit Faculty for Public Philosophy?

The Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside (UCR), will be considering a proposal about how to recognize the work its faculty…

January 13, 2021
Have Philosophy PhD Programs Received More Applications for 2021?

Recently, an undergraduate applying to Ph.D. programs in philosophy wrote with an anxious query about a possible increase in the number of people doing…

January 12, 2021
Examining the Future of Academic Events (guest post)

Following up on yesterday’s piece regarding online conferences, Heather Douglas, professor of philosophy at Michigan State University, in this guest post,* asks us to…

January 12, 2021
Online Conferences: The New Default (guest post)

In the following guest post,* a group of scholars make the case that the online conferences, the recent prevalence of which has been spurred…

January 11, 2021
Margaret Morrison (1954-2021)

Margaret Morrison, professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto, has died.

January 11, 2021
Richard Garner (1936-2020)

Richard Thomas Garner, emeritus professor of philosophy at The Ohio State University, has died.

January 11, 2021
Scottish Newspaper: Philosophy is a “Vaccine” Against Future Trumps

The Scotsman, one of Scotland’s leading newspapers, called for a greater emphasis on philosophy in education, saying “we need to vaccinate ourselves against the…

January 11, 2021
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

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

January 11, 2021
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January 9, 2021
“Biting the Bullet”: A Note on Style from Caspar Hare

In his 2013 book, The Limits of Kindness, Caspar Hare (MIT) includes a brief “stylistic note” that gets across an important lesson for academic writers:…

January 8, 2021
New: Virtual Publisher Showcases at the APA (guest post)

One of the pleasures of the divisional meetings of the American Philosophical Association (APA) is browsing the book displays. With the pandemic forcing the…

January 8, 2021
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January 7, 2021
APA Announces Multiple Awards

The American Philosophical Association (APA) has announced the winners of 15 prizes and honors, as well as the creation of a new prize.

January 7, 2021
New Workshop Series To Bring More Philosophy to Philosophy Twitter

The “Cogtweeto Philosophy Workshop Series” aims to bring together philosophers who are active on Twitter (a growing group—see below) to discuss their philosophical work…

January 6, 2021
Ann Garry Named Distinguished Woman Philosopher of 2020

Ann Garry, professor emerita of philosophy at California State University at Los Angeles, was named the Distinguished Woman Philosopher of 2020 by the Eastern…

January 6, 2021
Virtual Dissertation Groups for Spring 2021

Once again, Joshua Smart is organizing workshopping groups for philosophy graduate students currently writing dissertations.

January 5, 2021
Kathleen Stock Receives OBE; Philosophers Sign Letter Opposing the Honor (Updated)

Kathleen Stock, professor of philosophy at the University of Sussex, was one of 1,123 people awarded honors at the end of December by Queen…

January 5, 2021
Bye-Bye, 2020

Sometimes you have to zoom out and see the bigger picture to find the good news.

December 31, 2020
Support Philosophical Outreach to Those Who Lack Access to Universities

Over the summer, Sophia Stone (Lynn University), creator of Wisdom’s Edge Foundation, asked for help collecting short philosophical sayings–the “golden nuggets” of philosophy.

December 31, 2020

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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Meme on Building AI That Can Do Philosophy Better Than Us (guest post)
Meno: But Socrates, you haven’t considered my objection at all! Socrates: Let’s put a pin in that and circle back to it when we have better goal alignment…
Meme on Building AI That Can Do Philosophy Better Than Us (guest post)
“I share this concern,” not “this is how we convince them to spare philosophy.”
Student Philosopher on Wichita State to Eliminate Philosophy Major
Education is about more than making graduates employable….Among other things to be derived from higher education is moral growth or enrichment of the student’s inner life. I agree…
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.

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