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Philosophers Win 2020 Leverhulme Prizes

Three philosophers have been named winners of the 2020 Philip Leverhulme Prizes.

October 19, 2020
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

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

October 19, 2020
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Links to philosophy-related stuff elsewhere around the internet…

October 19, 2020
2020 PhilPapers Survey Begins

In 2009, the PhilPapers team—David Bourget of the University of Western Ontario and David Chalmers of New York University—conducted a survey of the views of professional philosophers…

October 16, 2020
Philosopher Wins £1m Grant to Study Human and Animal Rationality

Giacomo Melis, a postdoctoral research fellow in philosophy at the University of Stirling, has won funding of just over £1 million (approximately $1.29 million) for…

October 15, 2020
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Recent philosophy-related links…

October 15, 2020
Major Philosophy Event for Pre-College Students Held Online This Year

The 2020 Australasian Philosothon—“an event that encourages school students to investigate ethical and philosophical questions in the context of ‘communities of inquiry’”—took place at the end…

October 14, 2020
The Professional Status of “Pro-Life” Positions on Abortion

Should junior job seekers try to avoid outing themselves as “pro-life”?

October 13, 2020
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Links recently added to the Heap…

October 13, 2020
Undergraduate Philosophy Journals Database

Do you know undergraduate philosophy students who might be interested in publishing their work?

October 12, 2020
Bad Arguments Against Teaching Chinese Philosophy

“ME: Have you considered teaching Chinese philosophy in your department? COLLEAGUE: Philosophy is by definition the tradition that goes back to Greece…”

October 12, 2020
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

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

October 12, 2020
Mini-Heap

Weekend edition of additions to the Heap of Links.

October 10, 2020
Philosophy MA Programs: Funding Details

If you’re interested in learning more about which master’s programs in philosophy offer funding, you can check out the “Funded MA Programs in Philosophy”…

October 9, 2020
The Philosophy Major Is (Kind of) Back on the Rise (guest post by Eric Schwitzgebel)

New data shows a recent slight uptick in the percentage of undergraduates earning philosophy degrees.

October 9, 2020
The Effects of the Pandemic on Journal Submissions

Journal editors: how has the pandemic been affecting submissions to your journals over the past eight months?

October 8, 2020
Fitelson Wins Wolfram Innovator Award

Branden Fitelson, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Northeastern University, is one of the winners of the 2020 Wolfram Innovator Award.

October 8, 2020
Mini-Heap

New links of interest to those interested in philosophy…

October 8, 2020
Unextractable Insights of Literature and the Arts

“There appears to be no room within ethics for humanistic thinking or artistic expression as such, and this represents a massive and practically catastrophic…

October 7, 2020
More Philosophy Songs

“Knowledge of the world relies / On what we can see / But experience implies / Nothing yet to be.”

October 7, 2020

Heap of Links

Asking “How did I get here?” may help us reflect on the nature of personal identity in ways that asking “Who am I?” cannot — Marya Schechtman's 2024 Central Division Meeting Presidential Address
“Collecting is a game, but what kind of game? It is an imperfect information game of acquisition” — a theory of collecting, from Steven Hales
“A general human tendency: to overestimate how far we have come in the progress of human knowledge” — a lengthy interview with Thomas Nagel
“Many couples do not survive trauma like this” — A profile of Susan Brison—who was brutally attacked in 1990, and who wrote about it in Aftermath—and her husband, Thomas Trezise, who has now written his own book stemming from those events
“Bad AI Consciousness Takes” Bingo Card — Henry Shevlin's area of specialization is becoming a popular topic in popular discourse, and he can't stand the "cavalcade of terrible takes"
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"

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the upper bound will have lower likelyhood than the lower bound and the lower bound of economic disaster is far higher than the lowerbound of ai harm. the…
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It was back in May 2023, we were walking in Riverside, and I was making the case that by the end of the decade AI would be able…
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What a depressing view of the profession, and I strongly disagree with it. I don't actually think salami slicing is all that common in philosophy. I take pride…
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Yes, but assuming now that those who today 'do' philosophy, do it because they like it, despite the pressures, the incentives system, the publish and perish, the impossible…
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Thanks!
AGT on The Future Currency of Achievement in Human Philosophy
I still think that this prediction (or, shall we say, hope?) is way too optimistic. If universities weren't run as businesses, I might even believe it, but not…
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