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Legal Philosopher Successful in Defense Against Attack by Poland’s Ruling Party

Wojciech Sadurski, a legal scholar and philosopher of law with appointments at the University of Sydney and the University of Warsaw, has successfully withstood…

November 6, 2020
Mini-Heap

This installment of Mini-Heap includes links that are not yet in the actual Heap.

November 5, 2020
Site Maintenance

Daily Nous will be undergoing some maintenance this week which may result in some pages being unavailable and fewer new posts and links than…

November 4, 2020
Election Open Thread / Ad Hoc

(Moving this up on the page because, well, what else are we going to talk about?) Rachel Katler’s Ad Hoc comic this week (below)…

November 3, 2020
APDA Adds Board of Advisors

Academic Placement Data and Analysis (APDA), a project led by Carolyn Dicey Jennings (UC Merced) to gather, analyze, and present data about philosophy departments,…

November 3, 2020
Coffee Company Donates 20% of Profits to Philosophy Education

A new roaster and seller of coffee beans, A Posteriori Coffee Co., donates 20% of its profits to support philosophy programs for children in kindergarten…

November 3, 2020
Morton Wins AAC&U Book Award

The Association of American Colleges & Universities (AAC&U) has awarded its 2020 Frederic W. Ness Book Award to Jennifer Morton, associate professor of philosophy at the…

November 2, 2020
Much Fewer Academic Philosophy Jobs Advertised This Season

Compared to previous years, the number of academic jobs advertised this season is much lower.

November 2, 2020
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

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

November 2, 2020
Mini-Heap

New week starts with a new Mini-Heap…

November 2, 2020
Mini-Heap

New links of possible interest to those interested in philosophy…

October 30, 2020
Philosophical Candy

Halloween is coming around again, that time of year where we have fun making things extra scary. But hasn’t this past year been frightening enough?

October 29, 2020
Philosophers On Access to Medicine

Three philosophers discuss some of the moral and political questions involved in providing access to medicine and medical care in this edition of Philosophers On.

October 28, 2020
Mini-Heap

New additions to the Heap of Links…

October 28, 2020
Mind Chunks

October 27, 2020
Counting Participation in the Philosophy Classroom

Do you grade your students on their in-class participation? How do you do it?

October 27, 2020
Adam Morton (1945-2020) (updated)

Adam Morton, a philosopher who over the course of his career held appointments at several institutions, most recently at the University of British Columbia…

October 27, 2020
Arthur Collins (1930-2020)

Arthur “Artie” W. Collins, professor emeritus of philosophy at the City University of New York’s City College and Graduate Center, has died.

October 27, 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 27, 2020
Zoom Censors Online Session on Zoom Censorship

“We Will Not Be Silenced,” an academic webinar about Zoom’s decision to cancel an earlier academic webinar, was canceled by Zoom.

October 26, 2020

Heap of Links

It took a philosopher who was a medical doctor to argue for the social utility of vice. Why? — John Callanan and Blain Neufeld discuss Bernard Mandeville, "the wickedest man in Europe"
“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

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Student Philosopher on Building AI That Can Do Philosophy Better Than Us (guest post)
At least, when I ask Claude to pretend to be my provost, that’s what it says.LOL
Deborah on Wichita State to Eliminate Philosophy Major
In states like Ohio and Indiana universities are losing their majors because state legislatures mandate programs must have a certain number of graduates. The situation at WSU appears…
despondent on Building AI That Can Do Philosophy Better Than Us (guest post)
Well, I don't know about anyone else, but I'm convinced! I especially like the part about how "…we can help a significant number of students become better reasoners…
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:…

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