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Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

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

July 13, 2020
Discussion About Discussions Here

Since there appears to be interest in discussing the recent experiments here regarding the comments (see some of the comments on the “Illusion and…

July 10, 2020
Best PhD Programs in Philosophy (guest post by Carolyn Dicey Jennings)

The following is a guest post* by Carolyn Dicey Jennings, associate professor of philosophy and cognitive science at University of California, Merced, and the…

July 9, 2020
Illusion and Agreement in the Debate over Intolerance

A good number of very smart, interesting, and creative people signed onto an open letter, published in Harper’s this week, applauding “wider calls for greater equality…

July 9, 2020
Metz from Johannesburg to Pretoria

Thaddeus Metz, currently at the University of Johannesburg, will become professor of philosophy at the University of Pretoria.

July 9, 2020
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July 8, 2020
Mind Chunks

July 7, 2020
Homeland Security To Ban International Students From U.S. If Their Colleges Adopt Online-Only Instruction

The U.S. Department of State will not issue visas to students enrolled in schools and/or programs that are fully online for the fall semester…

July 7, 2020
The Margins of Philosophy (guest post by Peter Adamson)

“We need to understand the ‘minor figures’ to understand the ‘major figures’ adequately. But that’s not the only reason to be interested in minor figures,…

July 6, 2020
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

Here’s the report on new and revised entries in online philosophy resources and new reviews of philosophy books.

July 6, 2020
Visualizing the Connections among Philosophical Topics

Justin Reppert, a philosophy Ph.D. student at Fordham University, has created a fun tool that illustrates the connections between various philosophical topics, based on…

July 3, 2020
Should We Continue to Honor Hume With Buildings and Statues? (updated)

(UPDATE: This post, originally published in July, has been moved to the top of the page and updated with the news that the University…

July 3, 2020
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July 2, 2020
Demographic Trends in the Philosophy Major Might Be Mostly Due to Pre-College Factors (guest post)

This guest post* looks at two questions related to demographic trends among philosophy majors. First, are women disproportionately less interested in the philosophy major at…

July 1, 2020
An Argument to Move College Students to Follow COVID-19 Guidelines

Though the COVID-19 pandemic is strengthening in parts of the United States, many universities here are planning to reopen their doors in the fall…

July 1, 2020
New Editor at NDPR

Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (NDPR), the online journal of reviews of philosophy books, has a new editor.

July 1, 2020
Chaospet

June 30, 2020
Philosophy at Illinois Wesleyan Threatened – Updated With Link to Petition

The Board of Trustees at Illinois Wesleyan University (IWU) has proposed eliminating the school’s Philosophy Department, along with some other departments.

June 30, 2020
Mini-Heap

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June 30, 2020
Nagasawa Wins £2.15 Million Grant to “Globalize” Philosophy of Religion

It is not uncommon to hear complaints that the subfield of philosophy of religion in the English-speaking world is overly focused on Christianity. A new…

June 30, 2020

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Some authors of articles published in philosophy journals are not disclosing that they used AI in writing them — and they should, says Amos Wollen
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

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Michel on New Philosophy Journal Rankings by Citations in SEP in IEP
Having just looked at the citation numbers (why didn't I before?), they're in the range I'd expect for the number of relevant entries (pure gut feeling on my…
Michel on New Philosophy Journal Rankings by Citations in SEP in IEP
I'm also surprised by how well the BJA and the JAAC fare; the SEP does have more aesthetics-related entries than you might expect, but then again, it's probably…
Michael Kirchhoff on Calls for Papers / Grants / Etc.
Idealization, Computation and Cognition. University of Wollongong, Australia. Deadline for submissions 1 February 2027. https://www.idealizationcomputationcognition.com/ We invite submissions for Idealization, Computation and Cognition 2027, a three-day international conference…
Nat Hansen on New Philosophy Journal Rankings by Citations in SEP in IEP
Brian Weatherson noticed that the article count for Phil Review was high in my ranking of citations per 100 articles; it turned out Claude was counting some Phil…
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…

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