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Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

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

June 8, 2020
Mason from Edinburgh to UCSB

Elinor Mason, senior lecturer in philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, will be moving to the Department of Philosophy at the University of California,…

June 5, 2020
The 2020 Class of Newcombe Fellows in Ethics & Religion Includes (Just) One Philosophy Student

Joanna Demaree-Cotton, a Ph.D. student in philosophy at Yale University, has won a 2020 Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship…

June 5, 2020
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June 4, 2020
BU Philosophers Object To University’s Fall 2020 Plans

Two philosophy professors at Boston University (BU), Russell Powell and Daniel Star, have authored a statement objecting to their administration’s plans for how teaching during the…

June 4, 2020
Curry on George Floyd and the “Fake Outrage” of Academic Philosophy

“The fake outrage of academic philosophy amazes me.”

June 3, 2020
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New links of interest to those interested in philosophy…

June 3, 2020
Protesting the Murder of George Floyd

Protests against the institutionalized racist violence against blacks in the United States, most recently exemplified by the recent murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police…

June 1, 2020
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

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

June 1, 2020
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May 29, 2020
Ronald Giere (1938-2020)

Ronald Giere, professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Minnesota, has died.

May 29, 2020
New Map of SEP Based on Reciprocated Entries

A new visualization of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP) displays the connections between each article and the “related entries” listed at the end of…

May 28, 2020
APA Election Results

The American Philosophical Association (APA) has announced the winners of its recent elections.

May 27, 2020
The Status of “Philosophy Labs” this Fall

Mohamed Mehdi, chair of the Department of Humanities and Philosophy at Oakton Community College, updated his faculty on the plans regarding their “philosophy labs”…

May 27, 2020
Rockford University Eliminates Philosophy Major

Rockford University in Illinois is eliminating four major programs, including philosophy.

May 27, 2020
Charles Guignon (1944-2020)

Charles Guignon, professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of South Florida, died this past weekend.

May 27, 2020
The Curious Case of a Quickly-Published Article (updated)

The article was submitted to a peer-reviewed philosophy journal on January 8th, accepted on January 24th, and published online on February 7th.

May 26, 2020
Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory in Belgrade Under Government Attack

The Serbian government is attempting to “muzzle and perhaps even eliminate” the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory at the University of Belgrade, according to faculty there.

May 26, 2020
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

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

May 25, 2020
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May 25, 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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