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NEH Awards Grants to Several Philosophers

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has announced the winners of its latest round of grants, and several philosophers are among them.

April 20, 2020
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

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

April 20, 2020
Universities Announce Furloughs and Salary Reductions

The University of Arizona, The University of Wisconsin system, and Valparaiso University have all announced they will be instituting furloughs—mandatory unpaid days off from…

April 20, 2020
Northwestern Prison Education Program Raises Funds to Fight Spread of COVID in Prisons

The Northwestern Prison Education Program (NPEP), led by Northwestern University Professor of Philosophy Jennifer Lackey, has been raising funds and purchasing supplies to combat the spread…

April 20, 2020
Lasting Lessons of the Academic Lockdown

Most university and college campuses have been mostly closed for a month or so at this point, with professors teaching their courses online from…

April 17, 2020
Mini-Heap

Latest additions to the Heap of Links…

April 17, 2020
A Philosophy & COVID-19 Bibliography

[Note from the editor: this post originally appeared in April but I’ve moved it to the top of the page as I’ve been getting…

April 16, 2020
COVID-19 and Teaching Evaluations

The abrupt transition to online teaching, the hasty reorganization or course schedules in light of cancelled classes, and the move to pass/fail grading options…

April 15, 2020
Having Fun Teaching Philosophy Online? Christina Van Dyke Is.

Christina Van Dyke, professor of philosophy at Calvin College, like many of us, had to move her courses online. She has been teaching her students Aristotle’s…

April 15, 2020
Two Philosophers Awarded ACLS Burkhardt Residential Fellowships

The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) has named the winners of its Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowships, and two philosophers are among them.

April 15, 2020
Mind Chunks

April 14, 2020
Two Philosophers Win National Humanities Center Fellowships

The National Humanities Center has announced its 2020-2021 residential fellows, and there are two philosophers among them.

April 14, 2020
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

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

April 14, 2020
Mini-Heap

Latest links added to the Heap…

April 14, 2020
Callard & Paul Win 2020 Lebowitz Prize

The American Philosophical Association (APA) and the Phi Beta Kappa Society (PBK) have selected Agnes Callard and L.A. Paul as the winners of the 2020 Dr. Martin R. Lebowitz and…

April 13, 2020
The Origins of Analytic Philosophy

“I find the usual story exaggerated, incomplete, and mistaken in various ways.”

April 13, 2020
Reminder: Non-Academic Hires List

In light of anticipated pandemic-prompted reductions in academic hiring, I was asked to remind readers of the Non-Academic Hires page.

April 13, 2020
Mini-Heap

New links of possible interest to those interested in philosophy…

April 10, 2020
“There is no philosophical essence”

“The question I regularly encountered, and still do, is: Is that still Philosophy?”

April 10, 2020
Joel Kupperman (1936-2020) (updated)

Joel Kupperman, professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Connecticut, has died.

April 10, 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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I just wanted to give some additional support for this. I remember co-founding PIKSI-Boston when I was graduate student at MIT (alongside Matthias Jenny, A.E. Jaques, and Sally).…
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One worry I have is that this will exacerbate prestige bias (which is already pretty rife). As someone at an institute that does not have great prestige, it's…
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My thoughts exactly.
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No, it can't on any serious definition of "do philosophy." There is plenty going on in our profession unrelated to tech fads.
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A computer can autonomously do philosophy now. Is that not a significant thing?
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