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Two Philosophers Win ACLS Fellowships

The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) has announced its 2020 class of fellows.

April 10, 2020
Philosophers Among New Class of Guggenheim Fellows

Several scholars with appointments in philosophy are among the winners of this years Guggenheim Fellowships.

April 9, 2020
Philosophers Win $1.3 Million Grant to Study Epistemic Progress in the University

A trio of philosophers at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam have won €1.2 million (approximately $1.3 million) grant from the Templeton World Charity Foundation to study how universities can best…

April 9, 2020
U. Arizona Retracts Ph.D. Funding Offers to New Students Because of Pandemic (several updates)

The Department of Philosophy at the University of Arizona wrote last night to prospective students who were admitted to its Ph.D. program this season, but…

April 8, 2020
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April 8, 2020
AAUP Faculty Compensation Report Released

The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) has published the results of its 2019-20 Faculty Compensation Survey.

April 8, 2020
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April 7, 2020
APA Grad Council: How to Support Grad Students During the Pandemic

The Graduate Student Council (GSC) of the American Philosophical Association (APA) has issued a set of recommendations for how departments of philosophy and universities…

April 7, 2020
Now May Be The Time To Transition to Tutorial Instruction (guest post)

This Daily Nous item is temporarily unavailable while its historical content completes a security review. The title and publication record are preserved; the original…

April 6, 2020
Mark Steiner (1942-2020)

Mark Steiner, emeritus professor of philosophy at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, has died of complications related to COVID-19.

April 6, 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 6, 2020
Mini-Heap

The latest additions to the Heap of Links…

April 3, 2020
Pandemic Effects on Conference & Event Planning for 2021 & Beyond

The Covid-19 pandemic has caused many upcoming academic events to be cancelled and many to be moved online. How is it affecting the planning…

April 3, 2020
Running Interactive Philosophy Classes Online (guest post by Alex Hyun & Scott Wisor)

The following is a guest post* by Alex Hyun and Scott Wisor, both of Minerva Schools at Keck Graduate Institute (one of the Claremont…

April 2, 2020
What Is Your Department/University Doing For Its Graduate Students During The Pandemic?

Some universities have included in their responses to the pandemic measures that extend various deadlines for faculty, add an extra year to faculty tenure…

April 1, 2020
Mini-Heap

The latest links…

April 1, 2020
Spreadsheet for Open, Live, & Online Philosophy Conferences & Other Events

The Covid-19 pandemic has prompted philosophers to move conferences and related events online, or create new online events, and to make at least the…

March 31, 2020
Philosophers Respond to Social Distancing

How do philosophers respond to being told they have to “social distance” and avoid leaving their homes in order to slow the Covid-19 pandemic?

March 31, 2020
Journal Timelines & Articles on the Pandemic

“Anyone know if any journals will publish things very quickly… in response to the Coronavirus epidemic?”

March 31, 2020
A Second “Teaching Philosophy Online” Session

Ian Schnee and Paul Franco, philosophers at the University of Washington who ran a videoconference session last week about teaching philosophy courses online, are hosting a second one this Wednesday.

March 31, 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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According to OpenAI our smart vacuum cleaners will kill us all in a few months time, so who cares about publications. Let them come! (Remember the lady on…
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I am so saddened to hear this. Cain was my lecturer and dissertation supervisor during my BA at Lancaster. He was such an intelligent, spirited, erudite and inspiring…
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Well even if it was significant, we had twenty other posts discussing a variation of this theme in the past week, so maybe we could move on
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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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