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January 12, 2026
The APA Board’s Open Letter to Trans Philosophers

At its November 2025 meeting, the Board of the American Philosophical Association (APA) approved a statement addressed “first and foremost, to trans members of…

January 9, 2026
Legalize Plato: The Shirt

In light of Texas A&M’s decision to tell a philosophy professor to remove readings by Plato from his course, one enterprising philosopher has come…

January 8, 2026
Adamson’s “Rules” for Writing Philosophy

“The first question is: what is the question?”

January 8, 2026
Calling Dibs in Philosophy

Barry Lam (UC Riverside) wrote recently about the practice of “calling dibs.”

January 8, 2026
Does the Size of the Universe Matter to Whether Anything Objectively Matters?

“The universe is old, big, and empty. In comparison, we are new and small.”

January 7, 2026
Texas A&M Bans Plato (further updates)

Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide.

January 6, 2026
A Course on Public Philosophy

What does a course on public philosophy look like?

January 6, 2026
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January 6, 2026
Philosophy to the Rescue of Science

The pessimistic meta-induction—the argument that since past scientific theories have been shown to be false, we should expect that today’s will turn out false,…

January 5, 2026
Philosopher Receives Big Grant to Study “Spiritual Yearning”

Ian Church, associate professor of philosophy at Hillsdale College, has received a $2.5 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation for a project on…

January 5, 2026
Lord Wins 2025 Sanders Epistemology Prize

The winner of the 2025 Marc Sanders Prize in Epistemology is Errol Lord (University of Pennsylvania).

January 5, 2026
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

This is the weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, new podcast episodes, recently published…

January 5, 2026
New Year’s Greetings & Your Suggestions

Happy New Year to you all!

January 2, 2026
Hubert Dreyfus Audio Archive Project: Funds Sought

The Hubert L. Dreyfus Foundation, a nonprofit, public benefit corporation founded by Hubert Dreyfus’s family following the philosopher’s death in 2017, is raising funds to…

December 30, 2025
Eduardo Mendieta (1963-2025)

Eduardo Mendieta, professor of philosophy at Penn State University, has died.

December 29, 2025
Philosophers Against Malaria: Competition Results

The fundraising competition among departments of philosophy to raise funds to fight malaria, launched at the start of this month, has come to an…

December 29, 2025
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December 26, 2025
Notre Dame AI Ethics Project Wins $50.8 Million Grant

The University of Notre Dame’s Institute for the Ethics and the Common Good (ECG), directed by philosophy professor Meghan Sullivan, has received a $50.8…

December 24, 2025
Georgetown Philosophy Suspends PhD Admissions for Fall 2026

The Department of Philosophy at Georgetown University will not be accepting any PhD students for the 2026-2027 academic year.

December 24, 2025

Heap of Links

“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 he 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
We may think that we lose something significant when AI beats us to a discovery — if we do, Daniel Greco says, that seems to imply we gained something significant, too
“Once upon a time there were a couple of handsome naturalistic philosophers working in and around the philosophy of fiction” — thoughts on new directions in philosophy of fiction, from several philosophers
What is the debate over whether trans women are women even about? — Katie Zhou argues that it's about which facts are granted "the cross-contextual significance and stickiness characteristic of gender"
We’re putting human brain cells into mice brains — One moral risk of this, says Mackenzie Graham, is a decrease in our ability to interpret what mice behavior tells us about their experiences and welfare
The Rawls Game — with instructions, background, advice, and downloadable character cards
“The central question would shift from ‘How do we maximize shareholder value?’ to ‘How do different forms of organization distribute power, risk and reward — and which should we strengthen?'” — Chris Marquis on the case for abolishing, or at least radically changing, business schools
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"

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Hey Nonny Mouse on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
I don't personally know a single politically conservative working philosopher. The lack of conservatives in philosophy requires explanation and our explanations should be tested. There is certainly a…
Felix on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
…critics of the policies promoted (very successfully, it is important to note, at least for a time) by maximalist trans activism are causing all manner of harm. This…
Reichenbach on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
Fine is not wrong on that score.
Felix on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
That's a good question. I don't think that the amicus briefs actually swayed opinion on the court, but more so that they provided the intellectual legitimization that the…
Meme on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
Oh… my.
Grad student on Mini-Heap
What a great sense of humour S Darwall has – a very enjoyable listen
Noah Gordon on “A Failure of Expectation Calibration”
I'd be curious to hear more about who the evaluators were in the blind evaluation tasks. The human contributors are described as "philosophy PhDs and professors", whereas the…
Noah Gordon on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
I thought we were all clamoring for Kit Fine's opinion on the politicization of music studies.
Jessie Ewesmont on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
Rosen and Fine are some of the greatest metaphysicians to ever live. I think everyone would be better off if they directed the majority of their energies towards…
norms are not cheap explanations! on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
Weinberg offered a thoughtful presentation of a social scientific hypothesis. You offered something much more flippant (which is fine, but was also something whose content surprised me). So…
Shay A Logan on Underrepresentation of Non-Native English Speakers in Philosophy: Findings from over 100,000 Papers (guest post)
That’s not how statistics work.
Meme on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
"submitting amicus briefs to the Supreme Court, and having that very court cite them in support of wide-ranging judicial decisions bearing upon the rights of trans people" Is…
Moti Gorin on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
This is bizarre. For years, there has been a steady stream of articles, both in the peer reviewed literature and in the popular media, doing exactly what you…
KLY on Underrepresentation of Non-Native English Speakers in Philosophy: Findings from over 100,000 Papers (guest post)
Nice work! I do wonder, however, whether the proxies (working in an English-speaking country plus having obtained one’s PhD in one) classify some very accomplished non-native speakers as…
Student Philosopher on New: Oxford Studies in Philosophy of AI and Computing
Fantastic, thanks so much!

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