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Two Philosophers Recognized During Queen’s Birthday Honours

Two philosophers were among those recognized by Queen Elizabeth II during her Birthday Honours this year.

June 14, 2019
De Regt Wins 2019 Lakatos Award

Henk W. de Regt (VU University Amsterdam), has been named the winner of the 2019 Lakatos Award for his book, Understanding Scientific Understanding (Oxford University…

June 14, 2019
Crash Course: Metaphysics & Epistemology of Race

Welcome to another installment of the “Crash Course” series, this time on the metaphysics and epistemology of race.

June 13, 2019
Francisco Miró Quesada Cantuarias (1918-2019)

Francisco Miró Quesada Cantuarias, professor emeritus at the University of San Marcos, by some accounts Peru’s “leading philosopher” and one of the most important…

June 13, 2019
Toronto Hires Two in Indian Philosophy

The University of Toronto Department of Philosophy has just hired two scholars who specialize in Indian philosophy: Jonardon Ganeri, currently professor of philosophy and humanities…

June 12, 2019
Flourishing with Controversy: How Philosophy of Race Does It

One of the popular narratives about higher education is that the discussion of and disagreement over controversial ideas is imperiled, owing to the dominance…

June 12, 2019
Representation at the APA

“41 of 45 the APA’s officers, or 91.1%, are from research universities. While I understand that research plays a central role in the discipline, this strikes…

June 12, 2019
Winners of the 2019 Canadian Philosophical Association’s Book and Essay Prizes

The Canadian Philosophical Association (CPA) last week announced the winners of its 2019 book and essay prizes.

June 12, 2019
Mini-Heap

Yet another new Mini-Heap…

June 12, 2019
Ad Hoc

June 11, 2019
Greco from Saint Louis to Georgetown

John Greco, currently the Leonard and Elizabeth Eslick Chair in Philosophy at Saint Louis University, will be moving to the Department of Philosophy at…

June 11, 2019
Mini-Heap

Here’s the latest Mini-Heap…

June 11, 2019
Philosophers On the Ethics and Politics of Abortion

This year, nine U.S. states have passed legislation that bans early abortions in an attempt to provoke a challenge to the abortion rights protected by the…

June 10, 2019
Gertrude Ezorsky (1926-2019)

Gertrude Ezorsky, professor emerita of philosophy at Brooklyn College and the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center, died this past April. The…

June 10, 2019
Winners of Sanders Prize in Metaethics Announced

The Marc Sanders Foundation has named the authors of two papers the winners of its 2019 Metaethics Prize.

June 10, 2019
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

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

June 10, 2019
Joan Callahan (1946-2019)

Joan Callahan, professor emerita of philosophy at the University of Kentucky, has died.

June 7, 2019
Mini-Heap

Another Mini-Heap…

June 7, 2019
APA Election Results

The results of the 2019 American Philosophical Association (APA) elections have now been announced.

June 6, 2019
Mini-Heap

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June 6, 2019

Heap of Links

“[H]ow quickly… we get from wanting (of course rightly) to protect women and girls from violence—to actually imposing a new risk of violence upon them” — Sophie Grace Chappell writes to JK Rowling
Is pervasive substantive philosophical disagreement evidence for skepticism about philosophy? — "What kind of skepticism?" asks Duncan Pritchard. Pyrrhonian or Academic?
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"

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Ahh, I see. Thanks!
sahpa on Building AI That Can Do Philosophy Better Than Us (guest post)
Aren't y'all comparing AI papers against one another — yet the competition is about how good AI is at philosophy? Wouldn't the right comparison there be against human…
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I was making an SEP plugin last year but this one looks a lot more polished. Some suggestions: include the bibliography, notes, etc., in the TOC; make citing…
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Hi Will, I'm very interested in the case you talked about. Could you share one or two main papers on model uncertainty in statistics?
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Not Racist on Philosopher-led Team Nets $2.91 Million in Grants for Project on Safeguards of Liberalism
Alright Justin, let's maybe try to clean up the racist dogwhistle comments
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