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Crash Course: Consequentialism & Deontology in Contemporary Normative Ethics

We’re going to try to solicit recommendations for a “crash course” on an aspect of contemporary ethics.

May 8, 2019
To φ Or Not To φ

May 7, 2019
What’s New at Academic Placement Data and Analysis?

Academic Placement Data and Analysis (APDA) is a project that aims to “collect, analyze, and distribute data on job placement for graduates of PhD…

May 7, 2019
PhilPapers Planning to Conduct 2nd Survey of Philosophers in December

David Bourget (Western University) and David Chalmers (NYU), the creators of PhilPapers and related sites, are planning a sequel to their 2009 survey of the philosophical…

May 6, 2019
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A note from the editor.

May 6, 2019
A White Paper on Publication Ethics in Philosophy

A project that “seeks to foster greater awareness among humanities scholars and editors about ethical issues in publishing, with a focus on the discipline of…

May 6, 2019
Ruth Anna Putnam (1927-2019)

Ruth Anna Putnam, professor emerita of philosophy at Wellesley College, died this past Saturday.

May 6, 2019
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

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

May 6, 2019
American Philosophical Association and Other Groups Protest Brazilian Academic Defunding Proposal

The American Philosophical Association (APA), the American Sociological Association (ASA), the Associação Nacional de Pós-Gradiação em Filosofia (Brazil), and several other academic organizations have published a…

May 3, 2019
Mini-Heap

Happy Friday Mini-Heap of Links…

May 3, 2019
Cornell Hires Nichols, Hübner, and Pavese

The Sage School of Philosophy at Cornell University has made three senior hires: Shaun Nichols (currently at the University of Arizona), Karolina Hübner (currently at the University…

May 3, 2019
The Philosophy Haiku of Kris McDaniel

Philosopher Kris McDaniel, who will be moving shortly from Syracuse University to the University of Notre Dame, writes philosophy haiku.

May 2, 2019
Cariani from Northwestern to Maryland

Fabrizio Cariani, currently associate professor of philosophy at Northwestern University, will be moving to the Department of Philosophy at the University of Maryland.

May 2, 2019
Wallace from USC to Pittsburgh

David Wallace, currently professor of philosophy at the University of Southern California (USC), will be moving to the University of Pittsburgh, where he will…

May 2, 2019
A New Kind of Critical Thinking Text (guest post by David Manley)

“What would it look like if we taught only the most useful skills from the toolkits of philosophy, cognitive psychology, and behavioral economics?”

May 1, 2019
British Philosophical Association Defends Philosophy in Brazil

The Executive Committee of the British Philosophical Association (BPA) has issued a statement responding to Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, who last week proposed that federal funding…

May 1, 2019
Keller Wins Journal of Applied Philosophy Prize

The Journal of Applied Philosophy has announced the winner of its 2018 essay prize.

May 1, 2019
A Philosophy Comics Substitute

I’m filling in for one of my esteemed philosophy comic strip artists this week. This is probably a mistake.

April 30, 2019
Open Letter Regarding President Bolsonaro’s Recent Pronouncements on Defunding Philosophy and Sociology (updated)

(UPDATE (5/5/19): I’m bringing this post back up to the top of the main page to increase its visibility. The letter now has over 3,000 signatures.…

April 30, 2019
Mini-Heap

Time for a Mini-Heap.

April 30, 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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ERW on New Philosophy Journal Rankings by Citations in SEP in IEP
It's true, even humans can equivocate between "fundamentally unreliable" and "capable of being unreliable." Though I take it most of us understand the difference.
sahpa on Building AI That Can Do Philosophy Better Than Us (guest post)
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…
Louis F. Cooper on Philosopher-led Team Nets $2.91 Million in Grants for Project on Safeguards of Liberalism
According to Prof. Kogelmann's email quoted in the post, "We want to understand how safeguards that get less attention—like political parties, interest groups, universities, business firms, informal norms,…
Noah on The Enhanced SEP Experience, Version 2
Has Shen approached the SEP administrators about incorporating his work into the site itself? It probably wouldn't be much work to integrate these design elements directly, and I…
David Wallace on New Philosophy Journal Rankings by Citations in SEP in IEP
"I don’t know why AI produced data is treated as interesting when a cursory look reveals that it’s fundamentally unreliable." Fortunately that never happens with human-produced data.
Ether Lin on The Enhanced SEP Experience, Version 2
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…
mths on The Enhanced SEP Experience, Version 2
What a great idea. Though I wonder whether the original text formatting from the SEP could be rescued. Using the extension makes the text way too narrow to…
Zhen Ma on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
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?
Chipperpj on Building AI That Can Do Philosophy Better Than Us (guest post)
"Stress-testing ideas with an AI isn’t wholly different. The real problem is accepting what it says without understanding it or the objections it faces." In the face of…
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
Landon Elkind on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
I'm in print as defending the view that conceptual engineering isn't different in character from revisionary conceptual analysis (link below). A lot of the ambitions for conceptual engineering…
David N. Tostenson on Wichita State to Eliminate Philosophy Major
Yes, this is unquestionably the answer to the problem. Other humanities (English, foreign languages, history, music, art) have a massive advantage in that high school students come into…
Ccamp on Philosopher-led Team Nets $2.91 Million in Grants for Project on Safeguards of Liberalism
Throughout history, every major civilization with liberal constitutions and beliefs mostly share one major attribute. The civilizations that have stood the test of time and actually aided in…
Eddy Nahmias on Wichita State to Eliminate Philosophy Major
I'm convinced the best way forward is to get philosophy courses added to high school curriculum (initially as a social studies elective). Universities are forcing students to lock…

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