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Starting a PPE Program on a Shoestring: Why & How (guest post)
“I logged into our learning management program to see what my advising load looked like this year, and was sure that the software had a bug in it. Among the class of 2027, there were more students already intending to major in PPE before setting foot on campus than our philosophy department actually graduates in any given year.”
New Resource: Database of Philosophical Research on Policing (guest post)
Ben Jones (Penn State) and some of his colleagues have launched a Policing, Policy, and Philosophy Initiative. (more…)
Percentage of Women Philosophy Majors Has Risen Sharply Since 2016 — Why? Or: The 2017 Knuckle (guest post)
What explains the recent sharp increase in women philosophy majors? (more…)
Areas of Specialization in Philosophy — Data from 2022-23 (guest post)
What areas of specialization (AOS) are philosophy departments hiring in? (more…)
The Philosophy Garden (guest post)
A group of philosophers at the University of Birmingham have a new project: The Philosophy Garden. (more…)
New Data on the Employment of Philosophy PhDs (guest post)
As noted in yesterday’s post, Academic Philosophy & Data Analysis (APDA) has completed its data gathering for nearly 150 philosophy PhD programs, with a new data dashboard capturing nearly 6,000 philosophy PhD graduates between 2013 and 2023. (more…)
New Interface for Academic Philosophy Data & Analysis (guest post)
Academic Philosophy & Data Analysis (APDA), an ongoing project to collect, analyze, and distribute data about job placement, student experience, and other aspects of PhD programs in philosophy, is launching a new “data dashboard” through which people can explore the information it has collected. (more…)
How to Tell Whether an AI Is Conscious (guest post)
“We can apply scientific rigor to the assessment of AI consciousness, in part because… we can identify fairly clear indicators associated with leading theories of consciousness, and show how to assess whether AI systems satisfy them.” (more…)
Summer 2023 Guest Posts Review
If you took the summer off from checking in on Daily Nous, you missed a lot of writing by other philosophers. (more…)
Philosophy Workshop Introduces New Kind of Prize (guest post)
One of the small number of speaker spots at the Northeast Normativity Workshop (NEN) is reserved for the winner of a prize that’s structured in an innovative manner. (more…)
The Social Turn in Analytic Philosophy: Promises and Perils (guest post)
“The linguistic turn is over. We partied hard, got hungover, and now we’re trying to live as respectable adults… Today, a new revolution is brewing. Analytic philosophy is in the midst of a social turn.” (more…)
Policing Is Not Pedagogy: On the Supposed Threat of ChatGPT (guest post)
“ChatGPT has just woken many of us up to the fact that we need to be better teachers, not better cops.” (more…)
Desperate Honesty (guest post)
“I abandoned classics for philosophy in large part because that was where the refuters were. Now people can’t stop telling me I am wrong.”
An Accessible and User-Friendly Argument Mapping App (guest post)
“Argument mapping is about twice as effective at improving student critical thinking as other methods,” writes Jonathan Surovell (Texas State University). However, “there are obstacles preventing philosophy teachers from adopting it.” (more…)
How To Alleviate the Referee Crisis: A Proposal (guest post)
“There are just too many papers for which editors are seeking reviews.” What can be done about that? (more…)
Philosophy Through Comics (guest post)
Can you do philosophy with comics? “Yeah, sure, easy.” But why do it? (more…)
Job Market Report, 2023 Secondary Cycle (guest post)
How did the academic philosophy job market look between January and June, 2023? (more…)
Do the Thing: Philosophy Teaching with Practical Workshops (guest post)
“There is such an enormous and useful energy in bouncing back and forth between the theoretical and the practical.”
Philosophy as Glial Cell (guest post)
Glial cell? “Commonly described as the ‘glue’ that holds the nervous system together, they’re better thought of as infrastructure, the ductwork and insulation that give heft to comparatively sparse neurons. But even this metaphor turns out to be incomplete…”
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Logic Courseware, Surveyed (guest post)
What materials exist for teaching large introductory logic courses, and how do they compare? (more…)
A Case for AI Wellbeing (guest post)
“There are good reasons to think that some AIs today have wellbeing.” (more…)
The Fourth Branch (guest post)
“We shouldn’t attempt to fit ‘outreach’ or ‘engagement’ into one of the existing three categories . It doesn’t fit neatly into those categories. And, more importantly, all of us should be doing it as part of our jobs, not just a few of us. We are in an all-hands-on-deck situation.” (more…)
Some Remarks on Form in Philosophy (guest post)
“When my younger self complained angrily in the margins with scrawls of ‘where is this going?’, he missed the sights and insights that the journey itself provided.” (more…)
The Rigor of Philosophy & the Complexity of the World (guest post)
“Analytic philosophy gradually substitutes an ersatz conception of formalized ‘rigor’ in the stead of the close examination of applicational complexity.” (more…)
Rejection Rates Should Not Be a Measure of Journal Quality (guest post)
“If philosophy relies too heavily on rejection rates as a measure for journal quality or prestige, we run the risk of further degrading the quality of peer review.” (more…)
A Plea for Synthetic Philosophy (guest post)
“There need not be strict disciplinary boundaries between philosophy and other disciplines.” (more…)
The Various Literary Forms of Philosophy (guest post)
“What are the literary forms philosophy can come in? Judging by contemporary works it seems the best way to express our ideas is in 8000-word journal articles, monographs, the occasional op-ed. But there are so many literary forms to do philosophy in.” (more…)
Sex Discrimination in a Philosophy Job Search at BGSU (guest post)
Last week we reported on how Christian Coons, associate professor of philosophy at Bowling Green State University (BGSU), is facing disciplinary proceedings that may lead to his termination from the university (here). This development has its origins in Coons’s complaints about irregularities in a job search conducted by the Department of Philosophy during the 2015-..