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Crying “Crying Wolf”

Suppose that instead of one shepherd boy, there are a few dozen. They are tired of the villagers dismissing their complaints about less threatening…

February 25, 2019
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

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

February 25, 2019
Seven Principles of Humane PhD Advising (guest post by Eric Schwitzgebel)

The following is a guest post* by Eric Schwitzgebel (University of California, Riverside). It originally appeared at his blog, The Splintered Mind.

February 22, 2019
McDaniel from Syracuse to Notre Dame

Kristopher McDaniel, currently professor of philosophy at Syracuse University, has accepted an offer from the University of Notre Dame.

February 22, 2019
Publishing Your Philosophy Book with Open Access

Some academic publishers offer authors of monographs an “open access” option. For a fee, the publisher will make a version of the text available…

February 21, 2019
Mini-Heap

A new Mini-Heap is here!

February 20, 2019
Chaospet

February 19, 2019
When Does the APA Take a Stand?

The Board of Officers of the American Philosophical Association (APA) speaks out or takes a stand on certain issues and not others. What’s the process…

February 19, 2019
Mini-Heap

What, another Mini-Heap so soon?

February 19, 2019
$1.3 Million Grant for Philosophy of Religion in North America, Latin America, UK

Luis Oliveira, assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Houston, has received $1.3 million to lead an international project on the epistemology of…

February 18, 2019
The NSF and the Rise of Value-Free Philosophies of Science (guest post by Joel Katzav & Krist Vaesen)

Why were social, moral and political issues relatively neglected in philosophy of science during the 20th Century? Joel Katzav (Queensland) and Krist Vaesen (Eindhoven) continue their investigation of the institutional and…

February 18, 2019
Mini-Heap

For your perusal, the latest Mini-Heap.

February 18, 2019
New Group: Philosophers for Sustainability

Philosophers for Sustainability is a new group of philosophy faculty and graduate students interested in working toward environmental sustainability and combating climate change in practice,…

February 15, 2019
Ten Things I Love About Philosophers

Happy Valentine’s Day, philosofriends!

February 14, 2019
How Is Good Public Philosophy Possible?

“When Aristotle said that the intellectual life is one of serious leisure, I believe he was trying to avoid the Scylla of business and…

February 14, 2019
Placement Patterns in the UK Philosophy Job Market

“Who gets to teach at good philosophy departments in the UK?” That’s the question taken up in the following guest post* by Philip Schönegger, a…

February 14, 2019
Mini-Heap

Hump-day-Mini-Heap.

February 13, 2019
Wollongong Receives AU$50 Million for Philosophy-Based Degree Program

The University of Wollongong is creating a philosophy-based bachelor of arts degree program in “Western Civilization”, to be based in a new School of Liberal…

February 13, 2019
Do Professors Penalize Conservative Students?

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

February 13, 2019
Ad Hoc

February 12, 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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Brian Kogelmann on Philosopher-led Team Nets $2.91 Million in Grants for Project on Safeguards of Liberalism
Yes.
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…

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