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Philosophy Majors Make More Money Than Majors in any other Humanities Field

Among those with bachelors degrees, the median earnings of those who majored in philosophy exceed those of majors in any other humanities field, and…

January 3, 2019
Mini-Heap

The first Mini-Heap of 2019…

January 2, 2019
Naturalism, Science, and the Possibility of Philosophy

“It is perfectly possible to do philosophy (even metaphysics or epistemology) if you do not believe that your views about mind, language, and reality…

January 2, 2019
Mind Chunks

January 1, 2019
Top Philosophy Profession News & Issues, 2018

What philosophy and academic news and issues preoccupied philosophers in 2018?

January 1, 2019
Mini-Heap

Happy New Year’s Eve Mini-Heap!

December 31, 2018
Sophie Oluwole (1936-2018)

Sophie Oluwole, professor of philosophy at the University of Lagos (Unilag) and the first woman to receive a PhD in philosophy in Nigeria, has…

December 27, 2018
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

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

December 25, 2018
Multi-Million Dollar Funding for Philosopher-Led Project on Machine Intelligence

Seth Lazar, associate professor of philosophy at Australian National University (ANU), is leading an interdisciplinary project on machine intelligence that just received a funding commitment from…

December 21, 2018
2018 Philosophy Op-Ed Contest Winners Announced

The American Philosophical Association (APA) has announced the winners of its 2018 Public Philosophy Op-Ed Contest.

December 20, 2018
The Structure of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Over Time, Visualized

Created in 1995, the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP) has grown to become not just an expansive and trusted collection of expertly-written entries on philosophical…

December 20, 2018
Update on Philosophy at Hull

As reported the other day, the administration at the University at Hull had decided to prohibit new students from studying philosophy. It now appears they…

December 20, 2018
Ethics Professor Seeks Asylum In the US, Detained for 2 Years

A professor of ethics from Haiti who spent two years imprisoned in the United States while the government resisted granting him asylum has been released…

December 20, 2018
Despite Move, CEU Is Accepting Applications

Central European University (CEU), despite having been forced by threat of closure by the Hungarian legislature to move from Budapest to Vienna for the…

December 19, 2018
Ad Hoc

December 19, 2018
Philosophy at Hull Threatened; Heads of 39 UK Philosophy Departments Object

The administration of the University of Hull is prohibiting new students from beginning a course of study in philosophy.

December 19, 2018
Mini-Heap

Welcome to the latest edition of Mini-Heap.

December 18, 2018
Philosophy as Modeling

Is the task of philosophizing appropriately characterized as something like the modeling of phenomenon found in the sciences and social sciences, in which there is (supposed to…

December 18, 2018
$1.16 Million Awarded to Study Wittgensteinian Approach to Math

The Research Council of Norway has awarded a grant of 10 million kroners (approximately $1.16 million) to Sorin Bangu and Kevin Cahill, professors of philosophy at…

December 17, 2018
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

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

December 17, 2018

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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