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October 30, 2018
Martha Nussbaum Wins $1 Million Berggruen Prize

Martha Nussbaum, Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Philosophy and Law at the University of Chicago, is the winner of the 2018 Berggruen Prize.

October 30, 2018
Some Philosophers Are Leaving Twitter

This Daily Nous item is temporarily unavailable while its historical content completes a security review.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

October 29, 2018
Mini-Heap

Here’s the latest Mini-Heap! (Philosophy-related links for your consideration.)

October 29, 2018
Political Interference in Humanities Grants in Australia

The previous Australian Minister of Education, Senator Simon Birmingham, quietly vetoed Australian Research Council (ARC) funding recommendations over the past two years, denying 11…

October 26, 2018
Demographic Diversity is Good for Philosophy

In light of some recent discussions here and elsewhere about demographic diversity in philosophy, I thought it might be helpful to set out one…

October 26, 2018
An Objection Does Not A Rejection Make

“If philosophers are serious about improving the way their journals function, they need to consider not only how to improve the mechanics of the…

October 25, 2018
Mini-Heap

Philosophy-related links for your consideration, AKA Mini-Heap:

October 25, 2018
How Is Your Teaching Evaluated?

It seems that every few months a new study is published demonstrating some kind of problem with student evaluations of teaching. Recently I’ve seen…

October 25, 2018
Ad Hoc

October 23, 2018
What Should Philosophers Teach in Quantitative Reasoning Courses? (guest post by Landon D.C. Elkind)

The following is a guest post* by Landon D.C. Elkind (University of Iowa) about the content of philosophy courses that satisfy general education requirements…

October 23, 2018
$5.6 Million Grant to Philosophers Studying “Knowledge Resistance”

An interdisciplinary group of researchers headed by philosophers at Stockholm University has won a SEK 50,400,000 (approximately $5.6 million) grant from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (the Swedish Foundation for Humanities…

October 22, 2018
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

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

October 22, 2018
Room for Uncertainty in Online Philosophical Communities

“Uncertainty, I once thought, is what philosophers do. Now I have doubts.”

October 22, 2018
A Reputational Survey of Philosophy Programs Plotted Against Program Placement Data

To what extent does getting one’s PhD in philosophy from a program that does well in a reputational survey increase one’s chances of finding…

October 21, 2018
Teaching Gen Ed Students the Value of Philosophy (guest post by Andrew P. Mills)

Earlier this year, Andrew P. Mills , professor of philosophy and director of the Integrative Studies Program at Otterbein University, and president of the American Association of…

October 19, 2018
Mini-Heap

Here’s the latest Mini-Heap!

October 18, 2018
MIT Launches Billion Dollar Ethics-Oriented AI Initiative

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is establishing a new college focused on the development and “ethical application” artificial intelligence.

October 17, 2018
To φ Or Not To φ

October 16, 2018
Visualizing the Structure of Philosophy from the 1950s to Today

Maximilian Noichl has designed a beautiful visualization of philosophy from the 1950s to today.

October 16, 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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Jr Phil Prof on Building AI That Can Do Philosophy Better Than Us (guest post)
So you are a neo-lib if you think that individual responsibility can exist even inside a "broken system"? Applying that principle, should we also cease to mock publicly…
WiseGuy on University of Cape Town vs. Free Speech
No one should lose their academic position for giving conspiracy theory level speculations about the influence of Islamists or Zionists.
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…

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