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October 9, 2018
Mini-Heap

Here’s the latest edition of Mini-Heap!

October 9, 2018
Gorgeous Interactive Timeline of Philosophical Ideas

A visual communication designer has created an interactive timeline of philosophical ideas that is impressive, useful, and beautiful.

October 9, 2018
Accessible Conferences and Lectures

The British Philosophical Association (BPA), together with the Society for Women in Philosophy, UK (SWiP UK), have created guidelines for making philosophy conferences and…

October 8, 2018
Changes at the European Journal of Philosophy

On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the European Journal of Philosophy (EJP), editor Joseph K. Schear (Oxford) reflects on the journal’s history and announces…

October 8, 2018
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

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

October 8, 2018
Mini-Heap

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

October 5, 2018
New and Unusual Philosophy Courses

I’ve been hearing about some unusual and interesting philosophy courses that are currently being taught or developed.

October 5, 2018
SLU Philosophy Receives $2 Million Gift

The Department of Philosophy at Saint Louis University (SLU) recently received a $2 million gift which it will use to fund endowments for a faculty chair…

October 4, 2018
Ways to Increase Diversity of Authors in Philosophy Journals

A recent series of articles on diversity and philosophy journals at the Blog of the American Philosophical Association (APA) culminates today with various suggestions for…

October 4, 2018
Hypatia and other Journals Successfully Tricked Into Accepting “Fake” Papers (Updated)

Three writers, working as a team and using pseudonyms, produced and submitted to academic peer-reviewed journals 20 “fake” papers—papers written with the intent to spoof…

October 3, 2018
Chaospet (Daily Nous Philosophy Comics)

October 2, 2018
Meskin from Leeds to Georgia

Aaron Meskin, currently professor of philosophical aesthetics at the University of Leeds, has accepted an offer to become professor of philosophy and head of…

October 2, 2018
Mini-Heap

Here’s another Mini-Heap of philosophy-related links for your consideration.

October 2, 2018
The Impact of the Beijing World Congress of Philosophy

“To change the perception of philosophy forever.”

October 1, 2018
John J. McDermott (1932-2018)

John J. McDermott, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Texas A&M University, has died.

October 1, 2018
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

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

October 1, 2018
Baylor: Dougherty Responsible for Violating Sexual Harassment and Interpersonal Violence Policy (Several Updates)

An investigation at Baylor University has determined that Trent Dougherty, a philosophy professor there since 2009 who specializes in philosophy of religion, violated the school’s Sexual and…

September 28, 2018
Cassin Wins CNRS Gold Medal

Barbara Cassin, senior researcher emeritus in philosophy and philology at the French National Center for Scientific Research (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, or CNRS), is…

September 27, 2018
The Geography of Philosophy Project

The Geography of Philosophy Project, initiated last year with a $2.6 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation, is “an interdisciplinary cross-cultural exploration of…

September 27, 2018

Heap of Links

Asking “How did I get here?” may help us reflect on the nature of personal identity in ways that asking “Who am I?” cannot — Marya Schechtman's 2024 Central Division Meeting Presidential Address
“Collecting is a game, but what kind of game? It is an imperfect information game of acquisition” — a theory of collecting, from Steven Hales
“A general human tendency: to overestimate how far we have come in the progress of human knowledge” — a lengthy interview with Thomas Nagel
“Many couples do not survive trauma like this” — A profile of Susan Brison—who was brutally attacked in 1990, and who wrote about it in Aftermath—and her husband, Thomas Trezise, who has now written his own book stemming from those events
“Bad AI Consciousness Takes” Bingo Card — Henry Shevlin's area of specialization is becoming a popular topic in popular discourse, and he can't stand the "cavalcade of terrible takes"
Does the principle of sufficient reason imply panpsychism? If it does, do we then ponens or tollens? — Sam Kimpton-Nye on these questions and the "demand for intelligibility"
PTSD flashbacks may be harmful, but they may also be helpfully “resupplying phenomenal experience” to those who, owing to trauma, are “grasp alienated” — Michaela McSweeney on trauma and "madness-as-strategy"
A look at the very first issue of Mind — Brett Mullins surveys its articles on the occasion of the journal's 150th anniversary
The most bizarre plagiarism-related story ever — featuring: a death, an investigator, a dissertation, a mysterious red book, and more
New data on earnings by major and university — though not all universities
“AI poses two different existential threats to [our] valuing practices” — Jordan MacKenzie offers an account of why negative judgments about AI taking over our creative and caring activities are justified
“Submission” is a humorous clicker-style game about starting a career in academic philosophy (or not) — created by Nat Hansen
“The best investment in education is to become the most human human—a challenging, fulfilling, exciting pursuit that connects us across generations” — an interview with Christa Acampora, philosopher and dean of Arts & Sciences at UVA
“What would happen if we tried to live without the mythology of agency at all?” — It's worth pondering, since "agency is just an internal command hallucination," says Alexander Douglas
“Reading List” is a free Mac app for keeping track of papers to read — philosophy PhD student Hayden Kajercline created this productivity tool for researchers, with help from Claude
How should we react to scary predictions about AI? “First: by asking questions” — "If you believe predictions uncritically, it amounts to obeying in advance," says Carissa Véliz
“I feel unbelievably lucky that I was able to make philosophy my profession” — Karen Ng reflects on her path into philosophy, at #first-genphilosophers
The ordinary concept of knowledge “doesn’t work at all the way philosophers said it does” — a round-up of studies shows how weird the philosophers' version of the concept is
1000 or so psychiatrists were asked to diagnose standardized clinical case vignettes. “Two doctors agreed on the diagnosis only 55% of the time” — What does this tell us about psychiatry? Or about other fields in which experts disagree?
Where Aristotle taught Alexander — "this newest dig may be the most revealing yet, offering insight into the specifics of Alexander the Great’s education"

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Preston Stovall on Putting the Pub in Public Philosophy
During the first Czechoslovakian Republic (after the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, before the Nazi and Soviet invasions) Hradec Králové was known as the Salon of the Republic.…
counterpart on Putting the Pub in Public Philosophy
Excellent idea. Bars in general seem to be underused spaces for public education. In Dallas there is a similar concept but for Shakespeare. The whole bar is the…
Student Philosopher on Putting the Pub in Public Philosophy
I LOVE this. Not Philosophy, but I used to follow a local writing group that met at a cafe once a month to share drafts of their work.…
Keith Douglas on Those OpenAI Math Results
It seems *exactly* parallel to the AI generated bug reports – generate a huge pile with some coming out ok-ish after a long (human) search. This too is…
Keith Douglas on Those OpenAI Math Results
Theoretical computer science is (IMO, a piece of exact metaphysics!). But working software development (and hence cyber security, for example) is *not* so. This is why one can…
Noah Gordon on AI Use in STEM and Philosophy Dissertations
Ok, so let's try this again. Is it your view that if I take a few sentences I've written in my dissertation, feed them into an AI system…
David Wallace on AI Use in STEM and Philosophy Dissertations
No, I didn't mean to include you; I thought your comments were sensible.
abolitionist on AI Use in STEM and Philosophy Dissertations
we should indeed abolish criminal punishment but that's another can of worms
Louis Vervoort on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
I agree on many aspects of David’s post (referring to Justin’s older post “ ‘Hey Sophi’, or How Much Philosophy Will Computers Do?”) on the use and utility…
Sam Duncan on AI Use in STEM and Philosophy Dissertations
Students whose work is tagged by Pangram will often give the following atrocious argument after I point out that the research showing it's quite accurate and, on the…
Brian Weatherson on AI Use in STEM and Philosophy Dissertations
MIT had, and still has for all I know, a system for this that I think was right. There was a private oral defense that was really substantive.…
MBW on AI Use in STEM and Philosophy Dissertations
Please don't count me in your 1) — I'm hoping beyond hope that Pangram works as advertised so that we can rely on it as we determine what…
Jeremy Davis on Putting the Pub in Public Philosophy
The philosophy department at UGA (Athens, GA has recently started hosting "Philosophy Cafes" at a local brewery. They're also a hit! https://venunite.com/events/philosophy-cafe-with-uga-philosophy-3 https://www.phil.uga.edu/news/stories/2026/philosophy-cafe-continues-strong
David Wallace on AI Use in STEM and Philosophy Dissertations
Me too; it's a rich and interesting dataset, there's probably a lot more to get from it.
MBW on AI Use in STEM and Philosophy Dissertations
Fair enough. I'd still be interested to see how many fail a higher threshold, or to learn why 2% was how they operationalized 'written by AI.'

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