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October 16, 2018
Thinking As Complex as the World: an Obituary for Mary Midgley (guest post by Ian James Kidd)

The following is an obituary for philosopher Mary Midgley, who died last week, written by Ian James Kidd (Nottingham). It first appeared on the SWIP-UK…

October 15, 2018
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

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

October 15, 2018
Faculty Job Security & Academic Freedom

Seventy-three percent of faculty at institutions of higher education in the United States are neither tenured nor on the tenure-track, according to a new…

October 15, 2018
Philosophy Game Jam

What’s a game jam and what could it possibly have to do with philosophy?

October 15, 2018
Mary Midgley (1919-2018) (updated)

Mary Midgley, a well-known British moral philosopher, has died at age 99.

October 11, 2018
Teaching Philosophy as the Search for Complication

Most students in philosophy classrooms in the United States are taking their first and only philosophy course. Why is it their only one?

October 10, 2018
John Corvino Hopes to Teach the Public to Argue Well

John Corvino, professor of philosophy and dean of the Honors College at Wayne State University—and public philosopher extraordinaire—has created a new series of videos…

October 9, 2018
Mind Chunks

October 9, 2018
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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
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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

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“[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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