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Mini-Heap

Welcome to the latest edition of Mini-Heap.

September 18, 2018
PhilPeople: from Philosophy to Philo-Me (guest post by Mitchell Aboulafia)

“The ‘me’ culture has colonized philosophy.”

September 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.

September 17, 2018
New Prizes in Epistemology and Metaphysics from the APA

The American Philosophical Association (APA) has announced the creation of two new prizes: one in metaphysics, named for Nicholas Rescher (Pittsburgh), and one in…

September 14, 2018
Is Scientific American a Trustworthy Periodical?

Scientific American is a monthly magazine aimed at popularizing scientific and technological findings. But how trustworthy a magazine is it?

September 13, 2018
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A new Mini-Heap is here.

September 12, 2018
Philosophy Publishing and Europe’s New Open Access Requirement

Last week, eleven national funding agencies in Europe, along with the European Commission and the European Research Council, announced the creation of “cOALition S,” which…

September 12, 2018
To φ Or Not To φ (Daily Nous Philosophy Comics)

September 11, 2018
High School Teacher Placed on Leave for Moral Problems Quiz (Update: Teacher Resigns)

A high school teacher has been placed on administrative leave (with pay) after a parent complained about a lesson in which students were asked…

September 11, 2018
New: the Journal of Modern Philosophy

A new online, open access, peer-reviewed journal focusing on philosophy from the 16th century through mid-18th century has been created. Called the Journal of Modern…

September 11, 2018
Mini-Heap

It’s the latest Mini-Heap!

September 10, 2018
Bentham: Premier Posthumous Producer of Peculiar Pleasures

Jeremy Bentham is weirder than you thought.

September 10, 2018
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

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

September 10, 2018
University of Pennsylvania Philosophy Stops Requiring the GRE

The Department of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania has decided to, at least temporarily, stop requiring applicants to its PhD program to submit…

September 7, 2018
Mini-Heap

Welcome to another edition of Mini-heap.

September 6, 2018
Choosing Keynote Speakers

A couple of graduate students are seeking advice on how to select keynote speakers for a conference they’re organizing.

September 5, 2018
Universities as a Bulwark Against (and Target of) Fascism

“Fascist politics seeks to undermine the credibility of institutions that harbor independent voices of dissent,” says Jason Stanley (Yale), and chief among such institutions…

September 5, 2018
Mind Chunks (Daily Nous Philosophy Comics)

September 4, 2018
Job Prospects for Philosophy Majors: Perception and Reality

The number of philosophy majors in the U.S. is down 35% since its recent peak in 2007, and today, philosophy majors make up only…

September 4, 2018
Leave Room for Uncertainty and Confusion

“My trouble is usually… that I don’t entirely know what I think. And not knowing what to think is itself sometimes cast as shameful.”

September 3, 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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despondent on Putting the Pub in Public Philosophy
I think this is a bad idea – what if I spill a beer on my laptop as I consult claude so I can contribute?
HotWheelReggie1991 on Your One Piece of Philosophy Grad School Advice
Mark I agree with what Preston's said below. I'm also not suggesting that we're operating in an ideal system either. My advice is to hold fixed the system as…
Patrick Lin on AI Use in STEM and Philosophy Dissertations
That sounds like an excellent approach for oral defenses. But I wonder: if oral defenses start becoming more rigorous and less pro forma, then that becomes a critical…
Eugene V Torisky Jr on Your One Piece of Philosophy Grad School Advice
I agree that that's good advice. I'd simply add that sometime during my first MA year, I resolved to make ONE good comment or ask one good question…
Patrick Lin on Putting the Pub in Public Philosophy
I love this. As an ironic note: coffeehouses have been credited with dragging humanity out of the dark ages and into the Enlightenment, since caffeine can be a…
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…

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