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Social Media Advice for Academics

“Remember, whenever you engage online, you are building and curating a public identity for yourself. Do so thoughtfully and choose your risks wisely.”

August 2, 2018
“Physics Envy” and Some More Light Verse

The following are three poems from Felicia Nimue Ackerman, Professor of Philosophy at Brown University.

August 2, 2018
Philosophers Win Large Grants from ARC

The Australian Research Council (ARC) has announced the winners of its latest round of funding awards, and two philosophers have been awarded large grants.

August 2, 2018
Course Websites

If you haven’t yet seen the course website for “God and the Good Life,” an introductory undergraduate philosophy course taught by Meghan Sullivan at…

August 1, 2018
Ad Hoc (Daily Nous Philosophy Comics)

July 31, 2018
UCLA Philosophy Receives $25 Million Donation

The Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) received a gift of $25 million in honor of philosophy professor David Kaplan and Renée Kaplan,…

July 30, 2018
Poetry and Philosophical Thinking

I still hold that there is an important and significant role for traditional forms of philosophy but the question remains, is there something more…

July 30, 2018
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

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

July 30, 2018
Mini-Heap

Here’s another edition of Mini-Heap!

July 27, 2018
Philosophers Among ERC Starting Grant Winners

The European Research Council (ERC) has announced the winners of its starting grants. The grants provide support of up to €1.5 million (approximately $1.75 million)…

July 27, 2018
Philosopher Marco Dees Dies in Climbing Accident

Marco Dees, adjunct assistant professor of philosophy at Vassar College, has died. He was 33.

July 26, 2018
Should PhD Students Embargo Their Dissertations?

Most universities offer PhD students the option to embargo their dissertations, usually for up to two years. During the embargo, access to the official…

July 25, 2018
Chaospet (Daily Nous Philosophy Comics)

July 24, 2018
Philosopher Named Editor of Novel Book Series on Black Male Studies

Tommy Curry, professor of philosophy and Africana studies at Texas A&M University, has been named editor of the first-ever university press book series focused…

July 24, 2018
Where the Open Exchange of Ideas is Most Protected and Valued

“[A] commonly held, and wrong, belief is that colleges and universities suppress speech as a matter of course. In fact, the higher education sector is…

July 23, 2018
Mini-Heap

Once again, it’s Mini-Heap!

July 23, 2018
Philosophers Elected to the British Academy

The British Academy, an organization which, among other things, selects scholars in the humanities and social sciences as “fellows” to recognize their academic distinction, has included a…

July 23, 2018
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

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

July 23, 2018
The “New Questions of Philosophy”

“What subjects are now being confronted at the frontiers of philosophical inquiry, breaking from the familiar philosophical concerns of canonical figures like Plato, Locke,…

July 19, 2018
Mini-Heap

Mini-Heap time!

July 18, 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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Rachel Robison on Putting the Pub in Public Philosophy
Utah State has done philosophy nights at our local Cache Bar!
BCB on Putting the Pub in Public Philosophy
Cheer up! You can always order another beer.
David Wallace on AI Use in STEM and Philosophy Dissertations
This is becoming quite a good performative demonstration of the problems with permitting AI writing.
Eric Steinhart on Putting the Pub in Public Philosophy
The Plough and Stars! Such a fantastic place. I lived a block away from the Plough in the 80s and spent much wonderful time there. Anybody who visits…
Roger Da Shrubber on AI Use in STEM and Philosophy Dissertations
The question I have repeatedly asked is where authorship changes hands, and I still do not think you have answered it. Your experience as a copy editor may…
Nicolas Delon on AI Use in STEM and Philosophy Dissertations
I’m curious what you think of services like Lex Academic, which many academics (not me) have been using since before Gen AI, which pride themselves on being purely…
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…

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