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August 23, 2018
Which X-Phi Studies Replicate?

“Different types of experimental philosophy studies showed radically different rates of replicability,” according to a new analysis by the XPhi Replicability Project.

August 22, 2018
Philosophers Sing about the “Epistemic Epidemic”

It’s the latest dance, the best in town: / Grab a word like “epistemic”, then add a noun / Like “angst” or “insouciance” or “indulgence” or…

August 22, 2018
Chaospet (Daily Nous Philosophy Comics)

August 21, 2018
Two Models for Expanding The Canon

Progress: the push for academic philosophy to overcome its ethnocentrism and incorporate works from a greater diversity of cultures has reached the point that…

August 21, 2018
Virtual Dissertation-Writing Groups for Philosophy Grad Students

Once again, Joshua Smart (Ohio State) is organizing virtual writing groups for philosophy students working on their dissertations.

August 20, 2018
Fawning Sycophancy Is Unprofessional, Gross, and if Ongoing, the Professor’s Fault

“I only now [received] your beautiful and exquisite message… I thank you for your infinite understanding and sensitivities which are always beyond measure.”

August 20, 2018
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

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

August 20, 2018
Mini-Heap

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August 17, 2018
Why Did This Philosophy Program Survive?

Goucher College in Towson, Maryland, like several other institutions of higher education, has decided to cut its undergraduate programs.

August 17, 2018
An Automated Modal Reasoner

Brian Tackett, a computer science student at the University of Buffalo who previously studied philosophy, has created an “automated modal reasoner.”

August 16, 2018
Why To Discourage Laptops in Class (with slides you can show your students)

You may have seen various articles about how computers and phones in the classroom affect student performance.

August 15, 2018
APA Announces Winners of the 2018 Routledge, Taylor & Francis Prize

Each year, the American Philosophical Association (APA) awards the Routledge, Taylor & Francis Prize, given to the two best published articles in philosophy written by its…

August 15, 2018
“We’re Going to Get More, and More Interesting, Kinds of Philosophy”

That’s, uh, me, from a conversation with Daniel Kaufman (Missouri State) on his Sophia program on MeaningOfLife.tv.

August 15, 2018
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August 15, 2018
To φ Or Not To φ (Daily Nous Philosophy Comics)

August 14, 2018
Philanthropy for Philosophy: Fleeting Fad or Fertile Future?

“Are we on the cusp of a philosophy giving golden age?”

August 14, 2018
Daily Nous Tops “Authority Index”

A vast array of websites appear in most internet search results, and often those who are searching don’t know how to determine which sites experts consider…

August 14, 2018
Journal of Ethics Founding EIC Steps Down after 23 Years

J. Angelo Corlett, professor of philosophy at San Diego State University, founded the Journal of Ethics in 1995 and has served as its editor-in-chief since…

August 14, 2018
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

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

August 13, 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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Brian Weatherson on New Philosophy Journal Rankings by Citations in SEP in IEP
It's not even "AI-produced" in any interesting sense. It's produced by a python script from standard sources. That script was written by AI, but that's not particularly relevant;…
Just Saying on New Philosophy Journal Rankings by Citations in SEP in IEP
These rankings are based on data that go back 36 years. For much more recent data and an extremely thorough, professional study, see this on Daily Nous: https://dailynous.com/2023/12/04/new-meta-ranking-of-philosophy-journals/
Azat Sadri on Building AI That Can Do Philosophy Better Than Us (guest post)
"I invite everyone to recognize the damage here" I am a member of a philosophy department (teacher) and am currently writing a PhD, and, in my view, the…
WiseGuy on University of Cape Town vs. Free Speech
To be clear, I certainly don't think that you should lose that position on the board for making these remarks. If every board member was losing their position…
WiseGuy on University of Cape Town vs. Free Speech
First video is so edited, it's hard to see what's going on. Some of what it shows is definitely abhorrent ways of protesting against Israel though, and I've…
Joel Pust on University of Cape Town vs. Free Speech
Thanks for posting about this.
Mark Oppenheimer on University of Cape Town vs. Free Speech
For context. Here are links to videos of some of the events on campus I was referring to. The first shows students wearing Hamas shirts surrounding Jewish students…
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…

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