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2018 Lakatos Award Winners Announced

The Lakatos Award is given annually “for an outstanding contribution to the philosophy of science, widely interpreted, in the form of a book published…

July 12, 2018
Topic-Appropriate Excuses for Plagiarism in Philosophy Papers

For a paper on time travel: “I didn’t plagiarize David Lewis’s 1976 American Philosophical Quarterly paper. In 1975, he traveled to the future and plagiarized me!”

July 11, 2018
Self-Citation and Anonymous Review

How should you go about preparing an article for anonymous peer-review if you cite yourself in your article? There are a couple of issues…

July 11, 2018
Mini-Heap

Here are 10 recent items from the Daily Nous Heap of Links, a collection of materials from around the web of interest to philosophers (and others interested…

July 11, 2018
End Philosophical Protectionism

Economists generally agree that protectionist policies (tariffs, subsidies, and other measures that shield domestic firms and laborers from foreign competition) are harmful to a nation’s overall economic…

July 10, 2018
Mind Chunks (Daily Nous Philosophy Comics)

July 10, 2018
How to Teach (Philosophy): Readings Sought

What readings about teaching would you assign to philosophy graduate students?

July 9, 2018
New Journal: “Precollege Philosophy and Public Practice” (corrected)

This Daily Nous item is temporarily unavailable while its historical content completes a security review. The title and publication record are preserved; the original…

July 9, 2018
Australasian Association of Philosophy Announces Award Winners

The Australasian Association of Philosophy (AAP) has announced the winners of its 2017 Australasian Journal of Philosophy (AJP) Best Paper Award and 2018 Annette…

July 9, 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 9, 2018
Wisconsin Supreme Court Sides With Professor Who Smeared Philosophy Grad Student

The Wisconsin Supreme court ruled today that it was impermissible for Marquette University to fire John McAdams, an associate professor or political science, for his…

July 6, 2018
Mini-Heap

Good morning! Here’s the latest Mini-Heap: 10 recent items of interest to philosophers (and others interested in philosophy) from the Daily Nous Heap of Links.

July 6, 2018
Trolley Problems: You’re Doing It All Wrong

As philosophy comes to occupy more and more of the public’s attention—which is good news—it is not surprising that a lot of that attention…

July 2, 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 2, 2018
McDaniel Wins APA’s 2018 Sanders Book Prize

Kris McDaniel, professor of philosophy at Syracuse University, is the winner of the American Philosophical Association’s 2018 Sanders Book Prize, for his book, The Fragmentation…

June 29, 2018
Mini-Heap

Happy Friday, everyone! Here’s the latest Mini-Heap: 10 11 recent items of interest to philosophers (and others interested in philosophy) from the Daily Nous Heap of Links.

June 29, 2018
Philosophers Lead Academics’ Effort To Restrict Facial Recognition Technology

If you’re like most people, you probably haven’t been thinking much about facial recognition technology. Philosopher Evan Selinger (Rochester Institute of Technology), has, and he thinks we…

June 28, 2018
Strabbing from Fordham to Wayne State

Jada Twedt Strabbing, currently assistant professor of philosophy at Fordham University, has accepted a position as associate professor of philosophy at Wayne State University.

June 28, 2018
$860,000 Grant to Study Kantian Ethics

What is the “political-theoretical background” of the central concepts of Kantian ethics? Pauline Kleingeld, professor of philosophy at the University of Groningen, was just awarded…

June 28, 2018
An Ethics Bowl Inside San Quentin State Prison

In February, in the chapel of San Quentin State Prison, seven philosophy undergraduates from the University of California, Santa Cruz faced off against a…

June 27, 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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Kenny Easwaran on New Philosophy Journal Rankings by Citations in SEP in IEP
It's actually remarkable how similar this list is to the last Leiter poll I found (https://leiterreports.com/2022/08/23/best-general-journals-of-philosophy-2022-via-the-condorcet-method-and-via-an-average-of-both-methods/) Ignoring specialty journals, your list is: Phil Review Phil Perspectives Mind JPhil…
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,…

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