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Philosophy in College Beyond the Philosophy Major

It’s not just budget cuts that are leading some colleges and universities to get rid of their philosophy major programs. Sometimes its legislation.

October 27, 2025
Philosophy Grad Program Application Info Spreadsheet – 2025-26 Edition

An open-access spreadsheet about philosophy graduate program admissions has been updated for the upcoming admissions season.

October 27, 2025
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, and new podcast episodes…

October 27, 2025
Philosopher Wins Major Academic Award in Slovakia

Daniela Vacek, a philosopher at the Slovak Academy of Sciences and Comenius University, has received the ESET Science Award for Outstanding Scientist in Slovakia…

October 24, 2025
Mini-Heap

Links! Links! Links!

October 23, 2025
Exploring the Future of Philosophy: An Independent Philosophy Institute? (guest post)

What is the institutional future of philosophy?

October 23, 2025
US Issues Clarification on New Visa Fee

The Trump administration has issued an update to the president’s recent proclamation about new visa fees, with implications for current international students and faculty.

October 22, 2025
Harvard Cuts PhD Admissions

Harvard University is drastically cutting the number of PhD students it is admitting over the next two years.

October 22, 2025
Open Access Philosophy Books

It’s International Open Access Week.

October 21, 2025
American Association of Philosophy Teachers Upcoming 50th Anniversary (guest post)

The American Association of Philosophy Teachers (AAPT) will be 50 years old next year.

October 21, 2025
New: Political Theory Funding Database for Postdocs & other Early Career Researchers

A researcher in political theory has developed a new resource for early-career scholars working in political theory, political philosophy, and related fields.

October 21, 2025
Opposing Orthodoxy about Heterodoxy

“Whenever I see people engaged in philosophical debate or argument, I want to see people trying to win. I like my philosophy adversarial, aggressive, combative,…

October 20, 2025
Scholarships for Dyslexic Graduate Students

A proofreading and writing consultancy developed by a pair of philosophers is offering a set of modest scholarships for graduate students with dyslexia.

October 20, 2025
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, and new podcast episodes…

October 20, 2025
The Paradox of Analytic Philosophy’s Success

“The paradox is that the more analytic philosophy became dominant in the universities, the more it became removed from the concerns of the average…

October 17, 2025
Research-University-Biased Perceptions of Professional Philosophy

What do you do as a philosophy professor? What does it take to get a job as a philosophy professor? To get tenure? What…

October 16, 2025
The Plummeting Philosophy Major in the US (guest post)

Just a few years ago, the philosophy major seemed on the rise. Now, the data reveal a different picture.

October 15, 2025
Mini-Heap

New additions to the Heap…

October 15, 2025
Philosophy Book to Become Movie

“Here’s the pitch: it’s a philosophy movie…” “Huh.”

October 14, 2025
AI Development and Consciousness

“The system which is now beginning to design its successor is also increasingly self-aware and therefore will surely eventually be prone to thinking, independently…

October 14, 2025

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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 he 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"
“Intuition is the cognitive means by which the conceptual structure of a situation is revealed to us” — whether that situation is a stylized thought experiment or a real world experience, says Marc A. Moffett
“Professors can’t fix the problem on their own” — Victor Kumar on what university administrators need to do address AI's threat to higher education
“The wall between jus ad bellum and jus in bello, which had sustained his theory for almost half a century, was no longer sturdy” — a profile of Michael Walzer, focusing on his thoughts about just war theory and the Israeli-Palestine conflict
We may think that we lose something significant when AI beats us to a discovery — if we do, Daniel Greco says, that seems to imply we gained something significant, too
“Once upon a time there were a couple of handsome naturalistic philosophers working in and around the philosophy of fiction” — thoughts on new directions in philosophy of fiction, from several philosophers
What is the debate over whether trans women are women even about? — Katie Zhou argues that it's about which facts are granted "the cross-contextual significance and stickiness characteristic of gender"
We’re putting human brain cells into mice brains — One moral risk of this, says Mackenzie Graham, is a decrease in our ability to interpret what mice behavior tells us about their experiences and welfare
The Rawls Game — with instructions, background, advice, and downloadable character cards
“The central question would shift from ‘How do we maximize shareholder value?’ to ‘How do different forms of organization distribute power, risk and reward — and which should we strengthen?'” — Chris Marquis on the case for abolishing, or at least radically changing, business schools
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

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Keith Douglas on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
The philosopher of science Mario Bunge taught us undergraduates in the 1990s that a literature search in philosophy should always include any connected fields. The philosopher of mind…
B.B. on Underrepresentation of Non-Native English Speakers in Philosophy: Findings from over 100,000 Papers (guest post)
The skewing here might in fact be more significant than one might immediately realize, too. I mean, like many from my home country, I went abroad (mostly the…
Junior Faculty on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
The epistemology of inquiry is in a similar position with respect to philosophy of science, especially the historicist tradition (i.e., Kuhn and the subsequent literature).
cecil burrow on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
I wonder if it is really true that this area of philosophy has simply re-invented something that already existed. I'll wager that there are all sorts of interesting…
JCM on Underrepresentation of Non-Native English Speakers in Philosophy: Findings from over 100,000 Papers (guest post)
Agreed. 'Accomplished' might beg the question, but those people may (also) be the ones most keen to get away from their native country never to return, and so…
JCM on Underrepresentation of Non-Native English Speakers in Philosophy: Findings from over 100,000 Papers (guest post)
Took the words out of my mouth! I'm from Ireland, an English-speaking country, and even this feels somewhat distant from the intellectual milieu of Britain and the US.…
Hey Nonny Mouse on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
I don't personally know a single politically conservative working philosopher. The lack of conservatives in philosophy requires explanation and our explanations should be tested. There is certainly a…
Felix on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
…critics of the policies promoted (very successfully, it is important to note, at least for a time) by maximalist trans activism are causing all manner of harm. This…
Reichenbach on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
Fine is not wrong on that score.
Felix on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
That's a good question. I don't think that the amicus briefs actually swayed opinion on the court, but more so that they provided the intellectual legitimization that the…
Meme on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
Oh… my.
Grad student on Mini-Heap
What a great sense of humour S Darwall has – a very enjoyable listen
Noah Gordon on “A Failure of Expectation Calibration”
I'd be curious to hear more about who the evaluators were in the blind evaluation tasks. The human contributors are described as "philosophy PhDs and professors", whereas the…
Noah Gordon on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
I thought we were all clamoring for Kit Fine's opinion on the politicization of music studies.
Jessie Ewesmont on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
Rosen and Fine are some of the greatest metaphysicians to ever live. I think everyone would be better off if they directed the majority of their energies towards…

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