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Kipnis & Harper Collins Fail To Get Lawsuit Dismissed

The motion filed by Laura Kipnis and her publisher, Harper Collins, to have philosophy graduate student “Jane Doe”‘s lawsuit against them dismissed has been…

March 7, 2018
Ad Hoc (Daily Nous Philosophy Comics)

March 6, 2018
Impostor Syndrome: “a problem I don’t especially wish to solve”

‘Impostor syndrome’ describes a problem I don’t especially wish to solve. Its remedy is to recognise that one does in fact belong. Yet I can’t…

March 6, 2018
What To Do About The Graduate Student Mental Health Crisis

A study of depression and anxiety among graduate students has found that 39% of its survey respondents “scored in the moderate-to-severe depression range.”

March 6, 2018
Philosopher Wins Grant To Increase Pre-College Exposure to Philosophy

The Whiting Foundation, a grant-making organization promoting the humanities in American culture, has awarded one of its Public Engagement Fellowships to Cristina Cammarano, assistant professor…

March 6, 2018
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

Here’s the weekly report of what’s new at some useful online philosophy resources.

March 6, 2018
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Plans To Discontinue Philosophy Program, Being a University

The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point has announced plans to eliminate the philosophy major at its school, along with majors in American Studies, Art, English, French, Geography,…

March 5, 2018
Hinchman and Westlund from Wisconsin, Milwaukee to Florida State

Edward Hinchman and Andrea Westlund, both of whom are currently associate professors of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, will be joining the Department of Philosophy…

March 5, 2018
A Game for Gaining Logical Fluency

Matthias Jenny, who recently received his PhD in philosophy from MIT, has started working in the tech industry. He wrote to share with Daily…

March 5, 2018
Mini-Heap

Here’s the latest edition of Mini-Heap—10 recent items from the Daily Nous Heap of Links, our regularly updated list of material from around the web that philosophers…

March 5, 2018
Why Are UK Academics Striking?

Since late February, professors and staff at UK universities have been striking over changes to their retirement plans.

March 5, 2018
Philosophers Help Fight for Chimpanzee Personhood

Seventeen philosophers co-authored and submitted to the New York Court of Appeals an amicus curiae brief in support of legal personhood for a pair…

March 5, 2018
The Growth of Pre-College Philosophy In Ireland

This past year, nearly 60 high schools in Ireland began offering philosophy courses or introducing philosophy modules into existing courses, and the nation’s president,…

March 2, 2018
Do Journals Favor Affiliated Authors?

“Do academic journals favor authors who share their institutional affiliation?” That’s the central question of a recent study, which finds evidence that suggests the…

March 2, 2018
Journal of History of Philosophy Lifts Moratorium on Early Modern Submissions

Late last year, the Journal of the History of Philosophy (JHP) had announced that it would not be accepting new submissions on early modern philosophy…

March 2, 2018
2018 QS Philosophy Rankings

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

March 1, 2018
Summer Philosophy Programs for Undergraduates

Are you helping to organize a summer philosophy program for undergraduates? What are the details?

February 28, 2018
Professors Dating Students, Professors Harassing Students

“As for the fact of being a lecturer in bed with undergraduates in particular, there was no possibility of avoiding the charge that this…

February 28, 2018
Chaospet (Daily Nous Philosophy Comics)

February 27, 2018
Mini-Heap

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February 27, 2018

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“[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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Mourinho on University of Cape Town vs. Free Speech
I fully disagree with Mark's conspiratorial comments on the Ayaan Hirsi Ali podcast, and in fact think less of him for going on her podcast in the first…
Jessie Ewesmont on University of Cape Town vs. Free Speech
He has a right to say whatever he wants without being arrested. He doesn't have a right to spout looney tunes tinfoil nonsense and maintain an executive position…
SCM on University of Cape Town vs. Free Speech
I don’t see this as an issue to be determined by the contours of the constitutional right to free speech in South Africa. If Oppenheimer were a ministerial…
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.

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