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Sandel Wins 2025 Berggruen Prize

Michael Sandel, professor of government at Harvard University, is the 2025 winner of the $1 million Berggruen Prize for Philosophy and Culture.

October 13, 2025
The Counterfeiting of the Humanities

In 2023, I attended an annual conference on the humanities. In a conversation over lunch, a program manager for a state humanities council, whose…

October 13, 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 13, 2025
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New links…

October 10, 2025
Teachable and State of the Art

A philosophy professor has a question about teaching that I think will resonate with many readers.

October 9, 2025
Will There Be Midterm Elections?

According to a site that aggregates data from several betting markets, bettors think there’s a 63.9% chance that the Democratic Party will regain control…

October 8, 2025
New: Guides to Public Philosophy

The Public Philosophy Network has published the first volume in its series of “Guides to Public Philosophy.”

October 7, 2025
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New interesting things elsewhere…

October 7, 2025
Expanding the Range of Professional Philosophical Opportunities via Environmental Ethics

“One of the most visible and impactful ways that philosophers demonstrate their practical value,” says Matthew Kisner, professor of philosophy at the University of…

October 6, 2025
If Anthropic Used Your Work, You Could be Entitled to Compensation

The settlement in the copyright lawsuit against Anthropic provides authors of books they trained their AI on with compensation.

October 6, 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 6, 2025
Neil Mehta’s Guide to Professional Philosophy

“It is often thought that philosophical excellence is the sole province of the genius. I by contrast believe that it can be achieved through…

October 2, 2025
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Recent additions to the Heap of Links…

October 2, 2025
Where Philosophers Write

Where do you like to write?

October 1, 2025
Memorial Event for Helen De Cruz

This past June, Helen De Cruz, professor of philosophy at Saint Louis University, died at the age of 46.

October 1, 2025
Grading Prompts to Measure Student Learning (guest post)

In this era of AI, “can we still rely on take-home writing assignments to assess student learning? And, should we allow students to use…

September 30, 2025
Columbia Philosophy Major Again Faces Deportation Threat

Last April, Mohsen Mahdawi, then a philosophy major at Columbia University, was attending a US citizenship application interview in Vermont when Immigration and Customs…

September 30, 2025
Editor of Ethics Floats AI-Use Guidelines

In a recent editorial, Douglas Portmore (Notre Dame), the editor-in-chief of Ethics, sets forth some “initial guidelines” about AI use for the journal.

September 29, 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…

September 29, 2025
John Searle (1932-2025)

Philosopher John Searle, well-known for his work on philosophy of mind and philosophy of language, has died.

September 28, 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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Michel on Underrepresentation of Non-Native English Speakers in Philosophy: Findings from over 100,000 Papers (guest post)
Thanks. I confess that I bristle a bit at that grouping, since some of those countries are rather more Anglophone than others. But I accept that, in the…
Student Philosopher on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
I attended a lecture recently where a philosopher of science shared how innovation does not necessarily follow from fully connected systems. I can’t remember the source but it…
Caio Cezar Silva on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
I don't wanna bash anyone, but this is the kind of thing you expect anyone would do as they consider writing about something. It is comprehensible that a…
Neri on Underrepresentation of Non-Native English Speakers in Philosophy: Findings from over 100,000 Papers (guest post)
From the paper: "We divided countries into majority ES and non-majority ES, based on the United Kingdom’s official classification scheme,(7) and then classified authors with one or more addresses…
Nick Laskowski on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
As someone else with whom I was spoke about the report rightly pointed out, there's no systematic empirical evidence regarding social philosophy's research climate available to us. But…
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…

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