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Mini-Heap: recent items from the frequently updated Heap of Links, collected in groups of 10, here for your perusal and discussion.

June 17, 2017
Quality Control, Methodological Bias, and Persistent Disagreement in Philosophy

Recently, mainstream philosophy journals have tended to implement more and more stringent forms of peer review (e.g., from double-anonymous to triple-anonymous), probably in an…

June 16, 2017
New Study on Gender and Program-Prestige in Tenure-Track Hiring of Philosophers

Market outcomes starting in 2014 and going back 10 years offer no evidence women are at a disadvantage in tenure-track competitions. That’s the primary…

June 16, 2017
Oxford Philosophy PhD Candidate Wins New $100,000 Essay Prize

James Williams, a doctoral student at the Oxford Internet Institute who works on the philosophy and ethics of technology design, and who previously worked at…

June 15, 2017
Do Philosophers Care Too Much About Fallacies?

I used to teach a course in critical thinking at Ghent University. As behooves a good skeptic, I first presented my students with the…

June 15, 2017
Bradford Wins 2017 APA Book Prize, Marušić is Runner-Up

Gwen Bradford, associate professor of philosophy at Rice University, is the winner of the 2017 American Philosophical Association (APA) Book Prize, for her book, Achievement,…

June 14, 2017
Philosophers From Women’s Colleges Oppose Eliminating Philosophy At Mills

Philosophers at Wellesley, Smith, Mount Holyoke, Bryn Mawr, and Barnard—all women’s colleges—have authored a letter opposing the proposed elimination of the philosophy department at Mills…

June 14, 2017
Chaospet (Daily Nous Philosophy Comics)

Chaospet by Ryan Lake

June 13, 2017
Is Academic Freedom in Israel Threatened by a Philosopher-Authored Ethics Code? (Updated with English Translation of Proposed Code)

Israel’s Minister of Education has proposed the adoption of a code of ethics for academics that some worry poses a threat to the academic…

June 13, 2017
Finding Value in the False Scientific Beliefs of Earlier Philosophers

Anyone who studies the contemporary phenomenon of global warming, or who fears the insidious impact that the smartphone is having on our lives, or…

June 13, 2017
Lakatos Award Winners Announced

The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) has announced the winners of its 2015 and 2016 Lakatos Awards.

June 12, 2017
Philosophy Jobs Per AOS, 2016-17

Over at The Philosophers’ Cocoon, Marcus Arvan (Tampa) reports on the number of jobs advertised over the past year per Area of Specialization (AOS).

June 12, 2017
Mini-Heap

Mini-Heap: recent items from the frequently updated Heap of Links, collected in groups of 10, here for your perusal and discussion.

June 12, 2017
Petition Launched to Preserve Philosophy at Mills College

In the wake of news reported last Wednesday that the administration and Board of Trustees of Mills College plans to eliminate the school’s philosophy…

June 12, 2017
Queen Names Philip Pettit a Companion of the Order of Australia

Philip Pettit, distinguished university professor of philosophy at Australian National University and L.S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values at Princeton University, has…

June 12, 2017
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

Here’s the latest from some key online philosophy resources. We check the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP), Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (IEP), Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (NDPR), Wi-Phi, and 1000-Word Philosophy for…

June 12, 2017
Stubblefield Convictions Overturned

Anna Stubblefield, the former Rutgers-Newark philosophy professor convicted of sexually assualting a disabled man, has had her convictions overturned by an appellate court, reports…

June 10, 2017
Learning Through Teaching

Well, given my background I knew virtually no philosophy. So I have taught myself most of the philosophy I know by teaching it. If…

June 9, 2017
“Old Barriers Are Coming Down”

There’s another great interview up at What Is It Like To Be a Philosopher?—this time with Graham Priest (CUNY). Interviewer Clifford Sosis (Coastal Carolina)…

June 9, 2017
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Mini-Heap: recent items from the frequently updated Heap of Links, collected in groups of 10, here for your perusal and discussion.

June 9, 2017

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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
“Bad AI Consciousness Takes” Bingo Card — Henry Shevlin's area of specialization is becoming a popular topic in popular discourse, and he can't stand the "cavalcade of terrible takes"
Does the principle of sufficient reason imply panpsychism? If it does, do we then ponens or tollens? — Sam Kimpton-Nye on these questions and the "demand for intelligibility"
PTSD flashbacks may be harmful, but they may also be helpfully “resupplying phenomenal experience” to those who, owing to trauma, are “grasp alienated” — Michaela McSweeney on trauma and "madness-as-strategy"
A look at the very first issue of Mind — Brett Mullins surveys its articles on the occasion of the journal's 150th anniversary
The most bizarre plagiarism-related story ever — featuring: a death, an investigator, a dissertation, a mysterious red book, and more
New data on earnings by major and university — though not all universities
“AI poses two different existential threats to [our] valuing practices” — Jordan MacKenzie offers an account of why negative judgments about AI taking over our creative and caring activities are justified
“Submission” is a humorous clicker-style game about starting a career in academic philosophy (or not) — created by Nat Hansen
“The best investment in education is to become the most human human—a challenging, fulfilling, exciting pursuit that connects us across generations” — an interview with Christa Acampora, philosopher and dean of Arts & Sciences at UVA
“What would happen if we tried to live without the mythology of agency at all?” — It's worth pondering, since "agency is just an internal command hallucination," says Alexander Douglas
“Reading List” is a free Mac app for keeping track of papers to read — philosophy PhD student Hayden Kajercline created this productivity tool for researchers, with help from Claude
How should we react to scary predictions about AI? “First: by asking questions” — "If you believe predictions uncritically, it amounts to obeying in advance," says Carissa Véliz
“I feel unbelievably lucky that I was able to make philosophy my profession” — Karen Ng reflects on her path into philosophy, at #first-genphilosophers
The ordinary concept of knowledge “doesn’t work at all the way philosophers said it does” — a round-up of studies shows how weird the philosophers' version of the concept is
1000 or so psychiatrists were asked to diagnose standardized clinical case vignettes. “Two doctors agreed on the diagnosis only 55% of the time” — What does this tell us about psychiatry? Or about other fields in which experts disagree?
Where Aristotle taught Alexander — "this newest dig may be the most revealing yet, offering insight into the specifics of Alexander the Great’s education"

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David Wallace on AI Use in STEM and Philosophy Dissertations
I’m not sure we’re in serious disagreement. The really crucial thing about an AI detector is that it doesn’t show false positives, so that if it says “AI”…
Henry Shevlin on The Future Currency of Achievement in Human Philosophy
Pretty confident! I think it's likely that AI will dominate in all analytic philosophy domains by 2030, but the terms of the bet are unreasonably charitable to me…
Daniel Greco on AI Use in STEM and Philosophy Dissertations
I think the caveats you include at the end of your (1) are in some tension with (2). I use Pangram and I think it's quite good; it's…
David Wallace on AI Use in STEM and Philosophy Dissertations
Substitute “Claude” for “your dissertation director”, and not a few PhDs have a form not too different from this. (Which again is my point about implementation being what…
GVAponte on AI Use in STEM and Philosophy Dissertations
How about if Claude dictates a list of interconnected ideas, I write down what I gather, and write a dissertation, all by myself, based on those notes: Am…
Tenured Realist on AI Use in STEM and Philosophy Dissertations
This is a bit off topic from the post but I'm curious to hear what people think of the following scenarios. Would you say the AI use described…
Justin Weinberg on Overwhelming Cheating
Reminder: The comments policy says of LLMs, "please do not submit comments written in whole or in part by these tools."
Nice try on AI Use in STEM and Philosophy Dissertations
"If there is a line, defend it. If there is no line and any AI-generated text invalidates authorship, defend that instead." Have you heard of a false dilemma…
Rosanna Festa on My Crystal Ball
I am a philosopher woman and I have the Crystal Ball.
Animal Symbolicum on New: “Why Teach Philosophy?”
Since everyone knows that the paradigm philosophical achievement is the production of a peer-reviewed article presenting an argument for a claim, the series’ titular question is already answered.…
Dave on Putting the Pub in Public Philosophy
Georgia Southern also does Philosophy After Dark' at a local brewery (!): https://www.griceconnect.com/lets-eat/philosophy-after-dark-builds-community-through-timely-and-timeless-questions-10373344.
MBW on AI Use in STEM and Philosophy Dissertations
Not so worried – it's also in Pangram's interest to continue the arms race. Their AI can fight the chatbots, and when it's not useful, we won't rely…
Paul Doran on Putting the Pub in Public Philosophy
Check out Philosophy In Pubs, Liverpool, England – https://www.philosophyinpubs.co.uk/schedule/all/schedule https://philosophyinpublic.co.uk
David Wallace on AI Use in STEM and Philosophy Dissertations
I never said anything about long term policy. At present, AI detection works, and we can make policy based on that. As and when the technological situation changes,…
Nick on AI Use in STEM and Philosophy Dissertations
But as you hint, isn't there just a simple argument against long-term reliance on any such tools as Pangram? In the long run, someone will surely reverse-engineer any…

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