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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 15, 2025
George Pappas (1942-2025)

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September 11, 2025
A Collection of Advice for Graduate Students

There’s a lot of advice floating around online for graduate students, but it can be hard to find, and hard for newbies to judge…

September 11, 2025
Philosophy Departments as Sites of Collective Intellectual Activities: A Follow-Up to the Poll

Has there been a “marked decline” in the “meaningful presence of faculty members in both formal and informal scholarly events—those that contribute to intellectual…

September 11, 2025
Be Careful What You Teach: Trump’s Minions May Get You Fired

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September 10, 2025
GPT-5’s Ethics Guidelines for Using It in Philosophical Research

In a post last month, we discussed the question, “How much use of AI in our research is acceptable?“

September 10, 2025
Women’s Share of US PhDs in Philosophy Increased by about One-Third Over Past Decade (guest post)

Women earned 37% of US Philosophy Doctorates in 2024, up from 28% ten years ago. But what explains the change?

September 10, 2025
Mind Chunks

September 9, 2025
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September 9, 2025
Human vs. AI in Logic Tasks: a Study

Philosopher-turned-software developer Brian Rabern is conducting a study comparing human and artificial intelligence (AI) performance on logic problems, and he is looking for student…

September 9, 2025
Philosophy’s Journal Problem Captured in One Number?

In the first six months of 2025, a top philosophy journal received 403 submissions. Of those, how many did it accept during that time?

September 8, 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 8, 2025
Peer Review, Intellectual Tastes, and Some Fun

Have you ever wanted to tell off the reviewers of your manuscript?

September 5, 2025
Robert Gordon (1932-2025)

Robert “Bob” Gordon, emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, died this past April.

September 5, 2025
Trump’s Halting of Harvard’s Funding Ruled Illegal

Yesterday, Judge Allison D. Burroughs of the U.S. District Court in Boston vacated the Trump administration’s orders to freeze or terminate billions of dollars…

September 4, 2025
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September 3, 2025
How the Public Sees Philosophy: Insights from a National Survey in the Czech Republic (guest post)

What do ordinary people think philosophy is for?

September 3, 2025
Philosophy Grad Student from China Deported upon Arrival in US (updated)

A 22-year-old student from China who had traveled from China to Texas to study philosophy at the University of Houston was detained upon arrival…

September 2, 2025
Khalifa from UCLA to Pittsburgh

Kareem Khalifa, currently professor of philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles, will be moving to the University of Pittsburgh, where he will…

September 2, 2025
Online Philosophy Resources Monthly Update

Here’s the last of the monthly updates on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, and new podcast…

September 1, 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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Student Philosopher on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
This is it! Thank you!
Ethan Landes on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
There are two things I find particularly humbling about this. First is scope. There are almost 500 papers in PhilPaper's conceptual engineering collection. I just quickly checked Google…
cecil burrow on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
Yes, but there is also the flip side that ignorance of the literature can free you from prejudices existent in that literature. Let the wheel be re-invented in…
Nick Laskowski on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
Object to the substance of what I've said by all means, but yeesh, please ignore the missing words, extraneous words ('was' in the first sentence), typos ('envious'), etc.…
Alessandro Corona Mendozza on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
These should be Zollman's results on transient diversity in epistemic networks (2007 & 2010), just in case you wanted to fetch them back
Mourinho on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
I don't think Ethan would disagree with this. The point is rather that ignorance of the existing literature is a missed opportunity to perhaps do things quicker and…
David Wallace on “A Failure of Expectation Calibration”
The excerpt read like Claude to me so I put the full paper into Pangram, which thinks it’s 59% AI written (qualitatively matching my own sense on a…
JCM on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
You don't even need to go that far afield to find a prehistory of conceptual engineering! At the time conceptual engineering came into vogue, I was studying R.…
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…

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