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To φ Or Not To φ (Daily Nous Philosophy Comics)

To φ Or Not To φ by Tanya Kostochka

January 24, 2017
How Journal Capture Led to the Dominance of Analytic Philosophy in the U.S.

How is it that analytic philosophy came to be the dominant philosophical style in the 20th Century in the United States? From inside the…

January 24, 2017
Which Sciences Can Help Answer Philosophical Questions?

Can science help us answer philosophical questions? Hanoch Ben-Yami, professor of philosophy at Central European University (CEU), in an interview at 3:AM Magazine, suggests that the question…

January 24, 2017
Net Return On Philosophy Major Is Comparable To That Of Engineering Major

A new study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), “The Costs and Net Returns to College Major,” finds that offering a…

January 23, 2017
Profiles of Non-Academics with Philosophy Degrees

Most of the students in our undergraduate philosophy course, even most of philosophy majors, and quite a number of those with graduate degrees in…

January 23, 2017
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

Here’s the weekly report of what’s new at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP), Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (IEP), Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (NDPR), and Wi-Phi.

January 23, 2017
Philosophy For Inauguration Day

What passages of philosophy are worth thinking about today, January 20th, the day that Donald Trump is to be sworn-in as president of the…

January 20, 2017
Hiring Departments: Try This New Free Recommendations Service

MARGY (Managing Academic Recommendations Gratis Yay), the free service for emailing confidential letters of recommendation developed by philosophers David Faraci (Georgetown) and Graham Leach-Krouse (Kansas State),…

January 20, 2017
Philosophy Syllabus As Infographic

“It’s in the syllabus,” we tell our students—so often there should be a t-shirt. Oh wait, there is. But perhaps we could make that…

January 19, 2017
Haslanger Issues Diversity Fund Challenge

Sally Haslanger, Ford Professor of Philosophy and Women’s & Gender Studies at MIT and former President of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association (APA)…

January 19, 2017
Ben Caplan from Ohio State to University of Kansas

Ben Caplan, currently professor of philosophy at Ohio State University, will become professor of philosophy at the University of Kansas, starting in Fall 2017.…

January 19, 2017
Nussbaum Receives The “Highest Honor” Federal Gov’t Bestows for Humanities

Martha Nussbaum, the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, will be delivering the 2017 Jefferson Lecture in…

January 18, 2017
When It’s Reasonable To Think Something’s Awry With Your Submitted Manuscript

When you suspect something has gone awry with the manuscript you submitted to an academic journal, when is it appropriate to contact the journal…

January 18, 2017
Philosophy at Eastern Illinois Threatened

A committee responsible for assessing how Eastern Illinois University (EIU) should best handle severe cuts to state funding and declining enrollments has recommended, among…

January 18, 2017
Who Is On The New APA Graduate Student Council?

The American Philosophical Association (APA) announced plans last fall to launch a graduate student council that would be responsible for “reporting to the board of officers…

January 18, 2017
The CIA’s Reports on Philosophers

Via the interesting and often rather amusing Twitter feed of Nolen Gertz, a philosopher at the University of Twente, we learn of what is…

January 18, 2017
A Tool To Track Trump’s Tampering With Public Information

With the inauguration of the reckless, narcissistic, thin-skinned, lying, authoritarian Donald Trump around the corner, reasonable people everywhere are asking “what should we do?”…

January 17, 2017
Chaospet (Daily Nous Philosophy Comics)

Chaospet by Ryan Lake

January 17, 2017
Political Philosophy and the “Aggressive Use of the Law to Impose Controversial Rights”

Gerald Gaus (Arizona) reminds us of the law’s limited power for social change in a new essay at The Critique. There is only so much that…

January 17, 2017
Philosophy as “The Most Minimalistic Art” and the Challenges of Interdisciplinary Work

I was attracted to philosophy because it is the most minimalistic art I can think of. To express ideas, you use only the most…

January 16, 2017

Heap of Links

“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
“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?

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Michel on AI Use in STEM and Philosophy Dissertations
Maybe. The problem is what's going unsaid; presumably you then have to find and read the sources for those ideas, and explain them yourself. If so, then it's…
Jukka on AI Use in STEM and Philosophy Dissertations
I am disturbed by the prevalence in STEM, and heartened by the lag in philosophy. Me too, and I am in STEM. Nowadays, personally, I always put a…
DoctorK on AI Use in STEM and Philosophy Dissertations
Unacceptable*
DoctorK on AI Use in STEM and Philosophy Dissertations
The second to last item is problematic, depending on what suggestions are made and how they are implemented. The other items are either clear academic misconduct or acceptable…
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.

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