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August 5, 2025
Kolers from Louisville to Tennessee

Avery Kolers, Professor and Department Chair of Philosophy at the University of Louisville, will be moving to the University of Tennessee Department of Philosophy, where…

August 4, 2025
Philosophers Among Recent NEH Grant Winners (updated)

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has announced the recipients of its latest grants, and several philosophers are among them.

August 4, 2025
Philosophers Petition APA to Issue Statement on Gaza (updated)

“We, the undersigned members of the APA and the wider philosophical community, write to express our dismay and deep disappointment regarding the APA’s conspicuous…

July 31, 2025
Opportunity to Volunteer to Teach Online Courses for Ukrainian Universities

A pair of philosophers have created a program through which people can volunteer to team-teach online courses at Ukrainian universities.

July 30, 2025
To Philosophers of Easy Virtue (guest post)

“My experiences have led me to believe that one of the best things that men in a professional field can do for feminism is…

July 29, 2025
Christopher Rowe (1944-2025)

Christopher Rowe, emeritus professor of classics at Durham University and well-known scholar of ancient philosophy, has died.

July 28, 2025
Journal of Political Philosophy Officially Ends

“The  Journal of Political Philosophy  will cease publication effective January 1, 2026.”

July 28, 2025
Online Philosophy Resources Monthly Update

Here’s the (usually weekly, but during the summer, monthly) report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books,…

July 28, 2025
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July 25, 2025
If You Want Your Students Completing Their Coursework Without Help from AI…

…how do you make that happen?

July 25, 2025
Columbia University Caves

Door #1: Lose at least $400 million in federal grants. Door #2: Lose at least $221 million and your institutional autonomy.

July 24, 2025
Hagit Benbaji (1966-2025)

Hagit Benbaji, a philosopher at Ben-Gurion University, has died.

July 23, 2025
On Being Seriously Funny (guest post)

“I got into philosophy at least partly because it was comic and that’s still much of what I enjoy about it.”

July 22, 2025
Administrators, Trustees, Students, and the Future of the Liberal Arts

“The tragedy of the contemporary academy is that even when traditional liberal learning clearly wins with students and donors, it loses with those in…

July 17, 2025
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Beyond Argument: The Creative Craft of Philosophy Writing (guest post)

“I want to talk about the part of philosophy writing that comes after the argument part: the bit where you work on expressing your…

July 15, 2025
Studying Philosophy Makes People Better Thinkers: Further Data

A new study “offers the strongest evidence to date that studying philosophy does indeed make people better thinkers.”

July 14, 2025
Philosophy Professor Reportedly Assaulted & Abducted During ICE Raid on Farm (updates)

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July 12, 2025
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“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"
Over 4000 of the Justice Department’s lawyers have left their jobs since Trump’s second term began — The New Yorker on the moral dilemma facing some government employees: resign and avoid complicity, or stay and resist where one can?
Underappreciated philosophy published between 1970-2019 — some old posts to which you can still add works that should be better appreciated
The AI threat to independent student writing is not necessarily a threat to student learning — what's needed, says Joe Cruz, are courses "in which ideas are expressed in real time and analytical thought unfolds as a debate or an oral defense or a group discussion"—and small enough classes to make that work
Would you take a pill that allows you, with no ill health effects, to permanently forgo sleep? — Rebecca Lowe thinks you have no good reason not to, though she neglects to consider that sometimes it's the world that needs a break from you
Fifty essays in the philosophy of paleontology — by Max Dresow at the Extinct blog
“Asking whether [an AI] model ‘has a world model’ leaves much unresolved. Our findings point toward mechanistically studying its world modeling; uncovering the structures it learned [and] the world modeling capacities that recruit these” — further research on the internal representations of AIs
Sixty Years of Philosophy in America — Ernest Sosa's Dewey Lecture from the 2024 APA Eastern Division Meeting
“You’re responsible for other people’s learning of this material, so you better know it at a higher level yourself” — for 20 years, the Socrates Project at the University of Toronto has hired senior philosophy undergrads to run weekly tutorials for introductory students
“Suddenly, my problems stop being problems in the world. They become problems in my head. The problem is no longer: ‘my job is demoralizing, but I can’t leave it’… It’s: ‘I have a chemical imbalance that prevents me from enjoying life'” — Justin Garson on “the pathologizing tendency”
A political theorist and a comedian discuss the American presidency — "The Oath and the Office" is the podcast of Corey Brettschneider & John Fugelsang
An “evidence revolution” has taken place in medicine and other fields over the past 50 years — but, as Benjamin Santos Genta asks, there's still the question: "what counts as good scientific evidence?"

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Mark Alfano on Your One Piece of Philosophy Grad School Advice
Never trust or be loyal to anyone at the level of department head, dean, provost, or above. They will never be loyal to you or treat you with…
AGT on Those OpenAI Math Results
Just another remark regarding who the next target of AI companies will be (already the wording is menacing btw). I don't think it will be philosophy since these…
AGT on Those OpenAI Math Results
And here we are at it – again. Assuming that the machines progress as they did so far, no amount of preparedness will do since they will take…
Symon Stevens-Guille on Those OpenAI Math Results
These proofs in Lean (or any proof assistant or theorem prover) are only useful for present purposes if the theorems proved are the intended ones. Semantic parsing is…
Eric Steinhart on Those OpenAI Math Results
TL;DR: The robots are coming for philosophy too, but philosophers are not prepared. Either we adapt, or academic philosophy perishes. Much of the social structure of math as an…
Kris McDaniel on A History of U.S. Philosophy Via APA Presidencies (guest post)
Thank you, Kenny!
Yuanshan Li on Those OpenAI Math Results
Only about 20 percent of the results among the 700ish in the recent release are formalized.
Brian Weatherson on Your One Piece of Philosophy Grad School Advice
This is such good advice. At Michigan the students are required by university rule to take at least one course outside their home department. And sometimes they'll try…
Brian Weatherson on Those OpenAI Math Results
I don't think this is a gish gallop in any traditional sense. These are proofs in Lean. They are very hard to fake. Maybe they exploited a bug…
Yuanshan Li on Those OpenAI Math Results
Some prominent mathematicians have indeed claimed that good problems that invite understanding are scarce, and are at risk of being exhausted by AI. I personally isn't convinced by…
Dmitri Gallow on Those OpenAI Math Results
I don't think that *everything* now hangs on that counterfactual, because of everything else that I put aside at the start of my last comment. In terms of…
Meme on Those OpenAI Math Results
(Notwithstanding my confusion, I agree with the other stuff you say about the adjustment of values, etc. I’m just not seeing how the infinite/finite distinction is resolving a…
Meme on Those OpenAI Math Results
I’m not sure this addressed my question. You said it’s important to distinguish math itself from the study of math, presumably because “by definition mathematics is infinite, so…
HotWheelReggie1991 on Those OpenAI Math Results
OK, i'll grant your distinction – and so it would seem (on that granting) everything now hangs on the medium-to-long-run counterfactual. So, i've got two thoughts on that..…
S Johnson on Your One Piece of Philosophy Grad School Advice
Don’t go into debt for grad school

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