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Monmouth College Eliminating Its Philosophy Major

The President of Monmouth College, a private liberal arts college in Illinois, has recently announced that students at the school will no longer be…

August 13, 2025
How to Justify an AI Ban in Your Classroom (Guest Post)

“I don’t want to be a cop in the classroom. So, it’s… important for students to come to the same conclusion themselves and understand…

August 12, 2025
New: Journal for New Narratives in the History of Philosophy

Journal for New Narratives in the History of Philosophy (JNNHP) is a new, online, open-access, peer-reviewed journal.

August 11, 2025
Texas Hires Gustafsson and Ward

Philosophers Johan Gustafsson and Thomas Ward have been hired by the University of Texas at Austin.

August 11, 2025
A Big Boost for Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Research

The Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society is the recipient of a $3.2 million award.

August 7, 2025
Stanford’s Student Newspaper Sues Federal Government

The Stanford Daily, Stanford University’s independently run student newspaper, and two of its student staff, are suing Marco Rubio, in his capacity as Secretary…

August 6, 2025
Arguments, Conclusions, and the Policies of Religious Academic Journals

“We do not publish any work advancing views that are clearly contrary to the established teachings of the Catholic Church.”

August 6, 2025
Philosophers and Embedded Ethics (guest post)

“Over the last decade, interest in ethical issues related to computing, especially concerning artificial intelligence (AI) and big data, has skyrocketed.”

August 5, 2025
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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

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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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Ben on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
Are you sure? It may depend on what you mean by "conservative." If you mean "adherent of free market policies and a generally small state" or "person who…
Reichenbach on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
Would love to read Fine’s take on poptimism.
Ben on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
Yes, philosophers sometimes reinvent wheels from other disciplines. But I actually think philosophers tend to do a much better job engaging with work from other disciplines than academics…
A thought? on Underrepresentation of Non-Native English Speakers in Philosophy: Findings from over 100,000 Papers (guest post)
Mhh if only there was a really useful tool to help non-native speakers deal with language barriers and every instance of it wasn't uncritically treated as the spawn…
Nathan Kellen on Calls for Papers / Grants / Etc.
Society for Exact Philosophy 2027 Annual Meeting. Kansas State University (Manhattan, KS). June 26-28 2027. Submissions due February 21 2027. https://meta.phil.ufl.edu/host/sep/meeting.html. The Society for Exact Philosophy invites submissions…
Nathan Kellen on Calls for Papers / Grants / Etc.
North American Summer School for Logic, Language, and Information 2027. Kansas State University (Manhattan, KS). June 21-25 2027. Course Proposals due December 18 2026. [email protected] courses are aimed…
Will Conner on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
I want to preface this by saying it’s sometimes tough to know what counts as reinventing the wheel, and I would not endorse any general claim about wheel…
praymont on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
This happens throughout the humanities and social sciences. People in faculties of education and lit departments publish on critical thinking without a deep dive into what philosophers have…
Kate on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
just want to say that i really admire how forthright you're being about this, it's inspiring.
ikj on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
as a person with multiple degrees in literary study, i still think back and chuckle about the philosopher who was having their students read anna karenina and basking…
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

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