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Why Don’t We Study African Philosophy?

Over 100 billion people, it is estimated, have lived on earth. About one-seventh of the world’s population lives in Africa now. So, by way…

March 7, 2016
Philosophy in the University: A Defense

“Far from being years of ‘enduring failure,’ the last 150 years have been philosophy’s best.” So argues Scott Soames (University of Southern California) in…

March 7, 2016
Philosopher to Sue NYC Police for 4th Amendment Violation

Damion Scott, a PhD student in philosophy at SUNY Stony Brook and an adjunct professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, claims…

March 5, 2016
Bias, Subjectivity, and Superficiality in Philosophy

The philosophy profession in the United States is overwhelmingly male and white. What explains this? In an essay in The Los Angeles Times, Myisha Cherry (UI Chicago)…

March 4, 2016
Fricker from Sheffield to CUNY

Miranda Fricker, currently professor of philosophy at University of Sheffield, will be taking up a full-time senior position at CUNY Graduate Center this September. Professor…

March 4, 2016
Crispin Sartwell Removed from Dickinson Campus (updated with responses from Nehamas and Zagzebski)

Crispin Sartwell, associate professor of philosophy at Dickinson College, reports today that he has been “removed from campus” for posting a video of Miranda…

March 3, 2016
Central APA Open Thread

The Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association (APA) is taking place in Chicago. Are you there? Consider this an open space for comments,…

March 3, 2016
Philosopher’s Guide to Bookstores

Is the best Manhattan bookstore for Nietzsche lovers East Village Books (slogan: so hardcore a bookstore that our website doesn’t work)? That’s what Stephanie Kotsikonas, a…

March 3, 2016
Philosophy Tag

Hey, remember Philosophy Tag? It died down in the middle of last year—it’s okay, things happen—but I think it’s a good way to draw attention to…

March 2, 2016
To φ Or Not To φ (Daily Nous Philosophy Comics)

To φ Or Not To φ by Tanya Kostochka

March 1, 2016
Talking Philosophy With Your Kids

Philosopher parents: how, if at all, do you talk philosophy with you own children? I don’t give my children philosophy lessons, nor do we…

March 1, 2016
Thanks to This Month’s Advertisers

Daily Nous thanks March’s advertisers. See the ads in right side bar for: The Public Discourse Project at the University of Connecticut’s Humanities Institute Academic Cross-Training…

March 1, 2016
Analysis Announces New Editors

Via Ben Colburn (Glasgow): The Analysis Committee is delighted to announce the new editors of Analysis: Joint editors: Chris Daly and David Liggins (University…

March 1, 2016
“Bunny-Drowning” University President Resigns

Simon Newman resigned from his position as president of Mount St. Mary’s University this afternoon, according to a message posted on the university’s website.…

February 29, 2016
Phones, Minds, States, and Corporations

Matthew Noah Smith (Leeds) has an article at Slate bringing together philosophy of mind and political philosophy to discuss the United States government’s attempts to…

February 29, 2016
Altmetrics in Philosophy

An article on assessing faculty activities in The Chronicle of Higher Education (mainly on the controversy concerning the services of Academic Analytics) notes the question of…

February 29, 2016
Jon Altschul (2016)

Jon Alstchul, associate professor of philosophy at Loyola University New Orleans, has died. Professor Altschul worked mainly in epistemology and philosophy of mind, and…

February 29, 2016
José Benardete (1928-2016) (updated)

José Benardete, professor emeritus of philosophy at Syracuse University, has died. The author of three books—the latest was Greatness of Soul: In Hume, Aristotle and Hobbes,…

February 26, 2016
Needed: A Philosophy Cheat Sheet for Scientists

What is the name of the phenomenon by which someone who is an acknowledged expert in one area is led to be overconfident about…

February 26, 2016
Philosophers in Fictional Works

James Andow (Reading) has been compiling a list of philosophers in fiction, including novels, films, plays, etc. He says: For no reason in particular,…

February 26, 2016

Heap of Links

“Equality talk can feel so disorienting! Even among philosophers, it consistently promises more than it delivers” — some clarity might come from looking at the concept's history, argues Teresa Bejan
We’re trained to anticipate objections and couch our claims in caveats, but is that what today’s communication context calls for? — "The caveat is dead," says Joshua Miller
“[H]ow quickly… we get from wanting (of course rightly) to protect women and girls from violence—to actually imposing a new risk of violence upon them” — Sophie Grace Chappell writes to JK Rowling
Is pervasive substantive philosophical disagreement evidence for skepticism about philosophy? — "What kind of skepticism?" asks Duncan Pritchard. Pyrrhonian or Academic?
Some authors of articles published in philosophy journals are not disclosing that they used AI in writing them — and they should, says Amos Wollen
It took a philosopher who was a medical doctor to argue for the social utility of vice. Why? — John Callanan and Blain Neufeld discuss Bernard Mandeville, "the wickedest man in Europe"
“The technologies with which we are increasingly interconnected lack the complex interiority required for real intelligence to arise” — Melanie Challenger on how GPS, AI, etc. threaten bodily intelligence
“The path to becoming a researcher seemed shrouded in mystery; academia felt like a distant realm” — Markus Schrenk shares his journey from first-gen college student to successful, prize-winning philosophy professor
“It’s not as though my… research is informed by my politics. I feel it’s the other way around. My politics is informed by my research” — Lea Ypi is interviewed about politics and universities
Critic: “You, ChatGPT, are a bad Bayesian. Rather than assess an interlocutor’s counterargument as better or worse than expected, you tend to just agree with it.” — ChatGPT: "You're right"
“We have a real need to be needed. And yet many forces… appear to be making us feel redundant. Are we building a world in which no one is particularly necessary? Do we already live in such a world?” — Joshua Rothman on being needed
Dreams can come true it can happen to you — if someone forgets to renew a software license
Explanations are “mental acts, not just facts” — Chaz Firestone looks at Tania Lombrozo's new book on explanation
“What shape is this paradox?” sounds like a category mistake — but mathematicians have an explanation for why the Condorect Paradox is in the shape of a Klein bottle
“The tragedy is that many people today are deprived of both good company and good solitude. They do not feel truly met by others, and they do not feel at home in themselves” — Amir Zadnemat on loneliness (via The Browser)
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 Kant 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"

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Concerned on Building AI That Can Do Philosophy Better Than Us (guest post)
I see nothing in the original posts that responds to what I think philosophy is. This is presupposing a method of philosophy used by undergrads and taught as…
Techniques Urbaines on University of Cape Town vs. Free Speech
Important issue regarding free speech
Student Philosopher on Building AI That Can Do Philosophy Better Than Us (guest post)
Do you really believe this?
Just Saying on New Philosophy Journal Rankings by Citations in SEP in IEP
The new study of philosophy journal standings provides interesting historical information, going back many years. For example, it can indirectly reveal how journals can improve their quality and…
Brian Weatherson on New Philosophy Journal Rankings by Citations in SEP in IEP
There is no magic button for "remove unlabelled review articles". You need to have a formula that a python/R/whatever script can run, and you need to check it…
ERW on New Philosophy Journal Rankings by Citations in SEP in IEP
Your argument appears to be that a human would have not thought to do what many humans on Daily Nous suggested you do as soon as they saw…
Graham Harman on New Philosophy Journal Rankings by Citations in SEP in IEP
When you do this, you're just doubling down on giving all the authority to the standard gatekeepers of "mainstream" philosophy. The kinds of people who are normally invited…
Mourinho on University of Cape Town vs. Free Speech
I fully disagree with Mark's conspiratorial comments on the Ayaan Hirsi Ali podcast, and in fact think less of him for going on her podcast in the first…
Jessie Ewesmont on University of Cape Town vs. Free Speech
He has a right to say whatever he wants without being arrested. He doesn't have a right to spout looney tunes tinfoil nonsense and maintain an executive position…
SCM on University of Cape Town vs. Free Speech
I don’t see this as an issue to be determined by the contours of the constitutional right to free speech in South Africa. If Oppenheimer were a ministerial…
Kenny Easwaran on New Philosophy Journal Rankings by Citations in SEP in IEP
It's actually remarkable how similar this list is to the last Leiter poll I found (https://leiterreports.com/2022/08/23/best-general-journals-of-philosophy-2022-via-the-condorcet-method-and-via-an-average-of-both-methods/) Ignoring specialty journals, your list is: Phil Review Phil Perspectives Mind JPhil…
Brian Weatherson on New Philosophy Journal Rankings by Citations in SEP in IEP
It's not even "AI-produced" in any interesting sense. It's produced by a python script from standard sources. That script was written by AI, but that's not particularly relevant;…
Just Saying on New Philosophy Journal Rankings by Citations in SEP in IEP
These rankings are based on data that go back 36 years. For much more recent data and an extremely thorough, professional study, see this on Daily Nous: https://dailynous.com/2023/12/04/new-meta-ranking-of-philosophy-journals/
Azat Sadri on Building AI That Can Do Philosophy Better Than Us (guest post)
"I invite everyone to recognize the damage here" I am a member of a philosophy department (teacher) and am currently writing a PhD, and, in my view, the…
WiseGuy on University of Cape Town vs. Free Speech
To be clear, I certainly don't think that you should lose that position on the board for making these remarks. If every board member was losing their position…

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