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Canadian Philosophical Association’s Letter on Turkey

The Canadian Philosophical Association (CPA) has written a letter to Turkey’s Council of Higher Education, stating concerns about academic repression in that country. (For more…

February 16, 2016
American Catholic Philosophical Association on Mount St. Mary’s Fiasco

The Executive Committee of the American Catholic Philosophical Association (ACPA)has issued a statement regarding the ongoing controversy at Mount St. Mary’s University of the recent…

February 15, 2016
Statement from Professor Naberhaus of Mount St. Mary’s University

Thane Naberhaus, the tenured associate professor of philosophy at Mount St. Mary’s University who was one of several recently fired or demoted by the…

February 15, 2016
Mount St. Mary Faculty Reinstated / Update: Faculty Ask President To Resign By Monday

This afternoon Mount St. Mary’s University announced that its president, Simon Newman, had agreed to reinstate Thane Naberhaus and Edward Egan, the two faculty members…

February 12, 2016
APA Statement on Bullying and Harassment (Update: Coverage from IHE)

The American Philosophical Association (APA) has released a statement on bullying and harassment: The American Philosophical Association appreciates the work of philosophers who bring…

February 12, 2016
Journal Articles for Free

Do you know about Sci-Hub? Simon Oxenham at Big Think explains: On September 5th, 2011, Alexandra Elbakyan, a researcher from Kazakhstan, created Sci-Hub, a…

February 12, 2016
Philosopher Won’t Stand Down

Thane Naberhaus, the associate professor of philosophy who earlier this week was fired from his tenured position at Mount St. Mary’s University by current university…

February 12, 2016
Fund Legal Help for Fired Professors

A GoFundMe site has been created to collect donations for Thane Naberhaus and Edward Egan, the two professors recently fired from Mount Saint Mary’s…

February 11, 2016
APA Issues Letter In Response to Mount St. Mary’s Firings

The officers of the American Philosophical Association (APA) today sent the following letter to the president and Board of Trustees of Mount St. Mary’s…

February 11, 2016
The APA’s Free-Rider Problem

American Philosophical Association (APA) Chairperson Cheshire Calhoun (ASU), at the Blog of the APA, writes: What the APA does for philosophy and philosophers gets…

February 11, 2016
The Value and Pressure of Academic Closeness (Ought Experiment)

Welcome back to Ought Experiment, which returns after a brief waiting-for-more-emails hiatus! (Hint hint guilt trip hint.) This week’s question is from a woman…

February 10, 2016
Letter of Support for Fired Profs Signed By Thousands (update: President Responds)

The open letter of support for two professors fired for lack of “loyalty” from their positions at Mount St. Mary’s University, authored yesterday by…

February 10, 2016
Chaospet (Daily Nous Philosophy Comics)

Chaospet by Ryan Lake Previous Daily Nous Comics / More Info about DN Comics / Ryan Lake on Twitter

February 9, 2016
“Bunny-Drowning” President Sets Sights on Philosophers (Updated)

Philosophers are under attack at Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg, Maryland. The reason appears to be that they questioned the university president’s surreptitious attempt to…

February 9, 2016
Philosophy References in Pop Music

Checking out Poison Season by Destroyer this past weekend I came across the following lyric in “Sun in the Sky“: Tender is the night That sweeps…

February 8, 2016
Invitations, Under Review, and other CV Questions

Two questions about what should go on CVs have come in recently. The first is about conference invitations: I’ve been invited to/accepted to several…

February 8, 2016
SEP, IEP, NDPR, Wi-Phi Weekly Update

Below are the latest changes and additions at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP), the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (IEP), Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (NDPR), and Wi-Phi Wireless Philosophy, courtesy…

February 8, 2016
Philosophy Data from the Open Syllabus Project (Guest Post by Andrew Higgins)

The following is a guest post* from Andrew Higgins, who recently received his PhD in philosophy from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He spent…

February 5, 2016
Deeper Diversity and the Game of Professional Philosophy

[What follows are some quick, schematized, and not particularly novel thoughts inspired by some recent experiences and conversations. Others have thought about these issues much…

February 5, 2016
Enrollment Caps: How High is Too High?

A philosopher on the job market writes in with a question about course size: A school that may offer me a tenure line position…

February 3, 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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Elizabeth S. Radcliffe on David Lyons (1935-2026)
An excellent philosopher and an excellent person. He was a positive force at Cornell when I was a grad student. Condolences to his family.
Erik on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
“[T]he controversy concerned calls for a retraction [of Tuvel’s paper] which were followed by a decision not to retract—a puzzling choice of illustration for a claim of suppression.”…
WiseGuy on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
I'm shocked by the suggestion that Fine and Rosen are not experts in everything.
bob jones on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
Whatever one makes of the rest of this response, the discussion of the Tuvel affair is wild. The fact her paper wasn't in fact retracted doesn't at all…
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Actually one wonders about the whole concept of 'sub fields' in Philosophy. One wonders at what point our aping of the Natural Sciences should be itself questioned? Used…
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…
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Important issue regarding free speech
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…

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