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

To φ Or Not To φ by Tanya Kostochka

February 2, 2016
The Most Popular Philosophy Videos

Kelly Truelove compiles data about the online activities of philosophers, astronomers, physicists, and others, under the handle @TrueSciPhi. Recently, at his site, he posted…

February 2, 2016
Applying for Jobs You Won’t Take

A graduate student in philosophy asks: “In today’s job market climate is it immoral to apply for a job and go deep in the…

February 2, 2016
New Dog in the Philosoblogosphere

If the weight of Monday morning is crushing you already, here’s a little lightness to help you out: Philosodogs. No, it is not where…

February 1, 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 1, 2016
Philosophy Student Arrested in Turkey (updated)

Jülide Yazıcı, a student in the Philosophy Department in Boğaziçi University who was active on social media supporting academics threatened by the Turkish government,…

January 31, 2016
Letter from Philosophers Supporting Öymen

The actions of the present government to persecute Professor Öymen, using an ill-conceived law, applied inappropriately, endangers the standing Turkey now enjoys with the…

January 29, 2016
Reply from Jean-Yves Beziau re: Synthese Controversy

Jean-Yves Beziau has written asking me to share a link to his reply to criticisms of his article, “The Relativity and Universality of Logic,”…

January 29, 2016
Pay to Be Recommended at Academia.edu?

We’ve discussed issues with Academia.edu here before. Now there’s a new development. A number of academics have been receiving messages like the following: Hi…

January 28, 2016
Free Resources for Philosophy Teachers

TeachPhilosophy101 is an open-source compendium of resources helpful for teaching philosophy. It’s mission is “to enhance undergraduate student learning in introductory philosophy courses by…

January 28, 2016
Statement from Synthese Editors / Moratorium on Special Issues

The editors-in-chief of Synthese, Gila Sher, Otávio Bueno, and Wiebe van der Hoek, have written a statement, below, responding to the controversy surrounding the publication of…

January 27, 2016
Philosophy Professor To Stand Trial in Turkey (Updated with Statement from Professor Öymen and Additional News)

The Associated Press reports: ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A philosophy professor says he will stand trial next week on charges of insulting President Recep…

January 27, 2016
Death and Progress

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die,…

January 27, 2016
Philosophers Called “Brilliant” More Than Other Profs (On Stupid Website)

The Economist analysed 1,289,407 RateMyProfessor.com reviews of 1,066 professors and lecturers in New York and has reported on some of its findings. Among them is the…

January 27, 2016
Mind Chunks (Daily Nous Philosophy Comics)

Mind Chunks by Pete Mandik

January 26, 2016
Interview Catch-22?

In the latest installment in his APAblog advice series on applying for jobs in philosophy, Allen Wood (Indiana University Bloomington) takes up the job…

January 26, 2016
Virtual Dissertation Groups

Working on a dissertation? The latest round of the Virtual Dissertation Groups, organized by Joshua Smart of the University of Missouri, will be up…

January 26, 2016
APA Endorses Letter of Concern for Scholars & Universities in Turkey

In response to the recent persecution of academics in Turkey who had objected to the Turkish government’s treatment of its Kurdish population (previously here…

January 25, 2016
SEP, IEP, NDPR, Wi-Phi Weekly Update

What’s new at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP), the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (IEP), Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (NDPR), and Wi-Phi Wireless Philosophy? The weekly update for these…

January 25, 2016
Open Syllabus Project

Colleen Cressman (MIT) draws our attention to the Open Syllabus Project. The project is a work in progress aimed at creating “the first large-scale online database of…

January 24, 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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Marc Champagne on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
Thermometer reading: the fewer posts include real names, the greater the chilling effect.
Hermias on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
Please, let me die
Colin Macleod on David Lyons (1935-2026)
David was my doctoral supervisor at Cornell, I TA'd for him, and I occasionally played squash with him. I no longer play squash but his influence on me…
Kenny Easwaran on Building AI That Can Do Philosophy Better Than Us (guest post)
For some questions people would be interested in, yes, a better comparison would be a field of both human-written and AI-written submissions, evaluated anonymously. But even that wouldn't…
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…
Philadelphiensis on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
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…
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
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