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Welcome the APA’s New Blog

The American Philosophical Association (APA) has launched its new blog. Though I had urged as a possible name “APAplexy” (during a particularly turbulent time here, comments-wise),…

January 4, 2016
Philosophers, Physicists, Others Win €2.5m to Study the Large Hadron Collider

An interdisciplinary team consisting of academics working in philosophy, physics, history, and sociology have won a 2.5 million euro grant to fund a three year project…

January 4, 2016
SEP, IEP, NDPR, Wi-Phi Weekly Update

The winter holiday has slowed things down a little, here and elsewhere in the philosophy world. Normally, I’d post the past week’s additions to the Stanford…

January 4, 2016
A Modest Proposal: Slow Philosophy (guest post by Jennifer Whiting)

The following is a guest post* by Jennifer Whiting (Pittsburgh). A Modest Proposal: Slow Philosophy by Jennifer Whiting In his review of Moral Prejudices…

December 31, 2015
New Heights (Lows?) in Philosophy Job Application Requirements

A correspondent who prefers to remain anonymous brought to my attention the job advertisement of California State Sacramento, and sent along the following commentary:…

December 31, 2015
Mind Chunks (Daily Nous Philosophy Comics)

Mind Chunks by Pete Mandik

December 29, 2015
Favorite Philosophy of the Year 2015

A reader asks: Was wondering if you could write a post asking for people’s favorite philosophy articles/books of the year. Sure! People, what were…

December 29, 2015
Best Philosophy Blog Post Winners Announced

3 Quarks Daily has announced the winners of its 2015 prize for best philosophy blog post: Top Quark, $500: Vidar Halgunset, Slow Corruption Strange…

December 29, 2015
Daily Nous Year In Review

2015 is drawing to a close. I hope you had a good year. The year saw Daily Nous’s first birthday (in March) and a…

December 28, 2015
SEP, IEP, NDPR, Wi-Phi Weekly Update

This is where I’d normally post the past week’s additions and updates to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP), the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (IEP), Notre Dame Philosophical…

December 28, 2015
NEH & APA Collaboration on Public Philosophy

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the American Philosophical Association (APA) are collaborating for two events at the APA’s upcoming Eastern Division…

December 24, 2015
Ad Hoc (Daily Nous Philosophy Comics)

Ad Hoc by Rachel Katler

December 24, 2015
“Reputation Traps” in Philosophy

In an essay at Aeon, Huw Price (Cambridge) writes about “reputation traps.” His example of this is scientific research on cold fusion, or low-energy nuclear reaction…

December 23, 2015
Chaospet (Daily Nous Philosophy Comics)

Chaospet by Ryan Lake

December 22, 2015
Philosophers On Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Spoilers)

The latest Star Wars movie, The Force Awakens, opened at the end of last week. It’s a fun movie. But is it more than just that?…

December 21, 2015
SEP, IEP, NDPR, Wi-Phi Weekly Update

Here are the past week’s additions and updates to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP), the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (IEP), Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (NDPR), and Wi-Phi Wireless Philosophy,…

December 21, 2015
New Comments Policy And How The Comments Now Work

The comments system change is in progress, with most of the features in place. Since the system works differently than the old one in some…

December 20, 2015
Comments Changeover This Weekend

As the new commenting system (described here) is put into place this weekend, piece by piece, the commenting on Daily Nous may be a…

December 19, 2015
Criticism of the Philosophical Gourmet Report

Over the past week, Daily Nous has hosted a discussion of criticisms of the Philosophical Gourmet Report (PGR), a ranking of PhD programs in…

December 18, 2015
Some Upcoming Changes to Daily Nous

At Daily Nous we toil to provide you, dear readers, with an exceptional philosoblogospheric experience. There have been a number of changes to the site…

December 17, 2015

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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Meme on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
Arguably, they *are* experts in everything, but it is not the case that for each thing, they are experts in that thing.
Marc Champagne on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
Real or imagined… I was writing about this lopsidedness ten years ago: https://philpapers.org/archive/CHAPBS.pdf
William Lewis on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
There are a bunch of published responses to tuvel’s paper and many others that cite it positively and negatively. Of course, we never know those papers that were…
Margaret Atherton on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
It seemed odd to me that Fine and Rosen spent so much time talking about the Tuval affair, a single incident not representative of any body of knowledge…
RebecaPL on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
Bettcher and Saul are right in contesting the view that, within the philosophy of sex and gender, "an orthodoxy reigns according to which “trans women are women and…
Philosoraptor on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
I echo what others, such as bob jones and Erik, have said about the treatment of Tuvel. I find the way that the authors talk about the treatment…
UK philosopher on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
Sadly I find this poorly argued and somewhat self-undermining. For one, note how the authors characterise gender-critical philosophy: they characterise work here first as “aggressively anti-trans” , and…
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…

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