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The Job Market: Shifts in the Schedule?

With the increased use of video calls in place of first-round conference interviews, as well as the inauguration of the January scheduling of the Eastern Division meeting…

December 17, 2015
When To Quit Academia (Ought Experiment)

Welcome back to Ought Experiment! Today’s question is from a full professor that has done everything right, built a successful career, and yet finds…

December 17, 2015
To φ Or Not To φ (Daily Nous Philosophy Comics)

To φ Or Not To φ by Tanya Kostochka

December 17, 2015
The Value of Philosophy in Interdisciplinary Research (guest post by Brian Robinson and Michael O’Rourke)

Brian Robinson and Michael O’Rourke, both at Michigan State University, lead The Toolbox Project, an initiative which provides “philosophical yet practical enhancement to cross-disciplinary, collaborative science.”…

December 16, 2015
Essex Drops Year-End Philosophy Exams

The University of Essex Department of Philosophy will no longer be requiring its second- and final-year undergraduate students to take formal, year-end written exams, as departments…

December 16, 2015
Appearance and Reality, Take 2 (guest post by Brian Bruya)

Yesterday’s post, “A Detailed Critique of the Philosophical Gourmet Report,” contained excerpts from “Appearance and Reality in The Philosophical Gourmet Report: Why the Discrepancy…

December 15, 2015
Mind Chunks (Daily Nous Philosophy Comics)

Mind Chunks by Pete Mandik

December 15, 2015
Is Anonymous Grading Really Better?

A philosophy professor has written in with some questions about anonymous or “blind” grading, in which the identity of the student whose work is…

December 15, 2015
Philosophers Form New “Justice Without Retribution Network”

There’s a new project to bring philosophy to bear on policy issues. In this case it is free will skepticism and criminal justice. Gregg…

December 15, 2015
A Detailed Critique of the Philosophical Gourmet Report (updated)

The latest issue of Metaphilosophy (October 2015) contains “Appearance and Reality in The Philosophical Gourmet Report: Why the Discrepancy Matters to the Profession of Philosophy” by…

December 14, 2015
APA’s Best Practices for Interviewing

Interview season is creeping up on us. Interviewers and interviewees may wish to check out the new edition of the American Philosophical Association’s Best…

December 14, 2015
Citation Problems in Philosophy—and Some Fixes

Philosophers widely violate the academic norm to “cite work that is clearly relevant to the topic at hand,” claim Meena Krishnamurthy (Michigan) and Jessica Wilson (Toronto),…

December 14, 2015
College of St. Rose Cuts Philosophy BA

The College of St. Rose, a Catholic liberal arts college in Albany, NY, is eliminating 27 programs, including philosophy, and 23 faculty positions, according to…

December 14, 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 14, 2015
Philosopher Wins €2.5million Leibniz Award

Dag Nikolaus Hasse, professor of philosophy at the Institute for Philosophy at the University of Würzburg, is one of ten winners of the 2016 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz…

December 11, 2015
2015 Sanders Prize Winners

The Marc Sanders Foundation, which “aims to stimulate renewed appreciation for traditional philosophy by encouraging, identifying and rewarding excellent research in metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy…

December 11, 2015
Ad Hoc (Daily Nous Philosophy Comics)

Ad Hoc by Rachel Katler

December 10, 2015
Winners of the APA’s Routledge, Taylor & Francis Prize

The American Philosophical Association (APA) has announced the winners of the 2015 Routledge, Taylor & Francis Prize. The prize is for the two best published…

December 10, 2015
Remember: “Philosophy’s the thing”

A pair of essays in Times Higher Education—one by Simon Blackburn (Cambridge, UNC) and the other by Mariana Alessandri (Texas, Rio Grande Valley) and John Kaag…

December 10, 2015
Academic Employment Numbers: A Closer Look

Articles about employment in higher education sometimes mention that 75% of today’s college instructors are adjuncts. That number—or at least the idea that there…

December 9, 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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Oliver Traldi on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
Here is what Bettcher wrote elsewhere about the Tuvel affair: "The most notable controversy, however, concerned Hypatia itself and, in particular, the publication of an essay about transgender…
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.

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