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A Call for the Humanities to Unite

There is a different unifying principle for most non-STEM disciplines—among them English, history, politics and civics, languages and literatures, education, the arts, philosophy, psychology…

November 6, 2015
To φ Or Not To φ (Daily Nous Philosophy Comics)

To φ Or Not To φ by Tanya Kostochka

November 5, 2015
Philosophers Among The Browser’s Nominees for Best Writing

You don’t often hear praise in popular culture for the writing of contemporary philosophers, yet The Browser, a popular aggregator of online writing, has included…

November 5, 2015
Not Legally Actionable, But…

A tenure-track woman professor at a private U.S. university writes: In light of a situation that recently came up in my department, I’ve been…

November 4, 2015
Disability Studies Quarterly Is Reviewing Stubblefield’s Articles

A philosophy professor who wishes to remain anonymous wrote to the editor of Disability Studies Quarterly in the wake Anna Stubblefield’s conviction for aggravated sexual assault…

November 4, 2015
Mind Chunks (Daily Nous Philosophy Comics)

Mind Chunks by Pete Mandik

November 3, 2015
Ludlow Resigns

Northwestern University’s Vice President for University Relations, Alan K. Cubbage, has released the following statement: Peter Ludlow, a Northwestern University professor of philosophy, resigned…

November 3, 2015
The Ludlow Hearing: Some Questions

The hearing to determine whether Peter Ludlow will be fired from Northwestern University (previous posts) has been underway over the past month or so but is…

November 2, 2015
Four Philosophers of Biology Win $2.1m

Alan Love (Minnesota), C. Kenneth Waters (Calgary), Marcel Weber (Geneva), and William Wimsatt (Minnesota, Chicago) have won a $2.1 million grant from the Templeton…

November 2, 2015
What Should Academics Do About Journal Prices?

All six editors and all 31 editorial board members of Lingua, one of the top journals in linguistics, last week resigned to protest Elsevier’s…

November 2, 2015
SEP, IEP, NDPR, Wi-Phi Weekly Update

Here are last 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, appearing here…

November 2, 2015
Which Philosophy Ideas Make for Good Costumes?

Which philosophical ideas (or examples) would make for a good Halloween costume? Yes, Brain in Vat. We all think we’ve thought of that one…

October 30, 2015
The Philosophy of Adjuncting: A Syllabus (Guest Post by Kevin Temple)

The following is a guest post* by Kevin Temple, a PhD candidate in philosophy at The New School for Social Research. It appears here…

October 30, 2015
Would the Great Philosophers Have Survived in the Modern University?

Would the philosophers who populate the canon have gotten tenure? Would they have survived the Research Excellence Framework (REF) assessments in the UK? Lloyd Strickland…

October 30, 2015
Ad Hoc (Daily Nous Philosophy Comics)

Ad Hoc by Rachel Katler

October 29, 2015
Sanders Graduate Student Prizes Awarded

The American Philosophical Association (APA) has announced the winners of the 2015 Sanders Graduate Student Prize, sponsored by the Marc Sanders Foundation. They are: Joshua…

October 29, 2015
A College without Philosophy? A Philosophy Department without Philosophers? (updated)

After program cut upon program cut, at what point does a liberal arts institution cease to be one? That’s the question in an article…

October 29, 2015
APA Book Prize Results Announced

The winner of the 2015 American Philosophical Association’s Book Prize is Manuel Vargas (University of San Francisco) for his Building Better Beings: A Theory of…

October 28, 2015
Why Students Aren’t Reading (Ought Experiment)

Welcome back to Ought Experiment, which sadly is not a comic strip. I think this week’s question is about getting kids to do the…

October 28, 2015
U.S. Politics with Logical and Factual Annotation

This is a great public service and a great idea. Stefan Schubert, a visiting philosophy professor at the London School of Economics, and Spencer Greenberg,…

October 28, 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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Rob on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
Yes, for instance, section 7 of the "Feminist Perspectives on Trans Issues" SEP entry twice cites the Hasenbush et al 2019 study whose "fatal flaws" have recently been…
Jessie Ewesmont on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
Yes, relitigating the Tuvel affair for the 500th time in the last decade seems like a great way to figure out the state of academic philosophy today.
Moti Gorin on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
"Yet none of these [external threats] are threats that concern Fine and Rosen (though they mention some briefly in passing)." The Vanderbilt/WashU report was explicitly aimed at "examin[ing]…
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…

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