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AAUP’s 2015 Volume on Academic Freedom

The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) has published the 2015 edition of its Journal of Academic Freedom. The volume covers a variety of events…

September 23, 2015
Yogi Berra (1925-2015)

Baseball player Yogi Berra — whose birth name was Lawrence Peter Berra — died yesterday. Normally announcements of this sort on Daily Nous are…

September 23, 2015
Why You Should Teach Online Courses

“The more you hate the idea of teaching online, the more that online education needs you.” That’s historian Joseph Rees (Colorado State – Pueblo),…

September 22, 2015
Philosophy Majors Are Less Likely To Marry Each Other (updated)

Only 5% of “philosophy or religious studies” majors end up marrying other “philosophy or religious studies” majors, according to an analysis of census data…

September 22, 2015
Philosophy Job Market Mentoring for Women

A program informally piloted last year is officially launching now as the Job Candidate Mentoring Program for Women in Philosophy. According to the program’s website,…

September 22, 2015
Fire at University of Chicago Philosophy Department

This past Sunday, a fire broke out in Stuart Hall at the University of Chicago, home to the school’s Department of Philosophy. No one was…

September 21, 2015
Philosophers Doing “Ask Me Anythings” on Reddit

The folks at Wi-Phi are interested in doing more to bring together philosophers and the public, and one avenue they’re tentatively pursuing is having philosophers…

September 21, 2015
How the SEP Works, and Why It’s a Model for the Internet

The problem with the internet is that “nobody trusts it, yet everybody is referring to it.” That’s Nikhil Sonnad, a reporter and former philosophy…

September 21, 2015
The Ethics Centre Invites Contributors

Matthew Beard of The Ethics Centre writes: The Ethics Centre is an independent not-for-profit organisation that provides an open forum for the promotion and exploration of…

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

Appearing here via special arrangement with Philosophical Percolations 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),…

September 21, 2015
Warning: This Post Is About Trigger Warnings

Kate Manne (Cornell) has an opinion piece in today’s New York Times about professors’ use of “trigger warnings,” by which she means “notice in their syllabuses, or before…

September 20, 2015
Progress in Philosophy

Rebecca Newberger Goldstein is becoming the most well-known defender of the idea that philosophy makes progress. Last year, in The Chronicle of Higher Education, she wrote: Philosophy was…

September 18, 2015
Daily Nous Seeks Cartoonist

I would like Daily Nous to run a regular humorous comic strip having something to do with philosophy, the philosophy profession, or academia. The…

September 18, 2015
Who called it “Experimenting with Coffee” instead of “X-phresso”?

A pair of philosophers teamed up with a beautiful food website and a fancy coffee shop to bring some experimental philosophy to the people. Shen-yi Liao…

September 18, 2015
2014 Lakatos Award Given To Two Philosophers

The 2014 Lakatos Award has been won jointly by Gordon Belot (Michigan) for his book Geometric Possibility (Oxford University Press, 2011) and David Malament (UC Irvine) for…

September 17, 2015
Imposter Syndrome (Ought Experiment)

Making your way in the world today takes everything you’ve got. Taking a break from all your worries sure would help a lot. Wouldn’t…

September 17, 2015
Are MAs the New Norm for Admitted PhD Program Applicants?

From a philosophy professor who prefers to remain anonymous, a question about whether it is now the norm for successful applicants to PhD programs…

September 17, 2015
Philosopher Wins $50,000 Hiett Prize

Scott Samuelson, associate professor of philosophy and humanities at Kirkwood Community College in Iowa, is the 2015 recipient of the Hiett Prize in the…

September 16, 2015
Administrator-Faculty Spousal Hiring

A reader who prefers to remain anonymous writes in with question: My spouse is a finance professional interviewing to work for a university endowment. …

September 16, 2015
New Philosophy Center Aims to Bridge American – Chinese Gap

The Berggruen Philosophy and Culture Center is an initiative launched to “look past contemporary political differences” between the United States and China “to their deeper…

September 16, 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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Felix on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
Without commenting on the details, I find it funny that, in your analogy, you chose to present the non-GC side as being opposed to marriage equality (and in…
Sophie on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
This article makes some pretty unconvincing moves in my opinion (I am leaving questions about Stock's resignation aside here, since I do not know enough about the matter…
Felix on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
More generally, that's often the pattern with these types of pieces: They find examples of literature that examine or challenge traditional, dominant conceptions of sex/gender; they then complain…
Felix on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
Going by the abstract alone, it sounds like the entire paper is built on question-begging. That is, the author notices that their preferred definitions and conceptualizations aren't in…
Ann Garry on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
I was thinking these lines too. Good heavens. One article almost 10 years ago. Why so many comments on it too?
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…

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