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Japan’s Education Ministry vs. Humanities and Social Sciences

Times Higher Education reports: Many social sciences and humanities faculties in Japan are to close after universities were ordered to “serve areas that better…

September 15, 2015
Making Journal Issues Larger

The European Journal of Philosophy has announced it is increasing the size of its issues. Joseph Schear (Oxford), the journal’s editor, writes: For the last several…

September 14, 2015
Leadership of the Philosophical Gourmet Report

Some readers have recently asked questions about who is “really” running the Philosophical Gourmet Report (PGR), a ranking of the reputations of some doctoral…

September 14, 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, courtesy…

September 14, 2015
Claudia Card (1940-2015) (Updated)

Claudia Card, Emma Goldman Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has died. Professor Card received her undergraduate degree in philosophy at Wisconsin,…

September 13, 2015
The Unsung Hero of Your Undergraduate Philosophy Education

There are some philosophers we hear a lot about—not just those in the canon, but also the “superstars” of today. These philosophers can often…

September 13, 2015
Buchanan Wins 2015-16 PBK Romanell Professorship

Allen Buchanan (Duke/KCL) is the 2015-2016 winner of the Phi Beta Kappa Romanell Professorship. The Romanell Professorship is awarded on the basis of one’s “distinguished…

September 13, 2015
The Absence of Chinese Philosophy in the U.S.

In the United States, there are about 100 doctorate-granting programs in philosophy. By my count, only seven have a permanent member of the philosophy…

September 12, 2015
Two Philosophers’ Views on the Point of College

This week, two philosophers—Kwame Anthony Appiah (NYU) in the New York Times Magazine and Gary Gutting (Notre Dame) in The Chronicle of Higher Education—have discussed the point of a college…

September 11, 2015
Philosophical Insights for Good Professorship

A good professor “will be able to put philosophical insights to practical use,” argues Robert J. Bloomfield, a professor at the School of Management…

September 10, 2015
Are Bans on Faculty-Student Sex Unjust to Students?

The New Republic has published “Lust for Learning,” by Laura Miller. If it weren’t for the fact that this article is full of references to philosophers past…

September 9, 2015
Plot Philosophy’s Subfields

Yesterday’s post about interdisciplinary work in philosophy got me curious about how philosophers understand their work in relation to other disciplines. One question we…

September 9, 2015
Philosophy Dissertations More Often Venture Beyond the Humanities

Among new PhDs in the humanities who described their dissertation research as interdisciplinary, philosophy students reported the largest percentage of dissertations that crossed fields…

September 8, 2015
“Uncomfortable Truths” about Academic Freedom

We’ve discussed academic freedom at Daily Nous before (for example: Thoughts on Academic Freedom, Are We Being Chilled?, Strategies for Keeping Warm, Microaggressions and Academic Freedom).…

September 8, 2015
Creating a Climate Survey for Faculty and Staff

A philosophy professor writes in seeking the assistance of Daily Nous readers: I am the chair of my department’s (brand new) committee on the…

September 8, 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, courtesy…

September 7, 2015
Salaries of Philosophy Majors Over Time

Philosophy is the “top humanities bachelors degree” in PayScale’s ranking of majors by salary. The Atlantic reports: Although philosophy majors rank 75th on PayScale’s overall list…

September 4, 2015
A Case for Philosophy in High Schools (updated)

Back in 1982, Frank Breslin, a New Jersey high school teacher, wrote an article arguing that philosophy should be taught in high school. Huffington Post…

September 4, 2015
Philosopher to Receive 2014 National Humanities Medal

Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of the novels The Mind-Body Problem and 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction, as well as books on…

September 4, 2015
Substantive Philosophical Mistakes In Public Discourse

Public debate is rife with poor reasoning, with certain confused or erroneous claims popping up again and again to affect opinions and policies. Some…

September 3, 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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Jon Pike on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
I agree with 'UK philosopher' that flatly denying any problem exists is disingenuous. Since many here have already dealt with the Tuvel affair, I want to focus on…
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…
Felix on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
This characterisation of gender-critical philosophy as being anti-trans and advocating for the removal of human rights is exactly the kind of rhetoric that is a problem. Why is…
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?
Jeppsson on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
Commenters accuse the authors of downplaying the attacks on Tuviel in 2017. Ok, maybe they're guilty of not taking this seriously enough. But those same commenters just ignore…
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…

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