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Philosophical Education and Constructive Imagination

As we’ve discussed before, most of our students are not heading off to become philosophers. Increasingly, students already have jobs and are saddled with time-consuming…

August 11, 2015
Library of Congress Honors Two Philosophers

The Library of Congress has honored Jürgen Habermas and Charles Taylor as joint recipients of the John W. Kluge Prize for humanities. According to the LoC…

August 11, 2015
The Job Market in the Post-APA Eastern Era

Over the past several years we have seen an increased use of video calls (e.g., Skype) as a replacement for in-person first-round interviews at the Eastern…

August 11, 2015
What’s Wrong? (A New Blog)

What’s Wrong? is the “not quite official” blog of the University of Colorado, Boulder’s Center for Values and Social Policy. The blog is edited by…

August 10, 2015
SEP, IEP, NDPR, Wi-Phi Weekly Update

Below are new 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,…

August 10, 2015
Experience Project Fellows Announced

The Experience Project, a Templeton-funded, $4.8 million, three-year initiative at the University of Notre Dame and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, has announced its…

August 5, 2015
Ought Experiment

Welcome to Ought Experiment! For our first advice column, an ABD grad student writes: Over the last several years, I have repeatedly noticed a…

August 5, 2015
Philosophers On “Irrational Man”

Irrational Man is a current movie about a despondent philosophy professor who moves to a small-town college, his relationships with a student and a fellow professor, and…

August 5, 2015
Philosophy May Come to Schools in Wales

Wales is poised to scrap Religious Education lessons in its schools, it has been revealed. Instead, the Welsh Government’s Minister for Education and Skills, Huw Lewis,…

August 4, 2015
Philosopher and Activist

Lisa Guenther (Vanderbilt) is profiled in The Chronicle of Higher Education (paywalled) for both her teaching of philosophy in prisons and her activism regarding “the carceral…

August 4, 2015
Journal Rankings — Useful? (guest post by Thom Brooks)

The following is a guest post* by Thom Brooks, Professor of Law and Government at Durham University’s Law School, founding editor of the Journal…

August 3, 2015
SEP, IEP, NDPR, Wi-Phi Weekly Update

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

August 3, 2015
Thought Experiments and Philosophical Method

In an interview at 3:am Magazine, Richard Marshall presses Philip Kitcher (Columbia) on his criticism of a priori, thought-experiment-driven approaches to philosophy. Marshall says that…

August 2, 2015
The SEP Turns 20!

Philosofriends, we are very fortunate to have the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. It is a tremendously useful resource, and apparently it is 20 years…

August 2, 2015
Philosophers Win NEH Grants

Earlier this week the National Endowment for the Humanities announced funding of $36.6 million for more than 200 humanities projects. How did philosophers do? By…

July 31, 2015
Keeping it Real in Philosophy: an Exchange

This summer has seen a series of guest posts by Elijah Millgram (Utah) on his new book, The Great Endarkenment: Philosophy for an Age of…

July 31, 2015
Listing MA Program Placements

A student has written with a question about how MA programs should list their placements: should the program list all of the PhD programs (or…

July 30, 2015
Philosophy Snobbery and Communication

Scientists came to realise the media had an important role to play in communicating science. The media could not only inform the public of…

July 29, 2015
What Contemporary Philosophy Should the “Greats” Read? (Updated)

Suppose you could go back in time to hand a relatively recent work in philosophy to a pre-20th Century philosopher. Who would you visit,…

July 28, 2015
The Dualism of Philosophy’s Purpose

Professional philosophers don’t present themselves as particularly wise or as people to turn to for advice about how to live. And why should we?…

July 27, 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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Caligula's Goat on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
100%. I was in graduate school right at the time when the now-defunct Feminist Philosophy Blog was just gaining traction, when we were hearing individual stories from women…
Issue on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
Is there an issue with upvotes on Daily Nous? I opened the comments to find that the page had already upvoted several comments that I had never read,…
Felix on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
Jon, the letter did not contain any "serious misrepresentation of Stock's work." The only factual inaccuracy (the specific claim regarding the GRA) was corrected in the letter itself.…
Taylor on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
Felix, I would have thought you are opposed to the position Bettcher and Saul defend. They seem to be arguing that there is no orthodoxy and that GCs…
Barry Lam on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
Or maybe it sums it up.
Jon Pike on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
I've read the letter. I don't claim that the letter called for Stock to be fired. Rather, I claim: 1) That the letter was a denunciatory attack on…
Felix on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
Jon, a statement "defending Stock’s right to hold and argue for her views" had already been made—in the very letter you're referring to: We do not say Stock…
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…

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