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Philosophy “Changes the Subject”

Much of philosophy simply changes the subject when it brings the world under its analysis. That is Nellie Wieland (CSU Long Beach) in her…

July 14, 2015
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Daily Nous is supported by caffeine and advertising revenue, so please buy me a coffee next time you see me, and also check out…

July 14, 2015
The “Social Harm” of Philosophy

While once I used to think that professional philosophy was a place where it would be easy to do no social harm, I have…

July 13, 2015
The Research about Student Evaluations of Teachers

We’ve discussed student evaluations of teachers here before, focusing on the various problems associated with them. Yet the picture may be more complicated. Elizabeth…

July 13, 2015
SEP, IEP, NDPR, Wi-Phi Weekly Update

The new edition of the massive amassing of philosophically relevant links known as the Philosophical Percolations‘ “Saturday Linkorama” is up. As usual, thanks to a special…

July 13, 2015
Philosophers Interview Edward Snowden

John Perry and Ken Taylor (both Stanford), hosts of the radio program Philosophy Talk, interviewed former NSA analyst Edward Snowden, “the world’s most famous whistleblower”…

July 10, 2015
Benefits of Teaching Philosophy in Primary School (updated)

A study suggests that teaching primary/elementary school students philosophy may benefit their language and math skills, with those from particularly disadvantaged backgrounds showing the…

July 10, 2015
Microaggressions and Academic Freedom

Any characterization of the United States as “a melting pot,” for example, is classified in widely used training materials as a microaggression signaling a…

July 9, 2015
Philosophy Syllabi Study Needs Volunteers

Jennifer Saul (Sheffield) says: “Procrastinate and help women in philosophy!” She elaborates: Have you been meaning to get around to making your undergraduate syllabus…

July 9, 2015
Distance PhD in Philosophy?

The Philosophy Department at Staffordshire University is advertising a new distance-learning option for its PhD program: Our doctoral programme can now be run on…

July 8, 2015
Israel Proposes Philosophy for Elementary Students

The Education Ministry of Israel has proposed to add philosophy to the country’s elementary school curriculum. The proposal would have students “be taught the…

July 7, 2015
A Guide for Applying to Jobs at SLACs

You received your PhD from a major research university. Your advisors work at a major research university. Your placement director works at a major…

July 7, 2015
SEP, IEP, NDPR, Wi-Phi Weekly Update

Each week, the folks at Philosophical Percolations put together a massive list of philosophically relevant links they call the “Saturday Linkorama.” These include updates…

July 6, 2015
Getting Credit for Peer Review

It is a great service to the profession to peer review articles, and service to the profession counts at most institutions towards tenure and…

July 3, 2015
Introducing “Ought Experiment”

Have you ever had a problem and thought, “I bet a professional philosopher could help”? If so, you are almost certainly a professional philosopher…

July 2, 2015
What Explains Female Under-Representation Among Philosophy Majors?

Evidence from a new study seeking to explain why women are under-represented among philosophy majors suggests that they are not discouraged by introductory philosophy courses, but rather come…

July 2, 2015
Goswami Lawsuit Against DePaul to Proceed

Namita Goswami was denied tenure in the Department of Philosophy at DePaul University in the 2009-2010 academic year. She claimed that discrimination played a…

July 1, 2015
Survey on the Value of Philosophy

Andrew Mills (Otterbein) is conducting a survey about what philosophers think is distinctively valuable about philosophy. I’ve reproduced his note about it, below, and I encourage…

June 30, 2015
Should Philosophy Articles Be Shorter?

“If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.” This line is attributed to several authors, but probably originated with Pascal.…

June 30, 2015
Al Mele Interviewed at “What Is It Like…?”

Clifford Sosis (Coastal Carolina) continues his series of interviews at “What Is It Like To Be A Philosopher?” (previously) with Florida State University’s Al…

June 29, 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)
Tuvel once began a blog post with these two sentences: "Analogies don’t compare two identical things—if they did, they wouldn’t be analogies. Analogies compare things similar in certain…
Elizabeth on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
I am having this issue too.
SexEthicsProfessor on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
I would just say that I teach a course on sexual ethics. Of all the topics we cover, including bestiality, minors, pornography, BDSM, etc. only one topic have…
Just chilling on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
In case you can take one anonymous report seriously, I can report that this stuff truly chilled my writing. A paper of mine that is now published in…
Felix on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
I don't see why you would think that I'd be opposed to the position they are defending here? It seems entirely fine to say that GCs have gotten…
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…

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