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One of the benefits of thought experiments and hypothetical examples is that, since the people with which they’re populated aren’t real, you can relentlessly…

June 9, 2015
SEP, IEP, NDPR Weekly Update

Below are last week’s updates and new additions to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP), the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (IEP), and Notre Dame Philosophical…

June 8, 2015
A Guide for US Students Applying for UK Jobs

A group of rather successful philosophers currently or formerly employed at universities in the UK have put together a guide for students and other applicants from US…

June 8, 2015
A Response to Daily Nous (guest post by Laura Kipnis)

The following is a guest post* by Laura Kipnis, professor in Northwestern University’s School of Communication. Professor Kipnis wrote an opinion piece for the Chronicle of…

June 7, 2015
APA Division Election Winners 2015

The American Philosophical Association (APA) recently conducted its division elections. The newly elected officers are listed below. Unless otherwise noted, terms of service begin…

June 5, 2015
NCAA’s Report on Academic Fraud at UNC

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) released its report on academic fraud involving student athletes at the University of North Carolina (previously), according to reports…

June 5, 2015
One of the Kipnis Complainants Speaks Out

The following guest post* is by one of parties who filed a Title IX complaint against Laura Kipnis (Northwestern). The author wishes to remain…

June 4, 2015
Strategies for Keeping Warm in the Classroom

This Daily Nous item is temporarily unavailable while its historical content completes a security review. The title and publication record are preserved; the original…

June 4, 2015
New Blog on the Ethics of War

The Ethical War Blog is a new group blog hosted by the Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace. The Centre’s Jonathan Parry…

June 4, 2015
Ludlow to Face Hearing; Accuser Regrets Coming Forward

The Chronicle of Higher Education has a new article (paywalled) on the complaints at Northwestern University regarding Peter Ludlow and the recent discussion of those complaints by Laura Kipnis…

June 4, 2015
Michael Martin (1932-2015)

Michael Martin, professor of philosophy emeritus at Boston University, has died. Martin worked mainly in philosophy of religion, and is known for his defenses…

June 3, 2015
A Reminder About Comments

Since Daily Nous has been getting a bit more traffic over the past few days I’d like to draw people’s attention to the comments…

June 3, 2015
Philosopher Named “Global Cities” Fellow

Michael G. Tiboris, currently a lecturer at San Diego State, has been awarded a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). He…

June 3, 2015
A Problem With Studying One’s Own Oppression (updated)

Joseph Heath (Toronto) describes an obstacle to inquiry: The problem is that, when you’re studying your own oppression, and you’re obviously a member of…

June 3, 2015
Serial Hyperspecializers and How They Think (guest post by Elijah Millgram)

This is the second in a series of guest posts* by Elijah Millgram (Utah) based on themes from his new book, The Great Endarkenment: Philosophy…

June 3, 2015
Philosopher Arrested For Protesting Fracking

Adam Briggle, associate professor of philosophy at the University of North Texas, has been arrested for engaging in a protest at a Vantage Energy…

June 2, 2015
Are We Being Chilled Or Should We Just Chill?

In previous posts (here, here, and here) I have expressed some skepticism about the idea that academic liberty is on the decline. Yes, there are…

June 2, 2015
Distance Education and PhD Admissions

The University of London’s International Programme (UoLIP) is a distance learning program that’s administered by Birkbeck College that offers a BA in philosophy. How does it…

June 1, 2015
Diversity in Moral and Political Philosophy Journals

Alex Guerrero (U. Penn) looked at four leading journals in moral and political philosophy to see how they have been doing in terms of racial…

June 1, 2015
SEP, IEP, NDPR Weekly Update

Below are last week’s updates and new additions to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP), the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (IEP), and Notre Dame Philosophical…

June 1, 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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Just chilling on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
William, I'm glad to hear that your speech has not been chilled. But a chilling effect does not have to "add up" to unchilled voices to be a…
Moti Gorin on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
Sorry, I'm not sure what you are talking about (all caps notwithstanding). I was not a party in this case. I signed an amicus brief, along with dozens…
Chris Bertram on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
Important, I think to emphasise the context for that letter, which is, as you say that Stock had just been awarded one of the UK's highest honours for…
Doc Nagel on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
The argument, with regard to Fine & Rosen's claims about the Tuvel brouhaha, includes the claim that Tuvel's article did not challenge the supposed gender orthodoxy. Yet F&R…
Doc Nagel on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
I wonder if any of y'all have read Bettcher's book Beyond Personhood? It shows, to my satisfaction anyway, genuine concern and awareness of sex/gender as ideological, no matter…
Craig Burley on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
That was incredible weaksauce. Are you freaking kidding me? Was that a joke? THESE WERE YOUR LAWYERS APPEARING FOR YOU IN A CASE BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT OF…
William Lewis on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
Your experience has not been my experience with publishing in this area. I am a (named) man who has published a few papers and chapters on social/natural ontology…
Moti Gorin on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
I didn't listen to or read the oral arguments so I am not familiar with the particular claims you describe. But in any case, the brief argued that…
Felix on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
Yes, Oliver; that's the point: That they are dissimilar in those important respects, and that maybe one should attend to that when attempting to construct an analogy.
Nick Laskowski on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
For anyone who has a sincere interest in contributing to this part of the philosophical research community but who also has very little interest in participating in this…
Justin Weinberg on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
Thanks for letting me know. I’ll look into it.
Amod Sandhya Lele on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
Yes! I'm having this exact problem.
Taylor on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
I'm not making any descriptive claims about how much engagement there has or has been with GC views. My only question is: Do you disagree with Bettcher and…
Craig Burley on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
Moti you said “I did sign a brief, but not one that was about “excluding trans folks from sport.” The brief I signed was about whether it is…
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…

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