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Northwestern and Title IX: What’s Going On (updated)

Title IX issues at Northwestern University are currently receiving a lot of attention, largely in editorial pieces and comments that obscure or omit certain…

May 30, 2015
Interviewed

Clifford Sosis continues his series at What Is It Like to Be a Philosopher? (previously here, here, and here) with an interview of, uh, me. For…

May 29, 2015
Ann Cudd from Kansas to Boston

Ann Cudd, currently Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Studies and University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kansas, will become Dean of the College…

May 28, 2015
Answers from Academic Publishers

Two weeks ago I put up a post soliciting questions for academic publishers. If you submitted a question, thanks. Editors at various presses—Peter Momtchiloff,…

May 28, 2015
Philosophy Tag

In our last round of Philosophy Tag, Eric Beerbohm (Harvard) tagged Miranda Fricker (Sheffield) for her essay “Silence and Institutional Prejudice.” Professor Fricker (who has been busy elsewhere in…

May 28, 2015
Intro Philosophy Books and Race

Nathan Nobis (Morehouse) writes in with a request: I am seeking help with a small research project regarding race and philosophy. This project would…

May 28, 2015
Descartes on Spring Break

This Daily Nous item is temporarily unavailable while its historical content completes a security review.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

May 27, 2015
What Counts As Pre-Publication?

Dale Miller (ODU) noticed that Public Affairs Quarterly has the following “Pre-Publication Policy“: Public Affairs Quarterly will not publish material that has already appeared elsewhere. This…

May 27, 2015
In-Person Philosophy Courses for the Public

Does your institution offer in-person philosophy courses for the public? The Sydney School of Continental Philosophy (School of the Arts & Media, UNSW Australia)…

May 27, 2015
The Endarkenment at Home: Benchmarking Academics (guest post by Elijah Millgram)

The Great Endarkenment: Philosophy for an Age of Hyperspecialization is a new book by Elijah Millgram (Utah). In the book, Professor Millgram looks at the…

May 26, 2015
SEP & NDPR Weekly Update

Below are last week’s updates and new additions to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP) and Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. They appear here via special…

May 25, 2015
Philosophy’s Impact (updated)

The applied philosophy literature is full of insights about practical problems. But in our survey of the literature we find essentially no accounts of…

May 25, 2015
Conference Anti-Harassment Wiki

The Geek Feminism Wiki, a site aimed primarily at people involved in computing and technology, has a “Conference anti-harrasment” page. Brought to my attention by Maarten Steenhagen (thanks!),…

May 25, 2015
Philosophie sans frontières (guest post by Graham Priest)

The following guest post* is by Graham Priest (CUNY), and appears here via a special arrangement with Oxford University Press and the OUP Blog, at…

May 23, 2015
Philosopher Attributes Job Loss To Challenging White Hegemony (updated)

Nathaniel Adam Tobias Coleman, a research associate with a term appointment at University College London, is claiming that his contract was not renewed “because…

May 22, 2015
Litland (Texas) Wins Sanders Prize in Metaphysics

Jon Litland (University of Texas, Austin) has won the 2015 Sanders Prize in Metaphysics for his paper, “Grounding Ground.” The prize is given to the…

May 22, 2015
Good Online Philosophy Courses

A couple of weeks ago I put the entertaining promotional video for “Paradox and Infinity,” an online course by Augustín Rayo (MIT), in the Heap of Links.…

May 22, 2015
New Group Philosophy Blog

A new group philosophy blog is up and running. Called Philosophical Percolations, it has seventeen authors on its roster (some familiar from other blogs) and is open…

May 21, 2015
Academics Defend Freedom of Movement

It is estimated that over 22,000 people have died in the Mediterranean Sea trying to migrate to Europe from the Middle East, Africa and South Asia…

May 21, 2015
Using Initials to Hide Gender

There is some evidence that women scientists use their first initials, rather than their first names, at a greater frequency than men do in…

May 21, 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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Man of Many Jars on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
I took the dissimilarity in question to be something that was attended to in constructing the analogy. Indeed, I took it to be essential to the point of…
Meme 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.” What the hell is even this?
Meme on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
I would imagine that the commenters are concerned about a deeper, ongoing pattern of censoriousness, of which the Tuvel affair was especially representative and about which little has…
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.

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