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A Detailed Account of the McGinn Affair (updated)

The Miami New Times has a long and detailed account of the events leading up to Colin McGinn’s resignation from the University of Miami. It is based…

April 28, 2015
Philosophers: Disappointingly Normal

Philosophers are sometimes thought of as expert thinkers, more rational and less prone to errors in reasoning than others. Whether this is true, though, is…

April 28, 2015
Michael Theunissen (1932-2015)

The philosopher Michael Theunissen died on April 18, 2015. He studied in Bonn and Freiburg and defended his much-cited habilitation thesis Der Andere: Studien zur Sozialontologie…

April 27, 2015
Introducing the Daily Nous Value of Philosophy Pages

Philosophy departments face many challenges. Philosophy is perceived by some as “less practical” and so less choiceworthy a course of study. Most entering students have not…

April 27, 2015
Is There A Philosophical Version Of This Course?

Stanford University’s most popular class is called “Designing Your Life,” according to an article at Fast Company. Its aim is to get students to…

April 27, 2015
Boxill Denies Teaching 160 Independent Studies

Jan Boxill, who recently resigned from her position as member of the philosophy faculty at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill following allegations…

April 26, 2015
Suspect Reasons Behind Professor’s Firing

Thomas Jay Oord is tenured full professor of theology and philosophy at Northwest Nazarene University (as well as an ordained minister in the Church of the…

April 23, 2015
Florida Gulf Coast U. May Lose Philosophy

Florida governor Rick Scott and the Florida board of governors, is calling for universities in the state to “examine their academic offerings, seeing if…

April 23, 2015
2015 Lebowitz Awards to Alvin Goldman & Jennifer Lackey

Phi Beta Kappa, the honor society, announces: Alvin Goldman [Rutgers] and Jennifer Lackey [Northwestern] are the 2015 recipients of the Martin R. Lebowitz and…

April 23, 2015
Iowa Bill Proposes Faculty Play “Survivor” (updated)

A bill (Senate File 64) under consideration in the Iowa legislature, proposed by State Senator Mark Chelgren, would turn faculty positions into something like Survivor.…

April 22, 2015
Philosophers Elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences

Eight philosophers have been elected into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (AAAS) as part of its 2015 class: Marilyn McCord Adams (Rutgers) David Z.…

April 22, 2015
Ludlow’s Appeal Fails

Peter Ludlow had sued Sun-Times Media, Cumulus Broadcasting, and Fox Television Stations, Inc., for defamation, including describing the sexual assault he has been accused of…

April 22, 2015
“Not Really A Philosopher”

Chris Eliasmith holds a Canada Research Chair in theoretical neuroscience at the University of Waterloo. He has a joint appointment in philosophy and systems design engineering.…

April 22, 2015
Zero Philosophers Among New Carnegie Fellows

The Carnegie Corporation of New York has announced the winners of its new Andrew Carnegie Fellowship program, which awards up to $200,000 to each of…

April 22, 2015
Philosophy at University of Alaska, Fairbanks Is “Terminated”

There will be no more philosophy program at the University of Alaska, according to an article in the UAF Sun Star. In an e-mail sent to…

April 21, 2015
What To Teach In A First-Year PhD Proseminar?

Alex Guerrero (Penn), is wondering what philosophers think should be done in a first-year PhD proseminar. He writes: Given all the recent discussion about…

April 21, 2015
Application Fees and Timely Decisions

A prospective graduate student—call him Prospecto—has reported the following: I applied to the Philosophy Ph.D. program at [very good university], submitting a completed application…

April 21, 2015
Philosophy Tag

I know what you’ve been wondering: where has Philosophy Tag been? Actually, maybe some of you are wondering: what is Philosophy Tag? Philosophy Tag…

April 21, 2015
Ned Markosian from Western Washington to UMass (updated)

Ned Markosian, currently professor of philosophy at Western Washington University (current website, Academia.edu page), has accepted an offer as professor of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts…

April 21, 2015
Lesser-Known Trolley Problems

Kyle York at McSweeney’s presents a very funny selection of lesser-known trolley problem variations. Here are just a few. Feel free to add your own in the…

April 20, 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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Mark Robert Taylor on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
That is a helpful response, thank you. I suppose then what I mean to ask is whether you think GC views now, going forward, ought to be ostracized…
Felix on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
That's Horribly Persecuted Philosopher, OBE. Don't you even read her columns in the papers?
Jimmy Doyle on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
Chris, you make it sound as though you faced a stark choice between slandering a horribly persecuted philosopher and giving everyone the impression that you approved of the…
Jason Stanley on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
We have now had a decade of very powerful people whining about how terribly they have been oppressed and their speech chilled, and using this to represent themselves…
Meme on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
I think you’re ignoring a plausible implication of their comment, which I noted re: harm.
Felix on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
Now, I’ll admit that the latter comment could be read more weakly (e.g., it’s about *valuable* scholarship). It's not just that it could be read like that; it's…
Meme on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
Sorry, but your experience is in fact metaphysically impossible.
Kevin Harrelson on New Digital Editions of Hegel, Schelling
Based on about one hour spent scrolling around the Hegel page, this seems to me to be a very high-level resource. It's user friendly and smartly arranged. More…
Michel-Antoine Xhignesse on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
I guess I'll go on record and say that I think this response is pretty fair and even-handed (more so than the report, in my opinion), and I…
Felix on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
I don't know where you are getting the idea that I am opposed to GCs "get[ting] a fair hearing," which is what you read Bettcher and Saul as…
Meme on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
“We do not say Stock should not be permitted to say the things she does. We believe in the principles of academic freedom.” “Rather, our concern is that…
Felix on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
What are you talking about?
Felix on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
Jon, we can read the letter. It doesn't call for "driv[ing] Stock out," no matter what unnamed "students" might invoke it to claim. It does, correctly, draw attention…
Meme on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
“We’re not opposed to Stock’s academic freedom. But actually, it’s a mistake to think she’s even exercising it.” This seems to imply something pretty convenient for those against…
Meme on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
Excellent comment.

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