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Research On Excess Philosophy PhDs

Are there too many philosophy PhDs? Do those seeking PhDs in philosophy have an accurate understanding of their chances of securing a permanent academic…

April 20, 2015
George Yancy from Duquesne to Emory

George Yancy, currently professor of philosophy at Duquesne University, has accepted an offer from Emory University and will be professor of philosophy there starting…

April 19, 2015
What Is It Like To Be A Philosopher?

What Is It Like To Be A Philosopher? is the new project of Clifford Sosis (Coastal Carolina). What’s it all about? He says: I decided to start What Is…

April 18, 2015
World’s Largest Philosophy & Music Festival

HowTheLightGetsIn bills itself as “the world’s largest philosophy and music festival.” With 650 events, 370 acts, and 200 speakers on 9 stages over 11 days, it…

April 18, 2015
In a Possible World Far, Far Away

By now you’ve all seen the new Star Wars trailer, so, philosofriends… “I find your bad faith disturbing” — Sartre Vader

April 17, 2015
Philosophy Prof is Co-PI on $10.6m NIH Grant

Bert Baumgaertner, assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Idaho, is one of the co-principal investigators on a nearly $10.6 million grant won from the…

April 17, 2015
Bioethicist Live-Tweets Her Son’s Sex-Ed Class (updated)

This Daily Nous item is temporarily unavailable while its historical content completes a security review.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

April 16, 2015
Will Computers Do Philosophy?

Plus, an online magazine that “aims to introduce readers to the beauty and the practical applications of mathematics” has an interesting article on whether…

April 16, 2015
Five Philosophers Win NHC Fellowships

Five philosophers are among the winners of fellowships from the National Humanities Center. They are: Sara Bernstein (Philosophy, Duke University) What Might Have Been:…

April 15, 2015
ACLS Fellows in Philosophy

Seven philosophers were awarded fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). Johnny Brennan of the ACLS writes with the details: ACLS Fellowship Jacob…

April 15, 2015
Logic Problem Goes Viral (updated)

Perhaps you saw this logic problem, purported to have been given to fifth graders in Singapore, flying around social media yesterday: That’s right: a…

April 15, 2015
Paying Their Own Way For Job Interviews

A junior job candidate reports that twice this season she has been invited for on-campus interviews but told that the inviting departments would not…

April 15, 2015
Center for Dewey Studies Is at Risk

The Center for Dewey Studies at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, is facing drastic budget cuts that would severely curtail its activities, according to a report…

April 14, 2015
Peter Singer’s AMA on Reddit

Peter Singer (Princeton) did an “Ask Me Anything” session on Reddit today to tout his new book, The Most Good You Can Do. He says he may…

April 14, 2015
Pleshette DeArmitt (2015)

Pleshette DeArmitt, chair and associate professor of philosophy at the University of Memphis, has died. Professor DeArmitt work was in contemporary continental philosophy, feminist…

April 14, 2015
Philosophers Pick Philosophical Movies

The Guardian had Julian Baggini, Christine Korsgaard, Ursula Coope, Peter Singer, Susan Haack, Kenneth Taylor, and Slavoj Žižek each pick a movie and draw out its philosophical…

April 14, 2015
Sexism in Academic Hiring — A Myth? (updated)

A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences produced findings that appear to show that hiring practices in certain fields are…

April 14, 2015
Philosophers Among The New Canada Research Chairs

The Canadian Minister of State recently announced the recipients of 150 new and renewed “Canada Research Chairs.” Two new Canada chairs have been awarded…

April 13, 2015
Data on the Humanities

The American Academy of Arts & Sciences has published its Humanities Indicators report for the United States, “The State of the Humanities: Higher Education 2015.” Among…

April 13, 2015
Norms of Self-Promotion (updated)

A graduate student in philosophy who prefers to remain anonymous writes in with questions “concerning self-promotion and marketing oneself in order to move up in…

April 13, 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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Felix on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
My characterization of your critique as amounting to indignation over the use of the "wrong" definitions was also based on footnote 5, where you claim that "in biology,…
Callie on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
Felix, you acknowledge having read only the abstract, and from that you manage to conclude that the entire paper is question-begging. You then characterize the paper’s arguments, motivations,…
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…

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