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No One Is Listening

Up to 1.5 million peer-reviewed articles are published annually. However, many are ignored even within scientific communities — 82 per cent of articles published…

April 12, 2015
An Exchange on Philosophy of Science

There’s an interesting post at NewApps by Roberta Millstein (UC Davis) on criticisms of philosophy of science that prompted a useful exchange between her…

April 12, 2015
Alan Wertheimer (2015) (updated)

Alan Wertheimer, professor emeritus at the University of Vermont, has died. Professor Wertheimer worked mainly in ethics and political philosophy, both theoretical and applied,…

April 11, 2015
Jason Turner (St. Louis) to Univ. of Arizona

Jason Turner, currently associate professor of philosophy at St. Louis University, has accepted an offer from the University of Arizona and will join them as associate…

April 10, 2015
Defending Philosophy Against the Physicists

In 2012, physicists Lawrence Krauss claimed that “…science progresses and philosophy doesn’t”, and Neil deGrasse Tyson infamously echoes such opinions… Lots of high profile physicists…

April 10, 2015
Dominic McIver Lopes Wins Guggenheim / UPDATE: Gideon Yaffe Wins, Too

Dominic McIver Lopes, professor of philosophy at the University of British Columbia, has been awarded one of the 2015-16 Guggenheim Foundation fellowships. McIver Lopes works mainly…

April 9, 2015
Answering the Taxpayers

I am a professor of philosophy at a public university. What is the value of philosophy to the taxpayers who subsidize my teaching? Philosophy…

April 9, 2015
Rise of the Intuitions

Is there a word more overused in philosophy nowadays than “intuition”? That is many people’s intuition sense of things, but why go with gut feelings…

April 8, 2015
Police Violence, Race, and…?

This Daily Nous item is temporarily unavailable while its historical content completes a security review.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 8, 2015
On Warwick’s Outsourcing (a few updates)

A few days ago news surfaced of the University of Warwick’s plan to outsource some of its teaching to a company called Teach Higher.…

April 7, 2015
Solutions to the Jobs Problem Revisited

Last year, Daily Nous reported that Eleanor Dickey, professor of classics at University of Reading, had been collecting various possible responses to problems associated with the…

April 7, 2015
Website Responsibility

“If Your Website’s Full of Assholes, It’s Your Fault” is a 2011 post from well-known blogger Anil Dash in which he writes about a…

April 6, 2015
A Philosophy Department’s Impressive Fight For Survival

Robert Stufflebeam, chair of the Philosophy Department at the University of New Orleans, shares some of the challenges his department faces, and some of…

April 6, 2015
Honoraria in Philosophy

A philosopher writes in with a query about paying philosophers for talks and the like… I’d like to learn more about honorarium practices for…

April 2, 2015
A Site To Help With Non-Academic Employment

Hiring the Humanities is a new website that aims to assist those currently working in the humanities find employment outside academia. It was started…

April 2, 2015
A Philosophy Scholarship Program

Furman University has developed an exciting scholarship program for students interested in studying philosophy. J. Aaron Simmons, associate professor of philosophy there, kindly took…

April 2, 2015
Overheard at the Pacific

You know what to do.

April 1, 2015
Lack of Philosophical Progress Owed to Procrastination, Study Hopes to Find

Historians of philosophy and experimental philosophers have teamed up to determine why there has been so little progress in philosophy. “Socrates asked ‘what is…

April 1, 2015
Lockwood v. Tooley on “Sexual Assault on Campus”

Heidi Lockwood (Southern Connecticut) and Michael Tooley (Colorado) met at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) earlier this month for a debate sponsored by VCU’s Department…

March 31, 2015
Inaugural Issue of the Journal of the American Philosophical Association

The first ever issue of the Journal of the American Philosophical Association is now available online. According to a press release from the APA, “All current…

March 31, 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)
Colin, yours is very much a "gamergate was about ethics in video games journalism" comment.
Mahmoud Jalloh on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
How does he do it? Just amazing.
Colin Wight on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
“We should not use that freedom to harm people”. Is it suggested that Stock intentionally set out to harm trans people? Or, that certain positions Stock holds (one…
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…

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