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High Enrollment Philosophy Courses

We, like I’m sure lots of other departments, are suffering from decreasing enrollment numbers. I was wondering if you could do a post asking…

March 31, 2015
Who Deleted What From Heidegger’s Works, And Who Knew About It? (updated)

FAZ, one of the main newspapers in Germany, reports on the unraveling scandal regarding Heidegger’s anti-Semitic writings. The latest, I am told, is that…

March 30, 2015
Watching TV (with poll)

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March 30, 2015
This Is What We Look Like Campaign

“This Is What We Look Like” is a new campaign aimed at “Promoting the presence, awareness, and progress of women in traditionally male dominated fields,”…

March 30, 2015
Hobbies of Philosophers: Steff Rocknak

For this installment of “Hobbies of Philosophers”, I talked to Steff Rocknak, professor of philosophy at Hartwick College. Steff works on Hume, Quine, philosophy…

March 30, 2015
Questions about the Confucius Institute

Kansas State University is about to open a Confucius Institute on its campus and some there, including associate professor of philosophy John Mahoney, are…

March 27, 2015
Serious Cuts and Stark Choices at Aberdeen

The University of Aberdeen is attempting to cut £10.5 million from its expenditures for the 2015-16 academic year, and they are starting with faculty and…

March 27, 2015
$500k Gift to Philosophy Department at Buffalo

The family of the late William H. Baumer, a longtime philosopher at the University of Buffalo who died last June, has donated $500,000 to create…

March 26, 2015
The Distant Future of Philosophy

Philosophy, like any human activity, is influenced by the circumstances in which it takes place. Technological, scientific, economic, political, cultural, social, etc., factors influence…

March 26, 2015
Interviews of Disabled Philosophers

Shelley Tremain (Toronto) is launching a series of interviews of disabled philosophers which will be posted at the website, Discrimination and Disadvantage. If you would…

March 26, 2015
Out of Context

It has happened to many a teacher. You are up there speaking in front of the class and the words escape your lips. And…

March 25, 2015
“The Best Students I Have Are Inmates”

Christia Mercer (Columbia) reports on her experiences teaching philosophy to inmates as part of the new Justice-in-Education Initiative, sponsored by Columbia University’s Center for…

March 25, 2015
APA Calls for Nominations for Best Op-Eds by Philosophers

Did you read a particularly good op-ed in 2014 that was written by a philosopher? Are you a philosopher who wrote a particularly good…

March 25, 2015
Students Object to Philosophy Prof’s Facebook Post About Gaza

Andrew Pessin, professor of philosophy at Connecticut College, is at the center of a controversy at Connecticut College regarding offensive speech for a Facebook…

March 25, 2015
Grant Ramsey from Notre Dame to KU Leuven

Grant Ramsey, currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, will become BOFZAP Research Professor in the Institute of…

March 25, 2015
Recent APA Prize Winners Announced

The American Philosophical Association (APA) has announced the winners of several competitions. First up are the winners of the 2013 Public Philosophy Op-Ed Contest,…

March 24, 2015
Philosophy’s Disunity as Cover for Its Problems

The nature of philosophy is to blame for philosophy’s woman problem, says Zachary Ernst, who left his position as tenured associate professor of philosophy…

March 24, 2015
Scary Ideas (updated)

People ought to go to college to sharpen their wits and broaden their field of vision. Shield them from unfamiliar ideas, and they’ll never…

March 23, 2015
Philosophy, Real People, and the Real World

What are the boundaries of philosophy? Why are they there and what is their nature? How do such boundaries structure the way philosophers approach…

March 23, 2015
Is Phenomenology Philosophically Unproductive?

Recently, AskPhilosophers received the following question: Why is so little phenomenology taught and researched in North American philosophy departments? Because it studies the essence…

March 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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Reichenbach on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
Yes. Many (myself included) had a Damascus moment about the poor health of philosophy when the Tuvel affair occurred. An utter and complete embarrassment for the field.
Felix on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
First, describing her views as anti-trans is incorrect. She’s not anti-trans. I believe that is called Wight-washing.
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.
Colin Wight on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
It would help if facts mattered. First, describing her views as anti-trans is incorrect. She’s not anti-trans. Second, she wasn’t awarded the OBE for the content of her…
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.

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