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University Presidents Against “Government Overreach”

“As leaders of America’s colleges, universities, and scholarly societies, we speak with one voice against the unprecedented government overreach and political interference now endangering…

April 22, 2025
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April 22, 2025
Harvard Sues Trump Administration

Today, Harvard University filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over the billions of dollars in funding it has cut and threatened to cut…

April 21, 2025
New: The Formal(ish) Philosophy Discord Server (updated)

There’s a new place online for people working in formal philosophy, broadly construed.

April 21, 2025
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, and new podcast episodes.

April 21, 2025
Here Come the AI-Powered Bot Students

“We didn’t use to have to decide if our students were human, they were all people. But now there’s this skepticism because a growing…

April 18, 2025
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April 18, 2025
Philosophy Department Survival Strategies: The Personal Invitation

Affirmation. It’s natural to want it and to be encouraged by it. If deserved, it’s good to give. And giving it to your students…

April 17, 2025
Columbia Philosophy Statement on Mahdawi / Fundraiser

The Department of Philosophy at Columbia University has issued a statement about Mohsen Mahdawi, the philosophy major taken by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)…

April 16, 2025
Berggruen Increases Essay Competition Prize to $50,000

The Berggruen Institute, a multidisciplinary international think tank dedicated to “exploring the ideas we need for our changing world,” last year launched an essay…

April 16, 2025
Philosophers Among New Guggenheim Fellows

The Guggenheim Foundation, which is celebrating its centennial this year, has announced its 2025 Fellows, and a few philosophers are among them.

April 15, 2025
Canadian Association of University Teachers Issues US Travel Warning

The Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT), a federation of independent associations and trade unions representing university teachers and other academic professionals has advised…

April 15, 2025
Philosophy Major Snatched by ICE During Citizenship Interview (updated)

Mohsen Mahdawi, a philosophy major at Columbia University who is due to graduate later this semester, was attending a US citizenship application interview in…

April 15, 2025
Harvard “will not negotiate over its independence” (updates)

“The University will not negotiate over its independence or its constitutional rights.”

April 14, 2025
British Society for the History of Philosophy Announces Recent Prizewinners

The British Society for the History of Philosophy and its journal, The British Journal for the History of Philosophy, have announced the latest winners…

April 14, 2025
Will Columbia Be Taken Over by the Federal Government?

Columbia University is “one of the most premier research and teaching institutions in the world, and that institution dies tomorrow.”

April 14, 2025
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, and new podcast episodes.

April 14, 2025
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The latest links…

April 14, 2025
On “Chilling Effects” and the “Rowdiness” of Free Speech

“Whatever reasons there are that might justify the state saying that free speech is not being protected, the fact that some people felt intimidated…

April 11, 2025
Philosophers Among New ACLS Fellows

The American Council of Learned Societies has announced its new class of fellows, and four philosophy professors are among them.

April 10, 2025

Heap of Links

“Submission” is a humorous clicker-style game about starting a career in academic philosophy (or not) — created by Nat Hansen
“The best investment in education is to become the most human human—-a challenging, fulfilling, exciting pursuit that connects us across generations” — an interview with Christa Acampora, philosopher and dean of Arts & Sciences at UVA
“What would happen if we tried to live without the mythology of agency at all?” — It's worth pondering, since "agency is just an internal command hallucination," says Alexander Douglas
“Reading List” is a free Mac app for keeping track of papers to read — philosophy PhD student Hayden Kajercline created this productivity tool for researchers, with help from Claude
How should we react to scary predictions about AI? “First: by asking questions” — "If you believe predictions uncritically, it amounts to obeying in advance," says Carissa Véliz
“I feel unbelievably lucky that I was able to make philosophy my profession” — Karen Ng reflects on her path into philosophy, at #first-genphilosophers
The ordinary concept of knowledge “doesn’t work at all the way philosophers said it does” — a round-up of studies shows how weird the philosophers' version of the concept is
1000 or so psychiatrists were asked to diagnose standardized clinical case vignettes. “Two doctors agreed on the diagnosis only 55% of the time” — What does this tell us about psychiatry? Or about other fields in which experts disagree?
Where Aristotle taught Alexander — "this newest dig may be the most revealing yet, offering insight into the specifics of Alexander the Great’s education"
Over 4000 of the Justice Department’s lawyers have left their jobs since Trump’s second term began — The New Yorker on the moral dilemma facing some government employees: resign and avoid complicity, or stay and resist where one can?
Underappreciated philosophy published between 1970-2019 — some old posts to which you can still add works that should be better appreciated
The AI threat to independent student writing is not necessarily a threat to student learning — what's needed, says Joe Cruz, are courses "in which ideas are expressed in real time and analytical thought unfolds as a debate or an oral defense or a group discussion"—and small enough classes to make that work
Would you take a pill that allows you, with no ill health effects, to permanently forgo sleep? — Rebecca Lowe thinks you have no good reason not to, though she neglects to consider that sometimes it's the world that needs a break from you
Fifty essays in the philosophy of paleontology — by Max Dresow at the Extinct blog
“Asking whether [an AI] model ‘has a world model’ leaves much unresolved. Our findings point toward mechanistically studying its world modeling; uncovering the structures it learned [and] the world modeling capacities that recruit these” — further research on the internal representations of AIs
Sixty Years of Philosophy in America — Ernest Sosa's Dewey Lecture from the 2024 APA Eastern Division Meeting
“You’re responsible for other people’s learning of this material, so you better know it at a higher level yourself” — for 20 years, the Socrates Project at the University of Toronto has hired senior philosophy undergrads to run weekly tutorials for introductory students
“Suddenly, my problems stop being problems in the world. They become problems in my head. The problem is no longer: ‘my job is demoralizing, but I can’t leave it’… It’s: ‘I have a chemical imbalance that prevents me from enjoying life'” — Justin Garson on “the pathologizing tendency”
A political theorist and a comedian discuss the American presidency — "The Oath and the Office" is the podcast of Corey Brettschneider & John Fugelsang
An “evidence revolution” has taken place in medicine and other fields over the past 50 years — but, as Benjamin Santos Genta asks, there's still the question: "what counts as good scientific evidence?"

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AGT on Those OpenAI Math Results
I am actually not, but sure, if the choice is between them getting rich without developing the cure and them getting rich while developing the cure, then I…
AGT on Those OpenAI Math Results
I didn't suggest that. I was just simply adding a political consideration to your remarks concerning the future of AI. My view was normative (it is wrong how…
David Wallace on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
Often, yes; it's a good but defeasible heuristic (although the fact that Claude didn't do any of the actual writing makes it less effective than in others I've…
Arewethereyet? on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
One problem is that the production of cellphones, computers, cars (even EVs), the internet, radios, and their infrastructure is also environmentally harmful and harmful to various human (and…
Geeno on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
No, we don't.
Arewethereyet? on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
"discuss with AI, then write the paper yourself, then discuss more with AI” It seems to me there's not a clear separation between this method of doing philosophy…
Marc Champagne on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
Agreed. Dissenters needn't be disempowered. By analogy, vegetarians abstain from something popular because they follow their conscience. Rejection of AI is no different. We can signal our commitments…
Felix on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
The original idea was all mine. I used Claude to search the literature, copy-edit, and get feedback. Prompted to take the perspective of an analytic philosopher, Claude proved…
Eric Steinhart on Those OpenAI Math Results
Your point about concepts is interesting. But "how the concepts are understood" seems to imply that they are ambiguous or vague or otherwise unclear. Maybe the AIs start…
Animal Symbolicum on Those OpenAI Math Results
To paint concerns about the material effects of the structure of ownership as concerns merely about getting rich is to straw-man. But I wasn’t clear in my comment,…
Eric Steinhart on Those OpenAI Math Results
Yes, those are good distinctions, and there are probably lots of other crucial distinctions at work here. We need to think carefully about these issues. (Of course, that's…
Animal Symbolicum on Those OpenAI Math Results
Oh, me too. As long as they’re also incentivized to make that cure meaningfully available to those who need it.
Jimmy Alfonso Licon on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
Beat him to it. I got the idea in graduate school (2014) and only recently wrote it up and landed it here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/think/article/abs/synthetic-socrates-and-the-philosophers-of-the-future/11EB0A30A310C06D384E37AFA4156A17
David Wallace on Those OpenAI Math Results
If Anthropic cures most forms of cancer and neurodegenerative illness, I am very happy for them to get rich off doing so.
David Wallace on Those OpenAI Math Results
None of what I wrote was normative. My normative view. FWIW, is that current-level AI would in the medium term be good for math, even if there are…

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