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New Way Trolley Problem Shows We’re Awful

Tiffany Sun, a student at Rosyln High School in New York, was one of 40 finalists in the 2015 Intel Science Talent Search with an…

March 20, 2015
Schliesser Offered Chair at Amsterdam

Eric Schliesser, currently Research Professor in Philosophy and Moral Sciences at Ghent University, has been offered a Chair in Political Theory in the Political Science department…

March 20, 2015
New Hires at Ohio State

Tristram McPherson, currently in the Department of Philosophy at Virginia Tech, will be taking up a position as associate professor of philosophy at The Ohio…

March 20, 2015
From Ordinary Vandalism to the Philosophical (updated)

By now many of you have heard that Kant’s house was spray-painted with the words meaning something like “Kant is an idiot” (the BBC…

March 19, 2015
How to Review Book Manuscripts

An assistant professor writes in with the following query: I’ve been asked recently to review some books for major presses, which is great and…

March 19, 2015
Women in Philosophy: A Case for Optimism

Clara Fisher, Newton International Fellow at the Gender Institute at London School of Economics, makes “the case for a tentatively optimistic reading of women’s contemporary place…

March 18, 2015
APA / BPA Journal Surveys

Last year, the American Philosophical Association (APA) and the British Philosophical Association (BPA) teamed up to conduct a survey of philosophy journals, and the…

March 18, 2015
Gender Discrimination Alleged at Sam Houston (updated)

Diana Buccafurni-Huber, assistant professor of philosophy at Sam Houston State University in Texas, has accused her department chair, Frank Fair, of intimidation and retaliation, resulting…

March 18, 2015
Philosopher’s Annual Suggestions

The nominating editors of Philosopher’s Annual, which takes as its goal “to select the ten best articles published in philosophy each year—an attempt as simple to…

March 18, 2015
Philosophy, Disability, and Chronic Illnesses

Several weeks back Daily Nous had a post which served as a space for philosophers to discuss their experiences of depression and mental illness.…

March 17, 2015
How Much Do Philosophers Earn?

The College and University Professional Association for Human Resources has released the results of its annual survey of faculty salaries. The Chronicle of Higher Education reports…

March 16, 2015
Wisdom, Not Mere Love of It

There are different strains of public philosophy, one of which is bringing philosophy to bear on social and personal issues. The idea is that…

March 16, 2015
Brian Barry Literary Archive

There is a new site dedicated to archiving the writings of and about the late, great, political philosopher Brian Barry. The Brian Barry Literary…

March 14, 2015
Let’s Nominate a Philosopher (updated)

The National Endowment for the Humanities is now accepting nominations for the National Humanities Medal, which “honors individuals and organizations whose work has deepened…

March 13, 2015
Dismissal of Undergrad’s Suit Against Northwestern Upheld

The February 2014 lawsuit filed by a Northwestern University undergraduate claiming that the university “didn’t respond adequately after she reported being sexually assaulted by…

March 12, 2015
Karyn Freedman Wins Non-Fiction Award

Karyn Freedman, associate professor of philosophy at the University of Guelph, has won the 2015 British Columbia National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction for her…

March 12, 2015
Times Higher Ed University Rankings

Times Higher Education has released its 2015 “World Reputation Rankings” of universities. As its title suggests, this a reputational survey, so, subject to many…

March 12, 2015
We Can Do This (updated)

Most of us believe it would be better for students to be exposed to philosophy before starting college, for various reasons. A public high…

March 12, 2015
Joseph Heath Wins Political Writing Prize

Joseph Heath (Toronto) has been awarded the 2014 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing for his book, Enlightenment 2.0: Restoring Sanity to Our Politics, Our Economy, and Our…

March 12, 2015
Ludlow’s Defamation Suit Dismissed

Judge John P. Callahan of the Cook County, Illinois Circuit Court has dismissed Peter Ludlow’s defamation lawsuit against a Northwestern University undergraduate who had…

March 11, 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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Jesse Crosson on Philosopher-led Team Nets $2.91 Million in Grants for Project on Safeguards of Liberalism
I am but a mere political scientist and interloper on this site; but, "conditions under which" is our specialty! A basic premise of this work is that any…
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…

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