Daily Nous - Page 333 of 374 - News for & about the philosophy profession

Skip to content

Twitter
Facebook
Bluesky
Instagram

RSS

Search

News for & about the philosophy profession

About
Comments Policy
Online Events
Philosophy Comics
CFP
Heap of Links
Supporters

Hobbies of Philosophers: Meg Wallace

For the second installment of our Hobbies of Philosophers series, I talked with Meg Wallace (Kentucky). Meg works on metaphysics and philosophy of language,…

February 3, 2015
APA Solicits Code of Conduct Suggestions

Last year, the American Philosophical Association (APA) appointed a task force to determine whether a code of conduct for professional philosophers is warranted. The task…

February 3, 2015
Guarding the Guardians (or Editors) (3 updates)

The reason your paper is listed as ‘editor assigned’ is that I’m going to review it myself. In the wake of the recent discussion here…

February 2, 2015
Philosophy as a Way of Life

Stoicism, of course, may not appeal to or work for everyone. It is a rather demanding philosophy of life, where your moral character is…

February 2, 2015
Banning the Guilty?

A philosophy professor who wishes to remain anonymous writes in with the following question: If a member of the philosophical profession has been found…

February 2, 2015
Yik Yak Yuck

Margaret Crouch, a philosophy professor at Eastern Michigan University, was team-teaching a large group of students with two other professors, while, unbeknownst to the…

February 2, 2015
Philosopher’s Index Upping Its Game

The Philosopher’s Index, an academic philosophy database available through the libraries of many universities and colleges, is rolling out a service that contains not merely…

January 30, 2015
For the Money

Graduates with philosophy degrees have “higher earnings potential than many other arts and humanities-related fields,” said TheRichest. Payscale reports midcareer median salaries are $84,000…

January 30, 2015
Why Are So Many Philosophers of Religion Theists?

72.8% of the 3226 philosophers who took the PhilPapers survey in 2009 said that they accept or lean towards atheism. Among philosophers of religion,…

January 30, 2015
Philosophers Talk Football

Hey, so, uh, the Superbowl…. That’s all I got, but feel free, folks. (images from Academic Coach Taylor)

January 30, 2015
Philosophical Delight in the Classroom

One thing that makes us different from most of our undergraduate students is that we really enjoy philosophy and they do not. It may…

January 30, 2015
Students Object to Job Candidate for Offensive Views

Graduate students in a philosophy department somewhere in the English-speaking world did some online sleuthing about a job candidate for a position in their department, and…

January 28, 2015
APA’s Inaugural Joyce Mitchell Cook Award Winner Announced

Kathryn Gines, assistant professor of philosophy at Pennsylvania State University, has been named the inaugural winner of the American Philosophical Association’s Joyce Mitchell Cook…

January 27, 2015
A Good Offense (updated)

When it comes to teaching philosophy, how offensive may we be, and in what ways? Recent discussions here, particularly regarding teaching same-sex marriage, have…

January 27, 2015
Unblock Thyself

Jon Cogburn (LSU) has run a little experiment. For months he and others have been unable to comment at Daily Nous. Long thought to…

January 27, 2015
New Site for Discussions of Discrimination & Disadvantage

Discrimination and Disadvantage is a new blog developed by Thomas Nadelhoffer (College of Charleston) and Kevin Timpe (Northwest Nazarene U.) for discussions about the philosophy of discrimination and…

January 26, 2015
Book Dedication Sale

Jason Brennan and Peter Jaworski (both of Georgetown), have been working on a book entitled Markets Without Limits. You may recall an earlier post which…

January 26, 2015
Philosopher Launches Global Health Impact Initiative

The Global Health Impact is an initiative created by Nicole Hassoun, associate professor of philosophy at SUNY Binghamton, that evaluates and compares the health…

January 26, 2015
Same-Sex Marriage and Philosophy Revisited

“How Academic Philosophers Are Trying to End the Gay-Marriage Debate—and Getting it Wrong” is the title of a new article in the National Review. Written by…

January 23, 2015
Life as a Philosophy Student in North Korea

A philosophy student who defected from North Korea provides some information about life as a philosophy student there in a recent interview (part of…

January 22, 2015

Heap of Links

What is the debate over whether transwomen are women even about? — Katie Zhou argues that it's about which facts are granted "the cross-contextual significance and stickiness characteristic of gender"
We’re putting human brain cells into mice brains — One moral risk of this, says Mackenzie Graham, is a decrease in our ability to interpret what mice behavior tells us about their experiences and welfare
The Rawls Game — with instructions, background, advice, and downloadable character cards
“The central question would shift from ‘How do we maximize shareholder value?’ to ‘How do different forms of organization distribute power, risk and reward — and which should we strengthen?'” — Chris Marquis on the case for abolishing, or at least radically changing, business schools
Asking “How did I get here?” may help us reflect on the nature of personal identity in ways that asking “Who am I?” cannot — Marya Schechtman's 2024 Central Division Meeting Presidential Address
“Collecting is a game, but what kind of game? It is an imperfect information game of acquisition” — a theory of collecting, from Steven Hales
“A general human tendency: to overestimate how far we have come in the progress of human knowledge” — a lengthy interview with Thomas Nagel
“Many couples do not survive trauma like this” — A profile of Susan Brison—who was brutally attacked in 1990, and who wrote about it in Aftermath—and her husband, Thomas Trezise, who has now written his own book stemming from those events
“Bad AI Consciousness Takes” Bingo Card — Henry Shevlin's area of specialization is becoming a popular topic in popular discourse, and he can't stand the "cavalcade of terrible takes"
Does the principle of sufficient reason imply panpsychism? If it does, do we then ponens or tollens? — Sam Kimpton-Nye on these questions and the "demand for intelligibility"
PTSD flashbacks may be harmful, but they may also be helpfully “resupplying phenomenal experience” to those who, owing to trauma, are “grasp alienated” — Michaela McSweeney on trauma and "madness-as-strategy"
A look at the very first issue of Mind — Brett Mullins surveys its articles on the occasion of the journal's 150th anniversary
The most bizarre plagiarism-related story ever — featuring: a death, an investigator, a dissertation, a mysterious red book, and more
New data on earnings by major and university — though not all universities
“AI poses two different existential threats to [our] valuing practices” — Jordan MacKenzie offers an account of why negative judgments about AI taking over our creative and caring activities are justified
“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

Subscribe by Email

Get new Daily Nous posts delivered to your inbox.

Subscription Form

Δ

Archives

Select Month

Latest Comments

Russell Marcus on New: “Why Teach Philosophy?”
Part of what motivated this WTP project (and so much of my recent work) is my conviction that a good way to save philosophy is to teach it…
Charles Bakker on A New Tool for Curbing AI Cheating (guest post)
For what it is worth, I am a TA monitoring one of these writing labs as I write this. The possibility of one of the students cheating is…
Kate on AI Use in STEM and Philosophy Dissertations
None of these seem problematic to me in themselves, for what it's worth.
Tenured Realist on AI Use in STEM and Philosophy Dissertations
Personally, I'm interesting to responding to changes to how academic work is being done and the overall norms of my professional community. As an individual, we are each…
David Wallace on AI Use in STEM and Philosophy Dissertations
Some of “tenured realist”’s examples involved computer generation of text, but not all do.
Sigh on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
Yeah, I also informed the journal in (both the 'I dont have to time review' form, and in a reply mail to the editor at the journal who…
On the Market Too on New Philosophy of AI Initiatives
What is insidious about examining whether artificial beings can have interests and what weight those interests might have? What is the hidden thing in the "Trojan horse"? Are…
David Thorstad on New Philosophy of AI Initiatives
Sometimes I wish that the discourse on funding like this could stay closer to the middle ground between "this is pure evil" and "any money for philosophy is…
Eno Agolli on Putting the Pub in Public Philosophy
We do a similar thing through CUNY in the heart of Manhattan. Learn more about it here: https://analytic-salon-nyc.github.io/ For an example, see our latest event: https://www.meetup.com/the-analytic-salon/events/316886651/ And we've…
Eric Steinhart on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
Yes, I've seen this, but not with AI. There are clusters of mutually citing papers on academia.edu and researchgate.net which are clearly fakes. These are produced by "citation…
Gorm on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
be sure to alert the journal editor immediately. If the journal follows the COPE guidelines they should take further action against the author, which may include contacting the…
Nicolas Delon on New Philosophy of AI Initiatives
The post discloses the funding sources in perhaps more detail than you’d get in a journal publication. No more detective work is required than when you disclose your…
Nicolas Delon on AI Use in STEM and Philosophy Dissertations
No. My job is to teach effectively. If a tool, whether it be AI supported or not, can help me teach more effectively without diminishing my competence then…
DoctorK on AI Use in STEM and Philosophy Dissertations
Why would you care about 'meeting the moment' – I simply don't accept that we should accept the intrusion of computer generated text into our field simply because…
DoctorK on AI Use in STEM and Philosophy Dissertations
Because the alternative (working out yourself how to explain material well to students) is part of your job.

© Daily Nous

About Daily Nous