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“Raw Intellectual Talent” and Academia’s Gender and Race Gaps

Cultural beliefs and stereotypes that associate men but not women with “raw intellectual talent” can help explain the differing gender gaps across various academic disciplines, according…

January 15, 2015
Philososplainin’ #2: Letting Kids Do Stuff Themselves

Making the rounds this morning is the news of parents who are being investigated for neglect for allowing their children, ages 10 and 6, to…

January 15, 2015
CU Faculty Panel: Barnett Did Not Retaliate Against Student

The faculty panel responsible for reviewing the University of Colorado’s allegations against associate professor of philosophy David Barnett (previously) has concluded that he is…

January 14, 2015
How Do You Want Your Students To Assess You?

Most colleges and universities have students fill out forms to evaluate their instructors’ performance at the end of the term. Semesters are just beginning…

January 14, 2015
The Philosophy of Philosophical Institutions

Robert Frodeman and Adam Briggle (both of the University of North Texas) have published an essay, “Socrates Untenured,” at Inside Higher Ed that makes a case…

January 13, 2015
Mapping Philosophical Arguments

The students sit in pairs at a computer terminal, and after reading Cullen’s synopsis of a particular argument, they try to map it. The…

January 12, 2015
Philosophy: Now Even More Popular in Germany

Philosophy is so popular in Germany right now, reports The Chronicle of Higher Education (may be behind paywall). How popular is it? So popular that at least…

January 12, 2015
Minorities in Philosophy: Data Visualized

Data from 860 philosophers who identified themselves on the UPDirectory (previously) as belonging to minority demographic groups has been analyzed and depicted in various graphs…

January 11, 2015
Lessons for Philosophy from Economists on English?

“Over the last 35 years, less than half of graduated Ph.D. students have gotten tenure-track academic jobs upon graduation. The result is a large…

January 9, 2015
User’s Guide to Philosophy Without Rankings

A User’s Guide to Philosophy Without Rankings is a new site “intended for the use of prospective graduate students in philosophy, faculty (including chairs or…

January 8, 2015
Philosophers and Theorists on the Charlie Hebdo Attacks (updated)

Yesterday, twelve people were shot dead at the Paris office of Charlie Hebdo, a French satirical magazine. It was reported that the gunmen shouted “We have…

January 8, 2015
New Motion in Ludlow Case; Faculty Respond (with updates from Kvanvig, Garthoff, and Lockwood)

A new motion was filed on January 6th by lawyers for the undergraduate student allegedly assaulted by Northwestern University professor of philosophy Peter Ludlow…

January 8, 2015
Inclusive Philosophy Classroom Best Practices Site

A new website, Best Practices for the Inclusive Philosophy Classroom, has launched. It is an interdepartmental project, started by Minorities and Philosophy (MAP), which…

January 7, 2015
Teaching As If Our Students Were Not Future Philosophers

Since most of our undergraduate students are planning to go to graduate school in philosophy and become professional philosophers, it makes sense that the undergraduate philosophy curriculum is typically filled…

January 7, 2015
Amy Allen (Dartmouth) to Penn State

Amy Allen, currently Parents Distinguished Research Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy and Women’s and Gender Studies at Dartmouth College, will become…

January 6, 2015
APA Wins $600,000 Grant for Undergraduate Diversity

The American Philosophical Association (APA) has won a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The grant will provide $600,000 over three years to…

January 6, 2015
Joshua Cohen to Join Berkeley Faculty

Joshua Cohen, who had held appointments at MIT and Stanford before recently moving to Apple University, will be joining the University of California, Berkeley as a Distinguished…

January 6, 2015
New Philosophy of Science Association Officers

Sandra D. Mitchell (Pittsburgh HPS) has been elected President of the Philosophy of Science Association (PSA). Professor Mitchell will serve a two-year term (from…

January 5, 2015
“Philosophy is for posh, white boys with trust funds”

Seven philosophers are interviewed in The Guardian in the wake of a recent report by the UK’s Equality Challenge Unit that found that “among non-Stem (science, technology, engineering…

January 5, 2015
Nietzsche’s New Year’s Resolution

This: I do not want to wage war with the ugly. I do not want to accuse, I do not want even to accuse…

January 5, 2015

Heap of Links

“Collective beliefs… are both ubiquitous and highly consequential constituents of the social world” — Margaret Gilbert's 2024 Presidential Address at the Pacific APA
“The apostle of ignorance” — Cass Sunstein's short book on Hayek for the Cambridge Elements series is open access through December 9th
“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?

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Chris Surprenant on David Lyons (1935-2026)
David was one of my doctoral supervisors and we also played squash together frequently while I was at BU. He was one of the kindest and most thoughtful…
Meme on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
“it’s deeply cringe” grown ass man
Knibbe on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
Coming from the former Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy–it must be right! (I kid, I kid.)
Knibbe on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
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Daniel Weltman on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
My advice is the same. I work on gender and I am not gender critical (indeed, I am opposed to them) but my view is certainly closer to…
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I'm not sure that I would describe someone who had the backing of her university, the union, and every ignorant bystander who thought that the issue was somehow…
Daniel Weltman on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
I believe it would do almost immeasurable good for the health of the discipline if two things were to happen: 1) People who are inclined to downplay the…
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Hasn't this move been retired yet? If you're hounded out of your job — and Kathleen's was a textbook case of this — you've been horribly persecuted, *even…
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Reichenbach on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
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First, describing her views as anti-trans is incorrect. She’s not anti-trans. I believe that is called Wight-washing.
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Colin, yours is very much a "gamergate was about ethics in video games journalism" comment.
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How does he do it? Just amazing.

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