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Patrick Suppes (1922-2014) (several updates)

Patrick Suppes, emeritus professor of philosophy at Stanford University, has died. Suppes was known for his work in several areas, most notably philosophy of…

November 24, 2014
Sit-in At Northwestern Re: Ludlow Suit (updated)

A group of graduate and undergraduate students at Northwestern University, including members of the department of philosophy, are planning a sit-in for tomorrow at…

November 23, 2014
Financial Return on Humanities Degrees

Jeffrey Dorfman, an economics professor at the University of Georgia, has analyzed the value of undergraduate degrees in a variety of fields and reports…

November 22, 2014
Confluence, a New Online Philosophy Journal

Confluence: Online Journal of World Philosophies, is a new bi-annual, peer-reviewed journal of comparative philosophy and thought. From its mission statement: It seeks to…

November 22, 2014
Support for Cheryl Abbate (updated w/ statement from Marquette Pres.)

As reported a few days ago, Marquette University philosophy graduate student and instructor Cheryl Abbate has been the subject of defamatory and hostile politically-motivated…

November 22, 2014
Letter of Support for Abbate from Marquette Dept Chairs

The heads of several departments in Marquette University’s Klingler College of Arts and Sciences met about the Abbate case and have written a letter to…

November 22, 2014
Monton Resigns from Colorado

Brad Monton will resign from his position as associate professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado, effective June 1st, 2015. In exchange, the…

November 21, 2014
College Pressures Philosopher to Withdraw Novel

Stephen Grant, until recently a lecturer in philosophy at Richmond upon Thames College, was asked by the school to stop the publication of his novel, A…

November 21, 2014
Jill North and Ted Sider from Cornell to Rutgers

Jill North and Ted Sider, both currently at Cornell, will be taking up positions in the department of philosophy at Rutgers University. North, who works…

November 21, 2014
Why Did You Go Into Philosophy?

[This post is from 2014. I’m reposting it in honor of World Philosophy Day. New comments welcome.] It’s World Philosophy Day, but for some…

November 20, 2014
Video Interview Do’s & Don’ts

Many departments are turning towards the use of Skype and other forms of video-conferencing for first-round interviews, and such interviews are sometimes among the first times…

November 19, 2014
Job Market Mentoring for Women Philosophers

A group of women philosophers — Amanda Greene (University of Chicago), Corinne Gartner (Wellesley College), Sarah-Jane Leslie (Princeton University), Tamar Schapiro (Stanford University), Kristin Primus (New York University), Jennifer Frey…

November 18, 2014
$3.6m for Georgetown Ethics Chair and Ethics Lab

Georgetown University received a $3.6 million gift from alumna Kathleen “Kathy” McNamara Hugin and her husband, Robert. The gift will fund a faculty chair in…

November 18, 2014
Philosophy Grad Student Target of Political Smear Campaign (several updates)

A philosophy graduate student and instructor at Marquette University is the target of a political attack initiated by one of her students, facilitated by…

November 18, 2014
Teaching on Same-Sex Marriage

Most colleges offer lower-level philosophy courses on contemporary moral problems, one of the aims of which is to teach students how to think philosophically about assorted social and…

November 17, 2014
Political Philosophy’s “Fantasy World”

[M]ainstream political philosophy is seen as irrelevant… because of the bizarre way it has developed since Rawls (a bizarreness not recognized as such by…

November 16, 2014
More Details Emerge on Boxill’s Role in UNC Scandal

As was reported last month, a detailed investigation at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill revealed an academic fraud scandal in which…

November 14, 2014
Comment Tech

I have received the following three complaints and would like to know if the problems they’re about are widespread. (a) You cannot reply to…

November 14, 2014
Philosopher & Statistician Win NIH Contest

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) conducted a study in 2011 that showed patterns of racial bias in its awarding of funding. In response,…

November 14, 2014
Panel Set for Barnett’s Hearing

An article in the Daily Camera reports on the composition of the faculty panel who will meet on December 4th and 5th to hear the…

November 13, 2014

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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Felix on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
It's worth bearing in mind that some of Stock's defenders (e.g., Sullivan) apparently consider it "bullying" that, while Stock was still at Sussex, students and faculty chose to…
Nickel Koch on Calls for Papers / Grants / Etc.
CfP workshop: Vital Frontiers: Political Myth and Apocalyptic Imaginaries in Silicon Valley Why has Silicon Valley become so captivated by apocalypse? From AI and transhumanism to techno-optimism, accelerationism,…
The Dude on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
This comment says way more about you than you probably know it does. Dude.
Martin Wisse on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
More importantly in the case of Kathleen Stock is that she wasn't "driven out", she resigned. Pretending that her leaving Sussex University was because of some sort of…
Chris Bertram on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
When people are awarded an OBE for "services to HE" that is is the usual catch-all description and in most cases it is easy to see what particular…
Felix on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
One of the key elements prefiguring the reactionary backlash under discussion and some commenters are really like, "I don't know what that is and I don't care to…
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)
Dude, no one knows what this even means! I'm not going to look up what "gamergate" is. If you're trying to "dunk" on someone, you need to use…
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…
Felix on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
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…
Jimmy Doyle on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
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…
Holly on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
i can't help but notice the discrepancy between the authors denying that stock was "driven out" of sussex while yet asserting that bettcher was "forced out" of the…

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