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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
Acts of Professional Kindness

“Many of us owe our careers to… well-timed acts of professional kindness in the face of bureaucratic mechanisms or capricious supervisors.” (Pinning this to…

April 10, 2025
Ordinary Language Philosophy in Supreme Court Gun Case (updated)

What is a weapon? That question was the focus of a recent US Supreme Court decision, Bondi v. Vanderstock.

April 9, 2025
Abrol Fairweather (1969-2025)

Abrol Fairweather, a philosopher at San Francisco State University, has died.

April 9, 2025
Trump’s Attacks on Universities, A Continuing Series (updates)

Trump administration officials yesterday revealed that the president has ordered that $1 billion of federal funding for Cornell University and $790 million of federal…

April 9, 2025
Garcia Awarded Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize

Manon Garcia (Freie Universität in Berlin) has been awarded one of the 2025 Heinz Maier-Leibnitz prizes, “Germany’s most prestigious award for researchers in the…

April 9, 2025
Finlay to Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Stephen Finlay, previously professor of philosophy and director of the Dianoia Institute at Australian Catholic University, will be moving to the University of Illinois…

April 8, 2025
Kitcher Wins Frontiers of Knowledge Prize

Philip Kitcher, professor emeritus of philosophy at Columbia University, has been named the winner of the Frontiers of Knowledge Prize in the Humanities by…

April 8, 2025
Sullivan Wins Simon Award

Emily Sullivan, associate professor of philosophy at Utrecht University, is the winner of the 2025 Herbert A. Simon Award for Outstanding Research in Computing…

April 8, 2025
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April 7, 2025
How Many People Applied for Academic Philosophy Jobs in 2024? (guest post)

How many people applied to academic philosophy jobs last year? Which types of institutions had the most applicants? Which types of jobs?

April 7, 2025
Where the Streets are Named for Philosophers

The streets and parks in a new neighborhood being developed in Prague will bear the name of well-known philosophers.

April 7, 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 7, 2025
Philosophers’ Books among those Banned from US Naval Academy Library (updated)

In January, Donald Trump issued an executive order banning various books on race, gender, and other topics from public schools for kindergarten through grade…

April 5, 2025

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“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 he 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"
“Philosophy: head and heart” — Stephen Darwall's 2024 Dewey Lecture
Is there anything to the concept of “intrinsic human dignity”? — yes, says Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, and "it names a burden as much as a distinction"
“Intuition is the cognitive means by which the conceptual structure of a situation is revealed to us” — whether that situation is a stylized thought experiment or a real world experience, says Marc A. Moffett
“Professors can’t fix the problem on their own” — Victor Kumar on what university administrators need to do address AI's threat to higher education
“The wall between jus ad bellum and jus in bello, which had sustained his theory for almost half a century, was no longer sturdy” — a profile of Michael Walzer, focusing on his thoughts about just war theory and the Israeli-Palestine conflict
We may think that we lose something significant when AI beats us to a discovery — if we do, Daniel Greco says, that seems to imply we gained something significant, too
“Once upon a time there were a couple of handsome naturalistic philosophers working in and around the philosophy of fiction” — thoughts on new directions in philosophy of fiction, from several philosophers
What is the debate over whether trans women 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

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Michel on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
Profs* (autoincorrect, ugh)
Moti Gorin on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
Out of curiosity I quickly looked at the events listed. Some of them feature speakers who, if they engaged with GC philosophy at all, are very unlikely to…
Meme on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
That’s very helpful, thanks. I notice that you say, in all of these conferences and articles and the like, that the sex-based views are “engaged with.” Does this…
Alex Byrne on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
I was surprised to see this list of books characterized as “engag[ing] with sex-based views in the boring scholarly ways of which we’re all familiar.” Taking them in…
Hey Nonny Mouse on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
I'm sure that of the philosophers whose politics I know, all are firmly on the left. When I say "conservatives", I mean people with a conservative ideology (which…
Michel on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
Yeah… I find it kind of annoying when philosophy of literature is taught like a literature class, not least because literature proofs do a better job of it.…
Ben on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
Are you sure? It may depend on what you mean by "conservative." If you mean "adherent of free market policies and a generally small state" or "person who…
Reichenbach on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
Would love to read Fine’s take on poptimism.
Ben on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
Yes, philosophers sometimes reinvent wheels from other disciplines. But I actually think philosophers tend to do a much better job engaging with work from other disciplines than academics…
A thought? on Underrepresentation of Non-Native English Speakers in Philosophy: Findings from over 100,000 Papers (guest post)
Mhh if only there was a really useful tool to help non-native speakers deal with language barriers and every instance of it wasn't uncritically treated as the spawn…
Nathan Kellen on Calls for Papers / Grants / Etc.
Society for Exact Philosophy 2027 Annual Meeting. Kansas State University (Manhattan, KS). June 26-28 2027. Submissions due February 21 2027. https://meta.phil.ufl.edu/host/sep/meeting.html. The Society for Exact Philosophy invites submissions…
Nathan Kellen on Calls for Papers / Grants / Etc.
North American Summer School for Logic, Language, and Information 2027. Kansas State University (Manhattan, KS). June 21-25 2027. Course Proposals due December 18 2026. [email protected] courses are aimed…
Will Conner on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
I want to preface this by saying it’s sometimes tough to know what counts as reinventing the wheel, and I would not endorse any general claim about wheel…
praymont on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
This happens throughout the humanities and social sciences. People in faculties of education and lit departments publish on critical thinking without a deep dive into what philosophers have…
Kate on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
just want to say that i really admire how forthright you're being about this, it's inspiring.

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