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Kingston Plans to Close Its Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy

The administration of Kingston University has announced plans to close its Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP).

March 7, 2025
Philosophy Department Survival Strategies: Interdepartmental Cooperation on Campus

This is the third installment in the occasional series, Philosophy Department Survival Strategies. In this post, our topic is about philosophers working with members…

March 6, 2025
Trump’s Threat to Universities about “Illegal Protests”

This Daily Nous item is temporarily unavailable while its historical content completes a security review. The title and publication record are preserved; the original…

March 5, 2025
Why Philosophy? Lou Marinoff

Lou Marinoff is interviewed by Céline Leboeuf.

March 5, 2025
W. David Solomon (1944-2025)

W. David Solomon, emeritus associate professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, has died.

March 4, 2025
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March 4, 2025
The First Year of Political Philosophy (the Journal)

In the beginning of 2024, a new journal, Political Philosophy, started accepting submissions. How is it doing?

March 4, 2025
Philosophy Major Retention Data

How many college graduates end up getting their undergraduate degree in the major they declared when they initially started college?

March 3, 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…

March 3, 2025
Academic Equipment: E-Readers & Reading Apps

For the third installment of the academic equipment series (we’ve so far talked about bags and chairs) we turn to the subject of e-readers.

February 28, 2025
Interdisciplinary Study of the Virtue of Patience Launched with $4.71M Grant

“Patience enables us to take the right posture towards ourselves and others in our suffering and dependence.”

February 28, 2025
Who Serves on Which APA Committees?

The American Philosophical Association (APA) recently announced new appointees to its various committees.

February 27, 2025
Helton from Princeton to Rochester

Grace Helton, currently Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University, will be moving to the University of Rochester, where she will be Associate Professor…

February 27, 2025
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Interesting stuff elsewhere…

February 26, 2025
Stephenson from Southampton to LMU

Andrew Stephenson, currently Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Southampton, has accepted a professorship at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU).

February 26, 2025
Philosophical Canon Expansion Gets Big Boost in Minnesota

Philosophers at the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities have been awarded a $500,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation to further support the work…

February 26, 2025
Philosophers Awarded Large Grants from Italian Science Fund

The Italian Science Fund (FIS) of Italy’s Ministry of University and Research has announced the winners of its latest round of multi-million euro grants, and…

February 26, 2025
Philosophy Department Survival Strategies: Course Offerings and Majors

This is the second installment in the occasional series, Philosophy Department Survival Strategies. The topic is how the number and types of philosophy courses…

February 25, 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…

February 25, 2025
When Philosophers “Compress a Philosophical Idea into a Picture”

“Philosophical cartoons are treated as ephemera but they can make a great philosopher more compelling to their contemporaries. It takes skill to compress a…

February 24, 2025

Heap of Links

“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
“I feel unbelievably lucky that I was able to make philosophy my profession” — Karen Ng reflects on her path into philosophy, at #first-genphilosophers
The ordinary concept of knowledge “doesn’t work at all the way philosophers said it does” — a round-up of studies shows how weird the philosophers' version of the concept is
1000 or so psychiatrists were asked to diagnose standardized clinical case vignettes. “Two doctors agreed on the diagnosis only 55% of the time” — What does this tell us about psychiatry? Or about other fields in which experts disagree?
Where Aristotle taught Alexander — "this newest dig may be the most revealing yet, offering insight into the specifics of Alexander the Great’s education"
Over 4000 of the Justice Department’s lawyers have left their jobs since Trump’s second term began — The New Yorker on the moral dilemma facing some government employees: resign and avoid complicity, or stay and resist where one can?
Underappreciated philosophy published between 1970-2019 — some old posts to which you can still add works that should be better appreciated
The AI threat to independent student writing is not necessarily a threat to student learning — what's needed, says Joe Cruz, are courses "in which ideas are expressed in real time and analytical thought unfolds as a debate or an oral defense or a group discussion"—and small enough classes to make that work
Would you take a pill that allows you, with no ill health effects, to permanently forgo sleep? — Rebecca Lowe thinks you have no good reason not to, though she neglects to consider that sometimes it's the world that needs a break from you
Fifty essays in the philosophy of paleontology — by Max Dresow at the Extinct blog
“Asking whether [an AI] model ‘has a world model’ leaves much unresolved. Our findings point toward mechanistically studying its world modeling; uncovering the structures it learned [and] the world modeling capacities that recruit these” — further research on the internal representations of AIs
Sixty Years of Philosophy in America — Ernest Sosa's Dewey Lecture from the 2024 APA Eastern Division Meeting
“You’re responsible for other people’s learning of this material, so you better know it at a higher level yourself” — for 20 years, the Socrates Project at the University of Toronto has hired senior philosophy undergrads to run weekly tutorials for introductory students
“Suddenly, my problems stop being problems in the world. They become problems in my head. The problem is no longer: ‘my job is demoralizing, but I can’t leave it’… It’s: ‘I have a chemical imbalance that prevents me from enjoying life'” — Justin Garson on “the pathologizing tendency”
A political theorist and a comedian discuss the American presidency — "The Oath and the Office" is the podcast of Corey Brettschneider & John Fugelsang
An “evidence revolution” has taken place in medicine and other fields over the past 50 years — but, as Benjamin Santos Genta asks, there's still the question: "what counts as good scientific evidence?"

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Patrick Lin on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
You said: If using the heuristic means you end up filtering out and so skipping out on any article like the one I mentioned, then aren’t you effectively…
David Wallace on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
Heuristics always work that way. Unless you read literally every piece of text you come across, which no-one can, you have to have some criterion for what to…
Matt LaVine on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
This is a really good point, Meme! Philosophy in the modern west has always been about destroying people and the planet, while disguising it as progress.
Dan Hooley on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
"I would not be surprised if philosophical problems, on average, required more compute than math problems. The reason is that with a math problem you are more likely…
David Wallace on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
I wasn't even talking about cities; even premodern villages had enormous problems with sanitation. If you have even a small human population living sustainedly in a single place,…
applestooranges on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
If using the heuristic means you end up filtering out and so skipping out on any article like the one I mentioned, then aren't you effectively making sure…
David Strohmaier on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
Thank you, Dan! The number I have seen for the recent batch of math results from OpenAI is that it supposedly took only "3 hours of GPT-Pro level…
Meme on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
And we were never even CLOSE to being as cool as the Fonz before this…
David Wallace on Those OpenAI Math Results
This is a perfectly serious thing to be concerned about, but it's worth remembering that the same could have been said about Mathematica thirty years ago.
David Wallace on Those OpenAI Math Results
I assume Jessie's point is that this is a forum specifically for mathematicians interested in AI. (Of course I agree with the larger point. OpenAI's model provided a…
David Wallace on Those OpenAI Math Results
2020: It's silly to think AI could ever end civilization – it can't even do basic arithmetic! 2022: It's silly to think AI could ever end civilization -…
Arewethereyet? on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
Depends on where and what you mean, mate. If you mean places like densely populated cities such as London, definitely more polluted and unsafe. Even true of many…
Dan Hooley on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
Thanks for sharing this, David. I, too, share your excitement for solving philosophical problems. And I'm excited for all of the ways AI models might contribute to this!…
David Wallace on Those OpenAI Math Results
I'm not necessarily unsympathetic (though I might have a much more expansive view as to what is valuable in human life). But I think if you polled the…
Matt LaVine on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
https://i.makeagif.com/media/11-21-2015/axFkKa.gif David Strohmaeir? DailyNous? Academic philosophy? All of the above?

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