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The Financial Squeeze on Higher Ed

The Trump administration’s plan to place severe limitations on what universities receive in indirect costs from grants from the National Institute of Health (though…

February 24, 2025
John Sallis (1938-2025)

John Sallis, recently retired professor of philosophy at Boston College and very well-known for his work in phenomenology, has died.

February 24, 2025
Austin Wins New Public History of Philosophy Prize

The Journal of the History of Philosophy has established a new, biannual prize for a book that brings the history of philosophy to a broader public…

February 24, 2025
David Keyt (1930-2025)

David Keyt, professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Washington, Seattle, died last month.

February 24, 2025
Tom Beauchamp III (1939-2025)

Tom L. Beauchamp III, professor emeritus of philosophy at Georgetown University and one of the most influential philosophers of bioethics, has died.

February 22, 2025
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February 21, 2025
Why Do Journal Articles Linger in “Online First”?

Some philosophy journals have a lot of articles in “online first” status. They’ve been accepted, copyedited, and typeset, but not yet assigned an issue.…

February 21, 2025
Philosophy Department Survival Strategies: Local Student Recruitment

Some readers have noticed the alarming frequency with which posts in the category of “Cuts and Threats to Philosophy Programs” appear here. Given the…

February 20, 2025
Museum Exhibit on Margaret Cavendish Opens

Margaret Cavendish: Trailblazer is a new exhibition at Hollytrees Museum in Colchester, UK exploring the fascinating life and writings of the 17th century philosopher, scientist, and…

February 20, 2025
Mind Chunks

February 19, 2025
Franklin & Seifert Win 2024 Popper Prize

Alexander Franklin (KCL) and Vanessa Seifert (Bristol) are the winners of the 2024 Popper Prize.

February 19, 2025
Baghramian to Create Center for Ethics in Public Affairs in Armenia

Maria Baghramian, currently professor of philosophy at University College Dublin, will be moving to the American University of Armenia for a five year period…

February 19, 2025
Jeffrey J. Jordan (1959-2025)

Jeffrey J. Jordan, professor of philosophy at the University of Delaware, has died.

February 18, 2025
Philosophy Fortnight: A Celebration of British Philosophy

The British Philosophy Fortnight is a celebration of “all that is positive in the world of UK philosophy—education and learning, research and policy impact,…

February 18, 2025
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Links of interest to people interested in philosophy…

February 18, 2025
Summer Work for Professors Not Teaching Then

A professor writes in hoping for some suggestions regarding summer employment.

February 17, 2025
Holmes Rolston III (1932-2025)

Holmes Rolston III, Emeritus Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at Colorado State University, has died.

February 17, 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 17, 2025
New(ish): Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science

The Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (OECS) is a free, online collection of multidisciplinary peer-reviewed articles on various topics in cognitive science.

February 13, 2025
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February 12, 2025

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“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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David Wallace on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
I've also seen it said (though I haven't confirmed) that OpenAI tried around 8,000 problems to get their 722 results. If so, that increases the cost by a…
David Wallace on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
And we would have gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for you meddling blog commentators.
David Wallace on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
If you like, we could return to academic freedom, sex and gender, treatment of conservatives in academia, or the Gaza war. Personally, I'm finding the change of pace…
David Wallace on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
In brief, since we're reaching diminishing returns here: 1) You're still relying on the existence of a clean separation of a paper's argument from its writing, which I…
Meme on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
Well, I just meant that philosophers are nerds, but tomayto/tomahto.
Matt Brown on Your One Piece of Philosophy Grad School Advice
Beware of cults of personality. It could be a faculty member in your program, or it could be a figure in your field you meet at a conference.…
Hey Nonny Mouse on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
I don't think that we provide those answers now. I doubt machines will be more successful on that front.
Beau Madison Mount on Those OpenAI Math Results
Well, it provided a proof of something important and hitherto thought to be out of reach that's related to the Riemann hypothesis in an obvious way. I'm not…
Ben M-Y on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
While I feel deep attachment to the traditional way of doing philosophy, an exclusive commitment to it is easy to preserve as long as the process in question…
Meme on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
“It seems at the least a sort of precautionary approach to the tech is warranted rather than casual uncritical embrace of it.” If the implication is that David…
Dan Hooley on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
If spending lots of money on compute actually makes progress in solving philosophical problems, I can imagine that philanthropists would want to fund research, especially in a world…
Beau Madison Mount on Those OpenAI Math Results
I don't have a good answer about the transition point. For what it's worth, I should have said 'the aesthetic' rather than art, and I intend both aesthetic…
Arewethereyet? on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
"To your first response: I don’t agree that this is a viable way to generate a document whose entire structure and content you own and understand. It gets…
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…

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