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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
Mini-Heap

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
Mini-Heap

New links…

February 12, 2025
Part of the Analytic Tradition, But Maybe Not Philosophers

“Are there people who are unambiguously part of the analytic movement, but [about whom] it is an interesting question whether they are an analytic…

February 12, 2025
Competent Referees for Controversial Ideas

“I think Jeff McMahan is in for the surprise of his life when the submissions to his new journal start coming in.”

February 11, 2025
Free & Equal Launches Essay Prize

The editors of Free & Equal: A Journal of Ethics and Public Affairs, the open-access journal created last year by the former editorial team of…

February 11, 2025
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Latest links…

February 11, 2025
Bill Introduced in Kansas Legislature Would Effectively End Tenure (updated)

A bill introduced into the Kansas State House of Representatives last week would, if made law, make it impossible for state institutions of higher…

February 10, 2025
While Tables Burn: On the (Non) Existence of Trans People and the Failure of Philosophy (guest post)

“There are indeed consequences when we punch down or pretend that what is, in fact, a hostile attack, is merely ‘inquiry for inquiry’s sake.’…

February 10, 2025
$3 Million Global Philosophy of Religion Project

The “Global Philosophy of Religion Project: Fundamental Spiritual Reality, Human Purpose, and Living Well”, based at the Birmingham Centre for the Philosophy of Religion at…

February 10, 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 10, 2025
Flipping the Conference: How Did It Go?

In a previous post, I shared the plans for a conference structured in a somewhat unusual way, the “Coffee Break Conference of Aesthetics.” The…

February 7, 2025
The Future of the Department of Education

Elon Musk—a businessman apparently being allowed by President Trump to tread upon whatever and whomever he pleases in his capacity as head budget-slasher-of-questionable-Constitutionality of…

February 6, 2025
Marmodoro from Durham to Saint Louis University

Anna Marmadoro, previously Professor of Philosophy and Chair of Metaphysics at Durham University, recently moved to Saint Louis University, where she is the Leonard…

February 6, 2025
Krister Segerberg (1936-2025)

Krister Segerberg, professor emeritus of philosophy at Uppsala University, has died.

February 6, 2025
Professors, How Are You Using AI in Your Day to Day Work?

More outside of academia than within it, one hears things like “in a few years saying ‘I don’t use AI’ will sound as weird…

February 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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Brad on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
Incidentally, the sociologist of science Robert K. Merton takes up related issues discussed in the comments in his various papers on priority disputes. Merton argues that multiple discoveries…
Michel on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
Profs* (autoincorrect, ugh)
Nick Laskowski on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
I was surprised to see that you were surprised by my characterization. Recall that I was addressing, especially, Rosen and Fine's claim that "heterodox" work in philosophy of…
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…

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