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Most Cited Recent Philosophy Articles, Year by Year

“What philosophy journal article, published less than ten years ago, has the most citations in philosophy journals?”

January 24, 2025
Publishers Want To Sell Companies the Right to Train AI on Your Books: Should You Consent?

Should authors consent to have their publishers grant licensing requests by firms and projects to allow them to train their generative AI on their…

January 23, 2025
Philosophy Major and Department at Risk in Sonoma State Budget Bloodbath (updated)

The philosophy major at Sonoma State University is among several degree programs slated for elimination at Sonoma State University, and the philosophy department is…

January 23, 2025
George Bealer (1944-2025)

George Bealer, emeritus professor of philosophy at Yale University, has died.

January 22, 2025
Campus Visit Horror Stories 2

It has been 9 years since we last discussed some of the “amusing or awful or cringe-worthy” experiences job candidates have had during on-campus…

January 22, 2025
A Love Letter to Philosophy

“Philosophical enquiry makes the entire planet better than it would otherwise be. It helps constitute the awesomeness of Earth. Philosophy needs no further excuse.”

January 21, 2025
Portland State Philosophy Protests “Administrative Malfeasance”

The administration of Portland State University has violated the university’s collective bargaining agreement in laying off three long-employed members of the Department of Philosophy,…

January 21, 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…

January 20, 2025
Mini-Heap

Recent additions to the Heap of Links…

January 17, 2025
Philosophers among Recent NEH Grant Awardees

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has announced its latest round of grant winners, and several philosophers are among them.

January 17, 2025
A Taxonomy of “Philosophy Moves” (updated)

There is joy, and sometimes perverse satisfaction, in the work of philosophy—a rush that can be difficult to relate to those not already bitten…

January 16, 2025
Paul Benacerraf (1930-2025)

Paul Benacerraf, professor emeritus of philosophy at Princeton University, has died.

January 16, 2025
Trying & Writing about New Teaching Methods: Does It Require IRB Approval?

A philosophy professor interested in writing an article about her experiences trying out new teaching techniques was told by her administration that in order…

January 15, 2025
Mini-Heap

Links of interest to people interested in philosophy…

January 15, 2025
Happy World Logic Day (updated)

Today is World Logic Day! May all of your arguments be valid.

January 14, 2025
A Philosophically Informed Glossary of Key Concepts in AI

“Part of explaining what an AI system is doing and knowing why it is doing it turns on knowing what (if anything) the system…

January 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…

January 13, 2025
Multiplicity and Belonging instead of Affirmative Action and DEI (guest post)

“It is time to replace the ideas behind affirmative action and DEI programs in higher education with more progressive concepts that better describe current…

January 13, 2025
Impressions of the Eastern APA & Suggestions for Future Meetings

The Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association (APA) took place last week in New York City.

January 13, 2025
Fantl from Calgary to Ohio State

Jeremy Fantl, currently professor of philosophy at the University of Calgary, will be moving to Ohio State University, where he will be the O’Donnell…

January 13, 2025

Heap of Links

“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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despondent on Humanist Gets Religious Exemption from Using AI at Work
I think this will have negative consequences. I, for example, have a religious exemption against prohibitive AI policies (e.g., research, writing, emailing, thinking, blog comments, etc.). How will…
Felix on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
I think Nick addresses Alex's concerns regarding the literature rather well, so I'll instead focus on this as some of these claims are misleading or lacking the context…
Daniel Muñoz on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
This may be reinventing the Will, but if I may add to this excellent comment: Often the mere existence of a preexisting literature in one field doesn’t really…
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…

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