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July 16, 2024
Academic Equipment: The Chair

When you sit down to do your work, on what do you sit?

July 15, 2024
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July 12, 2024
NYU Receives $6 Million for Mind, Ethics, & Policy Center

New York University has received $6 million in donations for an endowment to support the creation of the Center for Mind, Ethics, and Policy…

July 11, 2024
New AI Venture Focuses on Mathematical Reasoning

Of possible interest to philosophers working in logic and philosophy of math, as well as anyone curious about the reasoning abilities of artificial intelligence…

July 11, 2024
Where Should Moral Philosophy Begin? (guest post) (updated)

“In thinking about trolley problems, to what extent have you put yourself in the shoes of the person at the switch… and to what…

July 10, 2024
Lillehammer from Birkbeck to Sheffield

Hallvard Lillehammer, currently Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London, will be moving to the University of Sheffield, where he will be Professor…

July 10, 2024
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July 9, 2024
Supporting Higher Education in Gaza (guest post)

“No matter what else one thinks of this conflict, our hearts should break over the loss of educational opportunities for over a million people…

July 8, 2024
Latest Surprise Firing at Australian Catholic University

In the latest of a series of actions that appear to be an attempt prove itself an employer of last resort, Australian Catholic University…

July 4, 2024
Kathleen Okruhlik (1951-2024)

Kathleen Okruhlik, a philosopher at Western University, died last month.

July 3, 2024
Official & Unofficial Action

The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v. United States, issued yesterday, concerns the extent to which the president is immune from criminal prosecution.

July 2, 2024
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July 2, 2024
Online Philosophy Resources (Monthly) Update

The usual weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources and new reviews of philosophy books is a monthly report this…

July 1, 2024
Royal Institute of Philosophy Essay Prizes Awarded

The Royal Institute of Philosophy has announced the winners of essay prizes for its publications Philosophy and Think.

June 28, 2024
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June 28, 2024
Journal of the APA to Go Open Access

In less than two weeks, the Journal of the American Philosophical Association (JAPA) will transition into an open access journal.

June 27, 2024
Moral Progress & Moral Philosophers

A post by Eric Schliesser (Amsterdam) at Digressions & Impressions, responding to an essay by Daniel Kelly and Evan Westra (Purdue) at Aeon that…

June 27, 2024
Dorsey from Kansas to Oxford

Dale Dorsey, currently professor and chair of philosophy at the University of Kansas, will be moving to the University of Oxford, where he will…

June 26, 2024
Two Philosophers Bring Expert-Based AI to Your Reading Experience

John Kaag (University of Massachusetts, Lowell) and Clancy Martin (University of Missouri, Kansas City) have teamed up with businessman and philosophy enthusiast John Dubuque…

June 26, 2024

Heap of Links

New data on earnings by major and university — though not all universities
“AI poses two different existential threats to [our] valuing practices” — Jordan MacKenzie offers an account of why negative judgments about AI taking over our creative and caring activities are justified
“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”

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“ you got into CS because YOU wanted to solve the problems yourself. You didn’t just want the problems to be solved. That’s why anyone goes into almost…
David Wallace on Those OpenAI Math Results
The math proofs aren’t reassuring, though.
David Wallace on Those OpenAI Math Results
I’m not saying anything that hasn’t been said a hundred times by people (including me) just in the last few weeks, but: it would be highly dangerous to…
David Wallace on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
But astrophysics and particle physics are capital-intensive disciplines, and generate no profit for capital.
Nick on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
If we are able to uncover and understand one more philosophical truth due to this change, I am willing to pay the price. You will not be the…
Netanel on Your One Piece of Philosophy Grad School Advice
I third this. I use a similar method, but I number folders and I give them informative titles (e.g. after feedback from X), and inside each folder there's…
Sam on Those OpenAI Math Results
Yes doing mathematics leads to the end of civilisation, this why we hunt down rogue mathematicians and kill them. Why don't you explain how your sequence will end…
David Strohmaier on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
I hate that feeling too. But I don't think it is an argument against using and scaling AI in general. In fact, this seems to me to speak…
Michel-Antoine Xhignesse on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
…does he even have conclusions? (I jest, of course.)
Jessie Ewesmont on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
Well said!
David Wallace on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
Sorry! Yes, I read it ironically; I should have caught the more specific point. I suppose it’s because pretty much every *comment thread* on AI has had people…
Runa on Those OpenAI Math Results
Notable scientists and futurists who argue that there's a chance and that it is worth preparing against do not base their arguments on the fact that it has…
Animal Symbolicum on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
(And sorry for the typos. I assume you can make the requisite sense of what I am saying.)
David Wallace on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
Last time I looked, Hegel’s conclusions weren’t formally checkable as valid in Lean.
Animal Symbolicum on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
I'm always happy to read your comments, Ben M-Y. They're uniformly interesting and sincere and thoughtful. (Above, something in my diction or tone or style or punctuation persuaded…

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