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Stilz from Princeton to Berkeley

Anna B. Stilz, professor in the Department of Politics and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University, will be moving to the…

May 8, 2024
Why Philosophy? Gabriella LaRose

Gabriella LaRose is interviewed by Céline Leboeuf.

May 7, 2024
Mind Chunks

May 7, 2024
Teaching Philosophy with Non-Linguistic Media

We have students read books and articles, write essays, answer test questions, and make presentations. These all mainly involve words. Is it worth thinking…

May 7, 2024
NYU Philosophy Graduate Students Call for Divestment

“Six months on from the brutal Hamas attacks of October 7th, more than 34,000 Palestinians have been killed… Some 1.9 million people… have been…

May 7, 2024
New: an MA Program in Philosophy & Computing

The University of Bayreuth is launching a new interdisciplinary Master’s degree (MA/MSc) in Philosophy & Computer Science.

May 6, 2024
Administration Sets Police on Peaceful Student Protestors

Milagros Peña, president of Purchase College, State University of New York, authorized campus and local police to forcibly break up what appears to be…

May 6, 2024
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May 6, 2024
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources and new reviews of philosophy books…

May 6, 2024
Dear University President, You Could Run Out the Clock

“It’s been shocking how impoverished, craven, and imprudent the leadership of the Anglophone’s wealthiest and flagship universities have been this past year.”

May 2, 2024
Newton da Costa (1929-2024)

Newton da Costa, well-known for his work in logic, died last month.

May 2, 2024
Mini-Heap

New additions to the Heap of Links…

May 1, 2024
Arruzza from New School to Boston University

Cinzia Arruzza, currently associate professor of philosophy at The New School, will be moving to Boston University‘s Department of Philosophy, where she will be…

May 1, 2024
“Why Philosophy?” Aman Sakhardande

Aman Sakhardande is interviewed by Céline Leboeuf.

April 30, 2024
Gardiner from Tennessee to Tulane

Georgi Gardiner, currently associate professor of philosophy at the University of Tennessee, is moving to Tulane University, where she will be associate professor of…

April 30, 2024
Plato’s Last Night

Further deciphering of the carbonized Herculaneum papyri, which recently produced information about Plato’s burial place (publicized last week), also detailed the philosopher’s final hours,…

April 30, 2024
Columbia Philosophy Grad Students Condemn Campus Arrests

“We call for the reversal of student suspensions and for departments to refuse to comply with university investigations or sanctions of students and employees…

April 29, 2024
University of California Faculty Statement on Protests

“We believe that the ability to protest nonviolently is essential to our democracy and a basic human right that must be respected and protected.”

April 29, 2024
Addicted to Philosophy

“I was trapped in the feeling that philosophy was all important and that anything and everything—including my well being—can be sacrificed for it. This is…

April 29, 2024
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources and new reviews of philosophy books…

April 29, 2024

Heap of Links

Dreams can come true it can happen to you — if someone forgets to renew a software license
Explanations are “mental acts, not just facts” — Chaz Firestone looks at Tania Lombrozo's new book on explanation
“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 Kant 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

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Michel on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
Hear hear!
Meme on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
Do you still think negative existentials are contingently zero-grounded? I love that paper.
Citation man on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
Another thing that might be worth distinguishing here is intentional and unintentional non-engagement / under-citation? Isn't it possible that some people publishing on meta-linguistic negotiation (indeed, myriad other…
Jack on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
I think giving talks also play a role in this process, at least in philosophy. In the cases I'm familiar with, where people were omitting relevant literature in…
Moti Gorin on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
“if you look at philosophy of gender and sex from the perspective of ordinary scholars who don’t also engage in extra scholarly political activism of the sort that…
Nicholas Denyer on Underrepresentation of Non-Native English Speakers in Philosophy: Findings from over 100,000 Papers (guest post)
My college is located in a majority ES country. I can think offhand of 20 fellows of the college in philosophy. Of those 20, 8 do not have…
Keith Douglas on Humanist Gets Religious Exemption from Using AI at Work
Depending on the tools, one may in fact be forced to use it by the actions generally in the environment. For example, the Copilot parts of M365 will…
Neri on Underrepresentation of Non-Native English Speakers in Philosophy: Findings from over 100,000 Papers (guest post)
Yes, it's in the top journals category, but not in the "big 4" one.
Holothurian on Underrepresentation of Non-Native English Speakers in Philosophy: Findings from over 100,000 Papers (guest post)
I had no idea opposition to AI-abuse was endemic to "all-white, English-speaking philosophers."
Just Saying on Underrepresentation of Non-Native English Speakers in Philosophy: Findings from over 100,000 Papers (guest post)
Here is a quote from you: "We defined top journals in two ways: broadly, as the thirty or so journals ranked in the Leiter Reports polls, and narrowly,…
Neri on Underrepresentation of Non-Native English Speakers in Philosophy: Findings from over 100,000 Papers (guest post)
Thanks for the comments. Just to clarify a methodological point: we validated the proxies by manually coding a stratified sample (natives & non-natives, from different years). For both…
Neri on Underrepresentation of Non-Native English Speakers in Philosophy: Findings from over 100,000 Papers (guest post)
Thanks for the comment, but PPR is in fact included among the "top journals" in our calculations. Re the metaranking you linked: while it's good effort, we decided…
Just Saying on Underrepresentation of Non-Native English Speakers in Philosophy: Findings from over 100,000 Papers (guest post)
Excellent work. But in need of updating re "top journals." What were top journals way back when that earlier study was done (well over a decade ago) have…
Noah Gordon on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
If the research done for the recent Fine & Rosen report is accurate, some 70-80% of published philosophy papers go uncited. There's inevitably going to be a lot…
Meme on Humanist Gets Religious Exemption from Using AI at Work
I can’t tell if THIS is supposed to be satire!

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