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Antonio Negri (1933-2023)

Antonio Negri, a well-known Italian political philosopher and Spinoza scholar, has died.

December 19, 2023
Wodak Wins 2023 Sanders Political Philosophy Prize

Daniel Wodak (Penn) is the winner of the 2023 Political Philosophy Prize from the Marc Sanders Foundation.

December 19, 2023
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December 18, 2023
Journal of Philosophy’s 2023 Levi Prize

Akshath Jitendranath, a postdoctoral fellow in Philosophy and Economics at the Paris School of Economics, is the winner of the 2023 Isaac Levi Prize.

December 18, 2023
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

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

December 18, 2023
André Kukla (1942-2023)

André Kukla, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Psychology at University of Toronto, has died.

December 16, 2023
Gift Guide Giveaway Winner

The crowd-sourced gift guide didn’t get as many entries as I said we’d need in order to proceed with the giveaway…

December 15, 2023
Conservatism in Political Philosophy

“On the surface it is deeply puzzling that conservatism has disappeared from professional philosophy.”

December 15, 2023
Mark Sagoff (1941-2023)

Influential environmental philosopher Mark Sagoff, retired Professor of Philosophy and Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy at George Mason…

December 15, 2023
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December 14, 2023
“Necessary and Sufficient” Portraits of Philosophers

“Necessary and Sufficient Conditions” is a series of portraits of philosophers that was given that name because, in the words of the artist, “the…

December 14, 2023
The Future of Philosophy Journals

“What is the future of philosophy journals?”

December 14, 2023
Session on the Journal of Political Philosophy at Upcoming APA

The upcoming Eastern Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association (APA) will include a session on the Journal of Political Philosophy, in light of the…

December 13, 2023
Last Day to Enter the Gift Guide Giveaway – extension

Today’s the last day to suggest a gift for the gift guide and get a chance to win your choice of any of the…

December 13, 2023
Lederman Wins Sanders Epistemology Prize

Harvey Lederman (UT Austin) is the winner of the 2023 Epistemology Prize from the Marc Sanders Foundation.

December 13, 2023
Piccinini from Missouri-St. Louis to University of Missouri

Gualtiero Piccinini, currently professor of philosophy at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, has accepted an offer from the University of Missouri (Columbia), where he…

December 12, 2023
New Editors for JESP Announced

The current executive editor of the Journal of Ethics & Social Philosophy (JESP) is stepping down, and the journal will be getting a new…

December 12, 2023
The Questions a Referee Should Ask of the Paper They’re Reviewing

Concerned that referees for philosophy journals too often recommend a paper be rejected merely because they can think up objections to it, Richard Yetter…

December 12, 2023
Philosophy’s Importance in “Times Like These”

The Los Angeles Review of Books has just concluded publishing a series of articles on the importance of philosophy in “times like these”.

December 12, 2023
Teachers: Was the Semester AI-pocalyptic or Was It AI-OK?

A survey conducted at the end of last year indicated that 30% of college students had used ChatGPT for schoolwork. Undoubtedly, the number has…

December 11, 2023

Heap of Links

The most bizarre plagiarism-related story ever — featuring: a death, an investigator, a dissertation, a mysterious red book, and more
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

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Rudolf Ambroz on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
"AI-Powered Philosophy" is an oxymoron, indulging in the idea that it's something of any merit rather than a horrific perversion will be the death of human intellect
Kenny Easwaran on Those OpenAI Math Results
They're definitely better than just "alien oracle" at this point! At least, I was just on a plane flight, and one thing I did was ask ChatGPT to…
Kenny Easwaran on Those OpenAI Math Results
I suspect that in the past few days, relevant experts on each problem have looked at them, and any obvious mis-formalizations of the problem statement would have been…
Kenny Easwaran on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
I suspect that just as the Perseus project was carried out by classicists to make it possible for themselves and their colleagues to find every single instance of…
Kenny Easwaran on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
I do think there's a historically important norm that professors don't let their grad students submit papers as soon as the theorem is proved, but insist that they…
Kenny Easwaran on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
The issue is that you miss things no matter what you do. Either you have a team of research assistants and AI systems canvass a vast literature for…
Kenny Easwaran on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
I suspect that if the model is what David Wallace suggests, then this will actually be a great *equalization* in philosophy. It's not hard for someone at a…
RogerDaSchrubber on Your One Piece of Philosophy Grad School Advice
Get involved in philosophy, write for undergraduate journals, peer review for the same. It's a way to develop your own philosophical ideas and knowledge base.
HotWheelReggie1991 on Your One Piece of Philosophy Grad School Advice
Hear, hear! Looking back I wish I was told this, might have saved me years of publishing in crappy journals and fumbling around with temp jobs. As soon…
Mourinho on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
Let me preface this post by saying I was, and in some ways, remain quite sceptical about AI's ability to do philosophy. I used to be sceptical about…
David Strohmaier on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
Thank you for engaging with the details of the post and I am sorry it hasn't lived up to your expectations. Please don't blame Justin as I was…
Nick on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
Here is a thought experiment: let me hypothetically suppose that this piece were written by AI, unprompted by any person. (I have my suspicions that this is the…
João da Rocha Rodrigues on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
Horrible argument. Philosophy is not formally verifiable like mathematics. The guest recognizes this and then immediatly ignores it in favor of some dubious notion of "rational equilibrium" between…
no thank you on Those OpenAI Math Results
*for certain values of "learn", given what we know about deskilling **to the extent that their outputs can be trusted when unverified, which they clearly aren't in this…
Alyssa on Simion Elected to ISC Board
Congratulations Prof Simion!

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