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December 11, 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 11, 2023
Gifts You Would Want: A Crowd-Sourced Gift Guide with a Prize (4 Updates)

Alas, I did not have time to put together a new gift guide this year, but I have an idea: suggest a gift and…

December 11, 2023
Journal of the History of Philosophy 2023 Book Prize

The Journal of the History of Philosophy (JHP) has announced the winner of its 2023 Book Prize.

December 8, 2023
International Journal of Philosophical Studies Essay Prize Winners

The International Journal of Philosophical Studies (IJPS) has announced the winners of its 2023 essay prizes.

December 8, 2023
SUNY Fredonia President Recommends Eliminating Philosophy

In a presentation yesterday, Stephen Kolison, president of the State University of New York at Fredonia, proposed the elimination of 13 programs at the…

December 7, 2023
Dyzenhaus Wins SSHRC Impact Awards Gold Medal

David Dyzenhaus, professor of law and philosophy at the University of Toronto, has been awarded a Gold Medal Impact Award from the Social Sciences…

December 6, 2023
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December 6, 2023
Philosophical Uses for LLMs: Modeling Philosophers

Now that OpenAI has made it possible for members of the (paying) public to customize its large language model (LLM), ChatGPT, with special instructions,…

December 5, 2023
Israel, Hamas, and “Blowback” (guest post)

“The proportionality constraint is backward-looking in the following sense: to determine how bad a prospective harm is for a potential innocent victim, we sometimes need…

December 5, 2023
New “Meta-Ranking” of Philosophy Journals

A new article in Synthese presents two new rankings of philosophy journals—a survey ranking and a composite of several existing rankings—and discusses their strengths and…

December 4, 2023
Mark Rollins (1947-2023)

Mark Rollins, emeritus professor of philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis, has died.

December 4, 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 4, 2023
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December 4, 2023
Externalist Explanations of Philosophy

Why did a particular philosophical view emerge or flourish at a particular time? Why did another fall into disfavor? Why are philosophers today thinking…

December 1, 2023
Philosophers Against Malaria: Fundraising Competition Across Departments

What good can philosophers do? Let’s see.

December 1, 2023
The Appropriateness of Appropriateness

A journal’s editorial team conditioned the acceptance of an article on the removal of two footnotes they said were “distracting,” its author reports. Distracting…

November 30, 2023
Lang on Academic Freedom

Gerald Lang (Leeds) has a thoughtful discussion of academic freedom, prompted by the UK government’s appointment of a “free speech tsar” (who happens to…

November 29, 2023
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November 29, 2023
Proportionality, Psychic Harm, and the Day After (guest post)

“Once we count psychic harm, it looks like Israel’s war might be proportional. But it could be proportional only if the Israelis aren’t imposing…

November 28, 2023

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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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