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Philosophy Professor vs. University on Accommodations

A philosophy professor at Queen’s University in Canada has been booted from the logic course she was teaching owing to a dispute between her…

November 28, 2023
Offering Free and Low-Cost Philosophy Programs to the Public

Wisdom’s Edge Foundation is a non-profit organization that “brings philosophy to the edges of society.”

November 27, 2023
The Rise of English as the Global Lingua Franca of Academic Philosophy (guest post)

“We think it is more or less inevitable at this point that English will be the global lingua franca of academic philosophy for the…

November 27, 2023
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November 27, 2023
Flipping the Conference

An upcoming philosophy conference is organized around those interesting and fruitful conversations that take place between the official talks.

November 27, 2023
Happy Thanksgiving!

Dear Philosofriends,

November 23, 2023
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November 22, 2023
Mind Chunks

November 21, 2023
Condemnations, Moral Guidance, and Gaza (guest post)

“The absence of moral guidance by philosophical condemners conveys that they do not think of Israelis as friends whom they want to morally improve.…

November 21, 2023
Goldstein from Dianoia/ACU to Hong Kong

Simon Goldstein, currently associate professor at the soon-to-be-eliminated Dianoia Institute of Philosophy at Australian Catholic University, will be moving to the University of Hong…

November 21, 2023
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November 21, 2023
Philosophy Summer Programs for Graduate Students/PhDs – 2024

Please use the comments section on this post to share information about Summer 2024 Programs in Philosophy for graduate students and/or PhDs in philosophy.

November 20, 2023
Philosophy Summer Programs for Undergraduates – 2024

Please use the comments section on this post to share information about Summer 2024 Programs in Philosophy for college undergraduates.

November 20, 2023
Philosophy Summer Programs for High School Students – 2024

Please use the comments section on this post to share information about Summer 2024 Programs in Philosophy for high school students.

November 20, 2023
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

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

November 20, 2023
First Issue of Philosophy of Physics Published

The inaugural issue of the journal Philosophy of Physics (PoP) has been published.

November 17, 2023
Russell from Dianoia/ACU to ANU

Gillian Russell, currently professor of philosophy at the Dianoia Institute of Philosophy at Australian Catholic University, will become professor of philosophy at Australian National…

November 17, 2023
John Lachs (1934-2023)

John Lachs, professor emeritus of philosophy at Vanderbilt University, has died.

November 17, 2023
In Which Areas of Philosophy Should We Expect Faster Progress?

On what we can call the answers model of philosophy, the primary aim of philosophy is to learn philosophical truths, and a primary form of…

November 17, 2023
Green from MIT to JHU

E.J. Green has accepted an offer from Johns Hopkins University (JHU) as a tenured associate professor of philosophy.

November 17, 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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