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Philosophers Awarded ARC Grants

The Australian Research Council (ARC) has announced the recipients of its Discovery Projects grants, which includes several philosophers.

November 6, 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 6, 2023
The Demand for “AI & Philosophy” Hires & Expertise — and Its Precedents

Over 20 jobs have been advertised this season at PhilJobs: Jobs for Philosophers that list among the desired areas of specialization or competence philosophy…

November 3, 2023
Mini-Heap

Recent additions to the Heap of Links…

November 3, 2023
House May Vote To Eliminate All NEH and NEA Funding

Representative Scott Perry, a Republican from Pennsylvania, has proposed two amendments to the House Interior Appropriations bill (H.R. 4821) that would eliminate all funding…

November 2, 2023
Philosophy Is Not In Charge of Itself (and other points worth remembering when writing about the state of philosophy)

Are you thinking about writing about the state of philosophy today?

November 2, 2023
Zombie Plagiarism in Philosophy

Some philosophy articles might be exposed as containing plagiarized material, might have editorial notes appended to them indicating as much, or might even be…

November 1, 2023
Srinivasan Wins Inaugural Nayef Al-Rodhan Transdisciplinary Philosophy Prize

Amia Srinivasan, the Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at All Souls College, University of Oxford, has been named the winner of the…

November 1, 2023
Toronto Raising Funds for Waheed Hussain Memorial Award

The University of Toronto is raising funds to establish an award in memory of philosopher Waheed Hussain, who died from cancer in 2021 at…

October 31, 2023
NEH Creates New Funding for Ethics & AI Research

The Biden administration yesterday called for legislation about and regulation of artificial intelligence (AI), the development and implementation of which will involve expertise in…

October 31, 2023
How Not To Intervene In Public Discourse (guest post) (several updates)

“I think that philosophers (and other intellectuals and academics) can sometimes offer valuable contributions to public discourse. Still, I think this letter is a…

October 30, 2023
Newman University to Cut Philosophy Major

Newman University, a Catholic university in Wichita, Kansas, has announced that it is discontinuing its philosophy major, along with majors in several other disciplines.

October 30, 2023
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

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

October 30, 2023
The Scariest Philosophers in the Haunted Halls of Philosophy

Halloween approaches…

October 27, 2023
Mini-Heap

Recent links…

October 27, 2023
Philosophy, Science, and Religion

“What began to feel frustrating instead was a growing sense of the marginal place of philosophy more generally in UK culture… it is arguable…

October 26, 2023
Sensitivity Reading Services for Philosophers and Others

Lex Academic, the editing firm founded by philosophers Louise Chapman and Constantine Sandis, includes “sensitivity reading” among the variety of services it provides.

October 26, 2023
SUNY Potsdam Cuts: Further Details / Update: What You Can Do to Help (updated)

Last month we saw that the Philosophy program at SUNY Potsdam is once again under threat. In the meanwhile, an unofficial philosophy site has…

October 26, 2023
Israel, Hamas, and the Narratives of Atrocity (guest post)

“The need to stop the narratives that rationalize what is indefensible is clear. How to stop such narratives is not.”

October 25, 2023
Mind Chunks

October 24, 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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Epicureanpairofsox on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
If, as you say, the same general idea or argument is recognizable across different "contexts", and I think you'd then also have to agree across different "wordings", then…
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…

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