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Team Philosophy (guest post)

“There are clear advantages to team science… Would this model work for philosophy?”

October 24, 2023
Open Letter on the Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza from Oxford Researchers

“We implore you to call for an immediate cessation to Israel’s morally disastrous attack on Gaza, and for Israel to allow the free passage…

October 24, 2023
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Recent additions to the Heap…

October 24, 2023
Proportionality and Responsibility in the Israel-Hamas Conflict (guest post)

What do the “moral constraints that apply to defensive force” imply in a situation as complicated as the conflict between Israel and Hamas?

October 23, 2023
LSAT Drops “Logic Games” Section

Next year’s version of the Law School Admissions Test will not include the notoriously difficult “logic games” section.

October 23, 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 23, 2023
Journal of Political Philosophy Update (guest post)

The following is an update on the Journal of Political Philosophy, whose advisory board resigned following a decision by the journal’s publisher, Wiley, to fire…

October 20, 2023
Undergraduate Philosophy “Certificates”

More and more philosophy departments are offering “certificate” programs. At the undergraduate level this typically involves taking around four courses. So a student could,…

October 19, 2023
Loneliness & Academic Life

The Philosophers’ Cocoon has had a pair of posts on loneliness in the academy recently.

October 19, 2023
Justin Donhauser (1981-2023)

Justin Donhauser, assistant teaching professor at Bowling Green State University, has died.

October 17, 2023
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October 17, 2023
Luft from Marquette to Paderborn

Sebastian Luft, recently professor of philosophy at Marquette University, is now professor of philosophy at the University of Paderborn.

October 17, 2023
Philosophy Grad Program Application Info Spreadsheet – 2023-24 Edition

An open-access spreadsheet about philosophy graduate program admissions which includes information about application deadlines, fees, requirements, funding packages, and so on, as well as…

October 16, 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 16, 2023
What Can Philosophers Contribute to Space Exploration?

A new report from NASA considers the ethical, legal, and societal implications of its Artemis project.

October 13, 2023
Philosophy as Sustaining Faith in our Cognitive Agency

“What are the practices that sustain our faith in ourselves as the agents of our thinking?”

October 12, 2023
ACU Finalizes Plan to Close Dianoia Institute of Philosophy

Australian Catholic University has finalized its “Academic Change Management Plan” and the closure of the Dianoia Institute of Philosophy, proposed in the earlier version…

October 12, 2023
Inaugural Anita Silvers Prize Awarded

Kevin Mintz, a postdoctoral scholar at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, is the winner of the first Anita Silvers Prize.

October 11, 2023
Sanders Foundation Now Supporting Philosophy’s Diversity Reading List

The Diversity Reading List (DRL) (previously), which gathers and organizes philosophical texts written by authors from groups that have typically been underrepresented in philosophy and…

October 11, 2023
Ad Hoc

This Daily Nous item is temporarily unavailable while its historical content completes a security review. The title and publication record are preserved; the original…

October 10, 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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applestooranges on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
The problem is that in the doctor cases the "triage" criteria get validated by the outcomes. Doctors can and do see who survives using their triage heuristic. So,…
applestooranges on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
I suppose part of what I'm trying to point out is that you seem to have adopted the heuristic too early and confidently. Of course we all need…
Mathieu Rees on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
I would be interested to read David Strohmaier's and others' thoughts about the safety implications of automating philosophical research with LLMs. The concern is that LLMs could sway…
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…

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