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New Guide to Terminal MA Programs in Philosophy

What kind of advice can you offer students trying to figure out which terminal MA program in philosophy to apply to or attend?

October 10, 2023
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October 10, 2023
Starting a PPE Program on a Shoestring: Why & How (guest post)

“I logged into our learning management program to see what my advising load looked like this year, and was sure that the software had…

October 9, 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 9, 2023
Philosophy Cut at Warren Wilson College

Warren Wilson College in North Carolina tells visitors to its website, “We believe the world needs curiosity” and says that its mission is for…

October 6, 2023
Philosophers Awarded ERC Starting Grants

The European Research Council (ERC) has announced the winners of its substantial Starting Grants, including several philosophers.

October 6, 2023
Philosophy as Art

“I view the philosophical essay as an art form whose medium is ideas.”

October 5, 2023
BPPA Starts New Membership Program

The British Postgraduate Philosophy Association (BPPA), the main Philosophy association for postgraduate students (graduate students) in the UK, has been around since 1997, but…

October 5, 2023
New Resource: Database of Philosophical Research on Policing (guest post)

Ben Jones (Penn State) and some of his colleagues have launched a Policing, Policy, and Philosophy Initiative.

October 4, 2023
Philosophies of the City

The inaugural issue of the Philosophy of the City Journal was published recently.

October 4, 2023
Does Studying Philosophy Develop Special Skills That Improve One’s Intuitions?

A new study suggests the answer to that question is “no.” Rather, according to the study’s authors, what explains why the intuitions about particular…

October 3, 2023
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October 3, 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 2, 2023
What’s the Point of Philosophy (as an academic discipline)?

I’m curious about what academic philosophers take to be the point of academic philosophy. Just a little question, that’s all.

September 29, 2023
New: Feminist Philosophy Archive Directory

A new online directory has been created “to make the archives of feminist philosophers, journals, and organizations easy to find.”

September 28, 2023
How Do You Teach About Free Speech and Academic Freedom?

If I wanted to plan a newsworthy cancellation, I’d invite Robert George to a small liberal arts college to talk about the value of…

September 27, 2023
Defending Ethics as a Required Part of the Curriculum

A philosophy department that teaches courses that satisfy a university-wide ethics requirement now finds itself in the position of having to defend that requirement.

September 27, 2023
Mind Chunks

September 26, 2023
Letting Different Kinds of Philosophy Be Their Own Thing

Last week, Harvey Lederman (UT Austin) delivered some remarks at Academia Sinica on what he referred to as “the path forward for Chinese philosophy.”

September 26, 2023
Paul Woodruff (1943-2023)

Paul Woodruff, professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Texas, Austin, has died.

September 26, 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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Arewethereyet? on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
"It’s not hard for someone at a small underfunded university in a rural part of the United States or Europe, or even academics in many middle-income countries, to…
Arewethereyet? on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
"1) You’re still relying on the existence of a clean separation of a paper’s argument from its writing," Right, and you are relying on the truth of the…
Arewethereyet? on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
I'll accept I should have been more generous to David on that one point. However, he does seem to be much less cautious in his embrace of AI…
Post-Doc on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
Archaeology is not a capital-intensive discipline by the standards of CS or BioMed, but it is a capital-instensive discipline in comparison to philosophy and most humanities. I think…
Post-Doc on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
I think post-WW2 funding for fundamental physics was at least in part an institutional continuation of the Manhattan project. Of course, genealogy =/= synchronic reasons. But I wouldn't…
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…

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