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September 26, 2023
Percentage of Women Philosophy Majors Has Risen Sharply Since 2016 — Why? Or: The 2017 Knuckle (guest post)

What explains the recent sharp increase in women philosophy majors?

September 25, 2023
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

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

September 25, 2023
The Study of Consciousness, Accusations of Pseudoscience, and Bad Publicity

Earlier this week, a letter signed by over 100 researchers, including several philosophers, was published online, calling a popular theory of consciousness, integrated information…

September 22, 2023
Philosophy at SUNY Potsdam Threatened (Again)

The president of SUNY Potsdam, Suzanne Smith, announced earlier this week a plan to eliminate 14 degree programs at the university, including philosophy, and…

September 21, 2023
Is Someone Selling Your Dissertation Without Your Permission?

A lecturer in philosophy at a UK university discovered that a company has been selling his recent dissertation as a book online through Amazon,…

September 20, 2023
ACU, Despite Citing University Finances as Reason for Cuts to Dianoia, Funds New Hires and Centers

Australian Catholic University (ACU) recently announced a plan that involves closing its Dianoia Institute of Philosophy and making 14 of its existing faculty compete…

September 20, 2023
Not-Very-Mini-Heap & The Subscription Problem

I didn’t publish any “Mini-Heap” posts over the summer for two reasons.

September 19, 2023
Areas of Specialization in Philosophy — Data from 2022-23 (guest post)

What areas of specialization (AOS) are philosophy departments hiring in?

September 18, 2023
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

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

September 18, 2023
ACU Proposes Closing Dianoia Institute (multiple updates)

[Originally published 9/13/23; moved to the top because of multiple updates.] Australian Catholic University is apparently considering eliminating its Dianoia Institute of Philosophy (DIP),…

September 16, 2023
Petition to Save Philosophy & other Humanities at ACU

As reported earlier this week, Australian Catholic University is currently planning to shutter its philosophical research center, the Dianoia Institute, and eliminate or make…

September 15, 2023
An Unusual Ad for an Unusual Philosophy Job (updated)

Are you interested in philosophy, gardens, and profit? If so—and if you don’t think Plato is a better philosopher than Aristotle—then read on for…

September 14, 2023
Writing a Good Diversity Statement for Academic Philosophy Jobs

Some hiring universities and departments ask applicants to philosophy faculty positions for diversity statements. What does a good diversity statement for an academic philosophy…

September 13, 2023
The Philosophy Garden (guest post)

A group of philosophers at the University of Birmingham have a new project: The Philosophy Garden.

September 13, 2023
Philosophical Groups and Societies

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

September 12, 2023
Philosopher’s Annual – 2022 Edition

The new Philosopher’s Annual has been compiled.

September 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…

September 11, 2023
New Data on the Employment of Philosophy PhDs (guest post)

As noted in yesterday’s post, Academic Philosophy & Data Analysis (APDA) has completed its data gathering for nearly 150 philosophy PhD programs, with a…

September 8, 2023
Immoral Moral Philosophers

In a recent post at The Splintered Mind, Eric Schwitzgebel (UC Riverside) asks whether it matters “if ethicists walk the walk.”

September 8, 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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David Wallace on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
I think if AI gets smart enough to manipulate philosophical research to its own misaligned ends, we probably have more serious alignment problems to contend with. I also…
Arewethereyet? on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
I don't have a source for *exactly* that, and literally half may be too strong, maybe not. It's genuinely up in the air. However, it's also not impossible…
David Wallace on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
“ I’m also not familiar with any evidence that markings of “AI-assistance” predict low quality in a way that is better than the other signs of paper quality…
David Wallace 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.” I don’t think you…
David Wallace on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
I don’t think you need to at all. (Modulo whatever a specific journal’s policy is, of course; certainly you should be honest.) Acknowledgement is about the credit economy…
Arewethereyet? on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
Fair point on many villages/towns. However, again, I said less densely populated. I suppose to be totally accurate I'd need to get even more specific on the kinds…
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…

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