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New Interface for Academic Philosophy Data & Analysis (guest post)

Academic Philosophy & Data Analysis (APDA), an ongoing project to collect, analyze, and distribute data about job placement, student experience, and other aspects of…

September 7, 2023
Journal Articles: Quantity & Quality

“Considering my own area of philosophy of language and mind, I don’t think there is all that much difference between most of what gets…

September 6, 2023
Greatest Achiever, Philosopher Edition

Over at Marginal Revolution, Tyler Cowen (GMU) suggests that Johann Sebastian Bach may be “the greatest achiever of all time.”

September 5, 2023
Philosophical Exceptionalism & Philosophical Writing

“I like to think that academic fields often have a proprietary emotion. In the case of philosophy, the proprietary emotion is embarrassment.”

September 5, 2023
Virtual Dissertation Writing Groups

New virtual writing groups for people working on dissertations in philosophy will be forming soon.

September 4, 2023
$2.97 Million Grant for Course on Human Flourishing

Meghan Sullivan, professor of philosophy and director of the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study (NDIAS) at the University of Notre Dame, has received…

September 4, 2023
How to Tell Whether an AI Is Conscious (guest post)

“We can apply scientific rigor to the assessment of AI consciousness, in part because… we can identify fairly clear indicators associated with leading theories…

September 1, 2023
Alina Beary (1978-2023)

Alina Beary, an associate professor of philosophy in the Torrey Honors College at Biola University, died this past Wednesday after what the university described…

September 1, 2023
Philosophy Professor’s Book Is Finalist for Kirkus Prize

How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind by Clancy Martin, professor of philosophy at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and…

August 31, 2023
Goodin on Journals, Editors, and Publishers

“It is a classic collective action problem. In that Tragedy of the Commons, the role of the editor is to be The Enforcer, against…

August 31, 2023
Professors’ Lawsuit Says Idaho Anti-Abortion Law Violates Free Speech Rights

A group of professors, including two philosophy professors, along with the Idaho Federation of Teachers and the University of Idaho Faculty Federation, have filed…

August 30, 2023
Alternative Models for the Philosophy Job Market

“Why can’t I just put my CV and a few other docs on PhilPeople, set a few parameters (geography, specialty etc.) then set my…

August 29, 2023
Summer 2023 Guest Posts Review

If you took the summer off from checking in on Daily Nous, you missed a lot of writing by other philosophers.

August 29, 2023
Catherine Hundleby (1966-2023)

Catherine Hundleby, professor of philosophy at the University of Windsor, has died.

August 28, 2023
Online Philosophy Resources Summer Update

The usual weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources and new reviews of philosophy books is an occasional report this…

August 28, 2023
Al-Rodhan Transdisciplinary Philosophy Book Prize 2023 Longlist (updated with shortlist)

The Royal Institute of Philosophy earlier this month released the longlist of contenders for the inaugural Nayef Al-Rodhan International Prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy.

August 25, 2023
Guess Which Philosopher Got Booted From Twitter/X (Multiple Updates)

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

August 25, 2023
Topic Suggestions for the Coming Year

What issues, developments, topics, problems, questions, etc., do you want Daily Nous to post about?

August 24, 2023
The AI Threat, the Humanities, and Self-Cultivation

“The humanities are… a gateway to and instigator of a lifelong activity of free self-cultivation. The changes they provoke in us are not always…

August 23, 2023
Community Colleges and PhilJobs

A commenter on the job market post last month asked whether it included data from community colleges, noting, “it seems like PhilJobs doesn’t even…

August 22, 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 certainly don't have a knock-down argument that it would be impossible to jettison most of modernity while keeping the crucial health and sanitation bits (and whatever other…
HotWheelReggie1991 on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
There's a lot in here Socrates! "What is the point of doing anything at all?" To develop and exercise or capacities in the service of flourishing, individual and…
Uglybones on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
"That’s a rather bloodless way to say “half of their children didn’t live to adulthood.” This response seems unnecessarily snarky. I read the earlier comment as shorthand, not…
Mathieu Rees on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
Thanks for your thoughts David. Just a couple of quick responses. "I think if AI gets smart enough to manipulate philosophical research to its own misaligned ends, we…
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…

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