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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This Daily Nous item is temporarily unavailable while its historical content completes a security review.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
That’s Not How Layoffs/Redundancies Work, Sussex

The University of Sussex is reportedly attempting to lay off a philosophy lecturer while at the same time advertising a new position to teach…

August 21, 2023
Resources for Teaching in the Age of ChatGPT & other LLMs

How do large language models (LLMs) affect how we understand our job as teachers, and how does it affect what we should do in…

August 21, 2023
Academic Freedom & Violence: The Kershnar Case Continues

Lawyers for Steven Kershnar argued, in a hearing earlier this month, that the philosophy professor should be allowed back on the SUNY Fredonia campus,…

August 21, 2023
Back to School Supplies — for Professors and Graduate Students

Are you ready for the beginning of the semester? Of course not.

August 18, 2023
Best Fiction You Read This Summer

Maybe I can squeeze in time for one more novel.

August 18, 2023
Douglas Portmore’s Six Commandments for Getting the Most Out of Graduate School

[Originally posted on September 28, 2020.] How can you get the most out of graduate school? Douglas Portmore, professor of philosophy at Arizona State University, has…

August 17, 2023
Enoch Wins $1 Million Grant for Work on Liberalism

David Enoch, professor of philosophy and law at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is the recipient of a roughly $1 million grant for a project…

August 17, 2023
Philosophy Colloquia: How Much Does Your Department Pay Speakers?

A philosophy professor in charge of his department’s colloquium series has asked what the norms are regarding honoraria.

August 16, 2023
Philosophy & Public Affairs to Publish New Article Types

Philosophy & Public Affairs (PP&A) will be welcoming submissions in a range of forms besides the traditional academic article that has dominated its pages…

August 16, 2023
NEH Grants Recently Awarded to Philosophers

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) recently announced its latest grant awards. Recipients include several philosophy faculty.

August 16, 2023
Faculty Sue University for Wrongful Termination & Retaliation

Philosophy professor Charles Emmer and 10 other employees have filed a federal lawsuit against Emporia State University, who terminated their employment last September.

August 15, 2023
New to Daily Nous: Dustin Sigsbee

You’ll occasionally be seeing a new byline at Daily Nous: Dustin Sigsbee.

August 15, 2023

Heap of Links

Dreams can come true it can happen to you — if someone forgets to renew a software license
Explanations are “mental acts, not just facts” — Chaz Firestone looks at Tania Lombrozo's new book on explanation
“What shape is this paradox?” sounds like a category mistake — but mathematicians have an explanation for why the Condorect Paradox is in the shape of a Klein bottle
“The tragedy is that many people today are deprived of both good company and good solitude. They do not feel truly met by others, and they do not feel at home in themselves” — Amir Zadnemat on loneliness (via The Browser)
Is metaphysics about looking for some kind of fundamental level? Does reality come in levels? If so, do they stand in relations of fundamentality? Might it be levels all the way down? Why down? — Kit Fine and Timothy Williamson debate metaphysics
“Real relationships with people are what’s good for us. And if we don’t get that, even if we don’t know we don’t get it, it’s still bad for us.” — Valerie Tiberius is interviewed on Minnesota Public Radio about the limits of AI "friendship"
Kant thought the indigenous people of the Americas were a race “too weak for hard work, too indolent for assiduous labor and unsuited to any cultivation” — but, as Arnaud Pelletier notes, that not what his source said. So why did Kant say it?
“Proportional to student body size,” the number of students majoring in philosophy at Harvard is “about 10 times the national average” — why is philosophy doing so well there?
A philosophy prof’s mission statement: “reproducing the foundations of Western civilization, one lecture at a time” — one challenge, says Joseph Heath, is that "the two sets of governing principles in our society—liberalism… and capitalism—are second-best arrangements"
“Philosophy: head and heart” — Stephen Darwall's 2024 Dewey Lecture
Is there anything to the concept of “intrinsic human dignity”? — yes, says Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, and "it names a burden as much as a distinction"
“Intuition is the cognitive means by which the conceptual structure of a situation is revealed to us” — whether that situation is a stylized thought experiment or a real world experience, says Marc A. Moffett
“Professors can’t fix the problem on their own” — Victor Kumar on what university administrators need to do address AI's threat to higher education
“The wall between jus ad bellum and jus in bello, which had sustained his theory for almost half a century, was no longer sturdy” — a profile of Michael Walzer, focusing on his thoughts about just war theory and the Israeli-Palestine conflict
We may think that we lose something significant when AI beats us to a discovery — if we do, Daniel Greco says, that seems to imply we gained something significant, too
“Once upon a time there were a couple of handsome naturalistic philosophers working in and around the philosophy of fiction” — thoughts on new directions in philosophy of fiction, from several philosophers
What is the debate over whether trans women are women even about? — Katie Zhou argues that it's about which facts are granted "the cross-contextual significance and stickiness characteristic of gender"
We’re putting human brain cells into mice brains — One moral risk of this, says Mackenzie Graham, is a decrease in our ability to interpret what mice behavior tells us about their experiences and welfare
The Rawls Game — with instructions, background, advice, and downloadable character cards
“The central question would shift from ‘How do we maximize shareholder value?’ to ‘How do different forms of organization distribute power, risk and reward — and which should we strengthen?'” — Chris Marquis on the case for abolishing, or at least radically changing, business schools

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Jessie Ewesmont on Humanist Gets Religious Exemption from Using AI at Work
Are you despondent but serious?
Kenny Easwaran on Underrepresentation of Non-Native English Speakers in Philosophy: Findings from over 100,000 Papers (guest post)
I worry that even though these proxies are 90% accurate, those 10% may well be strongly correlated with confounding factors (that also confound a lot of the research…
Kenny Easwaran on “A Failure of Expectation Calibration”
This is a case where both based on the subject matter, and based on the fact that the authors mostly seem to have Chinese names and be based…
Kenny Easwaran on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
It's definitely valuable for a few people to work on a new idea in ignorance of other related ideas. But for an entire literature to develop and remain…
ikj on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
and i *don’t* mean derrida, whom i think isn’t widely taught in lit classes (and hasn’t been for the past 1.5 decades!)
ikj on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
it’s also the case that many lit profs approach their material with philosophical lenses, though contemporary analytic philosophy of literature may not be widely referenced.
Moti Gorin on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
I provided a link to the HHS review above and I suggested that those interested should first direct their attention to the most critical responses, as well as…
Even intraphilosophy on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
Even today when the literature review is probably the easiest it has ever been, one can see in prominent philosophy journals papers which say nothing more than a…
P D Van Pelt on Humanist Gets Religious Exemption from Using AI at Work
Seems like a bad move, to me.
doris on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
In the martial arts, it's said, "the advanced technique in one style is a beginning tecnique in another." Seems like a lot of interdisciplinary work, mine included, exploits…
Rando on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
If I submit a paper in which I am perceived to be reinventing the wheel *in the philosophy literature*, the paper will receive a quick, ruthless rejection. I…
Connie Price on Alphonso Lingis (1933-2025)
I learned only today of his passing. I never forgot him, one of the Penn State Philosophy giants who knew and taught and lived and wrote the freedom.…
Felix on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
This mischaracterization on your part speaks to a comment I made above about how I found it unlikely that some of the people who spoke at some of…
Michel on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
Hear hear!
Meme on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
Do you still think negative existentials are contingently zero-grounded? I love that paper.

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