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Philosophy Survives West Virginia University Budget Cuts

Gordon Gee, president of West Virginia University, has proposed cutting 9 percent of the majors the university offers and 7 percent of its fulltime…

August 14, 2023
What Philosophy Resources, Services, & Tools Should a University Library Have?

What library resources do you find most useful for teaching and doing research in philosophy?

August 14, 2023
Journal to Begin Featuring Short Philosophical Essays

Res Philosophica, a quarterly academic philosophy journal which normally accepts submissions up to 12,000 words long, has started a new feature that aims to…

August 10, 2023
Philosophy Workshop Introduces New Kind of Prize (guest post)

One of the small number of speaker spots at the Northeast Normativity Workshop (NEN) is reserved for the winner of a prize that’s structured…

August 9, 2023
The Social Turn in Analytic Philosophy: Promises and Perils (guest post)

“The linguistic turn is over. We partied hard, got hungover, and now we’re trying to live as respectable adults… Today, a new revolution is brewing.…

August 8, 2023
Publishers to Authors: Find Your Own Endorsements?

For a Halloween party back when I was in graduate school, a friend of mine dressed up as his imagined first book.

August 7, 2023
Jennifer McMahon (1956-2023) (updated)

Jennifer McMahon, professor emerita of philosophy at the University of Adelaide, died this past June.

August 7, 2023
A Philosopher’s Role in the Texas A&M Debacle (updated)

Texas A&M University will be paying Kathleen McElroy $1 million as part of legal settlement over the university’s botched efforts at trying to hire…

August 4, 2023
Policing Is Not Pedagogy: On the Supposed Threat of ChatGPT (guest post)

“ChatGPT has just woken many of us up to the fact that we need to be better teachers, not better cops.”

August 3, 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 3, 2023
What We Assume Undergraduates Know

As teachers, we have certain basic expectations of our students, and from our own perspectives, some of these expectations may be so basic that…

August 2, 2023
Desperate Honesty (guest post)

“I abandoned classics for philosophy in large part because that was where the refuters were. Now people can’t stop telling me I am wrong.”

August 1, 2023
Free Online Philosophy Teaching Workshop

Cogtweeto and the American Association of Philosophy Teachers (AAPT) and are putting on a free, two-day workshop on the teaching of philosophy.

August 1, 2023
The Best Worst Feedback You’ve Received from a Teacher

As we saw in the discussion of last week’s post about Harry Frankfurt’s recollections of Max Black, some of you recall hard-ass professors you…

July 31, 2023
Personal, Practical, Public Philosophy

“Starting around 2010, however, there was a striking change, surprising to someone trained in the 1980s. Some philosophy professors began to write a lot…

July 31, 2023
An Accessible and User-Friendly Argument Mapping App (guest post)

[archived image unavailable]“Argument mapping is about twice as effective at improving student critical thinking as other methods,” writes Jonathan Surovell (Texas State University). However, “there…

July 28, 2023
How To Alleviate the Referee Crisis: A Proposal (guest post)

“There are just too many papers for which editors are seeking reviews.”

July 27, 2023
Philosophy Through Comics (guest post)

Can you do philosophy with comics? “Yeah, sure, easy.” But why do it?

July 25, 2023
The Hard-Ass Philosophy Professor: an “Inestimably Valuable Educational Experience”

Last week, following Harry Frankfurt’s death, Katrien Schaubroeck (Antwerp) circulated an intellectual autobiography Frankfurt had written for a 2011 volume she co-edited on his…

July 24, 2023
Philosophy News Summary

Recent philosophy-related news.*

July 24, 2023

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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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