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May 19, 2023
Humanities & Other Areas Threatened at Brighton

The administration of the University of Brighton earlier this month announced a plan to layoff over 100 faculty members and 30 support staff, focusing…

May 18, 2023
APA Announces Spring 2023 Award Winners

The American Philosophical Association (APA) has announced the winners of several recent prizes.

May 18, 2023
Baylis Wins Molson Prize

Françoise Baylis (Dalhousie University, emerita) has been named one of the 2023 winners of the Molson Prize by the Canada Council for the Arts.

May 18, 2023
This Philosophy Professor Is Currently on a Jeopardy Winning Streak

Who is Ben Chan, assistant professor of philosophy at St. Norbert College in Wisconsin? Correct.

May 18, 2023
Bad Reviewer Experiences

A couple of years ago, we had a discussion of “Philosophy Journal Horror Stories“. Most of the experiences shared were from the perspective of…

May 17, 2023
Ethics Certificates from Philosophy Departments

Several philosophy departments are offering “ethics certificates” and other ethics programs, according to an article at Inside Higher Ed.

May 17, 2023
Dennett on AI: We Must Protect Ourselves Against “Counterfeit People”

“Creating counterfeit digital people risks destroying our civilization.”

May 17, 2023
Two Philosophy Students Among New Newcombe Fellows

The Institute for Citizens & Scholars has announced the recipients of its 2023-24 Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships. Two philosophy PhD students are…

May 16, 2023
Ethics Center Hires Director of Storytelling and Public Engagement

The Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University has brought on reporter, audio producer, podcast host, Peabody-award nominee, and educator John Biewen as its…

May 15, 2023
New Essay Prize in Honor of Charles Mills

The Journal of Applied Philosophy has created a new essay prize in honor of philosopher Charles Mills (1951-2021).

May 15, 2023
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

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

May 15, 2023
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May 12, 2023
The Tale of the Disappearing Job Offer

A philosopher with a tenure-track job applied for a position at another university. The application and interview process went well, and he got the…

May 11, 2023
Over 1000 Academics Sign Onto Pending Work Stoppage at the Journal of Political Philosophy

Over 1,000 academics have added their names to a resolution pledging that, as of the end of 2023, they will not submit manuscripts to,…

May 11, 2023
Ian Hacking (1936-2023)

Ian Hacking, emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto and an influential figure in the philosophy of science, has died.

May 10, 2023
Philosopher To Be Appointed UK’s First “Free Speech Tsar”

Arif Ahmed, professor of philosophy at the University of Cambridge, has reportedly been selected as UK’s first “free speech tsar” by Prime Minister Rishi…

May 10, 2023
Researchers Call for More Work on Consciousness

In light of the continued development and growing use of large language models (e.g., ChatGPT), other kinds of neural networks, generative agents, and the…

May 10, 2023
History and Philosophy of Science Essay Prize Winner Announced by IUHPST

Ahmad Elabbar, a PhD student at Cambridge University, is the winner of the 2023 History and Philosophy of Science Essay Prize from the International…

May 10, 2023
Albert Borgmann (1937-2023)

Albert Borgmann, professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Montana, has died.

May 10, 2023

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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 Those OpenAI Math Results
"Your claim, ultimately, is that AI is not and could not be useful in way that’s as transformative in philosophy as in mathematics. Right?" No, I didn't say…
Noah Gordon on Those OpenAI Math Results
I had never heard of the term "gish gallop" before reading your first comment so I had looked it up. All the definitions say that it involves putting…
tfortarski on Those OpenAI Math Results
One of the things I realized in the past 2 months is that the accuracy of AI models is entirely dependent on the conditions under which they run…
tfortarski on Those OpenAI Math Results
Your claim, ultimately, is that AI is not and could not be useful in way that's as transformative in philosophy as in mathematics. Right? My view is that…
oxan on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
It seems to me that there is so much about the philosophy part of the academic-industrial complex that already militates against the writing of good philosophy by humans…
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…

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