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Dotson and Siegel Win 2023 Lebowitz Prize

The 2023 Dr. Martin R. Lebowitz and Eve Lewellis Lebowitz Prize for Philosophical Achievement and Contribution has been awarded to Kristie Dotson (University of Michigan)…

April 19, 2023
Recent NEH Grants Awarded to Philosophers (updated)

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) recently announced the projects they will be funding, and the winners include several philosophy faculty.

April 19, 2023
Mini-Heap

Links of interest to people interested in philosophy…

April 19, 2023
To φ Or Not To φ

April 18, 2023
The Various Literary Forms of Philosophy (guest post)

“What are the literary forms philosophy can come in? Judging by contemporary works it seems the best way to express our ideas is in…

April 18, 2023
What’s So Bad About “Bad” Philosophy?

In some domains, “overall quality depends on how good the worst stuff is,” while in others, “overall quality depends on how good the best stuff is, and the…

April 17, 2023
Rutgers Strike Suspended; Unions Accept “Framework” for New Contracts

“The leadership bodies of our three unions have voted to accept a framework for new contracts and to suspend our strike and return to…

April 17, 2023
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

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

April 17, 2023
William Newton-Smith (1943-2023)

Philosopher William Newton-Smith, emeritus fellow of Balliol College, Oxford and founding executive chairman of Central European University, has died.

April 14, 2023
Vallier Wins 2023 Sanders Philosophy of Religion Prize

Kevin Vallier, associate professor of philosophy at Bowling Green State University, is the winner of the 2023 Philosophy of Religion Prize from the Marc…

April 14, 2023
Zero Philosophers Among New ACLS Fellows

The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) has a prestigious fellowship program to recognize “excellence in humanistic scholarship”. It recently announced its new class…

April 14, 2023
Study Abroad Courses in Philosophy

Have you taught a “study abroad” or “destination” course in philosophy? Do you have any ideas for a good one?

April 13, 2023
Theoria Publishes Recap & Assessment of CNRS Plagiarism Scandals

The French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) hosted two related plagiarism scandals in recent years. One concerned the serial plagiarism of one of…

April 13, 2023
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April 13, 2023
Recent ERC Advanced Grants to Philosophers

Three philosophers were among the recipients of multi-million-euro grants from the European Research Council (ERC).

April 12, 2023
Rutgers Faculty on Strike; Most Philosophy Faculty Support It (Updated)

Rutgers faculty yesterday began a strike, halting teaching, research, and service activities as part of the effort to obtain pay raises, more job stability…

April 11, 2023
Philosophers and Their Pets

In the United States it is National Pet Day, an unofficial holiday created in 2006 to “celebrate the joy pets can bring to us,”…

April 11, 2023
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The latest links…

April 11, 2023
Howell from SMU to Rice

Robert J. Howell, currently professor and chair of philosophy at Southern Methodist University, will be moving to Rice University, where he will be professor…

April 11, 2023
Gooding-Williams from Columbia to Yale

Robert J. Gooding-Williams, currently Professor of Philosophy and of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University, will be moving to Yale University, where…

April 11, 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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