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Keller Elected to Royal Society Te Apārangi (New Zealand)

Simon Keller, professor of philosophy and head of the School of History, Philosophy, Political Science and International Relations at Te Herenga Waka – Victoria…

March 17, 2023
David Enoch Arrested While Protesting Judicial “Reforms” in Israel

David Enoch, professor of philosophy at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, was among those protesting the Israeli government’s controversial plans to scale back the independence…

March 16, 2023
Philosophers on Next-Generation Large Language Models

Back in July of 2020, I published a group post entitled “Philosophers on GPT-3.” At the time, most readers of Daily Nous had not…

March 16, 2023
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March 16, 2023
Philosopher Ann Cudd to Lead Portland State University

Ann Cudd, currently Provost, Senior Vice Chancellor, and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, has been named the next President of Portland…

March 16, 2023
Project on Epistemic Injustice in Health Care Wins £2.6 Million Grant

An interdisciplinary team led by philosopher Havi Carel (Bristol) has won a £2.6 million grant for its project, “Epistemic Injustice in Health Care” (EPIC).

March 16, 2023
Microsoft Jettisons AI Ethics Team

“Microsoft laid off its entire ethics and society team within the artificial intelligence organization,” according to a report from Platformer (via Gizmodo).

March 16, 2023
PEA Soup Returns

The “Philosophy, Ethics, and Academia” blog PEA Soup was taken over last fall by the University of Warwick’s Centre for Ethics, Law, and Public…

March 15, 2023
How the Press Feels about Philosophy

While major newspapers report on philosophy with, on average, slightly positive sentiment, it seems this positive sentiment becomes slighter by the year.

March 15, 2023
A Little Logic Each Day (Semantics, too)

“Learn formal logic in lessons of 200 words per day.”

March 15, 2023
Ernst Tugendhat (1930-2023) (updated)

Ernst Tugendhat, an influential German philosopher who taught at the University of Heidelberg, the Free University of Berlin, and other universities, has died.

March 15, 2023
A Norm for How Much Service Work You Should Take On

In a post about work-life balance at Crooked Timber, Ingrid Robeyns (Utrecht) writes: “it would help if we would all agree that we should do…

March 14, 2023
“Knowledge in Crisis” Philosophy Project Wins €8.9 Million Grant

The Austrian Science Foundation (FWF) has awarded a €8.9 million “Cluster of Excellence” grant to the “Knowledge in Crisis” project headed by philosopher Tim…

March 14, 2023
Philosophy Books for Alan Lightman

Yesterday, in an interview in The New York Times, physicist and novelist Alan Lightman made a wish—a wish the readers of Daily Nous are well-positioned…

March 13, 2023
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources and new reviews of philosophy books, and a reminder about the new…

March 13, 2023
J.N. Mohanty (1928-2023)

Jitendra Nath “J.N.” Mohanty, professor emeritus of philosophy at Temple University, has died.

March 13, 2023
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March 13, 2023
Ward Wins Popper Prize from the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science

The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science has named Zina B. Ward (Florida State) the winner of its 2022 Popper Prize.

March 9, 2023
Anne F. Pomeroy (1958-2023)

Anne Fairchild Pomeroy, professor of philosophy at Stockton University, has died.

March 9, 2023
Are We Not Doing Enough Drugs?

“To admit to any intention to use chemical substances, whether found in nature or synthesized in laboratories, in the aim of changing one’s apprehension…

March 8, 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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Daniel Muñoz on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
I do! And thank you, Meme. I'm honored you liked the paper.
Felix on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
I'm sorry that you feel that you are being "smeared" for a simple description of actions that you did, in fact, take and continue to proudly promote. It…
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…
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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…

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