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Referee Awards

The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science just awarded its 2022 Referee of the Year award to Kenneth Aizawa (Rutgers Newark).

February 13, 2023
Bruce Waller (1946-2023)

Bruce Waller, professor emeritus of philosophy at Youngstown State University, has died.

February 13, 2023
Mini-Heap (updated)

Recent additions to the Heap…

February 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…

February 13, 2023
The “Secret Syllabus” of Being a Graduate Student in Philosophy

There’s what professors expect their students to be doing in order to be successful in graduate school and beyond, and then there’s what successful…

February 10, 2023
APA Issues Statement on Academic Freedom in Florida

Academic freedom and shared governance in institutions of higher learning must remain free from political intrusion. Political restrictions on teaching and scholarship undermine the…

February 9, 2023
Mini-Heap

Links of late…

February 9, 2023
How Academics Can Make Use of ChatGPT

Much of our talk about ChatGPT has been about students using it to cheat, but there are ways to use it that academics might…

February 8, 2023
To φ Or Not To φ

February 7, 2023
Shoenfield Logic Book and Article Prize Winners Announced

The Association for Symbolic Logic has awarded its 2022 Shoenfield Logic Book and Article Prizes.

February 7, 2023
Hübner Wins the Journal of the History of Philosophy’s Best Article Prize

The Journal of the History of Philosophy has awarded its 2022 best article prize to Karolina Hübner (Cornell).

February 6, 2023
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

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

February 6, 2023
Mini-Heap

Latest links…

February 3, 2023
Summer Programs in Philosophy

Reminder: if you are running a summer program or summer school in philosophy, there is a place to list it to make it more…

February 3, 2023
New Project to Fund Converting Journals to Open Access

Editors of academic philosophy journals whose content is largely behind paywalls may be interested in applying to a new program from MIT Press that…

February 2, 2023
Benjamin R. Tilghman (1927-2023)

Benjamin Ross Tilghman, professor emeritus of philosophy at Kansas State University, has died.

February 2, 2023
Philosophers Among Winners of Recent Large ERC Grants

The European Research Council (ERC) recently announced the winners of their sizable “Consolidator Grants,” and several philosophers were among them.

February 2, 2023
New £20,000 Transdisciplinary Philosophy Book Prize

The Royal Institute of Philosophy (RIP) has announced the creation of a new book prize to recognize “the most original philosophical research that transcends…

February 1, 2023
What Do Experiments in Philosophy Teaching Look Like? (guest post)

“There is room to think creatively about how to improve learning and love of philosophy via innovation in pedagogy.”

February 1, 2023
Mind Chunks

January 31, 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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Stephen Usins Yeardley on “Fixing” the Definitions of Philosophical Terms
Sorry, sorry, back again… I'll leave with "Heideggian" – someone who prepare the children's ovoid chocolate hunt at Easter…
Stephen Usins Yeardley on “Fixing” the Definitions of Philosophical Terms
In addition, I thought a Universalist was a record of poets who have only written one poem, while a Multiversalist catalogues more prolific poets.
Stephen Usins Yeardley on “Fixing” the Definitions of Philosophical Terms
All funny, so I'll offer a recommendation to find clips from the BBC's antidote to panel games, "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue," and its "Uxbridge English Dictionary"…
Dan on Underrepresentation of Non-Native English Speakers in Philosophy: Findings from over 100,000 Papers (guest post)
I think this is wonderful work. I hope the issue gets some more attention. A thought regarding the second hypothesis. It is usually very easy to identify non-native…
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.

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