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Why a Philosopher’s Racist Email from 26 Years Ago is News Today

Influential Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom, well-known for his work on philosophical questions related to ethics, the future, and technology (existential risk, artificial intelligence, simulation),…

January 13, 2023
New Network for Philosophers Interested in Emotions and Society

“Emotion and Society Lab” is a new “network of collaborators in philosophy across different universities that engage in collaborative learning, research, and public engagement…

January 13, 2023
Journal Editors: Heads Up About a New Weekly Update Feature

The “Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update” will be adding a new feature: book reviews that appear in academic journals.

January 12, 2023
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January 12, 2023
Philosophers on Substack

Substack, the online publishing platform, appears to be increasing in popularity among philosophers as a place to blog and share ideas via newsletter.

January 12, 2023
$3.4 Million Grant for Project on Humility in Inquiry

Philosopher Nathan Ballantyne (Arizona State University) and psychologist Norbert Schwarz (University of Southern California) have won a $3.4 million grant for their project, “Humility…

January 12, 2023
Philosophers Among Winners of NEH Grants

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has announced the recipients of their latest round of grants, and a number of philosophers are among…

January 11, 2023
Is Any of Analytic Philosophy’s Dominance Owed to McCarthyism?

“It is clear enough that McCarthyism and its legacy were sufficient to make life hard for a particular strand of opposition to the analytic…

January 10, 2023
Wild Animal Welfare Program Launches at NYU

New York University has launched a new interdisciplinary program to support, coordinate, and disseminate research about the well-being of wild animals.

January 10, 2023
Philosopher-Led Project Studies Self-Control & Poverty in the Global South

A project is underway to study self-control in contexts of poverty in the Global South, directed by professor of philosophy Juan Pablo Bermúdez (Universidad Externado…

January 10, 2023
Mini-Heap

Recent additions to the Heap of Links…

January 9, 2023
Floridi to Lead New Digital Ethics Center at Yale

Luciano Floridi, currently Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information at the University of Oxford and Professor of Sociology of Culture and Communication at…

January 9, 2023
Urgent Appeal to Save Philosophy at Fresno Pacific

Fresno Pacific University (FPU) has just laid off Nathan Carson, director of the university’s philosophy program and its only full-time (and tenured) philosophy professor,…

January 9, 2023
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

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

January 9, 2023
UMass Center for Philosophy and Children Wins Grant

Last year, the Department of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, created a Center for Philosophy and Children (see this post). Now the…

January 6, 2023
Mini-Heap

Friday Mini-Heap…

January 6, 2023
Elston Wells Van Steenburgh (1928-2022)

Elston Wells Van Steenburgh (“Van”), associate professor emeritus at Northern Illinois University, has died.

January 6, 2023
Jennifer Frey, Christopher Frey from South Carolina to Tulsa

Jennifer Frey and Christopher Frey, both currently associate professors of philosophy at the University of South Carolina, will be moving to the University of…

January 5, 2023
The Power of a Good Press Release

Last month, something unusual happened to an academic philosophy article.

January 5, 2023
Peter Schotch (1946-2022)

Peter Kim Schotch, emeritus professor of philosophy at Dalhousie University, has died.

January 5, 2023

Heap of Links

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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Mark van Roojen on Your One Piece of Philosophy Grad School Advice
What does this even mean? Who is wheat and who is chaff exactly?
DoubleA on Your One Piece of Philosophy Grad School Advice
I don’t think that hearing the same advice from several people makes the advice cliche— in most circumstances it ought to increase credence in that advice. But, if…
Student Philosopher on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
'Personally, I am excited by this development. Although I very much enjoy engaging in philosophy the old-fashioned way, one reason I turned to computer science was that I…
David Wallace on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
At last: a nuanced and thoughtful take on this complex situation.
David Wallace on Those OpenAI Math Results
I think you are underestimating how geeky (in a good way!) leadership is at Anthropic and OpenAI. I think if you said to them, “we’ve proved the Riemann…
David Wallace on Those OpenAI Math Results
I completely disagree with that description of math. And much of the criticism of openAI by Tao and others is because they disagree, too. No interesting academic discipline…
Michael Gorman on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
"Part of me wonders if all my philological training will end up being less useful than I imagined if AI can help in these areas" — or the…
Michel on Those OpenAI Math Results
I have no such opinion, because not only am I not a mathematician or a logician, but my math chops don't go very far, and my logic chops…
Mathieu Rees on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
There was once a time where the definition-counterexample method was dominant in analytic philosophy. I think that good insight was produced by that method, though some philosophers have…
tfortarski on Those OpenAI Math Results
Then that's setting the bar pretty high indeed. Math (or in any case its subset transformed by AI) could be described easily : it's about proving theorems. There's…
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…

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