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December 27, 2022
Funding for Work on Technologies to Improve Reasoning in Government Intelligence

Steven Rieber, a former philosopher who is now a program manager at Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), a part of the United States…

December 27, 2022
Mini-Heap

The latest additions to the heap…

December 27, 2022
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

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

December 26, 2022
Light Posting over the Next Couple of Days

Owing to travel to a place with very spotty internet…

December 22, 2022
Philosophy, AI, and Society Listserv

Philosophy, AI, and Society (PAIS) is a listserv that aims to “connect philosophers working on AI and related digital technologies, with a particular focus…

December 21, 2022
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December 20, 2022
Thoma from LSE to Bayreuth

Johanna Thoma, currently associate professor of philosophy at the London School of Economics and Political Science, has accepted a senior offer from the University…

December 20, 2022
Philosophy Organization Serves Women Recovering from Homelessness and Prison, and Others

Wisdom’s Edge Foundation is a non-profit organization that aims to bring philosophy-based classes to people who do not have access to traditional university offerings…

December 20, 2022
Philosopher Appointed to National Space Council Advisory Group

Patrick Lin, professor of philosophy at California Polytechnic State University and director of the university’s Ethics and Emerging Sciences Group, has been selected as…

December 19, 2022
Philosophy Lecturerer Allegedly Involuntarily Committed for Supporting Protestors

According to Radio Free Asia (RFA), Wu Yanan, a philosophy lecturer at Nankai University in Tianjin, China, was taken by authorities under false pretenses and confined…

December 19, 2022
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

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

December 19, 2022
Mini-Heap

The heap grows…

December 16, 2022
Are Philosophy’s Glory Days in Bioethics Over? (guest post)

How has philosophy’s role in cognate disciplines been changing? We could ask this question about philosophy and political theory, or cognitive science, or business…

December 15, 2022
Gary Iseminger (1937-2022)

Gary Iseminger, professor emeritus of philosophy at Carleton College, has died.

December 14, 2022
€1.35 Million Grant for Philosophical Project on AI & Scientific Understanding

Florian J. Boge, currently an interim professor for philosophy of science at Wuppertal University and a postdoc in the interdisciplinary research unit The Epistemology…

December 14, 2022
Gifts Made By Philosophers

The holiday season is upon us. As you go about your holiday shopping, might I suggest you to consider some gifts made by philosophers?

December 14, 2022
Summer 2023 Programs in Philosophy for High School Students

Please use the comments section on this post to share information about 2023 Summer Programs in Philosophy for high school students.

December 14, 2022
Summer 2023 Programs for Undergraduates

Please use the comments section on this post to share information about 2023 Summer Programs in Philosophy for college undergraduates.

December 14, 2022
Summer 2023 Programs in Philosophy for Graduate Students and/or PhDs

Please use the comments section on this post to share information about 2023 Summer Programs in Philosophy for graduate students (postgraduates) and/or philosophy PhDs.

December 14, 2022

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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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