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All Souls Philosophy Exam Questions

A necessary condition of becoming an Examination (or Prize) Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, is taking an exam.

December 13, 2022
Birkbeck Graduate Students on Proposed Cuts

As noted last month, the Department of Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London and other units there are facing drastic cuts. The department’s graduate…

December 13, 2022
In Defense of Boring and Derivative Philosophy (guest post)

“Even if you prefer the sexiness of radicalism or the glory of revolution: you need boring, work-a-day normal conservative philosophy.”

December 12, 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 12, 2022
Article Spotlight: “The Ordinary Meaningful Life” by Joshua Glasgow

After a bit of a delay, we’re resuming the Article Spotlight series, in which the authors of recent journal articles are invited to write…

December 12, 2022
Mini-Heap

Recent additions to the Heap of Links…

December 9, 2022
APA Announces Winners of 14 Prizes

The American Philosophical Association (APA) has announced the winners of 14 of its prizes.

December 9, 2022
APA Announces Grant Winners

The American Philosophical Association (APA) has announced which projects will be funded during the 2022-23 academic year by its Diversity and Inclusiveness Grant Program…

December 9, 2022
Morton wins Grawemeyer Award in Education

Jennifer Morton, associate professor of philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania, has been selected as the winner of the 2022 Grawemeyer Award in Education.

December 8, 2022
Technology and the Near Future

Apropos last week’s “We’re Not Ready for the AI on the Horizon, But People Are Trying,” here is economist and policy analyst Samuel Hammond…

December 8, 2022
Berggruen Prize Awarded to Kojin Karatani

Kojin Karatani, a Japanese philosopher and literary theorist, has been selected as 2022 winner of the $1 million Berggruen Prize for Philosophy & Culture.

December 8, 2022
Oral Exams in Undergrad Courses?

Between the developments in large language models (like GPT-3) and their possible use by students, and being in the thick of end-of-term grading of…

December 7, 2022
Recent Changes to Graduate Programs Prospective Students Should Know

Prospective philosophy graduate students are currently checking out information at department pages, discussion forums, and sites that collect data and opinions, deciding where to…

December 7, 2022
To φ Or Not To φ

December 6, 2022
LogIn Project Aims to Make the Field of Logic More Inclusive

LogIn is a project that aims to bring demographic diversity to logic and formal philosophy.

December 6, 2022
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New links…

December 6, 2022
New: Philosophy of the City Journal

Philosophy of the City Journal is a new open-access, peer-reviewed journal that aims to serve as an interdisciplinary forum for philosophical inquiry about cities in…

December 5, 2022
“New Work In Philosophy” Launches

A new multimedia newsletter for “disseminating and discussing new work in philosophy” went live today.

December 5, 2022
Visualization of the Philosophical Gourmet Report

Frank Saunders, Jr. (Yonsei University Underwood International College, South Korea) has created interactive visualizations of information from the Philosophical Gourmet Report, a well-known, if controversial,…

December 5, 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 5, 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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Max DuBoff on Which Philosophy Ideas Make for Good Costumes? (redux)
A bit late to this thread, but I went as Descartes's wax example for the class before Halloween this year!
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…

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