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November 8, 2022
Iranian Philosophy PhD Student Reportedly Beaten to Death by Security Forces During Protest

According to Iran International, a Persian news channel, “Iranian PhD candidate Nasrin Ghaderi, 35, who was studying philosophy in Tehran died on Saturday after being…

November 7, 2022
Mini-Heap

Recent additions to the Heap…

November 7, 2022
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

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

November 7, 2022
Venues for Public Philosophy

The Public Philosophy Network (PPN) is putting together a list of venues that publish public philosophy.

November 4, 2022
Interview With “Candy Mom” Philosopher

This Daily Nous item is temporarily unavailable while its historical content completes a security review. The title and publication record are preserved; the original…

November 3, 2022
Philosophy & Others Threatened at Birkbeck (Updated)

The Department of Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London may be stripped of up to six faculty members [actually more than that; see update],…

November 3, 2022
No Limit to Goodness: Remembering Sarah Broadie (guest post)

“When you manage to pin down a philosophical issue and give it a fully precise answer, often the answer turns out to be boring.…

November 3, 2022
Logic Journal Retracts Two Articles After Refutation in Online Discussion

Studia Logica: An International Journal for Symbolic Logic, recently published and then retracted two articles by Janusz Czelakowski (Opole) following a discussion at MathOverflow, a…

November 2, 2022
Mind Chunks

November 1, 2022
Mini-Heap

New links in the Heap…

November 1, 2022
Thomas Burrus (1984-2022)

Thomas Burrus, instructor of philosophy at the University of South Carolina Aiken, has died.

November 1, 2022
Models of Philosophical Thought Experiments

A philosophy professor has launched a project to create 3D-printed models of philosophical thought experiments, along with other open-access materials “designed to teach learners…

October 31, 2022
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

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

October 31, 2022
Found: Five Boxes of New Hegel (updated)

Five boxes of previously unknown transcriptions of lectures by G.W.F. Hegel have been found.

October 28, 2022
Philosophy Grad Program Application Info Spreadsheet

An open-access spreadsheet about philosophy graduate program admissions, including relevant links and information about application deadlines, fees, requirements, funding packages, and so on, has…

October 28, 2022
Teaching Hume and His Racism

“Whenever someone claims that we should not mention Hume’s racism because he was a product of his time we should commit that argument ‘to…

October 27, 2022
Ad Hoc

October 26, 2022
Brown from UT Dallas to Southern Illinois

Matthew J. Brown, recently professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at Dallas, has moved to Southern Illinois University (SIU), where he is…

October 26, 2022
Why the History of Philosophy Matters to Philosophy (guest post)

“Studying the history of philosophy can help us see ourselves from the outside and that can help us inhabit philosophy from the inside.”

October 25, 2022

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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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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