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Philosophy and Culture

Pick One Book for One Person to Read

October 17, 2016

Making its way around the internet is the question, “If you could get everybody to read one book, which would it be?” That’s an…
value of philosophy

Most Cited Philosophy Books in the Social Sciences

May 19, 2016

Elliott Green, a professor in the International Development Department at the London School of Economics, looked at which works from anthropology, economics, education, geography, linguistics, management,…
philosophy

Favorite Philosophy of the Year 2015

December 29, 2015

A reader asks: Was wondering if you could write a post asking for people’s favorite philosophy articles/books of the year. Sure! People, what were…
philosophy

Books for the Philosophy Newbie

December 2, 2015

A Daily Nous reader asks: What books would you recommend to someone who’s new to philosophy? What would be your Philosophy 101 book recommendations?…
Lives of Philosophers, Philosophy and Culture

Philosophically Interesting Books for Young Kids

August 31, 2015

A friend is interested in soliciting philosophically-minded books for young children—ones who are reading, but are not at the chapter-book stage. Here are a few…
Publishing

Answers from Academic Publishers

May 28, 2015

Two weeks ago I put up a post soliciting questions for academic publishers. If you submitted a question, thanks. Editors at various presses—Peter Momtchiloff,…
Philosophy and Culture

Cartoon Introduction to Philosophy

May 6, 2015

The Cartoon Introduction to Philosophy is out! By philosopher Michael Patton (Montevallo) and illustrator Kevin Cannon, the book stars Heraclitus as the reader’s guide and companion…
Publishing

How to Review Book Manuscripts

March 19, 2015

An assistant professor writes in with the following query: I’ve been asked recently to review some books for major presses, which is great and…
Awards Grants Honors

Karyn Freedman Wins Non-Fiction Award

March 12, 2015

Karyn Freedman, associate professor of philosophy at the University of Guelph, has won the 2015 British Columbia National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction for her…
Awards Grants Honors

Joseph Heath Wins Political Writing Prize

March 12, 2015

Joseph Heath (Toronto) has been awarded the 2014 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing for his book, Enlightenment 2.0: Restoring Sanity to Our Politics, Our Economy, and Our…
Publishing

Book Dedication Sale

January 26, 2015

Jason Brennan and Peter Jaworski (both of Georgetown), have been working on a book entitled Markets Without Limits. You may recall an earlier post which…
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Unger’s New Critique of Analytic Philosophy

June 9, 2014

Except when offering perfectly parochial ideas, mainstream philosophy still offers hardly anything except for just so many concretely empty ideas. Peter Unger has a…
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Acknowledgments for Sale

May 13, 2014

Have you always wanted to be acknowledged in the preface of a philosophy book, but haven’t had the time or opportunity or insightfulness to…
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The Philosophy and Science of Creativity

May 12, 2014

Scientific American has published an excerpt from the introduction to The Philosophy of Creativity: New Essays, a new collection edited by Elliot Samuel Paul (Columbia) and Scott…
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Pretty Penny Paid for Plato

April 9, 2014

Blackwell’s bookshop in Oxford has sold its most expensive book ever: a two volume edition of the complete works of Plato, in the original…
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Philosophy in Childrens’ Books

April 3, 2014

Once upon a time, there was a website called History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, run by a man named Peter Adamson. On the…
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Tim Crane Talks Metaphysics

March 26, 2014

It used to be that a trip to the bookstore in search of a volume on metaphysics would bring you face to face with titles about…
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The Grasshopper to be Reunited With Its Original Illustrations

March 19, 2014

Broadview Press is publishing a new version of the strangely-little-known-yet-intensely-loved-minor-philosphical-classic The Grasshopper, by Bernard Suits. This edition, its third, retains the introduction from the second…

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What is the debate over whether transwomen 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
Asking “How did I get here?” may help us reflect on the nature of personal identity in ways that asking “Who am I?” cannot — Marya Schechtman's 2024 Central Division Meeting Presidential Address
“Collecting is a game, but what kind of game? It is an imperfect information game of acquisition” — a theory of collecting, from Steven Hales
“A general human tendency: to overestimate how far we have come in the progress of human knowledge” — a lengthy interview with Thomas Nagel
“Many couples do not survive trauma like this” — A profile of Susan Brison—who was brutally attacked in 1990, and who wrote about it in Aftermath—and her husband, Thomas Trezise, who has now written his own book stemming from those events
“Bad AI Consciousness Takes” Bingo Card — Henry Shevlin's area of specialization is becoming a popular topic in popular discourse, and he can't stand the "cavalcade of terrible takes"
Does the principle of sufficient reason imply panpsychism? If it does, do we then ponens or tollens? — Sam Kimpton-Nye on these questions and the "demand for intelligibility"
PTSD flashbacks may be harmful, but they may also be helpfully “resupplying phenomenal experience” to those who, owing to trauma, are “grasp alienated” — Michaela McSweeney on trauma and "madness-as-strategy"
A look at the very first issue of Mind — Brett Mullins surveys its articles on the occasion of the journal's 150th anniversary
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

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Part of what motivated this WTP project (and so much of my recent work) is my conviction that a good way to save philosophy is to teach it…
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None of these seem problematic to me in themselves, for what it's worth.
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Personally, I'm interesting to responding to changes to how academic work is being done and the overall norms of my professional community. As an individual, we are each…
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Some of “tenured realist”’s examples involved computer generation of text, but not all do.
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Eno Agolli on Putting the Pub in Public Philosophy
We do a similar thing through CUNY in the heart of Manhattan. Learn more about it here: https://analytic-salon-nyc.github.io/ For an example, see our latest event: https://www.meetup.com/the-analytic-salon/events/316886651/ And we've…
Eric Steinhart on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
Yes, I've seen this, but not with AI. There are clusters of mutually citing papers on academia.edu and researchgate.net which are clearly fakes. These are produced by "citation…
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be sure to alert the journal editor immediately. If the journal follows the COPE guidelines they should take further action against the author, which may include contacting the…
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The post discloses the funding sources in perhaps more detail than you’d get in a journal publication. No more detective work is required than when you disclose your…
Nicolas Delon on AI Use in STEM and Philosophy Dissertations
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DoctorK on AI Use in STEM and Philosophy Dissertations
Why would you care about 'meeting the moment' – I simply don't accept that we should accept the intrusion of computer generated text into our field simply because…
DoctorK on AI Use in STEM and Philosophy Dissertations
Because the alternative (working out yourself how to explain material well to students) is part of your job.