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Sam on Teaching Philosophy in a World with ChatGPT

The question is whether they can be done asynchronously, in a way that preserves integrity!

Naive squirrel on Teaching Philosophy in a World with ChatGPT

Oral exams can be done virtually, I imagine...

Asya Passinsky on Summer 2023 Programs in Philosophy for Graduate Students and/or PhDs

CEU Summer Course on "Contemporary Issues in Ontology and Social Ontology" Dates: July 17–28, 2023 Location: Central European University, Budapest, Hungary (in person) Contact: Mark Balaguer […]

Asya Passinsky on Calls for Papers / Grants / Etc.

CEU Summer Course on "Contemporary Issues in Ontology and Social Ontology". Central European University, Budapest, Hungary. July 17–28, 2023. Application deadline: February 14, 2023. https://summeruniversity.ceu.edu/courses/contemporary-issues-ontology-and-social-ontology

Louis F. Cooper on Is Any of Analytic Philosophy's Dominance Owed to McCarthyism?

It may be that "the rebirth of political theory needed the waning of the red scare to flourish," but I think it's hard to disentangle […]

Jeff Rice on Is Any of Analytic Philosophy's Dominance Owed to McCarthyism?

There are a couple of issues to which I would like to respond, That political theory/philosophy regrouped in the UK fits my contention that […]

Joshua Knobe on The Development of Experimental Philosophy

I hope the authors of this paper will join the conversation themselves -- and it will certainly be very helpful to hear their thoughts […]

John McCumber on Is Any of Analytic Philosophy's Dominance Owed to McCarthyism?

My previous version of this reply didn't make it into Daily Nous, so i am trying again. Charles Pigden says that i claim that the triumph […]

Chris on Kraus from Notre Dame to Johns Hopkins

The JH job was advertised on Phil jobs: https://philjobs.org/job/show/21378 I think this is the most common way senior and lateral moves work. Most have to be advertised.

Matt L on Is Any of Analytic Philosophy's Dominance Owed to McCarthyism?

I agree that "red scares" extended well beyond McCarthy himself. But, if one wants to have a testable hypothesis, it's important to have a […]

Looking to move on Kraus from Notre Dame to Johns Hopkins

Could anyone explain how these senior hires or lateral moves work? Most or all these positions don't look to be advertised. Does that mean the […]

Jeff Rice on Is Any of Analytic Philosophy's Dominance Owed to McCarthyism?

It is interesting to me how people on this thread construe the McCarthy era. For starters, Truman instituted the Executive Order allowing suspected Communists […]

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The do’s and don’ts of writing about women in the history of philosophy -- from Sandrine Bergès (Bilkent)
How much time does it take you, typically, to referee a paper (not how long it takes between agreeing to referee and submitting the report; just the actual time spent refereeing)? -- share your responses at the Cocoon
“A path to get college credit that begins on a YouTube video” -- does this new collaboration with Arizona State University represent the future of universities, or portend their demise?
“His most significant contribution is his argument that everything is ultimately made of water. It has made a big splash” -- a tenure letter for Thales, by Brad Skow (MIT)
The Gradient covers a wide range of issues regarding artificial intelligence -- recent articles have concerned AI epistemology, the punishment of robots, and the connection between understanding and making the "right mistakes"
“The synthetic creative factor of our knowledge extends… into the very first sense-impressions and even into the elements of logic” -- Friedrich Lange is "interviewed" about his neo-Kantianism, the significance of materialism, and other philosophers, at 3:16AM
“Far from being a fusty academic discipline with no relevance to the ‘real’ world, philosophy was, for him, an existential matter of immediate importance” -- the case for a biography of Bryan Magee
Voters “should expect that an effective candidate will be imperfectly honest at best” -- but liars like George Santos, who are "unlikely to be believed" are "incapable of achieving those goods that justify their deception" says Michael Blake (Washington)
“What does not yet exist is a discipline that treats the workings of government itself as a philosophical subject. This field could be called ‘the philosophy of public administration'” -- Dan Little (UM-Dearborn) on the case for (and questions of) this subfield
“Claude’s writing is more verbose, but also more naturalistic. Its ability to write coherently about itself, its limitations, and its goals seem to also allow it to more naturally answer questions on other subjects” -- meet Claude, one of several alternatives to ChatGPT
“If A beats B and B beats C, A and C have essentially equal chances of prevailing against each other.” Wait, what? -- all about intransitive dice
“What is our universe expanding into?” -- "That’s a great question. The answer, though, is that it’s not a great question," says Paul Sutter (Stony Brook)
“The Department of Personal Inspections is charged with the remit of examining the lives of persons within His Majesty’s territories. You have been chosen for inspection, and judgment will be rendered” -- a short story about akrasia, the gaze of the other, and the examined life, by Ben Roth (Tufts)
“The exercise of common sense involves a drawing back from unforeseen danger… whereas in philosophy we are more interested in seeking out unforeseen dangers in order to then avoid them” -- a history of what philosophers have thought about "common sense" by Stephen Leach (Keele)
“You should always gather more evidence, say women who love gossip” -- Carolina Flores (UC Irvine) and Elise Woodard (MIT) have some fun posting about a forthcoming paper at NWIP
“Exaggerations, half-truths and outright lies will dominate our historical imagination and make it impossible to understand, and learn from, the past” -- Daniel Bessner (Washington) on the decline of the historical profession
“The algorithmic lens while giving us affordances has a certain number of blind spots… that we must be precise… that more data is better… that there is a single uniform truth to be found…” -- Suresh Venkatasubramanian (Brown) is interviewed about developing the US Government's Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights
A philosophy course centered around paradoxes -- taught by Patrick Greenough at St. Andrews
“Contemporary analytical philosophy is in greater part interesting, valuable, and well done” -- Crispin Wright (NYU/Stirling) is interviewed about philosophy and his work on objectivity, truth, vagueness, skepticism, and other topics
“Like Gandhi, he believed that guarding power was bad for the powerful: segregation harmed the white man’s own soul. But from his other great influence Reinhold Niebuhr… King learned to reject a ‘false optimism'” -- Amod Lele (Boston U.) on MLK's improvement on Gandhi
How can we trust science? How does it get at the truth? What about false scientific theories of the past? -- a conversation between Peter Vickers and Jana Bacevic (Durham)
“What’s odd about doubling down on population ethics is that it both encourages us to take an unhealthy amount of interest in the quality of lives of other people’s children and that it encourages us to make calculations that are without any solid ground” -- more from Eric Schliesser (Amsterdam) on Will MacAskill and "longtermism"
“If we can’t say exactly how we think, then how well do we know ourselves?” -- Have you thought about how you think? Is it in pictures, in patterns, in words, or in some unsymbolized way? The New Yorker's Joshua Rothman thinks about it, with help from philosophers and others
How students can use ChatGPT to complete the assignments you give them, and what you can do, including strategies for “leaning in” to the new technology -- a video from Mark Alfano (Macquarie)
A petition to have Olympe de Gouges, author of “The Declaration of the Rights of Woman” (1791), memorialized alongside the “great men of France” in the Pantheon -- organized by Sylvia Duverger (Université Paris 8)
Simone de Beauvoir wearing a brooch made and given to her by Alexander Calder
“To hope well is to be realistic about probabilities, not to succumb to wishful thinking or be cowed by fear; it is to hold possibilities open when you should” -- Kieran Setiya (MIT) on the virtue of hopefulness
“Only by assuming a certain constancy between the present and the past can we use the present world as a guide for our historical interpretations… The trick has always been deciding exactly how the present resembles the past” -- Extinct, the philosophy of paleontology blog, is revived---with a new post by its new editor, Max Dresow (Minnesota)
“Tell me just what sort of things are the colors you see / if you’re thinking ontologically…” -- Daniel Groll (Carleton) composed a jingle for a course on color taught by his colleagues
“Ask yourself who will suffer the most if we fail to prevent catastrophic climate change. The answer is the young and those yet to be born—both categories unrepresented in our political systems” -- Peter Singer (Princeton) on eco-activism, civil disobedience, youth, and democracy

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