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Steven Long on Philosophy's Most Beautiful Sentence or Paragraph

That's the one I was going to choose. Just simple and incredibly powerful.

Daniel Weltman on A New Topography of Philosophy: Analytic, Continental, and Philosophy of Science

Three clusters is an interesting proposal. However, I propose that philosopher is best seen as divided into negative one clusters. (If you do not understand

Dale Miller on Philosophy's Most Beautiful Sentence or Paragraph

Two of the best lines come from books that are in direct conversation with one another: "Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth

Brian Weatherson on A New Topography of Philosophy: Analytic, Continental, and Philosophy of Science

That's true for some parts of philosophy of science, but not all. There is a lot of overlap in subject matter between philosophy of physics […]

William J Rapaport on Philosophy Teaching & Learning Materials on Professors' Websites

Peter: All your stuff is very useful, and some of it is discussed in my forthcoming book on the Philosophy of Computer Science (Wiley).

William J Rapaport on Philosophy Teaching & Learning Materials on Professors' Websites

I have a How to Study Guide that many of my students (and children!) have found useful: https://cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/howtostudy.html I also have a How to Write

SCOTT E FORSCHLER on What Can Journals, Publishers, and Authors Do Now to Improve the Publication Process in Philosophy?

While long delays in decisions can be frustrating, even more frustrating is when a submission gets a page-long response showing that the referee misread the […]

Kant stand it on Philosophy Journal Horror Stories (updated)

I submitted two papers to Kantian Review, arguing "Kant said ABC; it follows that D, here is some supporting evidence from other authors who skirted […]

SCOTT E FORSCHLER on Notably Good Experiences with Philosophy Journals

I've had good experiences with both Philosophical Studies and Utilitas, the latter including one article which was rejected for the most excellent reason that someone […]

SCOTT E FORSCHLER on Notably Good Experiences with Philosophy Journals

My experience, sadly, was the opposite. I've submitted two articles to KR, and it ran like this: I argued that Kant said ABC, from which […]

Tom on A New Topography of Philosophy: Analytic, Continental, and Philosophy of Science

The analytic/continental division is largely methodological, whereas philosophy of science is of course distinguished by its subject, not its methodology

Me Me on 2022 Sanders Metaphysics Prize Awarded

That’s a childish thing to say on a post like this.

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“Sexual violence is ubiquitous, and for many women it feels like the defining condition and the deepest reality of their lives. But that feeling, like all appeals to personal experience, can obscure as much as it reveals” -- Amia Srinivasan (Oxford) on Andrea Dworkin
“Rorty insisted that philosophy is no longer relevant to politics… That is fortunate, because his philosophical position… was exceptionally implausible” -- Thomas Nagel (NYU) on Richard Rorty and America
Does language shape the content of epistemology? -- Edouard Machery (Pittsburgh) talks about how variations in epistemic expressions across cultures are philosophically significant
The laws of nature, time, quantum mechanics, strong determinism, vagueness, and more -- an interview with Eddy Keming Chen (UCSD) at 3:16AM
“To understand the world more objectively or impartially, we must adopt more perspectives on it. And so it turns out that empathy makes us less, not more, biased” -- Heidi L. Maibom (U. of the Basque Country, U. of Cincinnati) kicks off a symposium at Brains on her new book, "The Space Between: How Empathy Really Works"
An upcoming video game is about Arthur Schopenhauer as a student “seeking prohibited knowledge” -- developed by Toby Svoboda, "The Life of Arthur" will be released next week
“Analytic philosophy, even at its most technical, is one way of tackling those fundamental tasks [of securing grounding and direction in life], and as such serves the same emotional needs that non-philosophers reveal to us during our classes, at parties and in hair salons, planes and Ubers” -- Helena de Bres (Wellesley) wraps up her series on analytic philosophy and the meaning of life
“We laugh at ‘something mechanical encrusted on the living’” -- Emily Herring (Ghent) on Bergson's philosophy of laughter
“There seems to be nothing that in principle cannot be taught in a college classroom provided its relevance to the course” -- Carlo DaVia (Fordham) has produced a guide to help professors untangle and address different potential moral problems related to teaching and classroom speech
“The puzzle of addiction: why do people keep using drugs, given that costs outweigh benefits?… Costs and benefits can only be weighed relative to a set of values [so] whose values determine when drug use becomes addiction?” -- Hanna Pickard (JHU) is interviewed about how to understand addiction
“Just 20% of PhD-granting institutions in the United States supplied 80% of tenure-track faculty members to institutions across the country between 2011 and 2020,” according to a new study -- and "depending on the field, only 5–23% of faculty members worked at an institution more prestigious than the one at which they earned their PhD"
“I am an American Philosopher” is a series of interviews (15, so far) with philosophers published by the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy -- here's one with Eric Mullis (Queens University of Charlotte), who brings together dance and philosophy
“I’ve always thought I was better at helping other people think through their ideas than I was at generating new or ground-breaking things of my own. I used to be ashamed of that, but now that I’ve got students of my own, it’s one of my favourite skills to use” -- Audrey Yap (Victoria) is interviewed at What Is It Like To Be A Philosopher?
“Too often, well-intentioned calls to ‘diversify the profession’ of academia seem to be motivated by brute desires for demographic representation…. That intelligence comes in many forms suggests a better rationale” -- Devin Sanchez Curry (West Virginia) on appreciating "Grandma's metaphysics"
Princeton has so big an endowment that it could, from now on, let in every student for free and still have at least $1.9 billion left over each year -- So why don't they? The author raises this question, but doesn't really try to answer it, and so doesn't seem to realize what's to be learned from it (via The Browser)
“The Mystery of Consciousness,” a live public philosophy discussion, took place this past summer in Liverpool -- featuring Philip Goff, Laura Gow, Anil Seth, Jack Symes, Rowan Williams, and a string quartet
“Gareth paced up and down and told me he was worrying about me a lot. I had to realise, he said, that I was extremely stupid and would need to work very hard to get any kind of degree. I wasn’t in the least offended” -- Lincoln Allison (Warwick) remembers Gareth Evans, who "made intellectual activity exhilarating"
When (and why) are some things best left to the imagination? -- Jennifer Church (Vassar) considers the question
“Young Plato,” a documentary about a headteacher in Belfast who brings philosophy into the teaching at his elementary school, will be screened in the United States -- it's "a very engaging film" according to The Guardian
“There has not been time to come up with the nuances on how [AI art generators] should be used, and large numbers of very different stakeholders have suddenly shown up at the artists’ door, kicking it in” -- Anders Sandberg (Oxford) on some of the issues AI art raises in moral, social, and political philosophy
“When a philosopher has misgivings about the value of philosophy, they’re not just asking ‘why,’ but ‘why why?,’ which is fancier” -- Helena de Bres (Wellesley) recovers her gratitude for philosophy
The Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective (SERRC) launches a monthly podcast called “Knowledge for Breakfast” -- hosted by Fabien Medvecky (Otago) & Michiel van Oudheusden (KU Leuven), the first episode is on "Epistemic Shame and Imposter Syndrome"
You feel attraction to someone? Which of the 12,228 possible versions of this feeling? -- Maria Heim (Amherst) on how India’s "sophisticated traditions of philosophical reflection" explore "the nuances of felt experience with fine-grained particularity"
On “private and public sector jobs in a burgeoning ontological sector, involving the commercial and industrial applications of ontology across diverse industries” -- an interview with Barry Smith (Buffalo)
Philosophers on the tools of neuroscientific experimentation -- a discussion with contributions from Ann-Sophie Barwich, John Bickle, Dan Burnston, Carl Craver, and Valerie Hardcastle
“What is the main impediment to offline creativity? In short, not allowing one’s mind to be offline—rarely choosing, or having the chance, to be alone with one’s thoughts, and to let one’s mind wander” -- Peter Carruthers (Maryland) on a contemporary threat to creativity
“Schelling’s philosophy of oneness might provide a foundation on which to anchor the fight for our climate and our survival” -- historian Andrea Wulf thinks that Friedrich Schelling is just what the environmental movement needs (NYT)
Philosophy professor Robert Pinto (Windsor), who died in 2019, was “one of tens of thousands of residents in Canadian long-term care homes without a psychosis diagnosis that have been prescribed antipsychotics” -- some commentary from Shelley Tremain, who links to a CBC investigative report
“We have to get used to the idea that there may be agents around who are just as intelligent and capable and involved and… committed or reliable as humans and that we need to think about how they matter” -- Peter Railton (Michigan) is interviewed by Katrien Devolder (Oxford) about how we should understand and interact with AI
How “dialogically dense” are different works of philosophy? -- a machine learning algorithm can determine the extent to which an author mentions other persons, and Alexander Klein (McMaster) used it to compare the works of James and Dewey

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