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Animal Symbolicum on What's the Point of Philosophy (as an academic discipline)? Building a Poll

Update: I love the variety in the responses here! But I'd like to point out that almost all of the suggested purposes could just as easily be […]

Aeon J. Skoble on How Do You Teach About Free Speech and Academic Freedom?

"do students have an obligation to follow their university’s free speech policies or merely to accept the consequences of not following them?" Both. […]

V. Alan White on What's the Point of Philosophy (as an academic discipline)? Building a Poll

That's a good reply article Neil. Thanks!

David Wallace on What's the Point of Philosophy (as an academic discipline)? Building a Poll

Do I have to help *everybody*, or is it okay to restrict to the people who already know quantum field theory?

Eric Westfall on What's the Point of Philosophy (as an academic discipline)? Building a Poll

I'm of the opinion that philosophy has just become some sort of entertaining language game. The later Wittgenstein seemed to be onto something and so […]

Kaila Draper on How Do You Teach About Free Speech and Academic Freedom?

DW: I’m claiming that a university creates that right when it establishes the sorts of free-speech policies that universities normally create, and that once it’s […]

asrao on What's the Point of Philosophy (as an academic discipline)? Building a Poll

UNESCO preamble says "War starts in the minds of men. So it is in the minds of men defences of peace must be constructed". This

Mr. Practical on What's the Point of Philosophy (as an academic discipline)? Building a Poll

Here is one way of thinking about the role of philosophy. Think about the game of soccer, which has a number of players who work […]

Naive Skeptic on What's the Point of Philosophy (as an academic discipline)? Building a Poll

Another possibility: Philosophy is the incubator for science. The goal of philosophy is to develop and clarify concepts to the point that they are subject to […]

Daniel Nagase on What's the Point of Philosophy (as an academic discipline)? Building a Poll

Yea, I was going to comment exactly this: there should be an option in the poll (if we're doing a poll) according to which there

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A modified LLM is being used as a teaching assistant at Harvard -- it's just for a computer science course. For now.
“I want my loved ones to eat me when I die” -- Daniel Story (Cal Poly) is serious. He explains why, and relays his discussions about it with his family, friends, and fellow philosophers in a refreshingly weird piece of public philosophy
Do we need to take warnings about the “epistemic apocalypse” seriously? -- Joshua Habgood-Coote (University of Leeds) on distortions in current discussions about deepfake videos
Philosophy-themed shirts: modus ponens/tollens, inverted spectrum, abstract trolley, and more -- from Kelly Weirich (Pierce College)
How crows use statistical reasoning -- "Some experts have even classified corvids as having the same intelligence as a 7-year-old child" (via MR)
Philosophy is taught in the final year of high school, and is “the dominant subject in literary majors and a fairly important minor [among] scientific majors” -- Hady Ba (Cheikh Anta Diop University’s Teachers College) on philosophy in Senegal
“If the academic humanities too often address only siloed experts, then pop philosophy too often addresses an audience of imagined idiots” -- Becca Rothfeld on public philosophy
“I would love to be talked out of it” -- Scientific American covers a recent workshop on panpsychism
New technology ethics podcast -- from John Danaher (Galway) and Sven Nyholm (LMU), the series is based on their book "This is Technology Ethics," which covers a wide range of fascinating philosophical questions
“The desire to admire EA despite its flaws indulges a quixotic longing to admire an ineffective altruist” -- an enviously well-written essay on the power and problems of effective altruism by Mary Townsend (St. John's)
“Contemporary scientists appear to be divided between those who think Neanderthal dignity calls for a recognition of their similarity to us, and those who think it calls for a recognition of their difference” -- Nikhil Krishnan (Cambridge) on the science, ethics, and meaning of disputes over how we think of Neanderthals
Last month, NDPR published an especially critical and widely circulated review by Louise Antony (UMass) of a new book in moral philosophy
— The book’s authors, Victor Kumar (Boston) and Richmond Campbell (Dalhousie) have now published a response
“We might have lived in a world in which every atom was different from every other one and where nothing was stable. In such a world there would be no regularity whatsoever, and our conscious activities would cease” -- Hermann Helmholtz is "interviewed" by Richard Marshall at 3:16AM
“‘Absolutely not,’ I told my husband from the bed as he tried to find the right place on his dresser for Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. ‘I don’t need him staring at me all night'” -- a couple disagrees over the wisdom of Stoicism (NYT)
The philosophy and science of consciousness -- a discussion across multiple posts, between Jonathan Birch (LSE) and Hedda Hassel Mørch (Inland Norway)
“The political theory defended in Crito is fundamentally wrong, and wrong in a very deep way” -- Dan Little (UM-Dearborn) on Socrates the absolutist
“The public philosopher is neither an authority figure who has special access to the answers for our social problems nor are they a clever but disinterested observer who can discuss all sides to a given issue” -- rather, says William Paris (Toronto), they aim at making problems intelligible
There was an evidentiary hearing in the Kershnar case this week -- the story is covered in the New York Times
“Some more self-awareness of the costs and risks of focusing on arguments would make analytic philosophy wiser” -- Eric Schliesser (Amsertdam) on arguments, considerations, systems, and imagery in philosophy
“The life and legacy of a man who helped philosophy onto British TV and radio” -- an appreciation of Bryan Magee, from Angie Hobbs (Sheffield), Barry Lam (UC Riverside), MM McCabe (Cambridge), Peter Singer (Princeton) and others, on BBC radio
“Why make a law about something that doesn’t exist?” -- the puzzle that prompted philosopher Daniel Hoek (Virginia Tech) to discover that what we've known for 300 years as Newton's first law is based on a mistaken translation
“Works of art that illustrate philosophy are inventive in their presentation of abstract philosophical ideas in concrete visual form even as they attest to the importance of written philosophy as a source of artistic inspiration” -- Thomas Wartenberg (Mount Holyoke) on how art can illustrate philosophy
What it is like to be a philosopher in Ukraine–before 1991 and after -- a report from Viatkina Nataliia (Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)
“Technology tempts us into being satisfied with pseudo-friendships” -- Paul Woodruff (Texas), who says his “end is near”, reflects on technology and friendship
“When you long / To invent right and wrong / When you’re glad / To explore good and bad / But you’re through / Telling folks what to do — That’s metaethics! -- Nomy Arpaly and Jamie Dreier (Brown) sing about metaethics, backed up by Michael Smith (Princeton) on guitar
“Admirers of Marx and Freud tend to claim both that their ideas had a positive net effect and that these ideas would not have been proposed had Marx and Freud never lived” -- " I concur with the latter claim, but not with the former," says Jon Elster (Columbia) (from 2011, via MR)
“In our scholarly community, the onus should not be solely on early-career researchers to put themselves out there and network. It’s also up to us tenured folk, to help create structures and opportunities for them to do so” -- Helen De Cruz (SLU) on networking in philosophy
“There is this tension in the way people write about mathematics — some philosophers and historians in particular” -- an interview with mathematician Andrew Granville on how insights from philosophy help shed light on the social dimensions of mathematics
“The rent will be used to address crumbling infrastructure as the upkeep of a completely underground cave is no easy thing” -- Plato's Cave has a new property management company, and it's raising the rent

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