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Peter Finocchiaro on Levelling the Linguistic Playing Field within Academic Philosophy (guest post)

"Those who grew up speaking these languages but are fluent in English (as virtually everyone with a philosophy PhD is, regardless of origin)..." Speaking from my […]

Cathal O'Madagain on Co-Authorship in Philosophy over the Past 120 Years (by Bourget & Weinberg)

since there's alot of interest, perhaps you could post the data on osf.io or another open repository

Sophia Stone on Co-Authorship in Philosophy over the Past 120 Years (by Bourget & Weinberg)

Glad that collaborative writing in philosophy is getting noticed. Brickhouse & Smith immediately come to my mind as a successful collaboration, contributing to the history […]

Non-native on Levelling the Linguistic Playing Field within Academic Philosophy (guest post)

I think these considerations lack a bit of nuance. Two counterweights should be taken into consideration. First, in most of these job markets, applicants will still […]

Yael on Levelling the Linguistic Playing Field within Academic Philosophy (guest post)

I don’t want to flood the discussion, so I’m just going to point out that socioeconomic background is not the only determinant of access to […]

Michel on Levelling the Linguistic Playing Field within Academic Philosophy (guest post)

Not if they're less competitive on the Anglophone (especially American) market, since that's a much larger market. I take it that's the point.

tenure track on Levelling the Linguistic Playing Field within Academic Philosophy (guest post)

P.S. The non-western example wasn't equating non-native speakers and non-westerners, but was one example of how non-native speakers can have advantages. German philosophy would work […]

tenure track on Levelling the Linguistic Playing Field within Academic Philosophy (guest post)

Hi Non-Native, Thanks for your response. I think we're talking past each other to extent. For example, we both seem to agree that there are advantages […]

On the market on Levelling the Linguistic Playing Field within Academic Philosophy (guest post)

There are a lot of jobs that require speaking a language other than England. For example, most jobs in Germany, Austria, France, Spain, Switzerland, and […]

Non-native on Levelling the Linguistic Playing Field within Academic Philosophy (guest post)

Hi TT, thanks for your clarificaiton. I still stand by my comments above, and think that your intervention is somewhat offensive and out of place. […]

Conrad on Enough Ranking (guest post)

I too agree that the perfect should be the enemy of the good.

Silos on Co-Authorship in Philosophy over the Past 120 Years (by Bourget & Weinberg)

I wouldn't want to make any general claim about silos in philosophy, but it does seem like the two specific philosophical approaches we've been discussing […]

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New publication by John Locke -- "the discovered manuscript provides the first evidence of Locke's commitment to the principle that minimalistic theism would suffice for peaceable coexistence in any civil society"
Reconceiving abortion as a public good -- so that the state has a compelling interest in people having access to it
“The position that I have in philosophy—I grew up poor, I am a Black woman, et cetera—means I have… very different evidence of what the stuff of anger actually looks like” -- Myisha Cherry (UC Riverside) interviewed in The New Yorker about anger and philosophy
What are and what should be the limits on scientific freedom? -- Heather Douglas (Michigan State) talks with Maria Kronfeldner (CEU) as part of a series on socially engaged philosophy
“The political/ideological takeover is the practice of using political positions to drive our philosophy (or drive out the rest of philosophy), rather than the other way around” -- an interview with Michael Huemer (Colorado) at What Is It Like To Be A Philosopher
Moral progress and moral methodology -- a conversation between Philip Kitcher (Columbia) and Julia Hermann (Utrecht) (scroll to the end for the link to the video)
“There is nothing in the nature of academic research that guarantees that ‘the best ideas of a generation will become part of the canon for the next generation’; instead, many good and original ideas have been lost to the disciplines through bad luck” -- consider, for example, the case of Ludwik Fleck
“There can be a lot of natural values, all equally valuable and natural, but different ones need different circumstances or social settings to be realized—so they will occur or flower at different times/places” -- an interview with Rachel Zuckert (Northwestern), who pays attention to "real tensions real facts about art and our appreciation of it"
“The life I lived, inside the walls of the house and outside, was in fact not one life but two, lives that sometimes complemented and supported each other, but mostly clashed against a reality I could not fully grasp” -- a profile of political philosophy Lea Ypi (LSE)
“Never call yourself a philosopher — let others do that” -- Spencer Case's appreciation of philosopher Bill McCurdy
“To ask only questions we can answer is a failure of imagination” -- a brief appreciation of philosophy from Eric Schwitzgebel (UC Riverside)
“Imagining is not an alternative to reality and rationality or a diminished form of it. Imagining is a complementary form in our ways of knowing” -- Luca Tateo (Oslo) on a unified theory of imagining
The mathematics of heaps “looks like a living process” -- not about philosophy but this is the "heap" of links so file this under self-understanding
There will be a virtual memorial for Charles Mills on Sunday October 10, 2021, from 2pm to 5pm, EDT -- details are on the new Charles Mills memorial website
Audio of philosophy of science lectures from Voice of America’s “Forum: The Arts & Sciences in Mid-Century America” (1963) -- the series includes Quine, Hempel, Goodman, Black, Nagel, Putnam, Levi, Morgenbesser, Feyerabend, Suppes, and others (via Boaz Miller)
“What are memoirists doing exactly, when we claim to ‘find’ this form and meaning in our past experience? Are we genuinely discovering it back there or just making it up?” -- Helena de Bres (Wellesley) on the philosophy of memoirs
“My model of the world is that there are many, many, many thinkers, ideas and texts that are sufficiently interesting to merit serious consideration” -- why Liam Kofi Bright (LSE) opposes philosophical canons
“In sex of all things, where humans so often misconstrue what other humans want… can we ever trust ourselves to know, really know, what an animal wants?” -- Amia Srinivasan (Oxford) takes an unflinching look at bestiality
In Memo Akten’s ‘Learning To See’, “an artificial neural network loosely inspired by our own visual cortex, looks through cameras and tries to make sense of what it sees” -- "Of course it can only see what it already knows. Just like us."
“It is morally imperative to not say true things on social media” -- Justin E. H. Smith on the "false representative class" today's technology has spawned
“The visual image can no longer compete. Video is dead. Videogames seek to evolve into—or devolve back into—text-based games, so far with little success” -- a fascinating short story from philosopher John Holbo (NUS) about a world in which how people read has radically changed
“I sometimes wonder whether it’s news to most philosophers that ‘A = A’ can be funny and even is the structure, or the form, of the perfect joke” -- a philosopher's appreciation of comedian Norm McDonald, who died in September
It’s likely we’ll find that “being conscious, much like being alive, has many different properties that will express in different ways… among different species, among different systems” -- and so, says neuroscientist Anil Seth, "the mystery of consciousness may dissolve"
“One reason most humanities professors wouldn’t consider themselves humanists: they’re too busy pretending to be scientists” -- by looking at the ideas of Charles Babbitt, we can see reasons to "jumpstart an omni-cultural humanist revival"
A Facebook group for faculty and graduate students in philosophy who were first-generation college students -- created by Georgi Gardiner (Tennessee)
“Our knowledge of ourselves is (meta)knowledge like any other – hard-won, and always subject to revision” -- Stephen M. Fleming (UCL) on the science of metacognition
“We don’t even claim that it is rehabilitative, although it might be, but we do claim that it takes people seriously” -- an article about philosophy in prisons, based on discussions with MM McCabe and Mike Coxhead (KCL)
“The fact that the term ‘mob’ can function pejoratively creates a paradox” -- an interview with Susanna Siegel (Harvard) on mob violence and vigilantism
“Rationality is systematized winning.” “It’s not winning I’m worried about… I want to know the truth.” -- a teacher and a student talk about the limits of rationality
Is the ball helping the mouse get to the cheese? -- Do we "see" free will? After watching the video, click on the PDF link for an explanation of a new "perceptual" approach to free will attribution.

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