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The Endarkenment at Home: Benchmarking Academics (guest post by Elijah Millgram)

May 26, 2015

The Great Endarkenment: Philosophy for an Age of Hyperspecialization is a new book by Elijah Millgram (Utah). In the book, Professor Millgram looks at the…
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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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Techniques Urbaines on University of Cape Town vs. Free Speech
Important issue regarding free speech
Student Philosopher on Building AI That Can Do Philosophy Better Than Us (guest post)
Do you really believe this?
Just Saying on New Philosophy Journal Rankings by Citations in SEP in IEP
The new study of philosophy journal standings provides interesting historical information, going back many years. For example, it can indirectly reveal how journals can improve their quality and…
Brian Weatherson on New Philosophy Journal Rankings by Citations in SEP in IEP
There is no magic button for "remove unlabelled review articles". You need to have a formula that a python/R/whatever script can run, and you need to check it…
ERW on New Philosophy Journal Rankings by Citations in SEP in IEP
Your argument appears to be that a human would have not thought to do what many humans on Daily Nous suggested you do as soon as they saw…
Graham Harman on New Philosophy Journal Rankings by Citations in SEP in IEP
When you do this, you're just doubling down on giving all the authority to the standard gatekeepers of "mainstream" philosophy. The kinds of people who are normally invited…
Mourinho on University of Cape Town vs. Free Speech
I fully disagree with Mark's conspiratorial comments on the Ayaan Hirsi Ali podcast, and in fact think less of him for going on her podcast in the first…
Jessie Ewesmont on University of Cape Town vs. Free Speech
He has a right to say whatever he wants without being arrested. He doesn't have a right to spout looney tunes tinfoil nonsense and maintain an executive position…
SCM on University of Cape Town vs. Free Speech
I don’t see this as an issue to be determined by the contours of the constitutional right to free speech in South Africa. If Oppenheimer were a ministerial…
Kenny Easwaran on New Philosophy Journal Rankings by Citations in SEP in IEP
It's actually remarkable how similar this list is to the last Leiter poll I found (https://leiterreports.com/2022/08/23/best-general-journals-of-philosophy-2022-via-the-condorcet-method-and-via-an-average-of-both-methods/) Ignoring specialty journals, your list is: Phil Review Phil Perspectives Mind JPhil…
Brian Weatherson on New Philosophy Journal Rankings by Citations in SEP in IEP
It's not even "AI-produced" in any interesting sense. It's produced by a python script from standard sources. That script was written by AI, but that's not particularly relevant;…
Just Saying on New Philosophy Journal Rankings by Citations in SEP in IEP
These rankings are based on data that go back 36 years. For much more recent data and an extremely thorough, professional study, see this on Daily Nous: https://dailynous.com/2023/12/04/new-meta-ranking-of-philosophy-journals/
Azat Sadri on Building AI That Can Do Philosophy Better Than Us (guest post)
"I invite everyone to recognize the damage here" I am a member of a philosophy department (teacher) and am currently writing a PhD, and, in my view, the…
WiseGuy on University of Cape Town vs. Free Speech
To be clear, I certainly don't think that you should lose that position on the board for making these remarks. If every board member was losing their position…
WiseGuy on University of Cape Town vs. Free Speech
First video is so edited, it's hard to see what's going on. Some of what it shows is definitely abhorrent ways of protesting against Israel though, and I've…

Tag: metaphilosophy

The Endarkenment at Home: Benchmarking Academics (guest post by Elijah Millgram)

Unger’s New Critique of Analytic Philosophy