Tag: Philosophy of Popular Philosophy Miniseries

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Nonfiction and Narrative Popular Philosophy (guest post by Barry Lam)

September 7, 2020

“The design features that make for good academic philosophy might make for terrible public philosophy…”
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Public Philosophy and the News (guest post by Alexis Papazoglou)

August 17, 2020

Philosophy still can, and should, be done in the service of helping others make sense of our contemporary shadows on the wall: the never-ending…
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Philosophy, Employment, and the Public Good (guest post by Alison Assiter)

July 22, 2020

“Educating students in philosophy and the humanities is a public good. We need people who think analytically and imaginatively and in unusual ways.”
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Public Philosophy and the Civic Duty of Universities (guest post by Angie Hobbs)

June 22, 2020

“Like Plato’s Academy, the majority of modern universities should be civic institutions that engage with, learn from, and enhance the well-being of their local…
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Popular Philosophy and Populist Philosophy (guest post by Timothy Williamson)

June 8, 2020

“Philosophy is even harder than it seems; the right response to its difficulty is not to trash all the work already done by thousands…
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The Philosophy of Popular Philosophy: A Miniseries (guest post by Aaron Wendland)

May 25, 2020

The following is the first installment of a miniseries on “The Philosophy of Popular Philosophy.” The series is being guest-edited by Aaron James Wendland,…

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What is the debate over whether transwomen are women even about? — Katie Zhou argues that it's about which facts are granted "the cross-contextual significance and stickiness characteristic of gender"
We’re putting human brain cells into mice brains — One moral risk of this, says Mackenzie Graham, is a decrease in our ability to interpret what mice behavior tells us about their experiences and welfare
The Rawls Game — with instructions, background, advice, and downloadable character cards
“The central question would shift from ‘How do we maximize shareholder value?’ to ‘How do different forms of organization distribute power, risk and reward — and which should we strengthen?'” — Chris Marquis on the case for abolishing, or at least radically changing, business schools
Asking “How did I get here?” may help us reflect on the nature of personal identity in ways that asking “Who am I?” cannot — Marya Schechtman's 2024 Central Division Meeting Presidential Address
“Collecting is a game, but what kind of game? It is an imperfect information game of acquisition” — a theory of collecting, from Steven Hales
“A general human tendency: to overestimate how far we have come in the progress of human knowledge” — a lengthy interview with Thomas Nagel
“Many couples do not survive trauma like this” — A profile of Susan Brison—who was brutally attacked in 1990, and who wrote about it in Aftermath—and her husband, Thomas Trezise, who has now written his own book stemming from those events
“Bad AI Consciousness Takes” Bingo Card — Henry Shevlin's area of specialization is becoming a popular topic in popular discourse, and he can't stand the "cavalcade of terrible takes"
Does the principle of sufficient reason imply panpsychism? If it does, do we then ponens or tollens? — Sam Kimpton-Nye on these questions and the "demand for intelligibility"
PTSD flashbacks may be harmful, but they may also be helpfully “resupplying phenomenal experience” to those who, owing to trauma, are “grasp alienated” — Michaela McSweeney on trauma and "madness-as-strategy"
A look at the very first issue of Mind — Brett Mullins surveys its articles on the occasion of the journal's 150th anniversary
The most bizarre plagiarism-related story ever — featuring: a death, an investigator, a dissertation, a mysterious red book, and more
New data on earnings by major and university — though not all universities
“AI poses two different existential threats to [our] valuing practices” — Jordan MacKenzie offers an account of why negative judgments about AI taking over our creative and caring activities are justified
“Submission” is a humorous clicker-style game about starting a career in academic philosophy (or not) — created by Nat Hansen
“The best investment in education is to become the most human human—a challenging, fulfilling, exciting pursuit that connects us across generations” — an interview with Christa Acampora, philosopher and dean of Arts & Sciences at UVA
“What would happen if we tried to live without the mythology of agency at all?” — It's worth pondering, since "agency is just an internal command hallucination," says Alexander Douglas
“Reading List” is a free Mac app for keeping track of papers to read — philosophy PhD student Hayden Kajercline created this productivity tool for researchers, with help from Claude
How should we react to scary predictions about AI? “First: by asking questions” — "If you believe predictions uncritically, it amounts to obeying in advance," says Carissa Véliz

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Xan Bozzo on Putting the Pub in Public Philosophy
I have hosted a Philosophers’ Cafe at a local for years at UW-Green Bay and now at UW-Stout. Very popular. See here: https://www.uwstout.edu/about-us/our-leadership/provosts-office/uw-stout-centers/center-applied-ethics
Tenured Realist on AI Use in STEM and Philosophy Dissertations
The examples are all things I've recently heard colleagues mention. Institutions are increasingly providing integrated AI tools for faculty to use in their work (e.g. a colleague mentioned…
HotWheelReggie1991 on New Philosophy of AI Initiatives
I've never quite understood philosophers being so worried about the sources of funding for philosophy… hardly anyone funds philosophy, and as long as they are not making the…
Simon Goldstein on New Philosophy of AI Initiatives
Inspiring to see talented researchers focusing on these important questions!
Claire Katz on Calls for Papers / Grants / Etc.
Call for Poster Abstracts! The Futures of Philosophy: A Two Day Symposium/Workshop Integrating Philosophical Inquiry into (and beyond) the PK-12 Classroom. Texas A&M University, College Station campus, March…
Animal Symbolicum on New: “Why Teach Philosophy?”
True, true. And it should be clear that I appreciate your series and what it represents. It's understandable to want to present interesting examples that deviate from online…
Paul on New Philosophy of AI Initiatives
Great comment, Max.
Richard Y Chappell on New Philosophy of AI Initiatives
I'd welcome more disciplinary attention to the question of what issues are "more important"; that's precisely the sort of question global priorities research aims to address. I don't…
AGT on New Philosophy of AI Initiatives
Just a thought: What the corporations are doing with AI seem to be self-defeating though also in this regard. If they do create artificial beings, chance is those…
Kate on New Philosophy of AI Initiatives
Fantastic news, godspeed to all involved
Teruji Thomas on New Philosophy of AI Initiatives
Here is the ad for the jobs at the LSE (two four-year postdocs): https://jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/5138/0/475866/15539/research-officers-for-the-global-priorities-research-group-gprg Two notes from the ad: "The ability to produce research related to…transformative artificial intelligence…
Nicolas Delon on New Philosophy of AI Initiatives
"implicit bias in AI, intellectual property theft, deskilling of labor, environmental damage, responsibility sinks for targeting in war" These are not exactly under-discussed issues. It's like 90% of…
Sam Duncan on New Philosophy of AI Initiatives
I’m fine if people want to talk about malicious AI, and while we’re tut tutting with Critical Thinking, implying that I somehow want to censor them is pretty…
Nicolas Delon on New Philosophy of AI Initiatives
They should also be careful not to launder lazy clichés found on social media. Max makes a perfectly reasonable point.
Richard Y Chappell on New Philosophy of AI Initiatives
I'm always puzzled in these discussions by why people treat effective altruists as an inherently insidious force, when they never raised any similar objections about (e.g.) Mellon funding…