Tag: philosophy

Daily Nous Features

Mini-Heap

November 9, 2020

Recent links for the Heap..
News

We Still Have Work To Do

November 7, 2020

Joseph Biden has defeated Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election.
Publishing

British Society for the Philosophy of Science Launches Open Access Book Publishing

November 6, 2020

The British Society for the Philosophy of Science (BSPS) has launched a new program to publish open access philosophy of science monographs.
Daily Nous Features

Mini-Heap

November 5, 2020

This installment of Mini-Heap includes links that are not yet in the actual Heap.
Graduate Programs

APDA Adds Board of Advisors

November 3, 2020

Academic Placement Data and Analysis (APDA), a project led by Carolyn Dicey Jennings (UC Merced) to gather, analyze, and present data about philosophy departments,…
Public Philosophy and Outreach

Coffee Company Donates 20% of Profits to Philosophy Education

November 3, 2020

A new roaster and seller of coffee beans, A Posteriori Coffee Co., donates 20% of its profits to support philosophy programs for children in kindergarten…
Philosophy Job Market

Much Fewer Academic Philosophy Jobs Advertised This Season

November 2, 2020

Compared to previous years, the number of academic jobs advertised this season is much lower.
Daily Nous Features

Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

November 2, 2020

The weekly report on new and revised entries in online philosophy resources and new reviews of philosophy books…
Daily Nous Features

Mini-Heap

November 2, 2020

New week starts with a new Mini-Heap…
Daily Nous Features

Mini-Heap

October 30, 2020

New links of possible interest to those interested in philosophy…
humor

Philosophical Candy

October 29, 2020

Halloween is coming around again, that time of year where we have fun making things extra scary. But hasn’t this past year been frightening enough?
Daily Nous Features

Mini-Heap

October 28, 2020

New additions to the Heap of Links…
Daily Nous Features

Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

October 27, 2020

The weekly report on new and revised entries in online philosophy resources and new reviews of philosophy books…
undergraduate philosophy

Black Students Are Increasingly Interested in Philosophy (guest post)

October 22, 2020

“Over the past several years, Black students have become increasingly interested in philosophy, both upon entering their first year of undergraduate study and upon…
Public Philosophy and Outreach

Program to Bring Ethics Bowl to Under-Resourced High Schools

October 22, 2020

The University of North Carolina’s Parr Center for Ethics has created a new “bridge” program to bring the center’s National High School Ethics Bowl (NHSEB) to…
Public Philosophy and Outreach

A Pandemic Ethics Book Club with the General Public (guest post by Jesse Hamilton)

October 21, 2020

“If philosophy is to thrive, it must be sensitive and responsive to the world it is meant to engage with. The non-philosophers in our…
Issues in the Philosophy Profession

Call for Signatures on Statement Regarding Sexual Harassment in Philosophy

October 20, 2020

Jan Dowell and David Sobel (Syracuse) are calling for philosophers to add their signatures to a statement on sexual harassment in philosophy.
Awards Grants Honors

Philosophers Win 2020 Leverhulme Prizes

October 19, 2020

Three philosophers have been named winners of the 2020 Philip Leverhulme Prizes.
Daily Nous Features

Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

October 19, 2020

The weekly report on new and revised entries in online philosophy resources and new reviews of philosophy books…
Daily Nous Features

Mini-Heap

October 19, 2020

Links to philosophy-related stuff elsewhere around the internet…

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Josh on Overwhelming Cheating
Our department is strongly leaning towards requiring all online courses to have in person exams. Where do you teach? It would be good to know of precedents when…
Tara on Overwhelming Cheating
I work in the math department of a large state university (read: party school), and have been proctoring in person exams for the calculus classes. We have been…
David Wallace on AI in Peer Review: Practices & Policies
Well, sure, but: “do not use any tech product outside a narrow whitelist that excludes all the major providers” is a lot more radical and difficult than “do…
Michel on Overwhelming Cheating
This is why our department now requires all exams to be in person, even for online courses, and for 60%+ of assessments to be conducted in person. Otherwise…
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Eric on Mini-Heap
Re 1 — A response to Williams College philosophy prof. Joe Cruz on the importance of writing, from a Williams alum: https://danieldrezner.substack.com/p/im-a-college-professor-writing-is
Daniel Weltman on Underappreciated Philosophical Writing of the Past 50 Years, Part 3: 1990s
Alan Sidelle's "On the prospects for a theory of personal identity" in Philosophical Topics 26 (1-2): 351-72. 1999.
Louis F. Cooper on Analytic Philosophy and McCarthyism: A New Look (guest post)
"…[A] political columnist could praise John F. Kennedy’s actions during the Cuban Missile Crisis because he displayed 'a harshness of which the intellect only of the logical empiricist…
Kate on AI in Peer Review: Practices & Policies
Sorry you're right, not sure how i missed that but i did
Milan on An Open Letter from Academics about AI Risk / Life Without the Internet & the Case for Non-Network Redundancy
This seems to carry risks of political repression. Various countries have recently restricted internet access to suppress political protest/unrest. One reason these attempts had limited to success is…
WiseGuy on A Philosopher Among the MacArthur Fellows
of course.. they gave it to him and not me.
David Wallace on AI in Peer Review: Practices & Policies
Let’s stipulate that Dropbox genuinely has no ties to AI companies. What about using Gmail or OneDrive? I don’t see how one could consistently (e.g.) abjure using Gemini…
David Wallace on AI in Peer Review: Practices & Policies
That’s my (4): no objection in principle but it is probably sensible to draw a bright line.
Meme on New Study on AI’s Philosophical Skills
Surreptitiously
Michael on A Philosopher Among the MacArthur Fellows
Yes, memory is narrative storytelling using context triggered neurological networks. Freud speculated about memory traces, Friston called the Bayesian probability clouds.