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Public Philosophy and Outreach

Free Philosophy Book for Swedish Students

December 2, 2019

All third-year high school students in Sweden can claim a free copy of Alternative facts: On Knowledge and Its Enemies, by Stockholm University philosophy professor…
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Philosophical Intuitions and Demographic Differences

December 2, 2019

Philosophers are disagreeing over what lessons should be learned from the growing body of work on the interplay between demographics and philosophical intuitions.
News

Fire at Harvard’s Philosophy Department

December 2, 2019

Emerson Hall, which houses the Department of Philosophy at Harvard University, caught fire last Friday.
Daily Nous Features

Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

December 2, 2019

Here’s the weekly report on new and revised entries in online philosophy resources and new reviews of philosophy books.
Daily Nous Features

Mini-Heap

November 29, 2019

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Teaching

A Collection of Stories for Teaching Ethics

November 27, 2019

Luc Bovens, professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, has created a website that gathers together and organizes various “short…
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Philosophy and “The Empirically Tractable”

November 26, 2019

I think you are right to be suspicious of the tendency of this institutional paradigm to postulate truths that are ‘basic’, ‘ultimate’ or ‘fundamental’…
Research

First German-Language Nietzsche Research Center Opens

November 25, 2019

The University of Freiburg has opened the Nietzsche Research Center, which it says is “the first in the German-speaking region and combines specialist knowledge…
Daily Nous Features

Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

November 25, 2019

Here’s the weekly report on new entries in online philosophical resources and new reviews of philosophy books.
News

Students Disrupt Philosophy Professor’s Course, Call For Resignation

November 22, 2019

Students at the University of Texas, Austin marched into the classroom of philosophy and biology professor Sahotra Sarkar yesterday, calling him a “predatory professor” and protesting…
Public Philosophy and Outreach

Philosophy of Science Communication: an Introduction & an Interview (guest post)

November 22, 2019

Philosophy of Science Communication is not just the Philosophy of “Science Communication,” but also the Communication of “Philosophy of Science”. Philosophy of science is not…
Daily Nous Features

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November 22, 2019

The latest additions to the Heap of Links…
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Philosophers as Discoverers of the Unknown (Questions for World Philosophy Day)

November 21, 2019

“I didn’t even know that was a question I could ask.”
Philosophy Job Market

Application Fee for a Tenure-Track Job

November 21, 2019

The Department of Philosophy at the University of Milan is looking to fill a tenure-track position in applied ethics. To apply, send the university…
Teaching

Foreign Language Instruction Through Philosophy Courses

November 20, 2019

Stephen Angle, professor of philosophy and East Asian studies at Wesleyan University, teaches one section of his Classical Chinese Philosophy course in English, and…
Daily Nous Features

Mini-Heap

November 19, 2019

The latest from the Heap…
Daily Nous Features

Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

November 18, 2019

Here’s the weekly report on new entries in online philosophical resources and new reviews of philosophy books. This particular update covers the past week…
Faculty Moves

Velleman from NYU to Johns Hopkins (updated)

November 18, 2019

J. David Velleman, currently professor of philosophy at New York University, has accepted an offer from the Department of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University (JHU).
Publishing

The Inefficiencies of Traditional Academic Writing

November 18, 2019

Most of the words in an average, considered-well-written paper are in some sense superfluous: for the right audience, you can usually boil it down…
Publishing

Trade Publishers: You Need To Fact-Check Philosophy, Too

November 14, 2019

As you all know, Kant’s moral philosophy includes the idea of universalization.

Heap of Links

“Professors can’t fix the problem on their own” — Victor Kumar on what university administrators need to do address AI's threat to higher education
“The wall between jus ad bellum and jus in bello, which had sustained his theory for almost half a century, was no longer sturdy” — a profile of Michael Walzer, focusing on his thoughts about just war theory and the Israeli-Palestine conflict
We may think that we lose something significant when AI beats us to a discovery — if we do, Daniel Greco says, that seems to imply we gained something significant, too
“Once upon a time there were a couple of handsome naturalistic philosophers working in and around the philosophy of fiction” — thoughts on new directions in philosophy of fiction, from several philosophers
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

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Student Philosopher on Death Just Got Out of This Truck (guest post)
This was wonderful to read. To me, the best philosophy is literary.
Paul Wilson on Putting the Pub in Public Philosophy
While managing a used bookshop a couple of decades ago, I hosted a weekly "Socrates Cafe" with free coffee (and also wine and beer (this being New Orleans),…
John Bengson on Where Intuitions Conflict
Edit! "argued for *alternatives to* the no-conflicting-intuitions explanation"
Jason Aleksander on Death Just Got Out of This Truck (guest post)
To each their own. I have always admired Olberding's writing style. The tension you seem to find off putting isn't arbitrary, though. This is a philosopher who is…
Non-classical? on Where Intuitions Conflict
"Independent of anything that could be settled through further empirical work on ordinary intuitions, we need to know whether there is some way of working out a philosophical…
BCB on Death Just Got Out of This Truck (guest post)
My rule is: if I wouldn’t say something _like that_ to a stranger in a bar or a cab driver, I shouldn’t write it either. This is a…
Marketeer on Death Just Got Out of This Truck (guest post)
I think the point of this piece is interesting. I'll give it some thought. But I actually don't appreciate the writing. Since part of the point of sharing…
John Bengson on Where Intuitions Conflict
Glad to see attention to this issue, though I’ll note that back in 2013 ("Experimental Attacks on Intuitions and Answers”, PPR) I argued for no-conflicting-intuitions explanations of the…
P D Van Pelt on Death Just Got Out of This Truck (guest post)
There are things philosophy helps us think better about. That is the one thing philosophy does.
Apologist on Death Just Got Out of This Truck (guest post)
> (I had Albert Camus’ *The Myth of Sisyphus* in my hip pocket for a year at 17 years old – 50 years ago.) For me it was…
Darren on Putting the Pub in Public Philosophy
The Practical Philosophy Club in Toronto gets over 100 people at their Madison Avenue Pub nights each week – https://www.meetup.com/practical-philosophy-club-ontario/
dmf on Death Just Got Out of This Truck (guest post)
lot's of limits to the uses of understanding when it comes to living through….
V. Alan White on Death Just Got Out of This Truck (guest post)
I'm a longtime fan of her writing just because of essays like this.
Keith Douglas on The Future Currency of Achievement in Human Philosophy
I imagine a lot of philosophers may wish to analyze the "autonomy" involved, too.
Paul Wilson on Death Just Got Out of This Truck (guest post)
Start with Descartes. Can't go wrong with Descartes. But freshmen are not so engaged with such purported proofs of God as they are with the meaning of life…