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Daily Nous Features

Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

October 21, 2019

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

Triumphantly Breaking Free from Academic Philosophy, But Still…

October 17, 2019

In 2015 I received the National Humanities Medal at a ceremony at the White House. President Obama himself put the medal around my neck,…
Issues in the Philosophy Profession

Women and the “Philosophical Personality” (guest post by Christina Easton)

October 17, 2019

“Research suggests that there is a cognitive task on which philosophers tend to perform better than non-philosophers and men tend to perform better than…
Daily Nous Features

Mini-Heap

October 17, 2019

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Conferences

Videoconferencing for Climate Practice (guest post by Colin Marshall and Sinan Dogramaci)

October 16, 2019

The following is a guest post* discussing the practice of making videoconferencing a regular component of academic conferences and the like, for the sake…
philosophy

How Do I Figure Out What To Think? (guest post by Martin Lenz)

October 15, 2019

“Picking a side helps you to play the game. But it doesn’t help you in figuring out what you should think. In other words,…
Daily Nous Features

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October 15, 2019

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Cuts and Threats to Philosophy Programs

University to “Align” Philosophy Major with Catholic Studies

October 14, 2019

The trustees of Newman University, a Catholic university in Kansas, have approved a plan proposed by the administration that will revise its philosophy and theology programs so that…
philosophy

“An Optimistic Bet”

October 12, 2019

The relationship between truth and social progress is then an optimistic bet. I hope that knowing the truth is part of what sets us…
Daily Nous Features

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October 11, 2019

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Publishing

Refereeing Papers About Your Own Work

October 10, 2019

A graduate student in philosophy writes in with the following query:
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October 9, 2019

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philosophy

Death and Progress in Philosophy

October 9, 2019

While outsiders appear reluctant to challenge leadership within a field when the star is alive, the loss of a luminary provides an opportunity for…
Awards Grants Honors

Lynch Wins 2019 NCTE George Orwell Award

October 7, 2019

Michael P. Lynch, Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut, is the winner of the 2019 George Orwell Award for Distinguished…
Philosophy Job Market

What Should Search Committees Initially Ask For?

October 7, 2019

A reader draws my attention to the advertisement for an assistant professorship in philosophy at Duke University as an example of the problem of schools…
Daily Nous Features

Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

October 7, 2019

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

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October 4, 2019

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Teaching

Teaching Students How To Ask Philosophical Questions

October 2, 2019

“Question asking… is a skill all-too-often undervalued in philosophy pedagogy and philosophy pedagogy research”
Daily Nous Features

Mind Chunks

October 1, 2019
Daily Nous Features

Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

September 30, 2019

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

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“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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Paul Taborsky on Death Just Got Out of This Truck (guest post)
I hope it is not too impolite to point out that for anyone who is a professional philosopher, (especially the tenured kind) philosophy has quite obviously the ability…
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.