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Daily Nous Features

Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

June 17, 2019

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

The Today Show Reports on an APA Meeting… in 1990

June 14, 2019

Back in 1990, the Today Show aired a segment on a meeting of the American Philosophical Association (APA), taking place in New Orleans.
Awards Grants Honors

Two Philosophers Recognized During Queen’s Birthday Honours

June 14, 2019

Two philosophers were among those recognized by Queen Elizabeth II during her Birthday Honours this year.
philosophy

Flourishing with Controversy: How Philosophy of Race Does It

June 12, 2019

One of the popular narratives about higher education is that the discussion of and disagreement over controversial ideas is imperiled, owing to the dominance…
Awards Grants Honors

Winners of the 2019 Canadian Philosophical Association’s Book and Essay Prizes

June 12, 2019

The Canadian Philosophical Association (CPA) last week announced the winners of its 2019 book and essay prizes.
Faculty Moves

Greco from Saint Louis to Georgetown

June 11, 2019

John Greco, currently the Leonard and Elizabeth Eslick Chair in Philosophy at Saint Louis University, will be moving to the Department of Philosophy at…
Daily Nous Features

Mini-Heap

June 11, 2019

Here’s the latest Mini-Heap…
Public Philosophy and Outreach

Philosophers On the Ethics and Politics of Abortion

June 10, 2019

This year, nine U.S. states have passed legislation that bans early abortions in an attempt to provoke a challenge to the abortion rights protected by the…
Awards Grants Honors

Winners of Sanders Prize in Metaethics Announced

June 10, 2019

The Marc Sanders Foundation has named the authors of two papers the winners of its 2019 Metaethics Prize.
Daily Nous Features

Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

June 10, 2019

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

Mini-Heap

June 7, 2019

Another Mini-Heap…
News

APA Election Results

June 6, 2019

The results of the 2019 American Philosophical Association (APA) elections have now been announced.
Daily Nous Features

Mini-Heap

June 6, 2019

A new Mini-Heap…
Research

The Cute Dog Project

June 3, 2019

A group of undergraduates at Northeastern University studying philosophy, political science, computer science, data science, economics, and other subjects teamed up on a surprisingly…
journals

Australasian Journal of Philosophy Reaches Out to Historians

June 3, 2019

The Australasian Journal of Philosophy (AJP) has been making efforts to publish more history of philosophy.
Faculty Moves

Schoubye from Edinburgh to Stockholm

June 3, 2019

Andres Schoubye, currently lecturer in the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences at the University of Edinburgh, has accepted an offer of a senior lectureship in the…
Daily Nous Features

Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

June 3, 2019

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

Visualization of Gender Distribution in Philosophy Research Topics

May 30, 2019

Maximilian Noichl, whose visualizations we’ve discussed previously (here and here) has produced one depicting the gender distribution in philosophy research topics.
Faculty Moves

Jenkins from Nottingham to Glasgow

May 29, 2019

Katharine Jenkins, currently an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Nottingham, has accepted an appointment as a lecturer in the Department of…
Philosophy and Law

Philosophers: Consider Signing Amicus Brief on Insanity Defense

May 29, 2019

“Does a state’s abolition of the insanity defense comport with fundamental principles of justice and pluralist toleration?” That is the question taken up in…

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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Kenny Easwaran on Where Intuitions Conflict
I don't think the call is for non-classical logics. I interpreted more as a call for non-classical theories of meaning, such that the words being used to express…
Paul Wilson on Putting the Pub in Public Philosophy
While theology is not (usually) philosophy, a remarkably successful pub-centric public initiative is "Theology on Tap". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theology_on_Tap RENEW International
Paul Wilson on Death Just Got Out of This Truck (guest post)
I often get in deep discussions with barflys, as did Aristotle. Their perspectives – far distanced from academic philosophy – homelessness, addiction, alienation from family, friends, romantic and…
Student Philosopher on Death Just Got Out of This Truck (guest post)
You seem like you would enjoy Hemingway
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…