Tag: philosophy

Philosopher Demographics

Addressing Philosophy Departments’ Lack of Diversity

April 8, 2019

The Demographics in Philosophy project will be holding a session at the upcoming Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association (APA) in Vancouver.
Daily Nous Features

Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

April 8, 2019

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

Philosophical Artworks

April 5, 2019

Do you know of works of visual art that convey particular philosophical ideas, questions, problems, positions, or philosophers?
Daily Nous Features

Mini-Heap

April 4, 2019

More Mini-Heap!
Research

Australia’s Research Assessment Exercise: Results in Philosophy

April 4, 2019

The 2018 Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) report, a national assessment exercise that attempts to measure research quality at institutions of higher education…
Awards Grants Honors

Philosophers and the ACLS (updated)

April 3, 2019

Of the 81 newly named “ACLS Fellows” of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), only one is a philosophy professor.
Daily Nous Features

Mini-Heap

April 3, 2019

Here’s the latest Mini-Heap…
Philosophy Websites

Philosophy on Twitter & YouTube – Quarterly Update

April 2, 2019

At TrueSciPhi.org, Kelly Truelove, an internet technologist with a physics PhD and a long-running interest in academic philosophy, publishes a variety of lists and statistics…
Daily Nous Features

Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

April 1, 2019

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

Mini-Heap!

April 1, 2019

Yet another Mini-Heap!
Daily Nous Features

Mini-Heap

March 29, 2019

Friday Mini-Heap!
Faculty Moves

De Cruz from Oxford Brookes to Saint Louis

March 29, 2019

Helen De Cruz, currently senior lecturer at Oxford Brookes University, has accepted a position as a tenured full professor of philosophy at Saint Louis…
Teaching

Grade Anarchy & Student Learning (guest post by Marcus Schultz-Bergin)

March 27, 2019

“My core hypothesis was that student learning would actually be improved by eliminating instructor grading from the course.”
Daily Nous Features

Mini-Heap

March 26, 2019

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Daily Nous Features

Mini-Heap

March 25, 2019

Here’s the latest Mini-Heap.
Teaching

Remixing the Open Logic Text

March 25, 2019

Have you checked out the Open Logic Project recently? Created a few years ago, it’s an open-source, collaborative logic text that has several nice…
Awards Grants Honors

Inaugural Winner of New Philosophy of Physics Prize Announced

March 25, 2019

Duke University and Studies in History and Philosophy of Science have collaborated to create a new prize in philosophy of physics. Named the “Du Châtelet Prize in…
Daily Nous Features

Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

March 25, 2019

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

Richard Marshall’s Interview Series Will Continue

March 23, 2019

3:AM Magazine, which was shut down by its editor Andrew Gallix this past Wednesday amid controversy over his decision to retract an interview of…
philosophers

Study on the Personality and Reasoning of Philosophers

March 22, 2019

A new study is underway to learn about the relationship between personality and reasoning among philosophers.

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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Jason Aleksander on Death Just Got Out of This Truck (guest post)
it is disingenuous to claim that the academic life is somehow purely a life of the mind It's not impolite, but I'm not sure if you thought I…
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.