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Eric Schwitzgebel on Percentage of Women Philosophy Majors Has Risen Sharply Since 2016 -- Why? Or: The 2017 Knuckle (guest post)

Yes, worth a check!

Eric Schwitzgebel on Percentage of Women Philosophy Majors Has Risen Sharply Since 2016 -- Why? Or: The 2017 Knuckle (guest post)

Raw numbers, men, 2000-2022: 3242 3962 4358 4727 5376 5763 […]

Eric Schwitzgebel on Percentage of Women Philosophy Majors Has Risen Sharply Since 2016 -- Why? Or: The 2017 Knuckle (guest post)

Good questions. The data I supplied in the post leaves those hypotheses open, but the detailed data doesn't support them. The numbers are […]

Grad Student on Percentage of Women Philosophy Majors Has Risen Sharply Since 2016 -- Why? Or: The 2017 Knuckle (guest post)

Interesting. I guess it's hard to make good guesses without further information about the absolute numbers. Is the amount of men doing philosophy major remains […]

Hieronymus on Philosophy at SUNY Potsdam Threatened (Again)

Thanks for the reply, Mark. I guess I think attention is limited and so, of necessity, attention on one thing always limits attention available for others. […]

David Wallace on The Study of Consciousness, Accusations of Pseudoscience, and Bad Publicity

This is a very nice and helpful analogy.

David Wallace on The Study of Consciousness, Accusations of Pseudoscience, and Bad Publicity

I think it would be more accurate to say that Dennett thinks phenomenal consciousness is a perfectly real thing that we can report on verbally […]

David Wallace on The Study of Consciousness, Accusations of Pseudoscience, and Bad Publicity

Whether it's responsible to call IIT pseudoscience can't be decided without deciding whether it *is* pseudoscience. IIT is getting quite a lot of attention (I […]

Jon Light on Percentage of Women Philosophy Majors Has Risen Sharply Since 2016 -- Why? Or: The 2017 Knuckle (guest post)

Could one factor be that the *total number* of philosophy majors (or students in Arts & Sciences more generally) has been falling--or falling as a […]

BCB on Percentage of Women Philosophy Majors Has Risen Sharply Since 2016 -- Why? Or: The 2017 Knuckle (guest post)

The only really swift change I know of in this period is the decline of the other humanities. Check the overall enrollment of women in

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“I would love to be talked out of it” -- Scientific American covers a recent workshop on panpsychism
New technology ethics podcast -- from John Danaher (Galway) and Sven Nyholm (LMU), the series is based on their book "This is Technology Ethics," which covers a wide range of fascinating philosophical questions
“The desire to admire EA despite its flaws indulges a quixotic longing to admire an ineffective altruist” -- an enviously well-written essay on the power and problems of effective altruism by Mary Townsend (St. John's)
“Contemporary scientists appear to be divided between those who think Neanderthal dignity calls for a recognition of their similarity to us, and those who think it calls for a recognition of their difference” -- Nikhil Krishnan (Cambridge) on the science, ethics, and meaning of disputes over how we think of Neanderthals
Last month, NDPR published an especially critical and widely circulated review by Louise Antony (UMass) of a new book in moral philosophy
— The book’s authors, Victor Kumar (Boston) and Richmond Campbell (Dalhousie) have now published a response
“We might have lived in a world in which every atom was different from every other one and where nothing was stable. In such a world there would be no regularity whatsoever, and our conscious activities would cease” -- Hermann Helmholtz is "interviewed" by Richard Marshall at 3:16AM
“‘Absolutely not,’ I told my husband from the bed as he tried to find the right place on his dresser for Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. ‘I don’t need him staring at me all night'” -- a couple disagrees over the wisdom of Stoicism (NYT)
The philosophy and science of consciousness -- a discussion across multiple posts, between Jonathan Birch (LSE) and Hedda Hassel Mørch (Inland Norway)
“The political theory defended in Crito is fundamentally wrong, and wrong in a very deep way” -- Dan Little (UM-Dearborn) on Socrates the absolutist
“The public philosopher is neither an authority figure who has special access to the answers for our social problems nor are they a clever but disinterested observer who can discuss all sides to a given issue” -- rather, says William Paris (Toronto), they aim at making problems intelligible
There was an evidentiary hearing in the Kershnar case this week -- the story is covered in the New York Times
“Some more self-awareness of the costs and risks of focusing on arguments would make analytic philosophy wiser” -- Eric Schliesser (Amsertdam) on arguments, considerations, systems, and imagery in philosophy
“The life and legacy of a man who helped philosophy onto British TV and radio” -- an appreciation of Bryan Magee, from Angie Hobbs (Sheffield), Barry Lam (UC Riverside), MM McCabe (Cambridge), Peter Singer (Princeton) and others, on BBC radio
“Why make a law about something that doesn’t exist?” -- the puzzle that prompted philosopher Daniel Hoek (Virginia Tech) to discover that what we've known for 300 years as Newton's first law is based on a mistaken translation
“Works of art that illustrate philosophy are inventive in their presentation of abstract philosophical ideas in concrete visual form even as they attest to the importance of written philosophy as a source of artistic inspiration” -- Thomas Wartenberg (Mount Holyoke) on how art can illustrate philosophy
What it is like to be a philosopher in Ukraine–before 1991 and after -- a report from Viatkina Nataliia (Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)
“Technology tempts us into being satisfied with pseudo-friendships” -- Paul Woodruff (Texas), who says his “end is near”, reflects on technology and friendship
“When you long / To invent right and wrong / When you’re glad / To explore good and bad / But you’re through / Telling folks what to do — That’s metaethics! -- Nomy Arpaly and Jamie Dreier (Brown) sing about metaethics, backed up by Michael Smith (Princeton) on guitar
“Admirers of Marx and Freud tend to claim both that their ideas had a positive net effect and that these ideas would not have been proposed had Marx and Freud never lived” -- " I concur with the latter claim, but not with the former," says Jon Elster (Columbia) (from 2011, via MR)
“In our scholarly community, the onus should not be solely on early-career researchers to put themselves out there and network. It’s also up to us tenured folk, to help create structures and opportunities for them to do so” -- Helen De Cruz (SLU) on networking in philosophy
“There is this tension in the way people write about mathematics — some philosophers and historians in particular” -- an interview with mathematician Andrew Granville on how insights from philosophy help shed light on the social dimensions of mathematics
“The rent will be used to address crumbling infrastructure as the upkeep of a completely underground cave is no easy thing” -- Plato's Cave has a new property management company, and it's raising the rent
“I’m a philosophy professor and I’ve been thinking about love” *picks up axe* -- Georgi Gardiner (Tennessee) explores the relationship between our love-related concepts and our love-related experiences (in a rather unusual video)
“Many effects of learning manifest themselves much later” -- what are the implications of that for a course's learning outcomes or student evaluations? Remarks from Martin Lenz (Groningen)
How to participate in philosophy conversations -- included in the Heap previously, this is a useful guide for students by Olivia Bailey (Berkeley)
“The expectation that college will help them land a job has led too many students to approach college like a job in its own right: a series of grim tasks that, once completed, qualifies them to perform grimmer but better-paid tasks” -- it would be better if they saw it as "a unique time in your life to discover just how much your mind can do"
What are dreams for? Perhaps they are part of how brains “learn the body” -- the work of philosopher Jennifer Windt (Monash), neuroscientist Mark Blumberg (Iowa) and others discussed in The New Yorker (via Gary Bartlett)
“In philosophy good positions are interesting in and of themselves. Good arguments can help that, but they are far from necessary” -- Liam Bright (LSE) an analytic philosophy’s argument fetish
New exhibit includes never-before-displayed portraits of Nietzsche along with items belonging to him and his sister -- "The Private Nietzsche" has opened at the Klassik Stiftung in Weimar

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