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Theophron Editors on Calls for Papers / Grants / Etc.

REMINDER CFP: Vice, Virtue, & Conflict for Theophron Journal of Christian Studies. Deadline: February 26, 2023. https://theophron.org/submissions Maximum of 6,500 words, not including footnotes.

David Wallace on New Project to Fund Converting Journals to Open Access

I think SHPS is owned by Elsevier. BJPS and PhilSci are owned by their respective societies, though.

dmf on Teaching Philosophy in a World with ChatGPT

nothing like a bit of tech determinism and solutionism, or we could try and do otherwise: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/02/chatgpt-ai-detector-machine-learning-technology-bureaucracy/672927/

PhilMath on New Project to Fund Converting Journals to Open Access

Come on BJPS, SHPS, and Philosophy of Science -- let's do this!

Florian J. Boge on Calls for Papers / Grants / Etc.

CfA: Three-year postdoctoral position in the Epistemology of Machine Learning, TU Dortmund University (Germany). Closing date: 01 March 2023. https://tinyurl.com/udnn-postdoc

Pete Mandik on Mind Chunks

Thank you, Ted!!

Pete Mandik on Mind Chunks

Thanks, Alan!

Wayne Yuen on Mini-Heap

#5 is a private institution of course. Their methodologies and pedagogies would never satisfy Student Learning Objectives or meaningfully offer transferable units to a […]

Joona Räsänen on NUS Philosophy Apologizes for Rejection Email Mishap

Do you know if this also applies to fixed-term jobs such as funded positions for PhD students?

Kylie Shahar on Summer 2023 Programs in Philosophy for Graduate Students and/or PhDs

Call for Applications: Center for Canon Expansion and Change (CCEC) 2023 Summer Program Dates: June 5-9, 2023 Location: University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (Minneapolis) Contact: Kylie Shahar ([email protected]) Application […]

Matt LaVine on Mini-Heap

I greatly appreciate Prof. Berges’ many years of important work bringing to light the lives and work of women philosophers, as well as her work […]

Meme on How Risk-Averse is Academic Philosophy?

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“Free Will?” — a documentary featuring philosophers and others, released this month -- watch the trailer here
A reflexive puzzle -- (via The Browser)
“Art is artifice plus, one hopes, a hint of genius… Such hints can shine through… in the most unlikely, indeed the silliest places. There is of course no reason why AI should not also be such a place” -- Justin E.H. Smith (University of Paris 7) defends AI art, sort of
“I do not think a degenerated scholasticism is the right historical metaphor for our time and era. I think late antiquity Hellenistic philosophy is where we should see ourselves” -- "We are in a syncretic age. And I believe that is why we will soon be forgot," says Liam Kofi Bright (LSE)
“Ethics are mostly an afterthought for… profit-driven organisations, a compliance hoop they must jump through. Tasioulas and the crew of philosophers he has assembled are arguing that ethics should be foundational” -- The Times profiles Oxford's Institute for Ethics in AI
“Now, how does one inspect the unobservable / With tools meant to detect the world measurable?” -- "Hard Problem of Consciousness" is a new catchy tune by philosophical songstress Hannah Hoffman
Over the past 25 years, the number of students at Wake Forest increased by 40%, but the number of students majoring or minoring in philosophy increased by 300% -- a profile of the philosophy program at Wake Forest touches on, among other things, its strategies for increasing enrollment
The philosophy of comics (comic strips, comic books) -- questions and comments from nine philosophers
The do’s and don’ts of writing about women in the history of philosophy -- from Sandrine Bergès (Bilkent)
How much time does it take you, typically, to referee a paper (not how long it takes between agreeing to referee and submitting the report; just the actual time spent refereeing)? -- share your responses at the Cocoon
“A path to get college credit that begins on a YouTube video” -- does this new collaboration with Arizona State University represent the future of universities, or portend their demise?
“His most significant contribution is his argument that everything is ultimately made of water. It has made a big splash” -- a tenure letter for Thales, by Brad Skow (MIT)
The Gradient covers a wide range of issues regarding artificial intelligence -- recent articles have concerned AI epistemology, the punishment of robots, and the connection between understanding and making the "right mistakes"
“The synthetic creative factor of our knowledge extends… into the very first sense-impressions and even into the elements of logic” -- Friedrich Lange is "interviewed" about his neo-Kantianism, the significance of materialism, and other philosophers, at 3:16AM
“Far from being a fusty academic discipline with no relevance to the ‘real’ world, philosophy was, for him, an existential matter of immediate importance” -- the case for a biography of Bryan Magee
Voters “should expect that an effective candidate will be imperfectly honest at best” -- but liars like George Santos, who are "unlikely to be believed" are "incapable of achieving those goods that justify their deception" says Michael Blake (Washington)
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“The exercise of common sense involves a drawing back from unforeseen danger… whereas in philosophy we are more interested in seeking out unforeseen dangers in order to then avoid them” -- a history of what philosophers have thought about "common sense" by Stephen Leach (Keele)
“You should always gather more evidence, say women who love gossip” -- Carolina Flores (UC Irvine) and Elise Woodard (MIT) have some fun posting about a forthcoming paper at NWIP
“Exaggerations, half-truths and outright lies will dominate our historical imagination and make it impossible to understand, and learn from, the past” -- Daniel Bessner (Washington) on the decline of the historical profession
“The algorithmic lens while giving us affordances has a certain number of blind spots… that we must be precise… that more data is better… that there is a single uniform truth to be found…” -- Suresh Venkatasubramanian (Brown) is interviewed about developing the US Government's Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights
A philosophy course centered around paradoxes -- taught by Patrick Greenough at St. Andrews
“Contemporary analytical philosophy is in greater part interesting, valuable, and well done” -- Crispin Wright (NYU/Stirling) is interviewed about philosophy and his work on objectivity, truth, vagueness, skepticism, and other topics
“Like Gandhi, he believed that guarding power was bad for the powerful: segregation harmed the white man’s own soul. But from his other great influence Reinhold Niebuhr… King learned to reject a ‘false optimism'” -- Amod Lele (Boston U.) on MLK's improvement on Gandhi

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