Tag: research
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Teaching College Students Basic Studenting
Do you take time to teach your lower level students basic student skills? How do you do it?
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Time for Philosophy’s COI Policies to Grow Up (guest post) (updated)
“Philosophy’s broadening impact has generated increasing interest from industries looking to partner with academic philosophers. Ties are now especially common between philosophers and technology…
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Value Capture in Philosophy
“Value capture is… where your values are rich and subtle or in the process of developing that way. And you get put in a…
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Whither the Literature Review? (updated)
Has the literature review in philosophy dissertations largely disappeared, and if so, what should we think of this change?
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Philosophers Among Australia’s “Top 250 Researchers”
The Australian has published its Research Magazine, which includes a list of the top current researchers in Australia in 250 fields.
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Research-University-Biased Perceptions of Professional Philosophy
What do you do as a philosophy professor? What does it take to get a job as a philosophy professor? To get tenure? What…
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Best Next Moves: How Philosophers Can Make Good Use of Theory-Driven GPTs (guest post)
We’ve talked previously about some of the various tasks that philosophers might have large language models help them with in their work, mainly focusing…
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GPT-5’s Ethics Guidelines for Using It in Philosophical Research
In a post last month, we discussed the question, “How much use of AI in our research is acceptable?“
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The Ethics of Using AI in Philosophical Research
“How much use of AI in our research is acceptable?”
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Practical Tips for Philosophy PhD Students
What are some practical work suggestions for philosophy PhD students who are seeking academic careers?
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Against “Throwaway Culture” in Philosophy
Throwaway culture refers to a culture in which the consumption and production of many goods is based on the practice of discarding them after…
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Philosophers Selected as Ambassadors for the European Research Council
The European Research Council (ERC) has launched a new “Ambassadors for the ERC” program.
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Professors, How Are You Using AI in Your Day to Day Work?
More outside of academia than within it, one hears things like “in a few years saying ‘I don’t use AI’ will sound as weird…
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Most Cited Recent Philosophy Articles, Year by Year
“What philosophy journal article, published less than ten years ago, has the most citations in philosophy journals?”
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Publishers Want To Sell Companies the Right to Train AI on Your Books: Should You Consent?
Should authors consent to have their publishers grant licensing requests by firms and projects to allow them to train their generative AI on their…
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A New Tool to Track and Analyze Philosophers’ Mentions (guest post)
Philosophers have always referred to other philosophers in their writing, but not always with citations.
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The 378 Most-Cited Contemporary Authors in the SEP (guest post) (updated)
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP) is one of the most widely respected online reference works. Many philosophers and students have found it to…
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Play a Game to Improve a Philosophical Research Tool (guest post)
“What papers talk about P?” “Who argues that P?”
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The Case for a Peer Review Market (guest post)
“The academic peer review system as it currently stands is frustrating and dysfunctional for many of those who participate in it.”
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Philosophy’s Digital Future (guest post)
“The crucial question for any academic system is how filtering works. Information is cheap. What we want is some way to identify the most valuable…