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Can AI Write a Useful Philosophical Literature Review? (guest post)

A pair of philosophers have developed a new research tool that uses AI to provide comprehensive and reliable philosophical literature reviews, and they’d like you to give it a try. (more…)

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 setting or near a technology or an institution that presents you with a simplified, typically quantified version, and the simplified version takes over.”

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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? (more…)

How “Originality” and “Interdisciplinarity” Can Mislead Philosophy Students (guest post)

Clarifying these expectations is not a minor pedagogical matter. It is essential to helping students succeed, avoid wasted effort, and stay motivated.
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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. (more…)

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 is teaching like? What is a philosophy department like as a work environment? How much does college or university administration affect your work? What are plusses and minuses of the job? (more…)

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 on the ethics of doing so. But what about the mechanics of doing so? (more…)

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 just one or a few uses. (more…)

Philosophers Selected as Ambassadors for the European Research Council

The European Research Council (ERC) has launched a new “Ambassadors for the ERC” program. (more…)

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 as someone today saying ‘I don’t use the internet,'” or “if you’re not using AI, you’re missing out and wasting time.” (more…)

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?” (more…)

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 books? (more…)

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. (more…)

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 be invaluable, and even non-philosophers have marveled at it. (more…)

Play a Game to Improve a Philosophical Research Tool (guest post)

“What papers talk about P?”
“Who argues that P?” (more…)

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.” (more…)

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 information.” (more…)

Zombie Plagiarism in Philosophy

Some philosophy articles might be exposed as containing plagiarized material, might have editorial notes appended to them indicating as much, or might even be retracted, yet no matter how thoroughly or how many times their plagiarism is noted, they will continue to be cited in the literature and affect the course of scholarship. (more…)

New: Feminist Philosophy Archive Directory

A new online directory has been created “to make the archives of feminist philosophers, journals, and organizations easy to find.” (more…)

New Academic Interview Site: “The Workbench”

The Workbench is a new site for “conversations with academic writers on their craft,” created by Nathan Ballantyne, associate professor of philosophy, cognition, and culture at Arizona State University (ASU). (more…)

How Risk-Averse is Academic Philosophy?

“Philosophical inquiry thrives when it is conducted in a spirit that risks overreaching a bit,” yet “the current incentive structure of academic philosophy in the United States favors cautious and modest research agendas for early career philosophers.” (more…)

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