Recent links... “They don’t necessarily think their movements will make all the difference—at least not in the short term. But they believe they can make a difference to their movement” -- Michael Brownstein & Alex Madva on the civic value of losing loudly A fictional movie about sexual harassment, set in the Yale Philosophy Department, will| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
Recent links... While much has been written about how current generations should wield the power they have to affect future generations, almost nothing has been written on whether that power is legitimate -- but there's a question there. Is it a good one? Emil Andersson thinks so To what extent is visual perception influenced by one’s| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
Links you may want to check out... “They call it repugnant, this world Z of ours / Where zillions breathe beneath ordinary stars / But let me tell you of a lottery divine / Where existence itself is the prize on the line” -- Richard Chappell, in search of philosophically moving music, has cranked the bombast| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
Links added lately... “Combining economics with philosophy makes for an excellent and productive career” -- that's advice for graduate students from John Broome, but it might also be a summary of this in-depth interview with him about his education and work “The fantasy that you can just wipe away democratic traditions and get something in its| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
Recent added links... “The canoe was under attack, the crocodile in full pursuit!” -- read about why philosopher Val Plumwood's canoe is part of the collection at the National Museum of Australia (via Andrew Mills) “Much of my career has been devoted to teaching and writing about Aristotle’s Ethics, but it was not love at first| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
Latest links... How does an LLM think? How does it represent concepts? -- "the first ever detailed look inside a modern, production-grade large language model" An historian of science thinks social psychology’s replication crisis is owed to its reliance on a causal model that “eliminates the role of the person” -- "This diagnosis is, in our eyes,| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
New links... “Any sign of struggle on my part seemed to be taken as evidence that, perhaps, I was not cut out for intellectual life and did not care enough about philosophy” -- an interview with Vanessa Wills King Lawrence the Lion and Maple the Meerkat navigate tricky philosophical questions in a new BBC series for| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
Latest links... A philosophy professor’s book on philosophy and culture is culled from his 18 years of blogging about it -- check out Jason Read's Unemployed Negativity “The manner in which Early Modern philosophers engaged with the most pressing moral issue of their era: the Transatlantic slave trade” -- the topic of a special issue of the| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
Recent additions to the Heap of Links... The “political character” of algorithmic decision-making -- at the intersection of political theory, business ethics, and technology 219 letters between Heidegger and Gadamer written between 1922 and 1976 have been published -- here's a brief interview with one of the collection's editors, Jean Grondin Which publisher’s line of great books| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
Links of interest to people interested in philosophy... Mary the color scientist and her friends -- The Philosophical Quarterly puts Jackson's original article and 8 others it has published about it over the years in an open-access collection The obstacle course of knowledge -- a list of things about us and the world that help explain why| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
The first mini-heap of 2025... You “may be wondering how I’m going to wiggle out of the seeming exhaustion of logical space presented by ‘either it is the case that qualia exist or it is not the case that qualia exist.’ Just watch me now.” -- Pete Mandik's qualia quietism “The core elements of community—relationships, service,| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
New links... “In my (more) pretentious days, I gave epigraphs to academic articles” -- Kieran Setiya on "front matter" “Philosophy: a safe space for the unfettered operation of mind” -- Agnes Callard on lessons learned from Musil's "The Man Without Qualities" The mystery of G.A. Cohen’s position on free will and moral responsibility -- Ben Burgis is on| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
Recent links... Discussion welcome. What happened in math and the sciences in 2024? -- year-end reviews at Quanta We need to be asking more about AI tools than whether they “undermine the narrow policies and objectives of institutions of higher learning” -- Benjamin Mitchell-Yellin at Times Higher Ed The Decolonising Philosophy Curriculum Toolkit -- including, among other things,| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
Latest links... Discussion welcome. “The story of the drive to philosophize… with the added twist that the philosopher should become reflexively aware of the structure of this drivenness” -- Aaron Schuster on Kafka's "Investigations of a Dog" “How quickly things can tip and with very little warning” -- Darrel Moellendorf (Goethe University Frankfurt) shares his experiences with| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
