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
The latest links... A philosophy-themed Wordle game -- "Cogitordle" was created by philosopher Ian Schnee “The debates from the 60s to the 90s might have gone quite differently if we had known the results of these experiments” -- David Strohmaier on how new technologies can inform our understanding of learning and language Heavenly, the band of retired| 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... “By seeing knowledge as mere facts to be distilled without the struggle that leads to the ecstasy of enlightenment, my students are depriving themselves of one of the most profound delights of humanity” -- Steven Gimbel on the thinker's high Are recent episodes of “wild” scientific speculation the product of “badly digested versions of| 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
