Here’s the last of the monthly updates on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, and new podcast episodes. Next week we return to a weekly schedule. (If we’ve missed anything, please let us know.) SEP New: Edmund Husserl by Dan Zahavi. Algorithmic Fairness by Deborah Hellman. Gauge Theories in Physics by John Dougherty. Preference Logic by Fenrong Liu and Leon van der Torre. Revised: Feminist Moral Psychology by Anita Superson. Non-Deducti...| Daily Nous
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 be out in the US in October — starring Julia Roberts, Ayo Edebiri, Andrew Garfield, and Chloë Sevigny, “After the Hunt” is getting mixe...| Daily Nous
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 culture? — a look at some recent findings “Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world” — the 21 rules of 17th Century Samurai Miyamoto Mu...| Daily Nous
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 up to 11 (sorry, Richard) “The a priori is not empirical reasoning in that it doesn’t admit evidence from the senses. But beyond that, what is it?” — what makes philosophy...| Daily Nous
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 place that will solve the problems of democracy is a very dangerous one that Plato fell victim to” — on Plato’s real world attempts to...| Daily Nous
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
Here’s the (usually weekly, but during the summer, monthly) report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, and new podcast episodes. (If we’ve missed anything, please let us know.) SEP New: The Free Rider Problem by Garrett Cullity. Personal Identity and Ethics by Annette Dufner. Revised: Giambattista della| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
Here's (usually weekly, but during the summer, monthly) report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, and new podcast episodes. (If we’ve missed anything, please let us know.) SEP New: Nationalism by David Miller. Experimental Jurisprudence by Kevin Tobia, Guilherme Almeida, Karolina Prochownik, and Ivar Hannikainen. Empirical Approaches| 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
The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, and new podcast episodes… (If you notice something missing from the update, let us know. Thanks.) SEP New: ∅ Revised: Zhu Xi by Kirill Thompson. Kantian Conceptualism/Nonconceptualism by Colin McLear. The Social Dimensions of Scientific Knowledge by Helen Longino.| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, and new podcast episodes… (If you notice something missing from the update, let us know. Thanks.) SEP New: ∅ Revised: Quantum Mechanics by Jenann Ismael. Martin Luther by Robert Stern and Volker Leppin. Luther’s Influence on Philosophy by| 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
The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, and new podcast episodes… (If you notice something missing from the weekly update, let us know. Thanks.) SEP New: ∅ Revised: Alexander Crummell by Stephen Thompson. Episteme and Techne by Richard Parry. Medieval Philosophy by John Marenbon. The| 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
The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, and new podcast episodes… (This installment covers the past two weeks.) (If you notice something missing from the weekly update, let us know. Thanks.) SEP New: Animal Social Cognition by Cameron Buckner. Revised: Plutarch by George Karamanolis. IEP| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
Recent additions to the Heap of Links... Discussion welcome. “This is concrete evidence that brain microbiomes do exist in vertebrates… And so the idea that humans have a brain microbiome is not outlandish” -- huge if true: "this would suggest an extra layer of neurological regulation that we didn’t know existed" “Telling your child that Santa| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
Latest links... Discussion welcome. “We can’t understand the human mind if we don’t understand the role mental imagery plays in… diverse mental phenomena” -- The Junkyard is hosting a book symposium on Bence Nanay's "Mental Imagery: Philosophy, Psychology, Neuroscience" “Our idea was to train the next generation of experts, rather than trying to change the mindset| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
Latest links... Discussion welcome. Fuck -- a timely history of the word “The ability to write a genome from scratch would unlock greater creativity in designing a desired genome… and producing new kinds of organisms that do things that nature cannot” -- an interview about artificial life with synthetic biologist Yizhi “Patrick” Cai (Manchester) “People end up| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession