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"As for the fact of being a lecturer in bed with undergraduates in particular, there was no possibility of avoiding the charge that this was an abuse of my position." . Those are the words of Ted Honderich, now 85 years old and emeritus professor of philosophy of mind and logic at University College London. They were| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
We’ve all dated a dude in academia and, yes, that mysterious air of “think of all these deep, important, bookish things that he knows” can be intoxicating at first. His vague condescension can even be a turn-on, in the right context. But cut to six months later when you’re hungover, blearily sharing a plate of| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
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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
If versions of any of your books are on LibGen or similar online collections of pirated material, there is a chance it was used as training data for AI, and you may be able to join a lawsuit about it. Earlier this month, a group of authors sued Anthropic, the firm behind the Claude family of large language models, for copyright infringement. The lawsuit states: Anthropic has built a multibillion-dollar business by stealing hundreds of thousands of copyrighted books. Rather than obtaining perm...| Daily Nous
For the latest installment of the occasional academic equipment series, let’s talk coffee. How is coffee done in your department? Is it every-coffee-drinker-for-themselves? Is there a communal coffee-making device of some sort? If there is an office coffee machine, what is it? What do you (realistically) wish it was? Why? Who pays for the coffee? Which coffee do you use (and who gets to decide)? Who cleans and maintains the machines? That is: what is your department’s coffee practice? Wha...| Daily Nous
Harry Deutsch, emeritus professor of philosophy at Illinois State University, has died. Professor Deutsch was known for his work in philosophical logic and philosophy of language. You can learn more about his work here and here. Professor Deutsch spent most of his career at Illinois State. Before that, he held appointments at Indiana University Bloomington and the University of California, Los Angeles, among other places. His earned his PhD from UCLA. A brief obituary is here. In a comments o...| Daily Nous
At the end of last month, a petition was launched to move the Board of Officers of the American Philosophical Association (APA) to issue a statement about Gaza that would, “Unequivocally condemn the ongoing atrocities and war crimes against Palestinians” and “Express solidarity with Palestinian scholars, intellectuals, and students who are enduring immense suffering under war crimes, siege, and mass starvation.” You can read more about the petition itself here. The APA Board stated th...| Daily Nous
What will tell your students about whether and how they may use AI for work you assign? It depends on the students, right? That’s the main idea behind today’s guest post by Victor Kumar (Boston University). Professor Kumar is co-author (w/Richmond Campbell) of A Better Ape (OUP, 2022). In addition to his academic work, he writes about philosophy, teaching, and society at his blog, Open Questions. “To capitalize on the benefits of AI and avoid the risks, teachers must craft two AI polic...| Daily Nous
How would you determine whether studying philosophy improves critical thinking? Last October, Michael Prinzing (Baylor) & Michael Vazquez (UNC) produced an informal report for the American Philosophical Association arguing that, even though there are some selection effects, they had nonetheless found some “initial and suggestive evidence” in favor of the claim that majoring in philosophy makes students, in general, better thinkers. Prinzing and Vazquez incorporated these findings...| Daily Nous
“Pity the poor reader” is one of philosopher Penelope Maddy‘s writing maxims. Maddy is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Irvine, and is interviewed about her writing by Nathan Ballantyne (Arizona State) at his site, The Workbench. What does she mean by it? She says: In philosophy especially, I figure the reader is nearly always gasping for breath, in danger of being swept out to sea, so the writer should do everything in their power to help. Keep things ...| 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
Which philosopher has a species of extinct horned armadillo named for him? Here’s an illustration of the creature, in case you’d like to see one: Here’s a hint: you might, because of the ears, be leaning towards Schopenhauer, and I can see that… …but that’s not correct. Here’s another hint: fossils of the armadillo were discovered in Argentina and Chile, places the philosopher for whom it is named never visited. That narrows it down, and I’m sure you’re on the cusp of guessi...| Daily Nous
“You can choose to use AI to learn, or you can choose to use AI to avoid learning.” That’s the central message of a new a new first-year philosophy course created by Joshua “Gus” Skorburg (Guelph) called, “Digital Wisdom: How to Use AI Critically and Responsibly”. The course was prompted by Skorburg’s observation that “students get lots of vague and mixed messages about AI use, but very little sustained, hands-on demonstration of what it looks like to use AI to learn, rather...| Daily Nous
Ryan Lake, associate professor of philosophy at Perimeter College at Georgia State University, has died. Ryan’s philosophical interests were mainly on questions related to freedom and determinism. He joined the faculty at Perimeter College in 2016. Before that, he held appointments at Miami Dade College and Clemson University. He earned his PhD from the University of Miami and his BA from Grand Valley State University. In addition to his academic work and teaching, Ryan dedicated a signifi...| Daily Nous
Here’s “an informational and best practices guide for people who are inviting and people who are being invited.” It’s by Barry Lam, professor of philosophy at UC Riverside, creator of the philosophy podcast Hi-Phi Nation, and author of the recent Fewer Rules, Better People. “Maybe it’s because I’m a first-gen college grad, but I didn’t really develop the habit of asking questions in advance about any of these things when I first started getting invitations,” he says. Now th...| Daily Nous
“How much use of AI in our research is acceptable?” In a recent email, a professor of philosophy asked for a discussion about the ethics of using AI in philosophical research, and institutional policies about it. He adds: “My instinct is to hold my students to the same standards that I would expect of my colleagues.” While that is one possible conclusion we might land upon, I don’t think it’s a particularly good place to start, since there seem to be relevant differences between s...| Daily Nous
The new semester is upon us—at least some of us, yours truly included. Summer, you were good while you lasted. Before things ramp up to a more normal pace around here, I want to thank the authors who contributed to the Summer 2025 Guest Post Series. I very much appreciate them writing and giving us so much to think and talk about. In case you missed any of them, see the list of links below. Why Do Philosophy PhD Programs Even Exist?by Barry Lam . . . . . When To Be a Heroby Elizabet...| Daily Nous
The Royal Institute of Philosophy recently announced the longlist of books being considered for the 2025 Nayef Al-Rodhan International Prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy. The £20,000 prize recognizes “books that transcend academic boundaries” that “further… our understanding of the key challenges facing the world today” in areas such as the future of humanity, disruptive technologies, global governance, transcultural understanding, scientific innovation, human nature, and transd...| 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
The articles that made it into the latest edition of Philosophers Annual have been announced. The list aims to “select the ten best articles published in philosophy each year—an attempt as simple to state as it is admittedly impossible to fulfill.” This volume---the 44th---covers the literature from 2024. The selections are: Rosalind Chaplin (UNC Chapel Hill), “Kant| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
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"We ought to ask ourselves, how did Frege’s claim to expertise in the matter of thinking fare, at that crucial moment when Germany most needed its intellectuals to rise to the defense of the endangered democratic ideals of civic equality, popular sovereignty and international solidarity? Like Heidegger, Schmitt and many others, Frege failed this test, welcoming| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
The Philosophy Journal Insight Project, which collects and organizes information about philosophy journals, has grown a bit since we first reported on it last year and is asking journals to submit data via a new "operations survey". In the following guest post, Sam Andrews, a recent philosophy PhD from the University of Birmingham who created and directs| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
The American Association of Philosophy Teachers (AAPT) is launching a new teaching mentorship program designed for philosophers teaching in small philosophy departments. A small department, for the purposes of this AAPT program, is either a philosophy department with three or fewer faculty in it, or a multidisciplinary department with three or fewer philosophers in it.| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
"If individual vices can be virtuous from the perspective of a group, is the inverse also true? Does this mean that virtues, in some cases, can be vices in the context of group behavior?" That's the subject taken up by Mandi Astola (Delft), Steven Bland (Huron), and Mark Alfano (Macquarie) in the following guest post. The| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
"In thinking about trolley problems, to what extent have you put yourself in the shoes of the person at the switch... and to what extent have you put yourself into the shoes of those tied to the tracks?" In the following guest post, Avram Hiller, associate professor of philosophy at Portland State University, notes the| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
"The mistake involves grouping together into an all-or-nothing package entire sets of claims whose epistemological credentials are quite varied. It also often involves collapsing epistemic and moral concerns." In the following guest post, Eric Winsberg, Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Florida and British Academy Global Professor of History and Philosophy of Science| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
"Current dissatisfaction with peer review is such an opportunity for change, so we call for taking advantage of this opportunity as fully as we can. We build our recommendations on the idea that mutual critical engagement is a skill developed through ongoing practice and actual engagement with each other’s ideas." In the following guest post,| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
"A kind of science-envy is often visible in much of what analytic philosophers have had to say about the question of evidence in ethics... In some cases, however, what deprives us of the truth is not scientism, but other forms of prejudice." In the following guest post, Sophie Grace Chappell, Professor of Philosophy at The Open| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
The Philosophy Journal Insight Project (PJIP) "aims to provide philosophy researchers with practical insights on potential venues for publication." Its main offering is a spreadsheet that provides information about journals' subject matter, word limits, type of peer review, open access status, rankings, impact information, acceptance rates, review times, reviewing quality, and so on. Put together| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
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What are some practical work suggestions for philosophy PhD students who are seeking academic careers? Hugo Heagren, a student at King’s College London who is currently finishing up his PhD, has compiled a list of “practical tips for philosophy PhD students.” You can check it out here. Below are some of the things on his list: Use a reference manager. Use a password manager. Keep templates for types of emails you’ll send a lot. Keep notes on pretty much everything. It’s easy to writ...| 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
The President of Monmouth College, a private liberal arts college in Illinois, has recently announced that students at the school will no longer be able to major in philosophy, nor in a number of other subjects, starting in Fall 2026. “We stand firm to our commitment as a liberal arts college and embrace the traditions of Monmouth and liberal arts schools,” said President Patricia Draves, as she announced the elimination of major programs in philosophy, history, classics, anthropology, so...| Daily Nous
“I don’t want to be a cop in the classroom. So, it’s… important for students to come to the same conclusion themselves and understand the rationale for this [AI] policy.” Recently, Patrick Lin, a philosophy professor at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, wrote a long essay for his students on the importance of explaining to why artificial intelligence (AI) is prohibited in his courses. He also shared it on his new Substack site with the thought that it could be of use to other instructors ...| Daily Nous
Journal for New Narratives in the History of Philosophy (JNNHP) is a new, online, open-access, peer-reviewed journal. The journal’s focus is “leading-edge research relating to new narratives in any period in the history of philosophy [and] discussion of and scholarship on diverse, underrepresented, and non-canonical approaches, themes, and figures in a wide variety of world philosophical traditions.” The editors write: Our goal is to provide a platform for philosophical research that c...| Daily Nous
Philosophers Johan Gustafsson and Thomas Ward have been hired by the University of Texas at Austin. Johan Gustafsson was most recently senior research fellow at the University of York. He joins the UT Austin Department of Philosophy this fall as full professor. His research covers a range of topics in moral and political philosophy, and he is the author of Money-Pump Arguments (2022), among many other works. You can learn more about his writings at here and here. Thomas Ward was previously as...| Daily Nous
The Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society is the recipient of a $3.2 million award. The funds, from the John Templeton Foundation, will “establish an international grant initiative to support PPE research projects, host workshops for the award winners, and build an expansive catalog of research and teaching resources,” the PPE Society announced. The grant initiative “will primarily offer funding for teams of PPE scholars working together to address areas of pressing importance th...| Daily Nous
The Stanford Daily, Stanford University’s independently run student newspaper, and two of its student staff, are suing Marco Rubio, in his capacity as Secretary of State, and Kristi Noem, in her capacity as Secretary of Homeland Security, for violating their First Amendment rights. . The suit argues that the administration’s reliance on the Immigration and Nationality Act to censor and punish lawfully present noncitizens is unconstitutional. From the suit: Secretary of State Marco Rubio...| Daily Nous
“We do not publish any work advancing views that are clearly contrary to the established teachings of the Catholic Church.” That’s in the submission guidelines for the National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly (NCBQ). Also in those submission guidelines: The NCBQ seeks to foster intellectual inquiry on moral issues by publishing articles that address the ethical, philosophical, theological, and clinical questions raised by the rapid pace of modern medical and technological progress. Inspi...| Daily Nous
"Over the last decade, interest in ethical issues related to computing, especially concerning artificial intelligence (AI) and big data, has skyrocketed." Why should philosophers---as teachers, as researchers, as members and administrators of philosophy departments---care about this? And what should they do in response to it? The following guest post is by members of the Value| 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
Avery Kolers, Professor and Department Chair of Philosophy at the University of Louisville, will be moving to the University of Tennessee Department of Philosophy, where he will be Professor and Department Chair. Professor Kolers works in social and political philosophy and ethics. He is the author of A Moral Theory of Solidarity (2016) and Land, Conflict, and Justice: A| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has announced the recipients of its latest grants, and several philosophers are among them. Readers may recall that in April of this year, many NEH grants were cancelled by Donald Trump's administration, and grantees and the public were told that the funds they had won were going to| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
"We, the undersigned members of the APA and the wider philosophical community, write to express our dismay and deep disappointment regarding the APA's conspicuous silence concerning the genocide unfolding in Palestine." That is the opening sentence from a new petition calling for the American Philosophical Association to "fulfill its moral obligation" to: Unequivocally condemn the| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
Philosophy majors do well according to various measures of critical reasoning and intellectual habits. But is this an effect of studying philosophy, or an effect of students already talented in these ways choosing to major in philosophy? A new study suggests that while there are indeed selection effects, there is some "initial and suggestive evidence"| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
Opportunity to Volunteer to Teach Online Courses for Ukrainian Universities| Daily Nous
A pair of philosophers have created a program through which people can volunteer to team-teach online courses at Ukrainian universities. The European Initiative for Online Tandem Courses for Ukrainian Universities launched in September of last year. It arranges for teams of two European university lecturers from two different countries to offer philosophy seminars via a virtual| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
"My experiences have led me to believe that one of the best things that men in a professional field can do for feminism is to learn to take sexual and romantic rejection well." That's one of the observations of a philosopher, going by the pseudonym "Alex Rails", in the following guest post on issues at| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
Christopher Rowe, emeritus professor of classics at Durham University and well-known scholar of ancient philosophy, has died. Professor Rowe was an influential philosopher, classicist, translator, and textual editor of Aristotle and Plato. He is the author of Plato and the Art of Philosophical Writing, among many other works, which you can learn more about here.| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
"The Journal of Political Philosophy will cease publication effective January 1, 2026." That's from an email sent by the journal's publisher, Wiley, earlier today, calling the move "a difficult decision." Wiley had attempted to keep the journal going without an academic editorial team in place, but those efforts have now come to an end. The| 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
A new study "offers the strongest evidence to date that studying philosophy does indeed make people better thinkers." Readers may recall the previous research of Michael Prinzing (Baylor) & Michael Vazquez (UNC), discussed here last year, about how "philosophy majors tend to [show] more growth than non-philosophy majors" on some traits indexed by the Habits of Mind| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
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The following guest post* is by Marcus Arvan (Tampa). Marcus runs The Philosophers' Cocoon, a helpful blog aimed at early-career philosophers. Last week saw the posting of a report on philosophers' citation practices by Kieran Healy. Marcus has written on this topic a few times over the years at The Philosophers' Cocoon (the latest is here), and| 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
From now on, "new submissions of manuscripts that are published as research articles in Nature will automatically include a link to the reviewers’ reports and author responses." The identity of the reviewers will not be revealed, unless the reviewers themselves choose otherwise. For several years, authors at Nature have had the option to have the peer-review file| 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
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"A university is special to the extent that it is a place where teaching and learning replace fighting and grandstanding." That's Agnes Callard (Chicago), writing at The Point. Are protests a good way to manifest political concern on college campuses? Do the purposes universities serve---or are supposed to serve---in society give us a reason to think| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
The following is a guest post* by Neil Sinhababu, Associate Professor of Philosophy at National University of Singapore. It concerns a publication crisis: how the number of new journal submissions outstrips the number of places to publish all of them, creating a backlog. 2,000 Spaces For 10,000 Papers: Why Everything Gets Rejected & Referees Are| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
"The decline in liberal-arts disciplines is happening because, on many campuses, no one has taken ownership of explaining them." That's Scott Carlson and Ned Laff in The Chronicle of Higher Education on "The Hidden Utility of the Liberal Arts". The authors thoughtfully discuss some of the causes of this decline and its various aspects, and they| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
"To the extent permissible under applicable law, Federal agencies must temporarily pause all activities related to obligation or disbursement of all Federal financial assistance... Each agency must pause: (i) issuance of new awards; (ii) disbursement of Federal funds under all open awards; and (iii) other relevant agency actions that may be implicated by the executive| 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
"We’ve been the most trusted name in research for over 150 years" says Nature on its "Nature Research Intelligence" site. You'd think they'd be a little more careful with that reputation. Promising "insights you can trust," Nature Research Intelligence offers around 30,000 "topic summaries" across multiple fields, each "created with generative AI and the cited references." The| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
Several publishers have policies that say that a manuscript rejected by one of its journals may be referred to another of its journals. At Wiley, referee reports are transferred along with the manuscript. Here's its policy: Such manuscripts and their peer review reports will be transferred to the receiving journal to expedite any further evaluation| 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
A commenter the other day used "chisholm" as a verb, reminding me that it has been a while since The Philosophical Lexicon has made the rounds (or so it seems to me). Here's the definition of "chisholm": chisholm, v. To make repeated small alterations in a definition or example. "He started with definition (d.8) and| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
"What philosophy journal article, published less than ten years ago, has the most citations in philosophy journals?" . That's the question taken up by Brian Weatherson (Michigan) in a piece posted at his site. He adds: That’s a pretty good operationalisation of the question, what current philosophy work are philosophers talking about the most. It| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
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? That question was suggested by Elliott Sober (Wisconsin), who is curious what philosophers think of the issue. It's worth noting that not all publishers are asking authors for consent. As| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
The philosophy major at Sonoma State University is among several degree programs slated for elimination at Sonoma State University, and the philosophy department is one of six that will be closed, according to a plan proposed by the university’s aptly named interim president, Emily F. Cutrer. In her proposal, President Cutrer notes that the university| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
George Bealer, emeritus professor of philosophy at Yale University, has died. Professor Bealer's areas of research spanned metaphysics, philosophy of language, epistemology, philosophy of mind, and logic, and he was especially well-known for his work on concepts, properties, the a priori, and intuitions. He is the author of Quality and Concept (OUP, 1982) (available online here),| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
It has been 9 years since we last discussed some of the "amusing or awful or cringe-worthy" experiences job candidates have had during on-campus visits. It's time to catch up. On-campus interview season is upon us, so it's not too late to provide cautionary tales for both candidates and hiring departments. Let's hear your horror| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
The administration of Portland State University has violated the university's collective bargaining agreement in laying off three long-employed members of the Department of Philosophy, according to a petition currently circulating. The petition is here. Members of the the Department of Philosophy at Portland State have asked that the following letter be shared with the philosophy| 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
A philosophy professor interested in writing an article about her experiences trying out new teaching techniques was told by her administration that in order to permissibly do so, she would need approval from the university's institutional review board (IRB). She was told that merely trying out the techniques, which were developed from her engagement with| 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
"It is time to replace the ideas behind affirmative action and DEI programs in higher education with more progressive concepts that better describe current social reality." So begins the following guest post by Naomi Zack, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at City University of New York (Lehman College). The post is based on the first chapter| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
On “Chilling Effects” and the “Rowdiness” of Free Speech| Daily Nous
Last year, instead of putting out a typical holiday gift guide, I put together a gift giveaway. It was fun, but I think I started it too late in the season, so I'm starting it early this year. This idea came about mainly because I'm just one person with specific tastes who isn't especially attuned| 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
"Every professor I know wasted countless hours of 2024 in the prevention or detection of AI-powered cheating. It is a miserable war of attrition that seems doomed to defeat. Perhaps the time has come, then, to declare a strategic withdrawal from writing as pedagogy?" That's Regina Rini (York) in the Times Literary Supplement. She observes| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
What were the big philosophy news stories of 2024? - Some are mainly about and of interest just to philosophers. Others are about matters largely outside of philosophy that are of broader cultural interest, but have implications for philosophers and their work. In that first category was a story about the destruction and creation of| 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 Philosophers Against Malaria Fundraising Competition has come to a close. Which philosophy department won? We'll get to that. But first: the competition raised $21,500! According to Malte Hendrickx (Michigan), who organized the fundraiser, that's enough for around 10,500 anti-mosquito bednets. And now to the results. Mr. Hendrickx writes: The University of Delaware has come| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
Hello philosofriends! I know some of you are doing great — others, not so great. But I hope all of you are able to find at least a little beauty in the world around you this season — maybe a lot — and treasure it. Happy Holidays, Justin| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
The American Philosophical Association (APA) has announced the winners of 16 of its prizes. - Below are the prizes and their winners. 2024 AI2050 Prizes ($10,000 each. Awarded in recognition of outstanding philosophical scholarship relating to artificial intelligence): Early Career Researcher: Brian Hedden (Australian National University), “On Statistical Criteria of Algorithmic Fairness,” Philosophy & Public Affairs (2021) Established Researcher: Deborah Hellman (University| 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
The 21st Century Monads have released a new album, The World Soul. The 21st Century Monads are a band that makes music about philosophy. Its current are philosophers Kris McDaniel (Notre Dame), Carrie Jenkins (British Columbia), Ben Bradley (Syracuse), and Laura Callahan (Notre Dame). McDaniel wrote most of the parts for The World Soul and played| 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
Santiago Amaya, currently associate professor of philosophy at Universidad de los Andes in Colombia, has accepted an offer from Rice University, where he will be associate professor of philosophy (with tenure). Professor Amaya works in philosophy of mind, philosophy of action, philosophy of cognitive science, and moral psychology. You can learn more about his work| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
