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DIFRISCO WINS POPPER PRIZE

The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (BJPS) has awarded its 2023
Popper Prize to James DiFrisco (Francis Crick Institute). (more…)

March 11, 2024 1 3


ONLINE PHILOSOPHY RESOURCES WEEKLY UPDATE

The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources and
new reviews of philosophy books… (more…)

March 11, 2024 0 0


PHRISCOS

A “Frisco,” I recently learned, is “something that outsiders spontaneously say
that secretly marks them as outsiders unbeknownst to them.” (more…)

March 8, 2024 71 7


NEW PODCAST: DOING PHILOSOPHY (PLUS: CONFIDENCE IN PHILOSOPHY)

“You shouldn’t be super confident in philosophy.” (more…)

March 8, 2024 1 10


DAILY NOUS TURNS 10!

Daily Nous started on the afternoon of Friday, March 7th, 2014—ten years ago
today. (more…)

March 7, 2024 18 74


DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE ADOPTS A PHILOSOPHER’S APPLIED ONTOLOGY

When you think of ontology, the branch of metaphysics concerned with what kinds
of things there are, what probably comes to mind is talk of universals and
particulars or types and tokens. But perhaps you should be thinking of the
“precision mission desired outcomes” of “the nation’s warfighters and
intelligence professionals.” (more…)

March 7, 2024 2 7


MINI-HEAP

Recent additions to the Heap of Links… (more…)

March 7, 2024 0 0


BERGGRUEN LAUNCHES NEW PHILOSOPHY ESSAY COMPETITION

The Berggruen Institute, known for, among other things, its $1 million annual
“philosophy and culture” prize, has launched a new philosophy essay competition.
(more…)

March 6, 2024 9 3


DOES CLAUDE WANT A BODY? IS IT TRYING NOT TO WORRY US?

Claude 3, the latest language model from Anthropic, was released earlier this
week; people are experimenting with it, being impressed by it, and some think
the high-end version of it, called “Claude 3 Opus”, could be a version of
artificial general intelligence (AGI). (more…)

March 6, 2024 10 4


BOEHM WINS LEIPZIG BOOK AWARD FOR EUROPEAN UNDERSTANDING

The 2024 Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding has been awarded to
philosopher Omri Boehm (The New School) for his book Radical Universalism.
(more…)

March 5, 2024 0 5


REPRINT FEES: HIGHER THAN YOU THOUGHT

Putting together an anthology or volume of collected works? You might want to
check your budget. Reprint fees can can be pretty high. An article from
Kant-Studien could run you over $4500. One from Phenomenology & Philosophical
Research? Almost double that, though it depends on the particular article.
(more…)

March 5, 2024 14 1


ONLINE PHILOSOPHY RESOURCES WEEKLY UPDATE

The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources and
new reviews of philosophy books… (more…)

March 4, 2024 3 3


JOURNALISTS AND PHILOSOPHY

“Why is that philosophy is glaringly absent in Indian newspaper journalism that
otherwise seamlessly synthesises ideas from numerous disciplines while
discussing a topic?” (more…)

March 4, 2024 14 5


MALEY WINS HERBERT A. SIMON AWARD

The executive board of the International Association for Computing and
Philosophy (IACAP) has selected Corey J. Maley, associate professor of
philosophy at Purdue University, as the winner of its 2024 Herbert A. Simon
Award for Outstanding Research in Computing and Philosophy. (more…)

March 4, 2024 0 11


MINI-HEAP

Latest links… (more…)

March 1, 2024 0 0


TEMPLETON GRANT FOR PHILOSOPHY OF CREATIVE INTELLIGENCE (CORRECTED)

The Templeton World Charity has awarded a large grant to Joshua Shepherd,
research professor in philosophy at Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona for a
project on “creative intelligence.” (more…)

March 1, 2024 0 10


MANHATTAN COLLEGE BETRAYS FACULTY

Don’t take a job at Manhattan College, says Manhattan College. (more…)

March 1, 2024 38 6


BOOKS VS. ARTICLES IN PHILOSOPHY

“I’ve heard people joke on more than a couple of occasions that publishing a
book is the way to get around Reviewer 2 at the journals.”

(more…)

February 29, 2024 58 7


MINOR VANDALISM ON PHILPAPERS

A philosophy professor recently noticed that the title of one of his articles in
its listing at PhilPapers had been changed. (more…)

February 28, 2024 9 0


EDUCATIONAL GAG ORDERS, ETC. IN THE US

What are state legislatures across the United States doing to limit academic
freedom and otherwise interfere in education? (more…)

February 28, 2024 0 3


FRITZ AND CARTER FROM DIANOIA/ACU TO UCL

Peter Fritz and Sam Carter, both recently of the Dianoia Institute of Philosophy
at Australian Catholic University (which the university is eliminating), will be
moving to University College London (UCL). (more…)

February 28, 2024 0 10


LEARNING TO TEACH PHILOSOPHY YOU DON’T ALREADY KNOW

You may occasionally think about a topic you think you should add to a course
you teach, but put off doing so because you don’t believe you know enough about
it to teach it well. (more…)

February 27, 2024 1 11


PHILOSOPHERS: THE ORIGINAL “DISHABITUATION ENTREPRENEURS”

“We have come to believe that it is not possible to understand the current
period—and the shifts in what counts as normal—without appreciating why and how
people do not notice so much of what we live with.” (more…)

February 27, 2024 1 9


MINI-HEAP

New links… (more…)

February 26, 2024 0 0


LEONELLI FROM EXETER TO TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH

Sabina Leonelli, currently Professor of Philosophy and History of Science and
Director of the Exeter Centre for the Study of the Life Sciences (Egenis) at the
University of Exeter, will be moving to the Technical University of Munich (TUM)
where she will be Chair in Philosophy and History of Science and Technology.
(more…)

February 26, 2024 2 6


ANKENY FROM ADELAIDE TO WAGENINGEN

Rachel A. Ankeny, currently Professor of History and Philosophy at The
University of Adelaide (soon to be Adelaide University with a merger with
University of South Australia in 2026), will be moving to Wageningen University,
the Netherlands, where she will be Chair and Professor of the Philosophy Group.
(more…)

February 26, 2024 1 6


ONLINE PHILOSOPHY RESOURCES WEEKLY UPDATE

The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources and
new reviews of philosophy books… (more…)

February 26, 2024 0 3


NEW JOURNAL: PHILOSOPHY OF AI

Philosophy of AI is a new, peer-reviewed, online, open-access philosophy
journal. (more…)

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Following on Friday’s post, it should be noted that his friends and family
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it takes everything in me not to say something pedantic when I hear this

Justin Kalef on Phriscos

Why is it necessarily dickish to mention things that outsiders get wrong? True,
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Scott Paeth on Phriscos

Actually outside of Boston it’s usually “town,” as it used in “We went into town
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The City of London (i.e., the small part of modern London that was +/- the
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Patrick Lin on Phriscos

Right, I get that many or maybe every city might be called "the city" by locals.
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That was still kicking around as late as last year.

Andy Stroble on Phriscos

Appears the "No Frisco" campaign has been successful, for the most part. Why has
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HEAP OF LINKS

 * If you look online for evidence about what today’s teens are like, remember
   that all you’re seeing is what *some* of them are like *online* -- philosophy
   students and younger professors on the hasty generalizations and other
   problems with a recent NYT article on teen subcultures
 * Beyond words: ChatGPT’s visual interpretation of the PhilPapers survey
   questions -- Kelly Truelove has ChatGPT explain the questions, prompt DALL-E
   to represent their possible answers in artworks, and then explain the
   artworks
 * Your university probably has already adopted or will soon launch some kind of
   data science degree program; a “data ethics” course could be a valuable part
   of it -- Zina B. Ward (Florida State) shares her version of the course
 * “Something unseen lies at the heart of science that… makes it work: direct
   experience” -- two physicists and a philosopher argue for a phenomenological
   approach to scientific questions, in The Atlantic
 * “The basic methodology of data—as collected by real-world institutions
   obeying real-world forces of economy and scale—systematically leaves out
   certain kinds of information” -- C. Thi Nguyen (Utah) on the limits and
   overextension of data
 * “Gaus offered an optimistic view of liberalism and public reason, arguing
   that the freedoms of our tightly networked society are difficult to squash
   and that its ideals could be vindicated through grassroots exploration and
   consent” -- the latest issue of Hypertext, a substack journal from the
   Niskanen Center, is focused on the philosophy of Gerald Gaus
 * “The concept of ‘randomisation’ can seem abstract to families whose main
   concern is securing clean water, sufficient food and sturdy shelters” -- the
   ethical challenges of randomized control trials in developmental economics
   (via Marcos Picchio)
 * A video of Sydney Shoemaker, Hywel Lewis, and Godfrey Vesey on personal
   identity, circa 1970 -- a new addition to Open University's "Philosophy in
   the Open" digital archive
 * “In Nietzsche she found caustic contempt for outdated norms, a vision for a
   humanity emancipated from tradition, and an exhortation to be oneself,
   whatever the cost.” -- the Nietzschean feminism of Helene Stöcker
 * All about applied epistemology -- an extensive and organized bibliography,
   syllabi, and videos, from the Applied Epistemology Project at UNC
 * From the acknowledgments in Feinberg’s “Harm to Self”: “On this particular
   volume I received no help from Josiah S. Carberry. For that too I am
   grateful.” -- and that's not the only place he's mentioned. But who is he?
 * She started working in the philosophy department at Western Washington
   University 30 years ago as an admin -- Now retired, Dee Dee Lombard has
   created a scholarship fund for philosophy students
 * “I am a gender eliminativist. I believe that gender is real, but I think it
   should not be… As a feminist, I think that anyone who is being gender
   transgressive is putting us on the right road” -- Louise Antony (UMass) on
   sex, gender, trans persons, sports, prisons, and feminism
 * A philosopher and a writer (and former bartender) walk into a bar and talk
   about intellectual humility -- a conversation between Heather Battaly
   (Connecticut) and Rosie Schaap
 * Pessimism about philosophy’s prospects, both in and out of the academy --
   there's a "crumbling of our institutions" and a "crisis of trust", writes
   Helen de Cruz (SLU)
 * Philosophy of mind and transgender identity -- an interview with Sophie Grace
   Chappell (Open University)
 * “It’s often said that Bayesian updating is unbiased and converges to the
   truth—and, therefore, that biases must emerge from non-Bayesian sources.
   That’s wrong.” -- Kevin Dorst (MIT) explains why
 * “Folklore is an overlooked repository of philosophical thinking from voices
   outside the traditional canon” -- so argues Abigail Tulenko (Harvard), with
   several examples
 * “At public universities, we shouldn’t require Diversity Statements because
   they’re a tool for political discrimination, they waste a large collective
   amount of time, and they incentivise lying and deception” -- Perry Hendricks,
   writing at the Blog of the APA
 * “I went to a science exhibit and was bitten by a radioactive philosopher” --
   an interview with Fred Van Lente and Ryan Dunlavey, who created Action
   Philosophers about 20 years ago
 * “Sometimes suffering edifies us, sometimes it’s damaging. These
   considerations are invaluable for trying to figure out where athletics fits
   into a happy life” -- an interview with philosophy professor and champion
   runner Sabrina Little (Christopher Newport U.)
 * “A keen, rigorous eye, both in philosophy and photography” -- a note about an
   exhibit last fall of photographs by the late Joseph Raz (via Michael Sevel)
 * Who should make decisions that affect a person with dementia? How should
   those decisions be made? -- Anna Mahtani (LSE) on applying decision theory to
   questions about caring for people with dementia
 * “When Tisias took the floor, he contradicted Corax point for point. But he
   did so, quite remarkably, by using [Corax’s] same argument, altering nothing”
   -- Robin Reames (Univ. Illinois, Chicago) on sophist "antilogic" (via Paul
   Wilson)
 * “Many of the challenges that I have encountered while working in philosophy
   are related to autism” -- an interview with Amelia Hicks, philosophy
   professor at Kansas State and co-host of the Neurodiving podcast
 * “Reading literature might often be identificational… while reading philosophy
   is often adversarial” -- Martin Lenz (Groningen) discusses philosophy and
   different kinds of reading experiences
 * How to be a good guest on a podcast -- advice from Paul Bloom (Yale), who has
   done it many times
 * “Philosophy seeds new concepts, novel understandings… Philosophical argument
   serves more to nurture these concepts and give them life than to establish
   theorems critics can’t dispute” -- if philosophy is a kind of self-help, what
   kind of help is it? Reflections from Kieran Setiya (MIT)
 * “The freedom to act and think rationally, not dogmatically, is by far
   Spinoza’s greatest legacy” -- Ian Buruma on how Spinoza speaks to today's
   issues (NYT)
 * “All the objections to harm reduction [measures in addressing drug addiction
   and dependency] end up being indefensible… but they’re interesting to
   explore” -- a conversation with Travis Rieder (Hopkins) on his experience
   with, and research about, opioid dependency


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