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Daily Nous provides news for and about the philosophy profession, useful information for academic philosophers, links to items of interest elsewhere, and an online space for philosophers to publicly discuss it all. The site is maintained by me, Justin Weinberg, an associate professor of philosophy at the University of South Carolina. With over 6.85 million views per year, Daily Nous is one LOUIS CHARLAND (1958-2021) Louis Charland, professor of philosophy, psychiatry, and health sciences at Western University (Ontario), has died. Professor Charland was known for his research in philosophy of psychiatry and medicine, philosophy of emotions, and biomedical ethics, including work on questions related to anorexia and its treatment. You can learn more about his writings here and here. ROYAL INSTITUTE OF PHILOSOPHY ESSAY PRIZE WINNERS The Royal Institute of Philosophy has announced the winners of its 2020 Essay Prize. The theme of the 2020 essay contest was “Knowledge, Truth and Power in an Online World”. The winners are Lucy McDonald (Cambridge University) for her “Please Like This Paper” and Nikhil Venkatesh (University College London) for his “Surveillance Capitalism: a Marx-inspired Account”. A COLLECTION OF STORIES FOR TEACHING ETHICS Luc Bovens, professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, has created a website that gathers together and organizes various “short stories in world literature by both classical and contemporary writers” that may be useful in teaching a range of questions in ethics and social and political philosophy. The site is called TESS: Teaching Ethics with Short Stories. SEVERAL PHILOSOPHERS AMONG WINNERS OF LARGE ERC ADVANCED The European Research Council (ERC) has announced the recipients of its latest round of its multimillion-euro “Advanced Grants,” and several philosophers are among them. They are: Samir Okasha (University of Bristol) Representing Evolution The aim of this 5-year project is to study the ways that biological evolution bas been represented—diagrammatically, linguistically and mathematically THREE OF WESLEYAN’S GRADUATING PHILOSOPHY MAJORS EARNED This month, the first group of seven incarcerated men will be graduating from a recently created program at Wesleyan University with their Bachelor’s degrees. Three of them—Michael Braham, Clyde Meikle, and Andre Pierce—will be graduating as philosophy majors. The work to make this happen started 12 years ago, and involved several institutions, according to Lori Gruen, professor of WHAT PREDICTS PROFESSIONAL PHILOSOPHERS’ VIEWS? (UPDATED A new study looks at correlations between professional philosophers’ philosophical views and their psychological traits, religious beliefs, political views, demographic information, and other characteristics. The research was carried out by David B. Yaden (psychology, Johns Hopkins University) and Derek E. Anderson (philosophy, Boston University), and the results have recently been published KATHERINE HAWLEY (1971-2021) (UPDATED) Katherine Hawley, professor of philosophy at the University of St. Andrews, has died. Professor Hawley was known for her philosophical work on trust, various questions in metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of science, and other topics such as impostor syndrome and creativity. Her most recent book, How To Be Trustworthy, was publishedin 2019.
KATHLEEN STOCK RECEIVES OBE; PHILOSOPHERS SIGN LETTER Kathleen Stock, professor of philosophy at the University of Sussex, was one of 1,123 people awarded honors at the end of December by Queen Elizabeth in the UK government’s annual “New Year Honours.” Professor Stock was named an “Officer of the Order of the British Empire” (OBE) for “services to higher education.” Professor Stock’s academic specialization is in philosophy of DAILY NOUSABOUTCOMMENTS POLICYOPEN, LIVE, ONLINE PHILOSOPHY EVENTSPHILOSOPHY COMICS Ad Hoc. May 25, 2021 0 9 The New York Times Eliminates Dedicated Philosophy Column. The New York Times has instituted several changes to its publication of opinion pieces, and one of them is the discontinuation of The Stone, its dedicated space for publishing philosophy.. May 25, 2021 16 2 Mini-Heap. New links for the Heap May25, 2021 0 0
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Daily Nous provides news for and about the philosophy profession, useful information for academic philosophers, links to items of interest elsewhere, and an online space for philosophers to publicly discuss it all. The site is maintained by me, Justin Weinberg, an associate professor of philosophy at the University of South Carolina. With over 6.85 million views per year, Daily Nous is one LOUIS CHARLAND (1958-2021) Louis Charland, professor of philosophy, psychiatry, and health sciences at Western University (Ontario), has died. Professor Charland was known for his research in philosophy of psychiatry and medicine, philosophy of emotions, and biomedical ethics, including work on questions related to anorexia and its treatment. You can learn more about his writings here and here. ROYAL INSTITUTE OF PHILOSOPHY ESSAY PRIZE WINNERS The Royal Institute of Philosophy has announced the winners of its 2020 Essay Prize. The theme of the 2020 essay contest was “Knowledge, Truth and Power in an Online World”. The winners are Lucy McDonald (Cambridge University) for her “Please Like This Paper” and Nikhil Venkatesh (University College London) for his “Surveillance Capitalism: a Marx-inspired Account”. A COLLECTION OF STORIES FOR TEACHING ETHICS Luc Bovens, professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, has created a website that gathers together and organizes various “short stories in world literature by both classical and contemporary writers” that may be useful in teaching a range of questions in ethics and social and political philosophy. The site is called TESS: Teaching Ethics with Short Stories. SEVERAL PHILOSOPHERS AMONG WINNERS OF LARGE ERC ADVANCED The European Research Council (ERC) has announced the recipients of its latest round of its multimillion-euro “Advanced Grants,” and several philosophers are among them. They are: Samir Okasha (University of Bristol) Representing Evolution The aim of this 5-year project is to study the ways that biological evolution bas been represented—diagrammatically, linguistically and mathematically THREE OF WESLEYAN’S GRADUATING PHILOSOPHY MAJORS EARNED This month, the first group of seven incarcerated men will be graduating from a recently created program at Wesleyan University with their Bachelor’s degrees. Three of them—Michael Braham, Clyde Meikle, and Andre Pierce—will be graduating as philosophy majors. The work to make this happen started 12 years ago, and involved several institutions, according to Lori Gruen, professor of WHAT PREDICTS PROFESSIONAL PHILOSOPHERS’ VIEWS? (UPDATED A new study looks at correlations between professional philosophers’ philosophical views and their psychological traits, religious beliefs, political views, demographic information, and other characteristics. The research was carried out by David B. Yaden (psychology, Johns Hopkins University) and Derek E. Anderson (philosophy, Boston University), and the results have recently been published KATHERINE HAWLEY (1971-2021) (UPDATED) Katherine Hawley, professor of philosophy at the University of St. Andrews, has died. Professor Hawley was known for her philosophical work on trust, various questions in metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of science, and other topics such as impostor syndrome and creativity. Her most recent book, How To Be Trustworthy, was publishedin 2019.
KATHLEEN STOCK RECEIVES OBE; PHILOSOPHERS SIGN LETTER Kathleen Stock, professor of philosophy at the University of Sussex, was one of 1,123 people awarded honors at the end of December by Queen Elizabeth in the UK government’s annual “New Year Honours.” Professor Stock was named an “Officer of the Order of the British Empire” (OBE) for “services to higher education.” Professor Stock’s academic specialization is in philosophy of JOSEPH MARGOLIS (1924-2021) 19 hours ago · Joseph Margolis, professor of philosophy at Temple University, has died. Professor Margolis worked across a range of areas in philosophy, including aesthetics, pragmatism, relativism, and various topics in applied ethics, writing over 30 books. You can learn more about his writings here, and read an interview with him here. Professor Margolis taught at Temple University beginning in 1968. ONLINE PHILOSOPHY RESOURCES WEEKLY UPDATE The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources and new reviews of philosophy books SEP New: Hegel’s Social and Political Philosophy, by Thom Brooks. Margaret Fuller, by Daniel Howe. Revised: Galileo Galilei, by Peter Machamer and David Marshall Miller. Peter John Olivi, by Robert Pasnau and JuhanaToivanen.
STUDENTS FROM 50 COUNTRIES PARTICIPATE IN PHILOSOPHY 1 day ago · The International Philosophy Olympiad took place last month, with 108 high school students from 50 different countries taking part. Owing to the pandemic, the event was held online, hosted by the Slovenian team. The Olympiad involves a writing competition, several keynote lectures, philosophy cafes, and student workshops organized around the theme of “Utopia and Utopian Thinking.” PHILANTHROPISTS: ENDOW A JOURNAL INSTEAD OF A CHAIR 19 hours ago · In the comments on a previous post about a new journal, Barry Lam (Vassar) floats a brilliant idea: How much would it cost annually to run a journal which publishes everything of high quality it receives, pays reviewers, pays authors, pays its editors, all reasonably but not extravagantly like the book presses, has beautiful type-setting, and does everything it needs to be archiveableand open
WHAT PREDICTS PROFESSIONAL PHILOSOPHERS’ VIEWS? (UPDATED A new study looks at correlations between professional philosophers’ philosophical views and their psychological traits, religious beliefs, political views, demographic information, and other characteristics. The research was carried out by David B. Yaden (psychology, Johns Hopkins University) and Derek E. Anderson (philosophy, Boston University), and the results have recently been published MINI-HEAP | DAILY NOUS The newest additions to the Heap “Looking back, when did you feel like you had made your mark in the field?” “I have not reached that point yet.” — Amartya Sen (Harvard) is interviewed about his life, education, and work What’s so bad about the literary dominance of white men? — figuring out the answer isn’t as easy as you might think, says Rachel Fraser (Oxford) “A lot of RECRUITMENT AND HIRING STRATEGIES TO MAKE PHILOSOPHY MORE The Demographics in Philosophy Project has issued a set of diversity-enhancing recommendations for philosophy department recruitment and hiring practices. Philosophers involved with the project—Sherri Conklin (Colorado), Nicole Hassoun (Binghamton/Cornell), Gregory Peterson (South Dakota State), Michael Rea (Notre Dame), and Eric Schwitzgebel—recently wrote about the PHILOSOPHERS ON GPT-3 (UPDATED WITH REPLIES BY GPT-3 Nine philosophers explore the various issues and questions raised by the newly released language model, GPT-3, in this edition of Philosophers On, guest edited by Annette Zimmermann. Introduction Annette Zimmermann, guest editor GPT-3, a powerful, 175 billion parameter language model developed recently by OpenAI, has been galvanizing public debate and controversy. KOCH USE CAUSES RIFT IN PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT “The depth of the conflict in the Department is troubling.” That’s from a report by Jennifer A. McHugh, an outside lawyer appointed by the Ohio attorney general’s office to investigate allegations of corruption, harassment, bullying, and bias in the Department of Philosophy at Bowling Green University, according to an article at The Chronicle of Higher Education (sign in required). KATHLEEN STOCK RECEIVES OBE; PHILOSOPHERS SIGN LETTER Kathleen Stock, professor of philosophy at the University of Sussex, was one of 1,123 people awarded honors at the end of December by Queen Elizabeth in the UK government’s annual “New Year Honours.” Professor Stock was named an “Officer of the Order of the British Empire” (OBE) for “services to higher education.” Professor Stock’s academic specialization is in philosophy of DAILY NOUSABOUTCOMMENTS POLICYOPEN, LIVE, ONLINE PHILOSOPHY EVENTSPHILOSOPHY COMICS Ad Hoc. May 25, 2021 0 9 The New York Times Eliminates Dedicated Philosophy Column. The New York Times has instituted several changes to its publication of opinion pieces, and one of them is the discontinuation of The Stone, its dedicated space for publishing philosophy.. May 25, 2021 16 2 Mini-Heap. New links for the Heap May25, 2021 0 0
PHILANTHROPISTS: ENDOW A JOURNAL INSTEAD OF A CHAIR 11 hours ago · In the comments on a previous post about a new journal, Barry Lam (Vassar) floats a brilliant idea: How much would it cost annually to run a journal which publishes everything of high quality it receives, pays reviewers, pays authors, pays its editors, all reasonably but not extravagantly like the book presses, has beautiful type-setting, and does everything it needs to be archiveableand open
LOUIS CHARLAND (1958-2021) Louis Charland, professor of philosophy, psychiatry, and health sciences at Western University (Ontario), has died. Professor Charland was known for his research in philosophy of psychiatry and medicine, philosophy of emotions, and biomedical ethics, including work on questions related to anorexia and its treatment. You can learn more about his writings here and here. ROYAL INSTITUTE OF PHILOSOPHY ESSAY PRIZE WINNERS The Royal Institute of Philosophy has announced the winners of its 2020 Essay Prize. The theme of the 2020 essay contest was “Knowledge, Truth and Power in an Online World”. The winners are Lucy McDonald (Cambridge University) for her “Please Like This Paper” and Nikhil Venkatesh (University College London) for his “Surveillance Capitalism: a Marx-inspired Account”. A COLLECTION OF STORIES FOR TEACHING ETHICS Luc Bovens, professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, has created a website that gathers together and organizes various “short stories in world literature by both classical and contemporary writers” that may be useful in teaching a range of questions in ethics and social and political philosophy. The site is called TESS: Teaching Ethics with Short Stories. KATHERINE HAWLEY (1971-2021) (UPDATED) Katherine Hawley, professor of philosophy at the University of St. Andrews, has died. Professor Hawley was known for her philosophical work on trust, various questions in metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of science, and other topics such as impostor syndrome and creativity. Her most recent book, How To Be Trustworthy, was publishedin 2019.
WHAT PREDICTS PROFESSIONAL PHILOSOPHERS’ VIEWS? (UPDATED A new study looks at correlations between professional philosophers’ philosophical views and their psychological traits, religious beliefs, political views, demographic information, and other characteristics. The research was carried out by David B. Yaden (psychology, Johns Hopkins University) and Derek E. Anderson (philosophy, Boston University), and the results have recently been published THREE OF WESLEYAN’S GRADUATING PHILOSOPHY MAJORS EARNED This month, the first group of seven incarcerated men will be graduating from a recently created program at Wesleyan University with their Bachelor’s degrees. Three of them—Michael Braham, Clyde Meikle, and Andre Pierce—will be graduating as philosophy majors. The work to make this happen started 12 years ago, and involved several institutions, according to Lori Gruen, professor of SUMMER PROGRAMS IN PHILOSOPHY FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS Are you organizing a summer program in philosophy for high school students, or know of any? If so, please comment on this post with information about the program, including: Program Name Location Dates of Program Application Deadline Description Thank you! Also, see the related posts for Summer Programs in Philosophy for Undergraduates and Summer Programs in Philosophy for KATHLEEN STOCK RECEIVES OBE; PHILOSOPHERS SIGN LETTER Kathleen Stock, professor of philosophy at the University of Sussex, was one of 1,123 people awarded honors at the end of December by Queen Elizabeth in the UK government’s annual “New Year Honours.” Professor Stock was named an “Officer of the Order of the British Empire” (OBE) for “services to higher education.” Professor Stock’s academic specialization is in philosophy of DAILY NOUSABOUTCOMMENTS POLICYOPEN, LIVE, ONLINE PHILOSOPHY EVENTSPHILOSOPHY COMICS Ad Hoc. May 25, 2021 0 9 The New York Times Eliminates Dedicated Philosophy Column. The New York Times has instituted several changes to its publication of opinion pieces, and one of them is the discontinuation of The Stone, its dedicated space for publishing philosophy.. May 25, 2021 16 2 Mini-Heap. New links for the Heap May25, 2021 0 0
JOSEPH MARGOLIS (1924-2021) 11 hours ago · Joseph Margolis, professor of philosophy at Temple University, has died. Professor Margolis worked across a range of areas in philosophy, including aesthetics, pragmatism, relativism, and various topics in applied ethics, writing over 30 books. You can learn more about his writings here, and read an interview with him here. Professor Margolis taught at Temple University beginning in 1968. LOUIS CHARLAND (1958-2021) Louis Charland, professor of philosophy, psychiatry, and health sciences at Western University (Ontario), has died. Professor Charland was known for his research in philosophy of psychiatry and medicine, philosophy of emotions, and biomedical ethics, including work on questions related to anorexia and its treatment. You can learn more about his writings here and here. ROYAL INSTITUTE OF PHILOSOPHY ESSAY PRIZE WINNERS The Royal Institute of Philosophy has announced the winners of its 2020 Essay Prize. The theme of the 2020 essay contest was “Knowledge, Truth and Power in an Online World”. The winners are Lucy McDonald (Cambridge University) for her “Please Like This Paper” and Nikhil Venkatesh (University College London) for his “Surveillance Capitalism: a Marx-inspired Account”. A COLLECTION OF STORIES FOR TEACHING ETHICS Luc Bovens, professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, has created a website that gathers together and organizes various “short stories in world literature by both classical and contemporary writers” that may be useful in teaching a range of questions in ethics and social and political philosophy. The site is called TESS: Teaching Ethics with Short Stories. KATHERINE HAWLEY (1971-2021) (UPDATED) Katherine Hawley, professor of philosophy at the University of St. Andrews, has died. Professor Hawley was known for her philosophical work on trust, various questions in metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of science, and other topics such as impostor syndrome and creativity. Her most recent book, How To Be Trustworthy, was publishedin 2019.
WHAT PREDICTS PROFESSIONAL PHILOSOPHERS’ VIEWS? (UPDATED A new study looks at correlations between professional philosophers’ philosophical views and their psychological traits, religious beliefs, political views, demographic information, and other characteristics. The research was carried out by David B. Yaden (psychology, Johns Hopkins University) and Derek E. Anderson (philosophy, Boston University), and the results have recently been published THREE OF WESLEYAN’S GRADUATING PHILOSOPHY MAJORS EARNED This month, the first group of seven incarcerated men will be graduating from a recently created program at Wesleyan University with their Bachelor’s degrees. Three of them—Michael Braham, Clyde Meikle, and Andre Pierce—will be graduating as philosophy majors. The work to make this happen started 12 years ago, and involved several institutions, according to Lori Gruen, professor of SUMMER PROGRAMS IN PHILOSOPHY FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS Are you organizing a summer program in philosophy for high school students, or know of any? If so, please comment on this post with information about the program, including: Program Name Location Dates of Program Application Deadline Description Thank you! Also, see the related posts for Summer Programs in Philosophy for Undergraduates and Summer Programs in Philosophy for KATHLEEN STOCK RECEIVES OBE; PHILOSOPHERS SIGN LETTER Kathleen Stock, professor of philosophy at the University of Sussex, was one of 1,123 people awarded honors at the end of December by Queen Elizabeth in the UK government’s annual “New Year Honours.” Professor Stock was named an “Officer of the Order of the British Empire” (OBE) for “services to higher education.” Professor Stock’s academic specialization is in philosophy of JOSEPH MARGOLIS (1924-2021) 11 hours ago · Joseph Margolis, emeritus professor of philosophy at Temple University, has died. Professor Margolis worked across a range of areas in philosophy, including aesthetics, pragmatism, relativism, and various topics in applied ethics, writing over 30 books. You can learn more about his writings here, and read an interview with him here. Professor Margolis taught at Temple University STUDENTS FROM 50 COUNTRIES PARTICIPATE IN PHILOSOPHY 1 day ago · The International Philosophy Olympiad took place last month, with 108 high school students from 50 different countries taking part. Owing to the pandemic, the event was held online, hosted by the Slovenian team. The Olympiad involves a writing competition, several keynote lectures, philosophy cafes, and student workshops organized around the theme of “Utopia and Utopian Thinking.” ONLINE PHILOSOPHY RESOURCES WEEKLY UPDATE The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources and new reviews of philosophy books SEP New: Hegel’s Social and Political Philosophy, by Thom Brooks. Margaret Fuller, by Daniel Howe. Revised: Galileo Galilei, by Peter Machamer and David Marshall Miller. Peter John Olivi, by Robert Pasnau and JuhanaToivanen.
PHILANTHROPISTS: ENDOW A JOURNAL INSTEAD OF A CHAIR 11 hours ago · In the comments on a previous post about a new journal, Barry Lam (Vassar) floats a brilliant idea: How much would it cost annually to run a journal which publishes everything of high quality it receives, pays reviewers, pays authors, pays its editors, all reasonably but not extravagantly like the book presses, has beautiful type-setting, and does everything it needs to be archiveableand open
PHILOSOPHERS ON GPT-3 (UPDATED WITH REPLIES BY GPT-3 Nine philosophers explore the various issues and questions raised by the newly released language model, GPT-3, in this edition of Philosophers On, guest edited by Annette Zimmermann. Introduction Annette Zimmermann, guest editor GPT-3, a powerful, 175 billion parameter language model developed recently by OpenAI, has been galvanizing public debate and controversy. WHAT PREDICTS PROFESSIONAL PHILOSOPHERS’ VIEWS? (UPDATED A new study looks at correlations between professional philosophers’ philosophical views and their psychological traits, religious beliefs, political views, demographic information, and other characteristics. The research was carried out by David B. Yaden (psychology, Johns Hopkins University) and Derek E. Anderson (philosophy, Boston University), and the results have recently been published KOCH USE CAUSES RIFT IN PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT “The depth of the conflict in the Department is troubling.” That’s from a report by Jennifer A. McHugh, an outside lawyer appointed by the Ohio attorney general’s office to investigate allegations of corruption, harassment, bullying, and bias in the Department of Philosophy at Bowling Green University, according to an article at The Chronicle of Higher Education (sign in required). SOME RESULTS FROM THE TEACHING PHILOSOPHY ONLINE SURVEY Recently, Thomas Nadelhoffer (Charleston) conducted a survey of those who had taught philosophy courses online over the past year. What did he learn? There were around 360 respondents (the exact number varies from question to question). Here are some of the results. About two-thirds of the respondents had never taught an online course before: The most common format of online course A RESIGNATION AT PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES AND A REPLY FROM Last week, Stewart Cohen, professor of philosophy at the University of Arizona, resigned as editor-in-chief from the prestigious academic philosophy journal, Philosophical Studies, a position he held for 25 years. Why did he resign? Philosophical Studies published “Are Women Adult Human Females?” by Alex Byrne (MIT). It then accepted an article replying to Byrne’s article, “Escaping KATHLEEN STOCK RECEIVES OBE; PHILOSOPHERS SIGN LETTER Kathleen Stock, professor of philosophy at the University of Sussex, was one of 1,123 people awarded honors at the end of December by Queen Elizabeth in the UK government’s annual “New Year Honours.” Professor Stock was named an “Officer of the Order of the British Empire” (OBE) for “services to higher education.” Professor Stock’s academic specialization is in philosophy of DAILY NOUSABOUTCOMMENTS POLICYOPEN, LIVE, ONLINE PHILOSOPHY EVENTSPHILOSOPHY COMICS Ad Hoc. May 25, 2021 0 9 The New York Times Eliminates Dedicated Philosophy Column. The New York Times has instituted several changes to its publication of opinion pieces, and one of them is the discontinuation of The Stone, its dedicated space for publishing philosophy.. May 25, 2021 16 2 Mini-Heap. New links for the Heap May25, 2021 0 0
LOUIS CHARLAND (1958-2021) Louis Charland, professor of philosophy, psychiatry, and health sciences at Western University (Ontario), has died. Professor Charland was known for his research in philosophy of psychiatry and medicine, philosophy of emotions, and biomedical ethics, including work on questions related to anorexia and its treatment. You can learn more about his writings here and here. ROYAL INSTITUTE OF PHILOSOPHY ESSAY PRIZE WINNERS The Royal Institute of Philosophy has announced the winners of its 2020 Essay Prize. The theme of the 2020 essay contest was “Knowledge, Truth and Power in an Online World”. The winners are Lucy McDonald (Cambridge University) for her “Please Like This Paper” and Nikhil Venkatesh (University College London) for his “Surveillance Capitalism: a Marx-inspired Account”. A COLLECTION OF STORIES FOR TEACHING ETHICS Luc Bovens, professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, has created a website that gathers together and organizes various “short stories in world literature by both classical and contemporary writers” that may be useful in teaching a range of questions in ethics and social and political philosophy. The site is called TESS: Teaching Ethics with Short Stories. MAGRIN AND ROSEN TO PITT The Department of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh has made two recent hires. Sara Magrin, formerly of the Department of Classics at the University of California, Berkeley, who joined the department this spring as an Associate Professor. She works in ancient philosophy, particularly Plotinus, and on Hellenistic and post-Hellenistic debates pertaining to epistemology and moral THREE OF WESLEYAN’S GRADUATING PHILOSOPHY MAJORS EARNED This month, the first group of seven incarcerated men will be graduating from a recently created program at Wesleyan University with their Bachelor’s degrees. Three of them—Michael Braham, Clyde Meikle, and Andre Pierce—will be graduating as philosophy majors. The work to make this happen started 12 years ago, and involved several institutions, according to Lori Gruen, professor of KATHERINE HAWLEY (1971-2021) (UPDATED) Katherine Hawley, professor of philosophy at the University of St. Andrews, has died. Professor Hawley was known for her philosophical work on trust, various questions in metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of science, and other topics such as impostor syndrome and creativity. Her most recent book, How To Be Trustworthy, was publishedin 2019.
WHAT PREDICTS PROFESSIONAL PHILOSOPHERS’ VIEWS? (UPDATED A new study looks at correlations between professional philosophers’ philosophical views and their psychological traits, religious beliefs, political views, demographic information, and other characteristics. The research was carried out by David B. Yaden (psychology, Johns Hopkins University) and Derek E. Anderson (philosophy, Boston University), and the results have recently been published SUMMER PROGRAMS IN PHILOSOPHY FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS Are you organizing a summer program in philosophy for high school students, or know of any? If so, please comment on this post with information about the program, including: Program Name Location Dates of Program Application Deadline Description Thank you! Also, see the related posts for Summer Programs in Philosophy for Undergraduates and Summer Programs in Philosophy for KATHLEEN STOCK RECEIVES OBE; PHILOSOPHERS SIGN LETTER Kathleen Stock, professor of philosophy at the University of Sussex, was one of 1,123 people awarded honors at the end of December by Queen Elizabeth in the UK government’s annual “New Year Honours.” Professor Stock was named an “Officer of the Order of the British Empire” (OBE) for “services to higher education.” Professor Stock’s academic specialization is in philosophy of DAILY NOUSABOUTCOMMENTS POLICYOPEN, LIVE, ONLINE PHILOSOPHY EVENTSPHILOSOPHY COMICS Ad Hoc. May 25, 2021 0 9 The New York Times Eliminates Dedicated Philosophy Column. The New York Times has instituted several changes to its publication of opinion pieces, and one of them is the discontinuation of The Stone, its dedicated space for publishing philosophy.. May 25, 2021 16 2 Mini-Heap. New links for the Heap May25, 2021 0 0
JOSEPH MARGOLIS (1924-2021) Joseph Margolis, emeritus professor of philosophy at Temple University, has died. Professor Margolis worked across a range of areas in philosophy, including aesthetics, pragmatism, relativism, and various topics in applied ethics, writing over 30 books. You can learn more about his writings here, and read an interview with him here. Professor Margolis taught at Temple University beginning in 1968. PHILANTHROPISTS: ENDOW A JOURNAL INSTEAD OF A CHAIR In the comments on a previous post about a new journal, Barry Lam (Vassar) floats a brilliant idea: How much would it cost annually to run a journal which publishes everything of high quality it receives, pays reviewers, pays authors, pays its editors, all reasonably but not extravagantly like the book presses, has beautiful type-setting, and does everything it needs to be archiveable and open LOUIS CHARLAND (1958-2021) Louis Charland, professor of philosophy, psychiatry, and health sciences at Western University (Ontario), has died. Professor Charland was known for his research in philosophy of psychiatry and medicine, philosophy of emotions, and biomedical ethics, including work on questions related to anorexia and its treatment. You can learn more about his writings here and here. ROYAL INSTITUTE OF PHILOSOPHY ESSAY PRIZE WINNERS The Royal Institute of Philosophy has announced the winners of its 2020 Essay Prize. The theme of the 2020 essay contest was “Knowledge, Truth and Power in an Online World”. The winners are Lucy McDonald (Cambridge University) for her “Please Like This Paper” and Nikhil Venkatesh (University College London) for his “Surveillance Capitalism: a Marx-inspired Account”. KATHERINE HAWLEY (1971-2021) (UPDATED) Katherine Hawley, professor of philosophy at the University of St. Andrews, has died. Professor Hawley was known for her philosophical work on trust, various questions in metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of science, and other topics such as impostor syndrome and creativity. Her most recent book, How To Be Trustworthy, was publishedin 2019.
NOTABLY GOOD EXPERIENCES WITH PHILOSOPHY JOURNALS As stories of philosophy journal horror stories continue to come in, one commenter made a suggestion. If part of the reason for sharing such stories was to possibly reveal some common problems or patterns with an important part of the world of academic philosophy, then, says Kaila Draper, “Maybe we should have a thread about really good experiences with referees and journals so that more THREE OF WESLEYAN’S GRADUATING PHILOSOPHY MAJORS EARNED This month, the first group of seven incarcerated men will be graduating from a recently created program at Wesleyan University with their Bachelor’s degrees. Three of them—Michael Braham, Clyde Meikle, and Andre Pierce—will be graduating as philosophy majors. The work to make this happen started 12 years ago, and involved several institutions, according to Lori Gruen, professor of WHAT PREDICTS PROFESSIONAL PHILOSOPHERS’ VIEWS? (UPDATED A new study looks at correlations between professional philosophers’ philosophical views and their psychological traits, religious beliefs, political views, demographic information, and other characteristics. The research was carried out by David B. Yaden (psychology, Johns Hopkins University) and Derek E. Anderson (philosophy, Boston University), and the results have recently been published KATHLEEN STOCK RECEIVES OBE; PHILOSOPHERS SIGN LETTER Kathleen Stock, professor of philosophy at the University of Sussex, was one of 1,123 people awarded honors at the end of December by Queen Elizabeth in the UK government’s annual “New Year Honours.” Professor Stock was named an “Officer of the Order of the British Empire” (OBE) for “services to higher education.” Professor Stock’s academic specialization is in philosophy of ONLINE PHILOSOPHY RESOURCES WEEKLY UPDATE The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources and new reviews of philosophy books SEP New: Hegel’s Social and Political Philosophy, by Thom Brooks. Margaret Fuller, by Daniel Howe. Revised: Galileo Galilei, by Peter Machamer and David Marshall Miller. Peter John Olivi, by Robert Pasnau and JuhanaToivanen.
STUDENTS FROM 50 COUNTRIES PARTICIPATE IN PHILOSOPHY 1 day ago · The International Philosophy Olympiad took place last month, with 108 high school students from 50 different countries taking part. Owing to the pandemic, the event was held online, hosted by the Slovenian team. The Olympiad involves a writing competition, several keynote lectures, philosophy cafes, and student workshops organized around the theme of “Utopia and Utopian Thinking.” WHAT PREDICTS PROFESSIONAL PHILOSOPHERS’ VIEWS? (UPDATED A new study looks at correlations between professional philosophers’ philosophical views and their psychological traits, religious beliefs, political views, demographic information, and other characteristics. The research was carried out by David B. Yaden (psychology, Johns Hopkins University) and Derek E. Anderson (philosophy, Boston University), and the results have recently been published KOCH USE CAUSES RIFT IN PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT “The depth of the conflict in the Department is troubling.” That’s from a report by Jennifer A. McHugh, an outside lawyer appointed by the Ohio attorney general’s office to investigate allegations of corruption, harassment, bullying, and bias in the Department of Philosophy at Bowling Green University, according to an article at The Chronicle of Higher Education (sign in required). CHRISTOPH JAMME (1953-2021) Christoph Jamme, professor of philosophy at Leuphana University of Lüneburg, has died. Professor Jamme was known for his work on Hegel, German Idealism, Heidegger, philosophy of art, myth, and philosophy and poetry. You can learn more about his research here and here. Professor Jamme took up his position at Leuphana in 1997. Prior to that, he taught at Friedrich Schiller University. PHILOSOPHERS ON GPT-3 (UPDATED WITH REPLIES BY GPT-3 Nine philosophers explore the various issues and questions raised by the newly released language model, GPT-3, in this edition of Philosophers On, guest edited by Annette Zimmermann. Introduction Annette Zimmermann, guest editor GPT-3, a powerful, 175 billion parameter language model developed recently by OpenAI, has been galvanizing public debate and controversy. SOME RESULTS FROM THE TEACHING PHILOSOPHY ONLINE SURVEY Recently, Thomas Nadelhoffer (Charleston) conducted a survey of those who had taught philosophy courses online over the past year. What did he learn? There were around 360 respondents (the exact number varies from question to question). Here are some of the results. About two-thirds of the respondents had never taught an online course before: The most common format of online course SUMMER 2021 PHILOSOPHY PROGRAMS FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS Please use the comments section on this post to share information about 2021 summer programs in philosophy for graduate students. (The post soliticing information about philosophy programs for undergraduates is here. A post about summer philosophy programs for high school students will appear sometime in the not-to-distant future.) If you are organizing such a program, A RESIGNATION AT PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES AND A REPLY FROM Last week, Stewart Cohen, professor of philosophy at the University of Arizona, resigned as editor-in-chief from the prestigious academic philosophy journal, Philosophical Studies, a position he held for 25 years. Why did he resign? Philosophical Studies published “Are Women Adult Human Females?” by Alex Byrne (MIT). It then accepted an article replying to Byrne’s article, “Escaping KATHLEEN STOCK RECEIVES OBE; PHILOSOPHERS SIGN LETTER Kathleen Stock, professor of philosophy at the University of Sussex, was one of 1,123 people awarded honors at the end of December by Queen Elizabeth in the UK government’s annual “New Year Honours.” Professor Stock was named an “Officer of the Order of the British Empire” (OBE) for “services to higher education.” Professor Stock’s academic specialization is in philosophy of DAILY NOUSABOUTCOMMENTS POLICYOPEN, LIVE, ONLINE PHILOSOPHY EVENTSPHILOSOPHY COMICS Ad Hoc. May 25, 2021 0 9 The New York Times Eliminates Dedicated Philosophy Column. The New York Times has instituted several changes to its publication of opinion pieces, and one of them is the discontinuation of The Stone, its dedicated space for publishing philosophy.. May 25, 2021 16 2 Mini-Heap. New links for the Heap May25, 2021 0 0
LOUIS CHARLAND (1958-2021) Louis Charland, professor of philosophy, psychiatry, and health sciences at Western University (Ontario), has died. Professor Charland was known for his research in philosophy of psychiatry and medicine, philosophy of emotions, and biomedical ethics, including work on questions related to anorexia and its treatment. You can learn more about his writings here and here. ROYAL INSTITUTE OF PHILOSOPHY ESSAY PRIZE WINNERS The Royal Institute of Philosophy has announced the winners of its 2020 Essay Prize. The theme of the 2020 essay contest was “Knowledge, Truth and Power in an Online World”. The winners are Lucy McDonald (Cambridge University) for her “Please Like This Paper” and Nikhil Venkatesh (University College London) for his “Surveillance Capitalism: a Marx-inspired Account”. A COLLECTION OF STORIES FOR TEACHING ETHICS Luc Bovens, professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, has created a website that gathers together and organizes various “short stories in world literature by both classical and contemporary writers” that may be useful in teaching a range of questions in ethics and social and political philosophy. The site is called TESS: Teaching Ethics with Short Stories. MAGRIN AND ROSEN TO PITT The Department of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh has made two recent hires. Sara Magrin, formerly of the Department of Classics at the University of California, Berkeley, who joined the department this spring as an Associate Professor. She works in ancient philosophy, particularly Plotinus, and on Hellenistic and post-Hellenistic debates pertaining to epistemology and moral THREE OF WESLEYAN’S GRADUATING PHILOSOPHY MAJORS EARNED This month, the first group of seven incarcerated men will be graduating from a recently created program at Wesleyan University with their Bachelor’s degrees. Three of them—Michael Braham, Clyde Meikle, and Andre Pierce—will be graduating as philosophy majors. The work to make this happen started 12 years ago, and involved several institutions, according to Lori Gruen, professor of KATHERINE HAWLEY (1971-2021) (UPDATED) Katherine Hawley, professor of philosophy at the University of St. Andrews, has died. Professor Hawley was known for her philosophical work on trust, various questions in metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of science, and other topics such as impostor syndrome and creativity. Her most recent book, How To Be Trustworthy, was publishedin 2019.
WHAT PREDICTS PROFESSIONAL PHILOSOPHERS’ VIEWS? (UPDATED A new study looks at correlations between professional philosophers’ philosophical views and their psychological traits, religious beliefs, political views, demographic information, and other characteristics. The research was carried out by David B. Yaden (psychology, Johns Hopkins University) and Derek E. Anderson (philosophy, Boston University), and the results have recently been published SUMMER PROGRAMS IN PHILOSOPHY FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS Are you organizing a summer program in philosophy for high school students, or know of any? If so, please comment on this post with information about the program, including: Program Name Location Dates of Program Application Deadline Description Thank you! Also, see the related posts for Summer Programs in Philosophy for Undergraduates and Summer Programs in Philosophy for KATHLEEN STOCK RECEIVES OBE; PHILOSOPHERS SIGN LETTER Kathleen Stock, professor of philosophy at the University of Sussex, was one of 1,123 people awarded honors at the end of December by Queen Elizabeth in the UK government’s annual “New Year Honours.” Professor Stock was named an “Officer of the Order of the British Empire” (OBE) for “services to higher education.” Professor Stock’s academic specialization is in philosophy of DAILY NOUSABOUTCOMMENTS POLICYOPEN, LIVE, ONLINE PHILOSOPHY EVENTSPHILOSOPHY COMICS Ad Hoc. May 25, 2021 0 9 The New York Times Eliminates Dedicated Philosophy Column. The New York Times has instituted several changes to its publication of opinion pieces, and one of them is the discontinuation of The Stone, its dedicated space for publishing philosophy.. May 25, 2021 16 2 Mini-Heap. New links for the Heap May25, 2021 0 0
LOUIS CHARLAND (1958-2021) Louis Charland, professor of philosophy, psychiatry, and health sciences at Western University (Ontario), has died. Professor Charland was known for his research in philosophy of psychiatry and medicine, philosophy of emotions, and biomedical ethics, including work on questions related to anorexia and its treatment. You can learn more about his writings here and here. ROYAL INSTITUTE OF PHILOSOPHY ESSAY PRIZE WINNERS The Royal Institute of Philosophy has announced the winners of its 2020 Essay Prize. The theme of the 2020 essay contest was “Knowledge, Truth and Power in an Online World”. The winners are Lucy McDonald (Cambridge University) for her “Please Like This Paper” and Nikhil Venkatesh (University College London) for his “Surveillance Capitalism: a Marx-inspired Account”. A COLLECTION OF STORIES FOR TEACHING ETHICS Luc Bovens, professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, has created a website that gathers together and organizes various “short stories in world literature by both classical and contemporary writers” that may be useful in teaching a range of questions in ethics and social and political philosophy. The site is called TESS: Teaching Ethics with Short Stories. MAGRIN AND ROSEN TO PITT The Department of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh has made two recent hires. Sara Magrin, formerly of the Department of Classics at the University of California, Berkeley, who joined the department this spring as an Associate Professor. She works in ancient philosophy, particularly Plotinus, and on Hellenistic and post-Hellenistic debates pertaining to epistemology and moral THREE OF WESLEYAN’S GRADUATING PHILOSOPHY MAJORS EARNED This month, the first group of seven incarcerated men will be graduating from a recently created program at Wesleyan University with their Bachelor’s degrees. Three of them—Michael Braham, Clyde Meikle, and Andre Pierce—will be graduating as philosophy majors. The work to make this happen started 12 years ago, and involved several institutions, according to Lori Gruen, professor of KATHERINE HAWLEY (1971-2021) (UPDATED) Katherine Hawley, professor of philosophy at the University of St. Andrews, has died. Professor Hawley was known for her philosophical work on trust, various questions in metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of science, and other topics such as impostor syndrome and creativity. Her most recent book, How To Be Trustworthy, was publishedin 2019.
WHAT PREDICTS PROFESSIONAL PHILOSOPHERS’ VIEWS? (UPDATED A new study looks at correlations between professional philosophers’ philosophical views and their psychological traits, religious beliefs, political views, demographic information, and other characteristics. The research was carried out by David B. Yaden (psychology, Johns Hopkins University) and Derek E. Anderson (philosophy, Boston University), and the results have recently been published SUMMER PROGRAMS IN PHILOSOPHY FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS Are you organizing a summer program in philosophy for high school students, or know of any? If so, please comment on this post with information about the program, including: Program Name Location Dates of Program Application Deadline Description Thank you! Also, see the related posts for Summer Programs in Philosophy for Undergraduates and Summer Programs in Philosophy for KATHLEEN STOCK RECEIVES OBE; PHILOSOPHERS SIGN LETTER Kathleen Stock, professor of philosophy at the University of Sussex, was one of 1,123 people awarded honors at the end of December by Queen Elizabeth in the UK government’s annual “New Year Honours.” Professor Stock was named an “Officer of the Order of the British Empire” (OBE) for “services to higher education.” Professor Stock’s academic specialization is in philosophy of ONLINE PHILOSOPHY RESOURCES WEEKLY UPDATE The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources and new reviews of philosophy books SEP New: Hegel’s Social and Political Philosophy, by Thom Brooks. Margaret Fuller, by Daniel Howe. Revised: Galileo Galilei, by Peter Machamer and David Marshall Miller. Peter John Olivi, by Robert Pasnau and JuhanaToivanen.
STUDENTS FROM 50 COUNTRIES PARTICIPATE IN PHILOSOPHY 23 hours ago · The International Philosophy Olympiad took place last month, with 108 high school students from 50 different countries taking part. Owing to the pandemic, the event was held online, hosted by the Slovenian team. The Olympiad involves a writing competition, several keynote lectures, philosophy cafes, and student workshops organized around the theme of “Utopia and Utopian Thinking.” WHAT PREDICTS PROFESSIONAL PHILOSOPHERS’ VIEWS? (UPDATED A new study looks at correlations between professional philosophers’ philosophical views and their psychological traits, religious beliefs, political views, demographic information, and other characteristics. The research was carried out by David B. Yaden (psychology, Johns Hopkins University) and Derek E. Anderson (philosophy, Boston University), and the results have recently been published KOCH USE CAUSES RIFT IN PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT “The depth of the conflict in the Department is troubling.” That’s from a report by Jennifer A. McHugh, an outside lawyer appointed by the Ohio attorney general’s office to investigate allegations of corruption, harassment, bullying, and bias in the Department of Philosophy at Bowling Green University, according to an article at The Chronicle of Higher Education (sign in required). CHRISTOPH JAMME (1953-2021) Christoph Jamme, professor of philosophy at Leuphana University of Lüneburg, has died. Professor Jamme was known for his work on Hegel, German Idealism, Heidegger, philosophy of art, myth, and philosophy and poetry. You can learn more about his research here and here. Professor Jamme took up his position at Leuphana in 1997. Prior to that, he taught at Friedrich Schiller University. PHILOSOPHERS ON GPT-3 (UPDATED WITH REPLIES BY GPT-3 Nine philosophers explore the various issues and questions raised by the newly released language model, GPT-3, in this edition of Philosophers On, guest edited by Annette Zimmermann. Introduction Annette Zimmermann, guest editor GPT-3, a powerful, 175 billion parameter language model developed recently by OpenAI, has been galvanizing public debate and controversy. SOME RESULTS FROM THE TEACHING PHILOSOPHY ONLINE SURVEY Recently, Thomas Nadelhoffer (Charleston) conducted a survey of those who had taught philosophy courses online over the past year. What did he learn? There were around 360 respondents (the exact number varies from question to question). Here are some of the results. About two-thirds of the respondents had never taught an online course before: The most common format of online course SUMMER 2021 PHILOSOPHY PROGRAMS FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS Please use the comments section on this post to share information about 2021 summer programs in philosophy for graduate students. (The post soliticing information about philosophy programs for undergraduates is here. A post about summer philosophy programs for high school students will appear sometime in the not-to-distant future.) If you are organizing such a program, A RESIGNATION AT PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES AND A REPLY FROM Last week, Stewart Cohen, professor of philosophy at the University of Arizona, resigned as editor-in-chief from the prestigious academic philosophy journal, Philosophical Studies, a position he held for 25 years. Why did he resign? Philosophical Studies published “Are Women Adult Human Females?” by Alex Byrne (MIT). It then accepted an article replying to Byrne’s article, “Escaping KATHLEEN STOCK RECEIVES OBE; PHILOSOPHERS SIGN LETTER Kathleen Stock, professor of philosophy at the University of Sussex, was one of 1,123 people awarded honors at the end of December by Queen Elizabeth in the UK government’s annual “New Year Honours.” Professor Stock was named an “Officer of the Order of the British Empire” (OBE) for “services to higher education.” Professor Stock’s academic specialization is in philosophy of__
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* Reports of partisan divide are "hugely exaggerated", but to the extent it exists, "it doesn’t arise from their stupidity or ourrationality" —
rather, says Neil Levy (Oxford) “it arises from the fact that we place our trust in different sources” * "I think often of philosophy but as one thinks of someone lost. I want to turn to her and say, 'Remember when we…'" — Amy Olberding (Oklahoma) on how, under these conditions, “I don’t really want to do philosophy” * "Ethics in Action" is a podcast features academics as well as people from industry on questions at the intersection of ethics and public policy — it’s hosted by Nir Eisikovits (University of Massachusetts, Boston) * How does philosophical expertise influence language comprehension?—
Eugen Fischer and Paul Engelhardt (UEA) invite professional philosophers from PhD students upward to participate in an onlinestudy
* What would Hobbes do? — David Lay Williams (DePaul) thinks “Hobbesian reasoning strongly advises that all calls to reopen the economy be subordinated to a focus on preserving human life.” * "In many ways, Spinoza is now replacing Kant and Descartes as both the compass and the watershed of modern thought" — Clare Carlisle (KCL) and Yitzhak Y. Melamed (JHU) on Spinoza onGod and nature
* "Intersectionality" triggers some rightwingers, but it's an important tool for libertarianism / classical liberalism — Jacob Levy (McGill) explains * How the pandemic is affecting how people feel time — Adrian Bardon (Wake Forest) is interviewed on WNYC’s BrianLehrer show
* The collective dimensions of individual ethical behavior in apandemic
— commentary from Martin Lenz (Groningen) * “He believed the world must be made safe for differences” — Kwame Anthony Appiah (Princeton) reviews three books on Franz Boas * "Tenure-track philosophy jobs are tough to come by, even in anon-pandemic year"
— CNN article on future plans disrupted by COVID-19 focuses on a philosophy graduate student * "It really bothers me to see philosophers who have thought about this stuff for about a minute or two, begin to pontificate as if they knew it all, as if they didn’t have to do any work. It’s soarrogant"
— Talia Mae Bettcher (Cal State LA) is interviewed at What Is It Like To Be A Philosopher? * Oil's low price presents an opportunity to introduce a carbon tax — Peter Singer & Kian Mintz-Woo (Princeton) make the case * "Left to their own devices, most capital investors will not care for the dignity of labor investors; nor will they lead the fight against environmental catastrophe. Another option is available." — a few thousand academics see in the pandemic’s lessons a call to reorganize the economy * "If you think about this whole thing less as a school with an endowment and more as an endowment with educational benefits, our budget adjustments start to appear quite reasonable" — your university president responds to those who’ve suggested the school dip into the endowment * The "How The Light Gets In" Philosophy Festival is happening laterthis month
— but it will be online * "Ethical Theory Review" is a new podcast featuring interviews with philosophers about their recent work — it’s hosted by Bradford Cokelet (Kansas) * "Thinking about uptake does not come naturally to bread and butter philosophers of science" — Eric Schliesser (Amsterdam) responds to Jacob Stegenga (Cambridge) on fast science and philosophy of science * Is pandemic panic pushing us even faster to a "Black Mirror" government-tech domination of our lives? — until recently “public pushback was surging”, but then came COVID-19 (via Hili Razinsky) * Teaching philosophy online: what worked and what didn't — Harry Brighouse (Wisconsin) shares his experiences * "What if I told you that as a black man living in white America I feel as if I am already dead?" — George Yancy (Emory) on the “black reality white friend can’t see” (NYT) * A defense of Karl Popper against "confused", "bizarre", and "strange" criticisms — Jonathan Livengood (Illinois) responds to the recent critique of Popper by Michael Huemer (Colorado) * The top 20 universities will grow, numbers 20-50 may be ok, "but numbers 50 to 1,000 go out of business or become a shadow ofthemselves"
— Scott Galloway (NYU) on what the pandemic portends for highereducation
* ASMR isn't necessarily sexual, but it is a kind of pornography: intimacy pornography— Rachel
Elizabeth Fraser (Oxford) on the meaning, aesthetics, and ethics of “autonomous sensory meridian response” * The philosopher who is challenging the fundamentals of evolutionary psychology — Subrena Smith (New Hampshire) is interviewed at Gizmodo * Interested in learning about the use of corpus methods (statistical analyses of textual data) in philosophy?— attend
a Zoom event about it that starts next week, put on by the Australasian Experimental Philosophy Group2020 ©Daily Nous
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