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How can the kind, number, and organization of courses affect the health of a philosophy major program?

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Faculty on the move...

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Epistemology & your ex's Instagram. New movie about Leibniz. Are chatbots of the deceased _not_ an awful idea? The 1st black philosophy prof. at majority-white US university. What has intelligence? Reflections on the Academy & the Lyceum. The DEI letter & free speech...

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“Inductive Metaphysics and its Abductive Methodology” - free, online philosophy lecture by Gerhard Schurz, w/ discussion to follow. Part of the Metaphilosophy Project series. Thursday February 27 @ 18:00 CET (12 noon Eastern Time). All are welcome. See link for details. metafilozofija.uniri.hr?p=773

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Faculty on the move...

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An initiative dedicated to expanding the philosophical canon gets a sizable grant...

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Large grants for projects on social kinds, uncertainty, mathematical knowledge, reasoning, and "demarcation for dummies"...

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Is your department offering enough kinds of philosophy courses? Or too many? Are the course offerings organized in an effective way?

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New and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new philosophy book reviews, new episodes of philosophy podcasts...

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F.P. Ramsey’s grave finally has a refurbished headstone! Thank you British Wittgenstein Society for doing all the work and for allowing me to contribute in a more mundane way.

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"It takes skill to compress a philosophical idea into a picture that, once seen or recalled, could help an audience understand." Illustrations by philosophers -- some examples, and a request for more...

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Cuts to and uncertainties about funding have led some universities to cut hiring and graduate admissions. What's going on at your school? And how should these developments affect the behavior of candidates, applicants, and others?

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John Sallis, professor of philosophy at Boston College, has died.

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The Journal of the History of Philosophy has launched a new prize to recognize excellent books that bring the history of philosophy to a broader public audience. The prize's inaugural winner has just been announced...

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David Keyt, professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Washington, Seattle, has died.

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Tom Beauchamp, professor emeritus of philosophy at Georgetown University and a highly influential figure in biomedical ethics, has died.

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Bears vs. libertarians. What could intentionality eliminativism possibly be about? What is sensory imagining? Animals & ableism. The unfolding coup. AI in your everyday life. Testing the Schwitzgebot...

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Why are so many journal articles hanging around in "online first" status for so long? @bweatherson.bsky.social explores a possible explanation...

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The first in a series of occasional posts on “Philosophy Department Survival Strategies.”

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A philosopher and a museum team up to develop a new exhibition...

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The return of Mind Chunks, by @petemandik.bsky.social...

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The winners of the 2024 Popper Prize are...

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A large grant from the European Commission is funding a Center for Ethics in Public Affairs at the American University of Armenia, directed by Maria Baghramian...

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A celebration of philosophy will be taking place all around the UK next month. #PhiloFortnight2025

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Team-teaching the ethics of computing. On profiling Dan Dennett. Plato & the wandering womb. Interview on Bayesian philosophy. The moral depth of etiquette. How math bridges the "two cultures". Philosophy of addiction...

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Wanted: ideas for summer jobs for philosophy professors (when summer teaching is not an option)...

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New and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, new philosophy podcast episodes...

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Philosopher Holmes Rolston III of Colorado State University, the "father of environmental ethics", has died.

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Happy Valentine's Day, philosofriends...

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Have you checked out the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science?

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The effect of bachelors on the history of philosophy. Alzheimer's & philosophy of medicine. Analytic philosophy's wins. Migration & philosophy. The "value structures" of LLMs. In the humanities, old school is the new new school. The weird Chaldaean Oracles...

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Disciplinary boundaries are fuzzy and porous; how does this observation apply to the history of analytic philosophy? Who clearly is a part of the analytic tradition, but not so clearly a philosopher? An interesting question from @bweatherson.bsky.social...

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When your journal is about controversial ideas, you may face an elevated risk of inadvertently publishing articles that are really just "speculations accompanied by error-ridden statistical analyses of dubious data"... dailynous.com/2025/02/11/c...

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Problem trolley. The weird way LLMs do math. Moral responsibility for political backlash. Circumcision ethics. Immigration: philosophy & reality. 25 years in APA leadership. How using AI may affect your problem-solving skills...

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The Kansas legislature is considering a bill to eliminate tenure at the state's colleges and universities...

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New reviews of philosophy books, updates at online philosophy resources, new philosophy podcast episodes...

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"It is a common assumption in philosophy that absolutely everything is up for grabs... there is something right about that. What I am now inclined to doubt, however, is that... any one philosopher can [ethically] open a critical challenge to absolutely anything..."

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The project will "cover all religious traditions" and will "focus on human purpose, the meaning of life, and what it is to live well, including ‘down-stream’ questions connected to religious practice."

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A report on an experiment with philosophy-conference design...

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The bad cop/worse cop team heads to the Department of Education.

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Faculty on the move...

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Krister Segerberg, a philosopher at Uppsala University known for his work in logic, has died.

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If the recent news about the CSU system is any indication, academics are going to be expected to know how to use AI in their work. Those of you who are already doing this: tell us about it. Those of you who want to know how to use AI to do specific tasks: ask about it.

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While many faculty are concerned about the use of AI and its effects on education, one university system's leaders have decided to leap right in...

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The Central APA is taking place online this year. Bob Pasnau talks about why and what it will be like, and introduces some novel ways for you, your colleagues, and students to participate...

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Philosophy of clothing. Sellars, Continental philosophers, and Marxists. Philosophy & children's health. The ethical issues behind Trump's election. Unknowability in math. The ethics of moderating social media. AI & the value of writing essays... dailynous.com/2025/02/04/m...

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A former college president takes the unusual step of calling out the current administration on its plans that risk "snuffing out the light on this 127-year-old jewel of an institution"

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New and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, recent philosophy podcast episodes...

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