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News for & about the philosophy profession, ed. by Justin Weinberg, philosopher at the U. of South Carolina. You can also find me on bsky.
Joined March 2014
"The more analytic philosophy became dominant in the universities, the more it became removed from the concerns of the average person with philosophical interests."
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“The paradox is that the more analytic philosophy became dominant in the universities, the more it became removed from the concerns of the average person with philosophical interests.” And “it has...
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Does conventional wisdom about the philosophy profession (the work of philosophy professors, the job market, tenure, etc.) adequately reflect the fact that fewer than half of US philosophy faculty members are employed in departments with grad students?
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What do you do as a philosophy professor? What does it take to get a job as a philosophy professor? To get tenure? What is teaching like? What is a philosophy department like as a work environment?...
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@JustinWeinberg recently discussed our Center’s White Paper on AI Consciousness in @DailyNousEditor. 💡It’s a concise and thoughtful overview of the paper’s key arguments, and we invite you to join the discussion in the comments at Daily Nous! Read here:
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“The system which is now beginning to design its successor is also increasingly self-aware and therefore will surely eventually be prone to thinking, independently of us, about how it might want to...
"The system which is now beginning to design its successor is also increasingly self-aware and [will] eventually be prone to thinking, independently of us, about how it might want to be designed," says one of Anthropic's founders. Should we be worried?
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Today, from the Metaphilosophy Project: Mark Balaguer, "How to Be a One-Thinger". Noon (eastern time, US), via Zoom. All are welcome. Contact Boran Berčić at boran.bercic@ri.t-com.hr for the meeting code and password.
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Just a few years ago, the philosophy major seemed on the rise. Now, the data reveal a different picture...
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Just a few years ago, the philosophy major seemed on the rise. Now, the data reveal a different picture. As Eric Schwitzgebel shares in the following guest post, the number of undergraduate degrees...
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Evolutionary Maladaptation & The Promethean Imperative We're running Stone Age software on a civilization that requires quantum computing. Your brain evolved for survival in groups of 20-150 people, handling immediate physical threats and managing scarcity. Now you're processing
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A repost. Suggested additions welcome. Note there will be nationwide protests in the US this Saturday.
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{Originally published on November 29th, 2016. Pinned-to the top again temporarily. There will be nationwide protests in the US this Saturday, October 18th, 2025; information about them is here.}...
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Disagreeing well. Consciousness & computational complexity. 20 questions in moral philosophy. Plato & the poets. Common knowledge. Why philosophy? Funding for PPE projects...
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New additions to the Heap… “The careless adage that Plato banished poetry should itself be banished” — Elaine Scarry makes the case, and argues that though “philosophy and poetry are distinct...
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"There will be a bit more action than in the book," says the author, @TWilliamson55.
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“Here’s the pitch: it’s a philosophy movie…” “Huh.” “based on a philosophy book…” “I’m listening.” “by an actual philosopher.” “Go on.” “That is, a philosophy professor.” “You don’t say.” “An...
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"The system which is now beginning to design its successor is also increasingly self-aware and [will] eventually be prone to thinking, independently of us, about how it might want to be designed," says one of Anthropic's founders. Should we be worried?
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“The system which is now beginning to design its successor is also increasingly self-aware and therefore will surely eventually be prone to thinking, independently of us, about how it might want to...
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This year's winner of the $1 million Berggruen Prize for Philosophy and Culture is...
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Michael Sandel, professor of government at Harvard University, is the 2025 winner of the $1 million Berggruen Prize for Philosophy and Culture. The Berggruen Institute hailed Sandel as “one of the...
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“Siphoning off the skills associated with a humanities education and then claiming the development of those skills as part of one’s discipline shortchanges the humanities, the other disciplines, and our students."
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In 2023, I attended an annual conference on the humanities. In a conversation over lunch, a program manager for a state humanities council, whose job is to review grant applications for humanities...
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If you work in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, the new PPE Research Consortium is hosting a webinar this Wednesday on how to apply for one of its grants (ranging from $10,000 to $150,000).
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The PPE Research Consortium: Information WebinarWednesday, October 15, 2025, 4:00 pm ET | via Zoom Registration Required (Click Button Below) Are you interested in submitting…
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New reviews of philosophy books, new philosophy podcast episodes, new and revised entries at online philosophy resources...
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The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, and new podcast episodes… (If we missed anything, let us know.) SEP New: ∅ Revised:...
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Turning your son in. Gene-editing as environmentalism. Bullshit questions. AI and the craft of thinking. Wisdom about friendship. Recent book bans. How to determine the complexity of knots...
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New links… “Do we have the right to rewrite nature so we can perpetuate our nature-killing ways?” — on using gene-editing as an environmentalist tool There were 6870 instances of book bans in the US...
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A philosophy prof. wants to teach lower-level students "relatively contemporary formulations [of views], developed in light of the various problems with previous versions" but finds a dearth of texts to help them do that. What do you suggest?
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A philosophy professor has a question about teaching that I think will resonate with many readers. . This professor teaches many lower- and mid-level philosophy courses in ethics and epistemology,...
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New "Guides to Public Philosophy" from the Public Philosophy Network
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The Public Philosophy Network has published the first volume in its series of “Guides to Public Philosophy.” The guides are intended to provide useful advice about engaging in public philosophy. Some...
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Public funding of frivolous research. The liar paradox. A theory of "wank". Reconsidering Harsanyi. How to change the world. Interview with Lea Ypi. Zero is the funniest number.
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New interesting things elsewhere… “Affirm the real existence of everything that is left over of the human, once politics is subtracted. Authoritarianism, practically by definition, does not want to...
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The clinical ethicist brings bioethics to the medical care context. This is a model that can be employed in other domains. Here's how a philosopher is developing it for work on environmental justice...
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���One of the most visible and impactful ways that philosophers demonstrate their practical value,” says Matthew Kisner, professor of philosophy at the University of South Carolina, is by having...
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If Anthropic trained its AI on books you wrote, a lawsuit settlement may entitle you to $3000 per book.
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The settlement in the copyright lawsuit against Anthropic provides authors of books they trained their AI on with compensation. The amount of compensation ultimately depends on the number of people...
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