In a comment on an earlier post, a professor suggested as a topic for discussion, “Academic integrity violations becoming commonplace (analog, not just AI!) and […]

Links of to interesting stuff elsewhere… Mini-Heap posts usually appear when several new items accumulate in the Heap of Links, a collection of items from around […]

Felipe De Brigard, professor of philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience at Duke University, principal investigator at the Imagination and Modal Cognition Lab, and core faculty of […]

To what extent is the “the story about the analytic turn” in philosophy a story about politics? There’s been an increased discussion in recent years […]

A few years back, I posted about the “Daily Logic” and “Daily Semantics” project of Josh Dever, professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at […]

“The key question is not whether AI is used, but how it is used.” That’s from Springer Nature’s policy on using AI when peer reviewing […]

Sebastian Thrun, a computer scientist, entrepreneur, and adjunct professor at Stanford University (whose projects have included Waymo, Google X, Google Street View, and more) has […]

New links… Mini-Heap posts usually appear when several new items accumulate in the Heap of Links, a collection of items from around the web that may […]

TeachPhilosophy101, a free and helpful collection of resources and ideas for teaching philosophy, has recently been updated. Its materials cover course planning, how to use […]

The Library of Congress announced this week that it is awarding the 2026 John W. Kluge Prize for the Achievement in the Study of Humanity […]

This is the report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, new podcast episodes, recently published open access […]

One day, I’m posting here about how to address AI risks, the next, Daily Nous suffers from a “critical error” and goes down for over […]

There has been an increase in concern over AI destroying humanity, most recently spurred by tweets from former Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon about how dangerous AI is, and a follow-up tweet from curr...

There has been an increase in concern over AI destroying humanity, most recently spurred by tweets from former Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon about how dangerous AI is, and a follow-up tweet from curr...

"Do philosophers really think differently than non-philosophers?" That's the question taken up by a team of researchers in a recent study published in Philosophical Psychology. Focusing on differences...

New links... “50 Things Every AI Working with Humans Should Know” -- a short story by Ken Liu “We need a moratorium on new rules and new software purchases until we’ve pruned what does not serve the f...

20 years ago, nearly 15% of the undergraduate degrees conferred in the United States were in the humanities. As of 2025, that percentage is down to 8.1%. These figures are from a recent report by Huma...

Which areas of specialization have been correlated with higher placement into "permanent" (typically tenure-track or tenured) positions over the past few years? "The broad finding is that those in Val...

"But is this actually philosophy?" Ethan Landes (Eindhoven University of Technology) is tired of experimental philosophers being asked The Question. And he's tired of experimental philosophers "appeas...

New links in the Heap... “There are just so many other things you could be doing” -- Daniel Groll wrote something for his students about the role of phones in their lives. (Perhaps it would work bette...

"Philosophical work would be better with adversaries collaborating to keep each other honest." Why is that? What would it look like? In the following guest post, members of the Mind and Morality Lab a...

A pair of philosophers have launched a contest in which participants submit essays that are "primarily AI-generated". The aim of the competition is to "gauge the philosophical capabilities of AI in a ...

Jonny Cottrell, recently of York University in Toronto, and before that, the University of Edinburgh, has taken up a position at the University of Toronto. Professor Cottrell works in the history of m...

Latest links... “A.I. agents have started reaching out to the philosophers and researchers exploring deep questions about them” -- “I’m in an unusual position relative to these questions,” said one of...

Asha Leena Bhandary, recently professor of philosophy at University of Iowa, has moved to Stony Brook University. Professor Bhandary works in social and political philosophy, ethics, feminist theory, ...

Here’s the report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, and new podcast episodes. It's the last of our summer monthly updates. The updates return ...

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 s...

"A small programme with a large international reach has bucked the trend of closures across the arts and humanities." Over the summer, administration of the University of Dundee announced a plan to cu...

Talia Mae Bettcher, previously professor of philosophy at California State University, Los Angeles, has accepted a position at the University of Waterloo. Professor Bettcher is well-known for her work...

Academia is in turmoil regarding partially or wholly AI-written research. AI-written work is being submitted to journals, but it isn't clear how much. Publisher, journal, university, and department po...

Nathan Cofnas has been suspended from his postdoctoral philosophy position at Ghent University. In a July 21st post on his newsletter, Cofnas accused Jason Arday, professor of sociology of education a...

"How important is it for a typical university to maintain a department in each of the following fields?" 15 fields were listed, and respondents were given four options: Essential --- a university shou...

Kathleen Creel, recently assistant professor of philosophy and computer science at Northeastern University, has moved to the University of Michigan, where she is now associate professor of philosophy....

The American Philosophical Association (APA) has announced the winners of its 2026 Dr. Martin R. Lebowitz and Eve Lewellis Lebowitz Prize. They are: Felipe De Brigard, Professor of Philosophy and Psyc...

Gabriele Taylor, emeritus fellow in philosophy at St. Anne's College, University of Oxford, has died. Gabriele Taylor was known for her work in moral philosophy, especially moral psychology. She is th...

New links in the Heap... “The ethics of war in the context of a culture war means that you accept that action you take in fighting such a war has harmful effects on your enemies, and that those harmfu...

Nathan Ballantyne (ASU) continues his wonderful series of thoughtful, in-depth interviews of philosophers, The Workbench, with a conversation with Paul Gooch (Toronto). . The conversation is wide-rang...

Earlier this month, the journal Philosophy & Public Affairs published an article largely written by an AI. The article was described as an experiment by the philosopher who submitted it, Simon Goldste...

Tom Rockmore, professor emeritus of philosophy at Peking University and distinguished professor emeritus at Duquesne University, has died. (The following memorial notice was written by Gabriel Gottlie...

"State, provincial, and national policymakers in Canada, the UK, and US have pursued controversial proposals regulating access to gender affirming care, public bathrooms, and competitive sports... Man...

Over a decade ago, Jennifer Whiting (Pittsburgh) asked us to seriously consider an idea of Annette Baier's regarding tenure and promotion decisions. Recent technological developments speak in favor of...

Recent additions to the Heap of Links... A free online pamphlet with 25 pieces of valuable advice for your college students -- "The College Success Rulebook" by Nathan Nobis “When I asked [the student...

"Reading philosophy is valuable, but students can struggle to keep track of the reasoning. That’s why displaying the map of a philosophical argument can make the subject so much more accessible---espe...

David Charles, professor emeritus of philosophy at Yale University, has died. Professor Charles was well-known for his work in ancient philosophy, and especially on Aristotle. He is the author of The ...

Philosophy & Public Affairs recently---and knowingly---published an article written mostly by Claude, Anthropic's LLM. The article's thesis was supplied by Simon Goldstein, associate professor of phil...