An interesting thread on this morning’s “Influential Ideas in an AI Era” post at Daily Nous.

How to help your ideas outlive you... maybe.

Academic mentorship is important. To encourage it, it could be useful to be able to keep track of it. Here's one way, more suited for the sciences than philosophy, but it's something...

Hume was not a Humean (says Galen Strawson). For which other philosophers is it true that "[philosopher] is not a [philosopher]-ian"?

Complicity & Epstein. A game-like crash course on the humanities. Taking philosophy to the street. Churchland & AI. Knowledge & craft in poetry. The ecstasy of abstract ideas. Philosophical computer-scientist Joe Halpern...

A look at some trends in how much certain terms or persons have been discussed in philosophy over the past 85 years, from @eschwitz.bsky.social...

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

Cantor "carefully erased every trace of his collaborator’s contribution, including stray uses of terms that anyone in the know would recognize as Dedekind’s"

"In a narrow set of cases, we believe AI can undermine, rather than defend, democratic values." The conflict between Anthropic & the US Dept of War raises issues in political philosophy, business ethics, philosophy of war, philosophy of technology...

How do you listen to music while working? How do you get the quiet you need while working? These and other work-related audio-equipment questions...

"Five senses" is an outdated understanding human perception. What it means to be rational. Going against the moral grain. Higher ed as if it were set up for lifelong learning. The problem with fallacies. A philosophy crossword. New political & social philosophy podcast...

“Philosophers have much to contribute… by engaging in the messiness of the real world” rather than succumbing to "humanities-based academic lethargy". Here's one example.

Philosophy "connects us in deep intellectual ways to... other human beings". What if we taught it with the aim of fostering that connection? How could we do so? Here's one way...

Philosophy "connects us in deep intellectual ways to... other human beings". What if we taught it with the aim of fostering that connection? How could we do so? Here's one way...

Philosopher Malcolm Budd has died.

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

This past week at DN: - New kind of critical thinking course - 200 philosophy facts - Summer philosophy programs - Beyond ‘activism v. scholarship’ - Grammarly: much worse than you thought - CV do’s & don’ts - New index of philosophy book reviews - Thought-policing in Florida …& more dailynous.com

In sociology courses at Florida’s public colleges, classroom discussions of institutions that “oppress persons of color” and several other topics are now forbidden by the government.

Implicit social science in the humanities. When a student raises scripture in philosophy class. The order of the universe (& alphabets). Analytic philosophy generator. Korsgaard's Dewey lecture. The creative destruction of science & philosophy. AI & the ecosystem of learning.

In an attempt to demonstrate that philosophy is a "fact-based" discipline that makes progress, a philosopher offers up “200 straightforward facts directly about philosophical matters that virtually all philosophers know and non-philosophers don’t know.”

"...on Daily Nous, AI isn’t just 'new infrastructure'; it’s already a contested symbol tied to authorship, legitimacy, disciplinary self-image, and the fear that the activity philosophers most prize... is being hollowed out."

A philosopher used Claude Code to build a book review search for philosophy books. Just type in the title and you'll get a list of reviews of it published in academic journals. It's a work in progress, but you can try it out...

"A university that is serious about its epistemic mission should neither be neutral nor activist.... it should be pluralist instead." Wise words from @enzoreds.bsky.social

Profs, Grammarly is NOT the benign writing assistant you may have thought it is, but a powerful cheating machine that includes tools explicitly designed to help students hide the cheating done with it...

Profs, Grammarly is NOT the benign writing assistant you may have thought it is, but a powerful cheating machine that includes tools explicitly designed to help students hide the cheating done with it...

What should go under the "publications" heading on your cv? That and other cv-related advice...

Psychopaths and responsibility. The arc of the tragic flaw. Those hard-to-find null results. The demise of the newspaper book section. Discussing Mill's On Liberty. Schliesser on Heath on Rawls. Interview with Jonathan Lear...

How can one create a critical thinking course that leaves a lasting impression on the way students reason? Here's one approach...

Results from last week's poll on how many pages of reading philosophy professors assign in their courses...

New reviews of philosophy books, new philosophy podcast episodes, new updates to online philosophy resources, and more...

Check out PhilLit -- a new AI tool for philosophical research that was developed by a pair of philosophers...

Check out PhilLit -- a new AI tool for philosophical research that was developed by a pair of philosophers...

"The extent of the impact of these policies is still coming to light, but already, they are an unacceptable incursion on the principles of academic freedom that form the well-established bedrock of American universities."

New data on philosophy graduate programs...

"Rather than making a move in the familiar game of philosophical argumentation, Rawls was overturning the board, recommending that we play a very different game..."

Profile of an AI's ethics professor. A new philosopher-led "para-academic" institution. Philosophers who have published in all of the top 5 journals. The aesthetics of politics. The philosophy of physics. AI and dialectical practice. Chomsky & Epstein...

The award for outstanding referee goes to...

How much reading do you assign your students? (A post with a poll)

Laurence Thomas, professor emeritus of philosophy at Syracuse has died. (Obituary by David Benatar.)

New reviews of philosophy books, the latest philosophy podcast episodes, recently published open access philosophy books, and changes at online philosophy resources…

There will be no more tenured or tenure-track hiring at all but two of Oklahoma's institutions of higher education, according to a new order from the state's governor.

What is liberal theory good for? How language- and vision-based AIs represent the world. The value of great books programs. How to be a presentist. Interruption vs. Strong Civility. Surveillance of university faculty. Being a good philosopher-activist...

David Wasserman, a bioethicist and founding figure in the philosophy of disability, has died.

A university president reminds faculty not to indoctrinate their students, and a dean decides to have faculty sign a pledge agreeing to this...

A big grant for a project on civil discourse...

A philosophy professor seeks help answering an administrative request to "provide justification for inclusion of topics related to race, gender, sex, and sexuality in all of our courses."

“For the first time in human history, we are no longer alone in the space of general intelligence.”

Information about "Bioethics Bowl", a learning competition focusing on a focus on issues in clinical, biomedical research, and healthcare ethics.

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

Anti-Humeans take things to a new low...