Philosophers Among New ACLS Fellows

Faculty on the move..

I'm sad to report that Dale Dorsey, professor of philosophy at the University of Oxford, has died.

Faculty on the move...

"The strong relationship between the status of an applicant’s institutional affiliation and their chances of winning one of these prestigious fellowships is clear..."

The new class of Guggenheim Fellows has been announced, and a few philosophers were selected for it...

A new AI reports preferring (?) multi-disciplinary and philosophically engaging tasks over more "useful" ones. And yes it put "useful" in scare quotes.

Faculty on the move…

This week, at least two philosophers will risk arrest by taking part in the largest-ever open rescue in the history of animal activism. Is this civil disobedience? Is it a good idea?

When it's morally wrong to support a just war. The distance b/w the philosophy & practice of econ. When politics is like a game, beware the "Gamer's Dilemma". "New" poems by Iris Murdoch. An AI writes about how to get AIs not to cause harm. Interviews w/ Felipe De Brigard & Andrew Lister...

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

Update: Caravello has been acquitted

The philosopher who was told by Texas A&M administrators to remove a text by Plato from his course is the second philosopher this term to decide to leave the university owing to its academic freedom failures. dailynous.com/2026/04/09/p...

This was a fun exercise. For the non-philosophers, here's a thread briefly describing the ridiculous views that we philosophers are pretty sure we could find seven experts to agree to. If you read one of them and think "What?!? I must be misunderstanding" you probably aren't.

Why does it seem like philosophy is underrepresented among disciplines when it comes to interdisciplinary or general humanities fellowships and grants? For one thing, not as as many philosophers apply. But that's not the whole story...

The winners of the 2026 Sanders Prize in Metaphysics are...

The trial of a philosophy lecturer who tossed away a tear gas canister thrown at him and other protestors by ICE begins today. He faces up to 20 years in prison.

How many publications do early career job applicants in academic philosophy have? How many courses have they taught? How have the answers to these questions changed over the past decade? These and related questions answered...

A top university in Iran was bombed earlier today. The university "housed a Department of Philosophy of Science, an extraordinary effort to [build a] bridge between philosophy, science, and technology"

Finally: Empedocles, in his own words...

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

Kant: ladies man. Advice for waitlisted grad students. Whether we'll understand science by AIs. Leibniz & Peter the Great. New documentary on Thoreau. Williams & Nietzsche. Using AI to transcribe old texts...

Philosophy: more empirical than ever

Sometimes the headlines write themselves.

What is a practical joke, anyway?

What is a practical joke, anyway?

The QS ranking of universities at which to study philosophy has been released (though some results and methodological concerns may leave you wondering if "QS" stands for "questionable statistics")

Faculty on the move...

Updates at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, new philosophy podcast episodes, and more...

GottfriedL: "I know it's been a minute but I'm happy to announce a few new pieces. Felt like it took 300 years to get these published but here they are..."

Why fallacies are like leaf-tailed geckos. Disarming the pacifist dilemma. Complicated feelings about academia. The limits of formalization. Institutional neutrality & pride flags. A critique of the APA's experiment with virtual meetings. The value of species-being...

Another day, another violation of academic freedom in Texas. This time a university is firing a philosophy professor owing to complaints about an off-campus talk he gave on the Israeli-Palestine conflict...

An author writing about Tom Stoppard and philosophy is seeking information about the teaching of philosophy in the mid-20th century at UK universities.

A team of philosophers leading an interdisciplinary group have received a large grant for work on the philosophy of neurotechnology...

On how AI threatens higher education, and an interactive website at which you can check the "institutional resilience" of many US universities and colleges...

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

"Chuck Norris is the ground that grounds the ground’s grounding of the ground." Chuck Norris has died. In his honor, here are some Chuck Norris philosophy jokes written by @av-hiller.bsky.social. Feel free to add your own.

Not to be pedantic, but...

A new edition of "On Liberty" names Harriet Taylor Mill and John Stuart Mill as co-authors. [Countless students who've attributed the book to "Mills" nod approvingly]

The knowability of the universe. The identity of the "Little Prince". Bioethics & the agonizing choices doctors face. The moral beauty of Middlemarch. Nussbaum on freedom & opera. The conservatism of Habermas. Moral (?) relief...

How much time do academic philosophy journals give referees to return their reports?

Faculty and Students at Ghent University are objecting to the university’s recent hiring of a philosopher owing to his "race science" writings. Other scholars are circulating a defense of the philosopher's academic freedom.

To what extent has the development of AI over the past several years led to non-academic work for academically-trained philosophers?

A new analysis suggests that, in general, philosophers of the past 100 years or so have tended to reach “peak influence” between their early 50s and late 60s.

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

Jürgen Habermas, one of the great political and social theorists of the 20th Century, has died.

Ok folks, ready to hear what you got!

Should academics be more conservative?

Why do fans care so much that their team wins? How should we think of animal welfare? Can you see something though you can't see any of its parts? What's a good way for an academic to use AI? Is Christian nationalism really conservative? Does a "file not found" approach solve the liar paradox?...