Every once in a while it happens. You’re reading a philosophy article or book, following the argument, monitoring it for mistakes or insights as you go along, and then something about the text ...
Halloween approaches… People sometime refer to the “hallowed halls” of philosophy. That’s all well and good—a little respect is nice—but seasonality is important, so what about the ha...
Links of the day… 93% of philosophy expected to be LLM-authored summaries of corpus analyses of x-phi survey results by 2027 — findings from a new statistical study forthcoming in Mined. DeSa...
Weekend Mini-Heap… “We have to meet the needs of today’s donors” — the American Philosophical Association (APA) announces plan to alleviate its budget woes by dropping philosophy. David...
Your arguments strong, your conclusions sound. Citations of my work, alas, have not been found. – Reviewer #2 I know I’m proposing because I’m on bended knee. Our first kiss was good for yo...
Gerald Dworkin, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of California, Davis, seeks out philosophical humor and has put together a couple of volumes of it (see here). He ...
https://dailynous.com/2021/08/13/bits-laughing-matter-guest-post/
A murder of crows. A cackle of hyenas. A knot of toads. A confusion of philosophers? Or is it a fog of philosophers? Or…? There was some discussion of what we should call a collection of...
https://dailynous.com/2021/07/02/collective-nouns-for-philosophers-by-area-of-specialization/
Last week, Randall Munroe, author of the famed webcomic xkcd published a comic about “Types of Scientific Paper“: It has now served as a template for people on social media to caricature the ...
Yet more for the Heap… M. C. Hammer named inaugural winner of the American Philosophical Association’s “Celebrity Philosopher of the Year” Award — The award includes a $100 prize “Som...
Saul Kripke, Kit Fine, Timothy Williamson, John McDowell, Jonathan Schaffer, Graham Priest, Robert Brandom, and other philosophers are the unwitting stars of films created by an unknown YouTuber ...
https://dailynous.com/2021/03/28/absurdist-video-edits-philosophers-talking/
Halloween is coming around again, that time of year where we have fun making things extra scary. But hasn’t this past year been frightening enough? So I don’t think we need to discuss, as we...
Mohamed Mehdi, chair of the Department of Humanities and Philosophy at Oakton Community College, updated his faculty on the plans regarding their “philosophy labs” for this coming fall. He wr...
https://dailynous.com/2020/05/27/status-philosophy-labs-fall/
How do philosophers respond to being told they have to “social distance” and avoid leaving their homes in order to slow the Covid-19 pandemic? Philosophers Respond to Social Distancing by Jus...
https://dailynous.com/2020/03/31/philosophers-respond-social-distancing/
Happy Halloween, philosofriends! To celebrate, I thought we could come up with scary nicknames for well-known philosophers. But there are some rules on how to do it… Using only the letters of a...
https://dailynous.com/2019/10/31/philosophers-scary-nicknames-halloween-game/
“I didn’t know that angels could fly so low. Or that angels even existed anymore now that God is dead… amiright???” That’s Nietzsche’s pick-up line, as imagined by Dan Caprera in a r...
By now many readers will have seen the Reddit post written by a physicist seeking advice about what to do about her Hegel-obsessed philosopher-of-science husband. It was posted in the Heap of Lin...
https://dailynous.com/2019/09/25/academic-philosophy-ruining-marriage-non-hegel-versions/
The less a work has to offer us besides information about happens in the end, the more reason we have to avoid spoilers for it. When it comes to philosophy, knowing what happens in the end usual...
https://dailynous.com/2019/05/20/100-greatest-philosophical-spoilers-guest-post-richard-greene/
Some people worry that philosophers keep asking the same questions over and over again. If you think that’s bad, you may be upset to learn that philosophers keep telling the same jokes over and...
https://dailynous.com/2019/04/27/parody-issue-mind-118-years-ago/
Yet another Mini-Heap! Regular coffee consumption linked to decreased ability to answer abstract questions, consider hypothetical scenarios, and “detect bullshit” — according to a recent ...
Which philosophers have names that reflect what they study and write about? That was a question posed by Kris McDaniel (Syracuse) on Facebook recently. He wasn’t after general aptonyms like...
https://dailynous.com/2018/11/09/philosophers-whose-names-match-specializations/
Happy Halloween! If well-known philosophers were to dress up for Halloween in what they’d think are scary costumes, what would their costumes be? To get the pumpkin rolling… Kant: a murderer ...
https://dailynous.com/2018/10/31/halloween-costumes-famous-philosophers/
It’s the latest dance, the best in town: / Grab a word like “epistemic”, then add a noun / Like “angst” or “insouciance” or “indulgence” or “greed” / If you want a paper ...
https://dailynous.com/2018/08/22/philosophers-sing-epistemic-epidemic/
The following are three poems from Felicia Nimue Ackerman, Professor of Philosophy at Brown University. A Plea for Critical Thinking Higgledy-piddledy Russell and Wittgenstein, Murdoch, and Geach...
For a paper on time travel: “I didn’t plagiarize David Lewis’s 1976 American Philosophical Quarterly paper. In 1975, he traveled to the future and plagiarized me!” That’s one of 10 �...
https://dailynous.com/2018/07/11/topic-appropriate-excuses-plagiarism-philosophy-papers/
This may be the best philosophy-inspired parody of a pop song ever… …with a video full of visual gags. If Ed Sheeran’s “Shape of You” were about philosophy: Lyrics: The bar isn’t the ...
https://dailynous.com/2018/02/21/in-love-with-your-philosophy/
Tomas Bogardus, associate professor of philosophy at Pepperdine University, handles the Instagram feed for the Pepperdine Philosophy Club, and he takes this role very seriously, creating pitch-pe...
https://dailynous.com/2018/01/22/philosophy-memes-tomas-bogardus/
Gerald Dworkin, distinguished professor of philosophy emeritus at UC Davis, has put together another volume of philosophical humor, Philosophy: A Commonplace Book, Volume II. It’s available as ...
https://dailynous.com/2017/12/19/collection-philosophy-humor/
Halloween is almost upon us, and to mark the occasion, Nolen Gertz, assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Twente, Ethicist For Hire, and philosophy comic strip artist, took to ...