Philosophy

Participation and Immersive Imagination in Thought Experiments

Molinari, Daniele (2026) Participation and Immersive Imagination in Thought Experiments. European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 16 (43). ISSN 1879-4912

Alice Ambrose on Logic, A Priori Concepts, and the Epistemology of Convention

Colomina-Alminana, Juan (2025) Alice Ambrose on Logic, A Priori Concepts, and the Epistemology of Convention. [Preprint]

Collectivizing Public Scientific Testimony

Dellsén, Finnur (2026) Collectivizing Public Scientific Testimony. [Preprint]

The concept of metabolism in ocean biogeochemistry: departures, consistencies, and implications

Jones, Elis and Bertrand, Erin (2026) The concept of metabolism in ocean biogeochemistry: departures, consistencies, and implications. [Preprint]

The Role of Rigor in Artificial Intelligence

Nguyen, Timothy (2026) The Role of Rigor in Artificial Intelligence. [Preprint]

Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

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

Monima Chadha on Responsibility Without Selves

Buddhist philosophy rejects the idea of the self. How then can there be any moral responsibility? Monima Chadha, Professor of Indian Philosophy at Oxford University, explains. This…

Is the Best System Account of laws of nature really compatible with scientific practice?

Bielińska, Marta (2026) Is the Best System Account of laws of nature really compatible with scientific practice? [Preprint]

Credibility and trustworthiness: the promises of sociogenomic integration and research on gene-environment interaction

Bondarenko, Olesya (2026) Credibility and trustworthiness: the promises of sociogenomic integration and research on gene-environment interaction. [Preprint]

Can philosophy of science meet the challenge of interdisciplinarity? The case of integrative biosocial research

Bondarenko, Olesya (2025) Can philosophy of science meet the challenge of interdisciplinarity? The case of integrative biosocial research. [Preprint]

Philosophy Majors’ Job Prospects and the Spread of AI Technology

A study by The Economist looked at how the employment prospects of college graduates have changed over the past few years as AI use by potential employers has increased. The concer…

New Prize in Political Theory/Philosophy

The Australian Political Studies Association has created a new prize in political theory and philosophy in memory of Peter Balint, a political theorist at the University of New Sou…

Note on the Individuation of Biological Traits

Capraru, Mihnea (2018) Note on the Individuation of Biological Traits. The Journal of Philosophy, 115 (4). pp. 215-221. ISSN 1939-8549

Teleological functional explanations: a new naturalist synthesis

Capraru, Mihnea (2024) Teleological functional explanations: a new naturalist synthesis. Acta Biotheoretica, 72. ISSN 1572-8358

Philosophical Ideas Behind Their Time (updated)

Economist Alex Tabarrok (GMU) recently wrote of “ideas behind their time”. He explains: We are all familiar with ideas said to be ahead of their time, Babbage’s analytical engine a…

A Jewish Philosopher Asks Other Jewish Philosophers to Reflect on Their Judaism and Philosophy

Philosopher David Boonin (University of Colorado Boulder) is inviting other Jewish philosophers to contribute to a collection of writings he’s putting together. The idea is to ask …

New: Doctoral Program in Applied Ontology

The University at Buffalo Department of Philosophy is launching what will be the first PhD program in applied ontology. . It will be a fully online, asynchronous program, and it wi…

Mini-Heap

The latest links… A tendency to move from “disruptive innovation” to “novelty through recombining existing insights into new connective ideas” — a study of work by millions of scie…

Petition to Save the Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire

Administrators at the University of Hertfordshire are eliminating not just philosophy (as reported last week) from the school, but also undergraduate programs in English Language a…

The Market for Scholar Replicas

Why should a department hire some fresh PhD when it could instead hire Derek Parfit, Daniel Dennett, Judy Thomson, Hilary Putnam, Ruth Barcan Marcus, or David Lewis? You might say:…

Judge Orders Texas State to Reinstate Robinson

A federal court judge ruled today that Texas State University must reinstate philosopher Idris Robinson, whom the university fired from his assistant professorship over a talk he g…

Carissa Veliz on Prophecy

Predictions aren't quite what they seem to be, according to Carissa Véliz, author of the book Prophecy. They often are intended to persuade you of the inevitability of a certain ou…

Quantum Mechanics of the Inverse Cube Force Law

In the last episode of my column in Notices of the American Mathematical Society, we looked at a particle moving in an attractive central force whose strength is proportional to th…

Chike Jeffers on Douglass and Du Bois

Frederick Douglass and W.E.B Du Bois were two prominent African-Americans who made a significant impact on the civil rights movement in the US. Douglass is particularly associated …

Geometry and the Exceptional Jordan Algebra

Slides for a talk on features of the octonionic projective plane.

Alexander Guerrero on Lottocracy

Democracy isn't working so well, so why not use a lottery system to choose representatives instead? Alexander Guerrero discusses his version of this old idea in this episode of the…

The Agent That Doesn't Know Itself

A large language model has very little self-awareness. But it is easy to give it some rudimentary but useful forms of self-awareness using the "plumbing" language.

A Typed Language for Agent Coordination

A category-theoretic approach to "agent frameworks": that is, frameworks for coordinating "agents" that are large language models.

Tarun Khaitan on Decolonising Institutions

Narendra Modi has spoken of "decolonising" India including its post-colonial constitution Are philosophical criticisms of this constitution well-founded? Tarun Khaitan of the Londo…

The Univalence Principle

Making precise the idea that equivalent structures are indistinguishable.

Categorifying Riemann's Functional Equation

David Jaz Myers has some thoughts about Riemann's functional equation for the zeta function.

Janet Radcliffe Richards on What is Philosophy?

Philosophers argue endlessly about what philosophy is. Janet Radcliffe Richards suggests that a simple way to approach this question is to examine what we think about inconsistenci…

Coxeter and Dynkin Diagrams

Dynkin diagrams have always fascinated me. They are magically potent language --- you can do so much with them!...

Chike Jeffers on Africana Philosophy

David Edmonds talks to Chike Jeffers of Dalhousie University about Africana Philosophy. This episode was supported by the Ideas Workshop, part of the Open Society Foundations.

Octonions and the Standard Model (Part 13)

There are two ways to stick SU(2) × SU(3) in Spin(10). One is good for physics; the other, alas, is easily obtained using the octonions.

Angie Hobbs on Plato on Power

Octonions and the Standard Model (Part 12)

An introduction to the bioctonionic plane and the mathematics needed to understand it.

log|x| + C revisited

A complex-analytic perspective on the indefinite integral of 1/x.

Samuel Scheffler on Grief and Time

Grief is affected by the passage of time in a way that some attitudes and emotions aren't. Samuel Scheffler explores why this might be so in this episode of the Philosophy Bites po…

Edouard Machery on Variations in Responses to Thought Experiments

Philosophers who use thought experiments often believe their own intutions in response to them are unviersal. But that's not always so. In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podc…