“The danger… is very real. The charges, bogus though they are, carry a sentence of up to ten years in a Russian penal colony.”
Faculty on the move…
A philosopher wins a substantial prize for her work building “a bridge between philosophy and the actual practice of science.”
A philosophy professor has created a new tool to help preserve the value of student writing assignments in the AI era.
Ethics-washing: what it is and why you might not even know you're involved in it.
“Philosophers were the first targets of Orbán’s ‘culture war.’” The story of an authoritarian attack on philosophy and signs of recovery...
Earlier this week, it was reported that Russian Philosopher Svetlana Mesyats was placed under house arrest and the offices and homes of several other employees of the Institute of Philosophy of the Ru...
One philosophy department's policy on AI use by students...
Mark Murphy, currently professor and chair of philosophy at Georgetown University, will be moving to the University of Notre Dame. Professor Murphy is known for his work in moral philosophy, philosoph...
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Nancy Cartwright, professor of philosophy at Durham University and the University of California, San Diego, has been selected as the recipient of the 2026 Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in th...
Has your department instituted an AI policy? If so, whom does it govern, and what does it say? What should such a policy say? Has your department considered an AI policy but held off on writing or imp...
A Rutgers philosophy PhD who has held academic and non-academic positions over her career has been selected to lead Australia's new AI Safety Institute.
AI & the philosophy job market
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“I’m teaching care for their own particular point of view, a disdain for all things ‘vibes’ that aren’t carefully thought out, and a deep understanding of the courage it takes to withdraw from other people for a while, to have braved a thought all on your own.”
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A few weeks ago, I was contacted by a reporter working on a story about the extent to which AI, as a topic of research and an area of specialization demanded by employers, was becoming dominant in phi...
"The aim is not to keep everything exactly as it was before gen AI took off. That would be both impossible and undesirable. The aim is to preserve the parts of philosophical education that are still w...
"I'm teaching care for their own particular point of view, a disdain for all things 'vibes' that aren’t carefully thought out, and a deep understanding of the courage it takes to withdraw from other p...
Governments and firms are turning to philosophers and other scholars more and more in regard to the ethics of developing and regulating technology. Yet this engagement with ethics may be superficial, ...
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“Philosophers were the first targets of Orbán’s ‘culture war.’” That's László Szücs (Institute of Advanced Studies Kőszeg), talking to Courthouse News Service about “the so-called ‘philosophers’ affai...
Kate Conroy, a philosopher who has held various positions in academia, government, and industry, has been chosen to lead the recently established Australian AI Safety Institute, part of the Australian...
