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A bit of fun: suggest some really *hard to read* philosophy papers. I'm designing a course where we go through readings deliberately chosen to be dense and difficult, and discuss techniques for reading and engaging with them.

I'll start: most things by McDowell. In particular
- on the sense and reference of a proper name
- de re senses

#philosophy #academicChatter #academicphilosophy

Does the #Nicomachean #Ethics have epistemological value? I teach it as a good introduction to personal and experiencial #knowledge, in discussion with texts like the Tao Te Ching. But #Berkeley Philosophy doesn't think so. #philosophy #Aristotle #AcademicPhilosophy #Academia

#philosophy #meme #academicphilosophy #academia

A genuine #pedagogy question, esp. for #AcademicPhilosophy:

It is reasonable to ask for the style of paper assignments we do given the expected audience for the paper is precisely 1 (namely, the person grading it)?

I find myself occasionally giving feedback to students about how to approach writing within the style of the philosophy essay, and sometimes I think, "this approach with e.g. the introduction, is that just for my sake isn't it? Is that like stapling on the top left?"

It's #PhD application season so here's a question:
If you are in a #Philosophy PhD program and have a "fellowship year" or more than one, how does that work and what do you do during it?

(We do not, which means you're working as a TA or something the whole time).

For instance, some places have funding packages setup such that you wouldn't be required to work during the coursework period of the degree--this would surely yield a different relationship to #coursework!

#AcademicPhilosophy

#Philosophy teachers:
Say you are teaching a class at the 3rd year level that is open to any student but mostly populated by majors/honours students.

If you assign a reading of about 25 pages, how long do you expect students to take to complete it?

(Comments sought on this)

#SoTL #teaching #TeachingAndLearning #AcademicPhilosophy #HigherEducation

Nice to see Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa's review of Tom Dougherty's "Scope of Consent" now out in Mind:

https://academic.oup.com/mind/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mind/fzac054/6845553

Had a really good time reading this with a small group at Michigan in the summer, will interesting to compare Jonathan's review to that from Elise Woodward once it's out in Ethics.

Other things being equal I found Dougherty's book *interesting* but not necessarily convincing. Often had different intuitions than those being pumped.

#consent
#AcademicPhilosophy
#ethics

Have noticed that some academics care a great deal about various "X Review of Books" and "X Literary Supplement" magazines.

Does anyone have a story about the role of these culturally? Who do these publications tend to speak to? I didn't really realize they existed until very specific genre of professor asked if I'd read an essay in a recent issue and wondered "what is this and am I supposed to be reading them too???"

#LondonReviewOfBooks #ReviewOfBooks
#Academic #AcademicPhilosophy #PhD

Really enjoyed this Part 1 of @nescio13 's discussion of #WhatWeOweToTheFuture by MacAskill.

https://digressionsnimpressions.typepad.com/digressionsimpressions/2022/11/on-what-we-owe-the-future-no-not-on-sbfftx.html

We also get some helpful links to articles I hadn't encountered before but look forward to reading:

@ksetiya 's review:
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-new-moral-mathematics/

Peter Wolfendale's review:
https://www.thephilosopher1923.org/post/the-weight-of-forever

(thought he was on Mastodon, he's on Twitter @deontologistics)

And Srinivasan's "Stop the Robot Apocalypse"
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v37/n18/amia-srinivasan/stop-the-robot-apocalypse

#AcademicPhilosophy #EffectiveAltruism

I use apps like this for academic community, esp. #academicphilosophy.

If you are a student, teacherer, research, faculty around #academic #philosophy of any kind and/or #gender (i.e. gender and women studies, womens' studies, gender studies, etc.), #sts, #legaltheory and #jurisprudence, #criticalrace, #historyofscience, #politicaltheory, #decisiontheory, #disabilitystudies, or something akin to these areas in the social sciences + humanities, I want to find you and get your toots in my feed!