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We have discussed in many posts here how artificial intelligence (AI) is affecting—and could affect—different aspects of academic philosophy’s research ecosystem.

“Driven by the de facto dominance of English, AI multilingual alignment shows a form of cross-linguistic deference, a systematic tendency to resolve cross-linguistic disagreement by treating the English judgment as authoritative, rather than acknowledging…

World Philosophy Day this year is Thursday, November 19th, 2026. photo by Thomas Pesquet World Philosophy Day, created by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), celebrates “the enduring value of philosophy for the…

Timothy John Smiley, professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Cambridge, has died.

New and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, new podcast episodes, recently published open access philosophy books, and more… .

If you ask a group of people a philosophical question or present them with a challenging thought experiment, it’s often the case that they will express very different views about it.

“There are, I find, things I want philosophy to do that it cannot.

Latest links… We may think that we lose something significant when AI beats us to a discovery — if we do, Daniel Greco says, that seems to imply we gained something significant, too “Once upon a time there were a couple of handsome naturalistic philosophe…

PEA Soup is running a new series of posts on philosophical puzzles and thought experiments. photo by Martin Wacker The idea of the series to “try out ideas and for informal discussion of issues and questions in moral and political philosophy.”

The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and the University of Toronto have launched new initiatives to support and focus philosophical research on various aspects of artificial intelligence (AI).

New and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, new podcast episodes, recently published open access philosophy books, and more… .

The Plough and Stars, a pub in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has begun hosting “philosophy nights”, and they’re a hit.

Why Teach Philosophy is a new series of interviews with philosophers known for their teaching, their research on philosophy pedagogy, or their work on curriculum design.

We’ve asked before: “What is your department’s AI policy?”

The Philosophy in an Inclusive Key Summer Institutes (PIKSI) in Boston aim to “broaden inclusion within professional philosophy.”

New links… “Collecting is a game, but what kind of game?