Mario Schärli

Yale Offers Free Tuition to Families With Incomes Under $200,000

Yale Offers Free Tuition to Families With Incomes Under $200,000 www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u...

Enjoyed a great discussion on real possibility and objectivity at the Eastern @apaphilosophy.bsky.social meeting yesterday!

Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...

Texas A&M actually tells a philosophy professor he may not teach Plato.

Notre Dame AI Ethics Project Wins $50.8 Million Grant - Daily Nous The University of Notre Dame's Institute for the Ethics and the Common Good (ECG), directed by philosophy professor Meghan Sullivan, has received a $50.8 million grant for work on various moral proble...

This may be the largest single grant for a project led by a philosophy professor.

I am frustrated by the anti-AI obsession on this place. I understand people are annoyed by AI being imposed on us for trivial things and by the AI uber alles discourse but it really feels like older people complaining about a new technology.

THE EPISTEMIC INJUSTICE RESEARCH PROGRAMME: DEGENERATIVE OR PROGRESSIVE? - Argumenta - Journal of Analytic Philosophy The notion of epistemic injustice introduced by Miranda Fricker in 2007 raised interest in the harmful effects of prejudice within analytic philosophy and beyond. It inspired various projects linking ...

Argumenta will have a special issue on #epistemicinjustice guest-edited by @lalumera.bsky.social & myself. Deadline: September 2026. Open access. The line-up of invited contributors is already spectacular but we'll add more! #philsky @philhead.bsky.social www.argumenta.org/cfp/the-epis...

New OA journal launching with the same editorial team & board = same high standards. Excellent news for accessible, rigorous scholarship.

Italy Passes a Femicide Law, Seeking to Prevent Violence Against Women

Unanimously. No, you didn‘t misread that. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/w...

This, of course, is not to be understood as a criticism. I’m trying to understand the phenomenon. Curious to hear what people think!

Therefore, the low acceptance rates of top journals not only manifest the disproportionate prestige and job-market value of a publication in these venues, which part of accepted wisdom, but also the authors’s estimation of the unreliability of the selection process.

That, in turn, wouldn't be the case if these venues didn't, with some regularity, publish pieces that are not exceptional. These how-did-this-get-into-X!-papers are essential: they show that the selection procedure is unreliable enough to outweigh the cost of submitting below-top work.

It is reasonable to assume that these venues need to get submissions which not even their authors think are of the highest order to achieve such low acceptance rates. But authors would not submit below-top papers if they didn't think that there was a chance of them getting published there.

Top philosophy journals have exceptionally low acceptance rates. Why do they still get so many submissions? The prestige or value of a publication in such a journal does only partly explain this. #philsky

Conference speaker in the background, audience in front.

Speaker (A. Wood) talking to audience during Q&A.

Been meaning to post about the Midwest @nakantsociety.bsky.social meeting at Notre Dame last month. The final panel honoring Karl Ameriks’s memory was a fitting and moving close to the conference.

Just finished reading this wonderful piece, which offers a snapshot of Swiss political culture, its localism and defiance of authorities, through the lens of debates about Romansh language.

Thrilled to be joining the @dfg.de funded project "Reasonable Ideas" @humboldtuni.bsky.social, led by @rosefeldt.bsky.social, as a Postdoctoral Researcher! Over the next three years, we'll explore how much positive metaphysics survives #Kant ’s Transcendental Dialectic in the #CritiqueofPureReason.

Finally, we know what upset Quine‘s taste for desert landscapes so much back in 1948: overpriced frozen fruit.

It’s been a couple of days and I still feel sorry for Inter. Up against a far superior side which thoroughly deserved to win—but a sad ending to an otherwise impressive CL campaign.

Want people to understand your academic work better? Answer these questions in your writing:

What are the motivations of this project? (Why do it?)

Who are you arguing against?

What alternatives are you rejecting and why?

What follows if you’re right?

These are also good questions for Q&A.

Erst Merz, nun Spahn…ein schleichender Prozess.

UBC philosophy professor's research cited in U.S. Supreme Court decision - UBC News A 22-year-old philosophy paper by a UBC professor just helped the U.S. Supreme Court decide a major gun case.

UBC philosophy professor’s research cited in U.S. Supreme Court decision

A 22-year-old philosophy paper by a UBC professor just helped the U.S. Supreme Court decide a major gun case.

#philsky

news.ubc.ca/2025/04/us-s...

Yet this is obviously the most likely outcome.

How a University Fights an Authoritarian Regime Viktor Orbán came for me. Donald Trump is coming for you. Here’s what to do.

Michael Ignatieff on university self-defense:

So shocking to see much of what I admire about a country dissolve.

Many warned that civilisation is a thin veneer kept together by the good will of a small number of people, holding down a seething mass of forces. I accepted this as a theoretical point but didn’t expect to see it in practice.

Couldn‘t find my AirPods this morning & shocked how frantically I was looking for them. I’m at a point where leaving the house w/o them feels nearly impossible.

No, University Endowments Can’t Replace Federal Science Funding How Endowments Actually Work

OK found some useful information here, in case others care interested: donmoynihan.substack.com/p/no-univers...

Even Ivys are pausing hiring, curbing PhD admissions etc. because of government cuts. This seems over the top. Why can they not spend a larger portion of their endowments to make up for it? Genuinely curious!

When did we start calling every government appointee a ”something-or-other Czar“? Seems like the title excludes that there are so many of them.

Folks we are actually starting early modern philosophy on the podcast tomorrow!

I will kick off the coverage of the 17-18th centuries by asking, along with Kant, Foucault, Jonathan Israel and others: what the heck is Enlightenment, anyway?

#philsky #enlightenment #earlymodern #hopwag

Just. Wow.