Jared Oliphint, PhD

Thinking about Big Questions with people. Philosophy prof. Podcaster. Married, 5 kids. My free paper-writing template

[Jared Oliphint, PhD @JaredOliphint]

When I was in my PhD program, I was looking at dozens of excellent, published philosophy papers & wondered what structure they had in common. I thought, 'Why have I never seen a basic paper-writing template to follow?' So I created a free template for you: https://t.co/hper9priDq

[Brandon Warmke @BrandonWarmke]

As Hobbes thought..But Aristotle makes clear..Machiavelli borrowed this idea from..I see a connection between Locke and..

It's a parasitic form of scholarship that does little beyond cataloguing ideas and finding connections. The scholar himself has no ideas. Very frustrating.

[Jared Oliphint, PhD @JaredOliphint]

Super cool to see @RudolphLingens's work on forgiveness (in one of the top prestigious philosophy journals) at @marcusarvan's New Work in Philosophy: https://t.co/dEh8j9slT1 Couldn't be a more relevant topic right now.

[Jared Oliphint, PhD @JaredOliphint]

@PAHoyeck One of the most common and equally ridiculous methods within theological circles, including many "academics".

[Phil Hoyeck @PAHoyeck]

There's a way of engaging with philosophy that amounts to just learning the positions espoused by a variety of historical figures without paying much attention to the arguments for and against those positions. I can't think of a less interesting approach to the history of ideas.

[Jared Oliphint, PhD @JaredOliphint]

Everyone who continually uses the actual/potential distinction (and values logic) totally understands the implications of Linnebo's recent open access article on analyzing it with modal logic vs plural logic, right? https://t.co/Qy9QFJYWyh

[Jared Oliphint, PhD @JaredOliphint]

Finally got around to this and it is well worth a listen. For anyone who thinks physics has settled the issue of free will in any meaningful sense.

[Jeffrey Koperski @jeffkoperski]

My thanks to Taylor and Matt for the invitation. They've had some real heavy-hitters on their podcast. Honored to be part of it.

[Jared Oliphint, PhD @JaredOliphint]

How are online degrees going to be worth anything at all? Take it from someone who routinely is grading what I am confident is work from a robot, people in education and the workforce are just going to assume you AI’ed most or all of the work. In many cases it will be true.

[Jared Oliphint, PhD @JaredOliphint]

C. Thi Nguyen on how people get value captured.

[Jared Oliphint, PhD @JaredOliphint]

https://t.co/wd25D33P98

[Jared Oliphint, PhD @JaredOliphint]

In the most recent episode, I talk to comedian Myq Kaplan about being a philosophy major, getting a master's in linguistics, being on Last Comic Standing, competing on America's Got Talent, and much more. Link below, and wherever you get your podcasts.

[Jared Oliphint, PhD @JaredOliphint]

Few things are less genuine than an email projecting how excited I should be at taking a survey.

[Jared Oliphint, PhD @JaredOliphint]

It's time for a wake-up call to summon us all to a little collective philosophy. We've come to a juncture in history when we need to understand the human condition more deeply than ever before and apply that understanding to the way we live and do business every day. - Tom Morris

[Jared Oliphint, PhD @JaredOliphint]

More schools should take a page from the MIT Civil Discourse Project. I was encouraged to hear philosopher Dr. @bradford_skow, co-organizer of the project, share how it was started. More on academic freedom, aesthetics, philosophy of time, & more in the full episode linked above.

[Jared Oliphint, PhD @JaredOliphint]

Many thanks to MIT philosophy prof. @bradford_skow for coming on the podcast to talk about academic freedom, aesthetics and beauty, theories of time, being pro-family, and more. Video link here https://t.co/UsjzgTDJLz or listen wherever you get your podcasts.

[Jared Oliphint, PhD @JaredOliphint]

1. Students who presume to know more than professors shouldn't be automatically taken seriously.
2. A few students do not necessarily represent the entire student body on anything, including students' values.
3. Many students haven't thought deeply at all about their own values, and among those who have they have likely not developed complex arguments for them that include anticipated objections.

[Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter]

NYU professor @JonHaidt, who has stood at the forefront of the movement to challenge academia’s culture of suppressing the free exchange of ideas, is facing a campaign to cancel his graduation address. https://t.co/4egRWmkpP7

[Jared Oliphint, PhD @JaredOliphint]

Think about how political people have done this to you.
"For Hobbes, the true source of power wasn't strength of military might. He believed that ultimate power comes from the ability to *control language* and *define terms*--especially the terms of success. The power over definitions is stronger than military or economic power. Because if you can define what good and evil mean for people, if you can control what success and failure mean for them, then you can control them from the inside."
- C. Thi Nguyen, The Score

[Jared Oliphint, PhD @JaredOliphint]

People today increasingly struggle with meaning because they have been deskilled in the deepest mysteries of life.
- @arthurbrooks

[Jared Oliphint, PhD @JaredOliphint]

@Alex_A_Guerrero I'm currently working on flourishing and well-being applied to the workplace, and I am blown away at how almost all organizations have no clue what flourishing categories even look like. It's not a money problem; they spend millions on other problems. It's an education problem.

[Jared Oliphint, PhD @JaredOliphint]

The US has the most single-parent homes of any nation in the world. - @profgalloway
Shame on us.

[Jared Oliphint, PhD @JaredOliphint]

Some good points here, and an article worth reading. But think about this line: “students cannot be expected to continue paying for information transfer that AGI provides freely.” At its best, education provides far more than info transfer. That's Tier 1. Tier 2 provides training, skills, mastery, critical thinking, etc. Tier 3, which is way too rare in higher ed, provides a model of whole-person flourishing that includes character formation and development, cultivating a sense of meaning, purpose, and value through the lens of work and career that extends to life more broadly.
And very few students will have unlimited access to AI, which requires money for the hardware, the subscriptions, the usage increases, etc. to facilitate AI usage at the scale a full education requires.

[Hollis Robbins @anecdotal]

The only reason to go to college in the AI era is to study with faculty who know more than AI does. So glad for the opportunity to talk about college with the excellent @jaycaspiankang. Parents are poised to ask the sharpest questions about value.
https://t.co/1w3vCrsktp

[Jared Oliphint, PhD @JaredOliphint]

@BenSasse Can’t wait to read this. Thank you, Ben.