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Why hire your own philosopher of information, when you can just get Floridi for free?

Daniel Weltman on Say Hello to this Philosopher's ExTRA

I propose calling them PURE SHIT: Principally Untrustworthy Recreations Evincing Specious Hallucinations and Illusory Truths.

Marc Champagne on Say Hello to this Philosopher's ExTRA

"In pro wrestling, working a gimmick is [...] the commitment to character that propels the most gifted fabulists into superstardom."

Slacker on Say Hello to this Philosopher's ExTRA

Yep, this is going to be a thing. I made this point in another comment section but here I go again. I suspect corporate entities […]

Sydney Penner on Robert M. Adams (1937-2024)

I encountered Finite and Infinite Goods early in my undergraduate years, and immediately judged Bob's writing as a model of reflective, rigorous, rich philosophical writing, […]

Jake Wright on Say Hello to this Philosopher's ExTRA

But as with all AI, how can we be confident the AI will do what it claims? Namely, it "provides users detailed and easily […]

Michae A Giove on Say Hello to this Philosopher's ExTRA

Great tool so much better than the traditional philosopher's website!

Mirian Ngozi Alike,PhD. on Robert M. Adams (1937-2024)

So sad to hear the death of Prof Adams when we are still mourning the demise of African Great Philosopher, Prof Paulin Hountondji..They are remembered

Chris on Are We Less Rankings-Obsessed Than We Used To Be?

New book of relevance (though not philosophy specific!): https://theordinalsociety.com/images/tos_sample.pdf

Justin Weinberg on Philosophers Among New NEH Grant Recipients

Thanks for catching that. I've updated the post.

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“Assisted evolution is… an acknowledgment that there is no stepping back, no future in which humans do not profoundly shape the lives and fates of wild creatures” -- new ways of protecting animals raise questions about what conservation is and what species are
“Metaphysics begins with the distinction between appearance and reality, between seems and is, and the play constantly plays with this distinction” -- Brad Skow (MIT) on the philosophy in Hamlet
Beliefs aim at the truth, you say? -- the New Yorker covers work by philosophers and others in an article about the complications of misinformation
“Philosophical theories are very much like ‘pictures’ or ‘stories’ and… philosophical debates often come down to ‘temperamental differences’” -- Peter West (Northeastern U. London) on the metaphilosophy of Margaret MacDonald
“The swiftness and ease of the technology separates people from the reality of what they are taking part in” -- Kelly Weirich (Pierce) on Israel's "Lavender" AI program
April 14th-20th is “Public Philosophy Week” in Vermont -- and there's a lot going on
“Any surprising results scientists achieved, whether they supported or challenged a previous assumption, were seen as the ultimate source of aesthetic pleasure” -- Milena Ivanova (Cambridge) on the role of aesthetics in science
“I couldn’t have justified spending a career as an academic philosopher. Not in this world.” -- Nathan J. Robinson on the immorality of philosophy in a time of crisis
“Within the ring of light lies what is straightforwardly knowable through common sense or mainstream science” but philosophy “lives in the penumbra of darkness” -- and even as that light grows, says Eric Schwitzgebel (UC Riverside), just beyond it "there will always be darkness"---and philosophy
“The scientific community has generally done a poor job of explaining to the public that science is what is known so far” -- H. Holden Thorp, the editor in chief of Science, on why the history and philosophy of science should be part of the science curriculum (via Nathan Nobis)
“Ancient Wisdom in the Digital Age” -- Tamar Gendler (Yale) discusses an experimental course she taught on philosophy and its forms
“If you’re going to be a philosopher, learn about the world, learn about the science… Scientists are just as capable of making philosophical mistakes… as any lay people [and] they need the help of informed philosophers” -- an interview with Daniel Dennett (Tufts)
“I’m curious about why these kinds of places have such a spellbinding aura, and I think it’s because they are analog outliers” -- Evan Selinger (RIT) reflects on his obsession with a small-town family-run hotel that serves simple and delicious food
“The story that a sports fan engages with is a collaboratively written story; [it is] a social enterprise focused around knitting individual games into narrative arcs, stories, legends, and characterizations” -- Peter Kung and Shawn Klein (ASU) on imagination and sports fandom
“Claude 3 Opus produces arguments that don’t statistically differ in their persuasiveness compared to arguments written by humans” -- the methods and results of a study on AI persuasiveness
“Limiting virtues [are] virtues that constrain us in order to set us free” -- Sara Hendren (Northeastern), inspired by David McPherson (Creighton) looks for limiting virtues in architecture
“It is not only false but morally misleading to describe the resulting civilian deaths as ‘unintentional’ or as what ‘happens in war'” -- Jessica Wolfendale (Case Western) on the tools and tactics used in Gaza by Israel's military
“Both were analytical philosophers, but their intellectual frameworks and their philosophical approaches were markedly different” -- Dan Little (UM-Dearborn) on Popper and Parfit
“Take the concept, stand-up comedy”—please -- Kieran Setiya (MIT) on defining stand-up
El Salvador seeks philosophers (and doctors, scientists, engineers, artists, and others) -- the nation's president has offered 5000 free passports along with tax benefits to those answering his call
“He has awakened us to the background practices in our culture, and revealed to us that they have no necessity, which offers us a kind of freedom we may not have recognized” -- Mark Ralkowski (GWU) on the philosophy of Larry David
“I think [NASA’s] requirements are closing the astronaut program off from important insights from the humanities and social sciences” -- a philosophy PhD and US Air Force officer on why we should send philosophers into space
“Before he was the little guy who spake about teaching of the Superman, he appeared in Nietzsche’s book ‘The Gay Science'” “Who is….?” -- philosophy was a category in the second round of "Jeopardy!" earlier this week (mouse over the $ to see the answers, er questions)
Can philosophy be done through narrative films like “Barbie?” -- that depends on what we mean by doing philosophy, says Tom McClelland (Cambridge)
“There is no moral valence to someone just not liking us.” “There’s a goodness and richness in this sort of predestined suffering.” -- the moral sensibilities of Lillian Fishman, advice columnist at The Point
“Philosophers write a lot about friendship and love, but they tend to do so in terms that leave out the centrality of the heart and heartfelt connection” -- as a result, says Stephen Darwall (Yale), we miss some important things
“Wenar’s alternative to effective altruism is neither viable nor desirable nor indeed any improvement on effective altruism” -- Richard Pettigrew (Bristol) on Leif Wenar's recent attack on effective altruism
“While the shallow pond may be a good model to help us think about our immediate duties, it is a bad model to help us think about the relationship between would be donors and the suffering poor in the context of development” -- Eric Schliesser (Amsterdam) on Richard Pettigrew on Leif Wenar on effective altruism
And Richard Chappell (Miami) lists what he thinks effective altruism gets right

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