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“The burial place was in a garden reserved for Plato in a private area in the Academy, near the sacred shrine to the Muses” -- further work on the charred Herculaneum papyri, believed to be authored by Philodemus, seems to reveal where Plato was buried
(background here)
A Polaroid/Instax camera that produces not pictures, but AI-produced poetry -- someone should create one that turns images into philosophical questions
“Goldman Sachs’ chief information officer, Marco Argenti, recently encouraged his daughter, a college student, to concentrate her education on philosophy if she wants to pursue a career in engineering” -- on why "some of Wall Street's top tech execs and recruiters" are recommending software engineering students study philosophy, English, psychology, etc.
Why is it good for a life to be “well-rounded”? And what does “well-rounded” mean, anyway? -- an interesting interview with Amy Berg (Oberlin, soon Rice)
Despite what heated discussions on social media might suggest, “none of our disputes in political and social life are actually about the nature of truth” -- Liam Kofi Bright (LSE) tries to trick us into accepting his postmodern relativistic poppycock
Nevada News covers a professor’s college course in which undergraduates take part in philosophical activities with preschoolers -- Professor Amy Reed-Sandoval is interviewed
The American Association of Philosophy Teachers is putting on a teaching seminar at its upcoming conference -- accepted participants get the conference fee waived & get a $300 grant
Happy 300th Birthday, Kant. Here’s an AI-influencer based on your ideas. -- "an AI-generated face based on paintings of the philosopher was projected onto a stand-in model, and a large language model was fine-tuned with Kant’s original texts and adapted to a younger language. His voice is... synthesized and AI-generated"
And here are some quotes about Kant -- compiled by Josh Dunigan
“There probably isn’t much question that we should ‘work to try to lessen the amount of suffering in the world'” but does that mean we ought not spend time on philosophy? -- Amod Lele (Northeastern) on a recent critique of philosophy
“The ethical academic should be opposed to most of our current grading practices, but they still need to grade students anyway” -- John Danaher (Galway) on the whats, whys, and hows of ethical grading
“Kant saw reason’s potential as a tool for liberation” -- Susan Neiman (Einstein Forum) in the NYT on why we should celebrate Kant
“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

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