Mini-Heap
Recent additions to the Heap…
- One might think that much AI art isn’t just bad, but that it’s not art — but “AI art is art as much as readymades, minimalist art, or photography” argues G. M. “Boomer” Trujillo, Jr. (Texas – El Paso)
- The philosopher who helped kill the king — on the “mess of paradoxes” in Lucy Hutchinson’s “war against the disorder of England’s craven nobility”
- “Constructionism was never a matter of ‘just saying whatever’, and science can never be simply a matter of reading the dictates of the natural world off of our instruments” — Justin E. H. Smith with an appreciation of Bruno Latour and of what it means to “have a choice as to how read the world.”
- “When asked to select Dennett’s answer to a philosophical question from a set of five possible answers, with the other four being [GPT-3] digi-Dan outputs, Dennett experts got only about half right” — Eric Schwitzgebel (UC Riverside) et al on what happens when large language models are trained on philosophical texts
- “Unlike most scientific thinkers of the period… Cavendish insisted that humans are part of nature—not above it—and thus that we lack the perspectival leverage to see and understand its operations” — on Margaret Cavendish’s combination of fantastical imagination, thoroughgoing materialism, and desire for immortality
- “As we bridge the gulf between now and then to sympathize with ourselves at other times, we sympathize, too, with the suffering of others” — Kieran Setiya (MIT) on his chronic pain and its philosophical lessons
- A philosopher is invited to take part in a Netflix television show with a magician, the premise of which is that free will is an illusion — the magician thinks he has cornered the philosopher, but Christopher Kaczor (Loyola Marymount) is the one with a card up his sleeve
Discussion welcome.
Mini-Heap posts usually appear when 7 or so new items accumulate in the Heap of Links, a collection of items from around the web that may be of interest to philosophers. The Heap of Links consists partly of suggestions from readers; if you find something online that you think would be of interest to the philosophical community, please send it in for consideration for the Heap. Thanks!
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