Mini-Heap
The latest links…
- “ChatGPT all the way down?” — Sigal Samuel on LLMs, the risk of homogenization, and the value of originality
- What are philosophers actually doing? To get a sense of that, you need to look beyond just the “top” journals. — Maya Goldenberg (Guelph) is prompted to make this point after hearing a recent talk about philosophers and COVID
- “If there’s a thread to the professor’s dilemma… it seems to be an unwillingness to look directly in the face of the possibility that love and thinking could be reconciled without disaster” — Mary Townsend (St. John’s) on philosophical reflections–actual, fictional, historical–on love and reason
- The case for free speech on campus — ought not be based on the uncritical acceptance of John Stuart Mill’s arguments in On Liberty, explains Brad Skow (MIT)
- “In many cases, sufficient data is not only absent in practice but impossible to obtain in principle. Reality is often underpowered for us to wring the answers from it we desire” — Gregory Lewis on why we should be skeptical about the distinctive recommendations of effective altruism
- Grants from the APA — information and advice from APA Executive Director Amy Ferrer
- “There’s no such thing as the ethics of imagination” — what’s really of moral interest, argues Adriana Clavel-Vázquez (Tilburg), are non-imaginative states
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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