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Latest links…
- Publish or perish: high school edition — some high schoolers (whose parents can afford it) are producing “published” “research” to get into college (via Andy Lamey)
- “Phenomenal realism seems so obviously plausible [but] it has so little going for it apart from its obviousness” — this makes it an especially vulnerable thesis, argues Daniel Pallies (Lingnan) at his new blog
- “To be an addict is to be vulnerable to what I call the ‘bear-trap model of punishment’” — T. Virgil Murthy (CMU) interviewed about addiction and being an alcoholic philosopher when “alcohol is everywhere in the philosophy world”
- Analytic and Continental philosophy had this in common: they were “obsessed with language” — Crispin Sartwell (Dickinson) on the linguistic turn and the “turn away from the linguistic turn”
- What the AI image generator Midjourney “thinks” professors look like — by discipline
- “As a student, the assumption I’ve encountered among authority figures is that if an essay is written with the help of ChatGPT, there will be some sort of evidence” — “In reality, it’s very easy to use AI to do the lion’s share of the thinking while still submitting work that looks like your own”
- “Abstract objects are objects that can’t enter into causal relations. If you believe in them, you must suppose that reality divides into two radically different realms” — an interview with Peter van Inwagen (Notre Dame) at 3:16AM
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.
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