New links…

Discussion welcome.

1. “Why bother when whatever a machine extrudes would be as convincing as what we do?… What do other people matter to us?” — moving reflections on humanity in a world of AI, written and illustrated by Angie Wang
2. Something about nothing — Graham Priest (CUNY) makes sense of Heidegger and Carnap (and Aristotle) on nothing
3. “It is… no surprise that conservatism went dormant in contemporary social science. The ethos or worldview is simply incompatible with the practice” — Eric Schliesser (Amsterdam) on conservatism in the modern academy
4. “There now seem to me at least three ways in which twins can genuinely function as a single person” — Helena de Bres (Wellesley) on twins and persons
5. “There’s a lot of make work in philosophy” — Daniel Dennett interviewed by Walter Veit (Reading)
6. “Let me first spell out the two most serious allegations and say why they are completely unwarranted, and then I will explain why they may have dire consequences for some of the signatories” — Muhammad Ali Khalidi (CUNY) responds to Seyla Benhabib (Yale) on the “Philosophy for Palestine” statement
7. What—or who—killed Frank Ramsey? — the authors consider three possible explanations, and discuss them in light of what Ramsey was writing at the time of his death

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