Month: December 2023
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Philosophical Uses for LLMs: Modeling Philosophers
Now that OpenAI has made it possible for members of the (paying) public to customize its large language model (LLM), ChatGPT, with special instructions,…
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Israel, Hamas, and “Blowback” (guest post)
“The proportionality constraint is backward-looking in the following sense: to determine how bad a prospective harm is for a potential innocent victim, we sometimes need…
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New “Meta-Ranking” of Philosophy Journals
A new article in Synthese presents two new rankings of philosophy journals—a survey ranking and a composite of several existing rankings—and discusses their strengths and…
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Mark Rollins (1947-2023)
Mark Rollins, emeritus professor of philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis, has died.
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Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update
The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources and new reviews of philosophy books…
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Externalist Explanations of Philosophy
Why did a particular philosophical view emerge or flourish at a particular time? Why did another fall into disfavor? Why are philosophers today thinking…
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Philosophers Against Malaria: Fundraising Competition Across Departments
What good can philosophers do? Let’s see.