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1. Should it be “illegal in most cases to fire an employee for their off-the-clock political activities or extramural speech”? — Richard Yetter Chappell (Miami) thinks so
2. “Sausages and Socratic method come together as PhD students set up unlikely street food business” — public philosophy in China
3. What happens when you repeatedly ask ChatGPT, after it answers a question, “That response… seems to rely on further foundational principles. What are they?” — on whether ChatGPT can explain “turtles all the way down”
4. A philosopher asked, “why do so many great ideas come to you in the shower?” and a cosmetics firm got interested — the story of the partnership between Zachary Irving (Virginia) and Lush. (Lush’s promo video about the collaboration)
5. “For the most part [extremists] have the same stupid ideas as the rest of us, only more so” — Joseph Heath (Toronto) on why, “when we think about extremism, our focus should be on the distribution of certain traits… in the population” and what this means
6. “I know quite a lot about the experiences of other women of philosophy… There’s a lot of really terrible things out there, and it’s still happening… However, there are also big positive changes” — an interview with Jenny Saul (Sheffield)
7. “If it were October 7 and IDF soldiers saved you, would you have been grateful? Or would you have preferred to die because they used violence to save you?” — the kind of question philosophers on the Israeli Defense Force’s Conscience Committee ask

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