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1.  “When a student used ChatGPT to write an essay arguing that, given my views, I couldn’t fail him for using ChatGPT to write it, it was clever. I even laughed. But now every… student of mine does it.” — You think you’re having a hard time teaching nowadays? At least you’re not Andy Clark.
2. University of Southern California adds new category of evaluation for tenure — in addition to research, teaching, and service, faculty will now also be assessed on “fund raising”
3. New: The Metapod — it’s a philosophy podcast about philosophy podcasts. Does it include itself? Listen and find out.
4. “There’s a value in having someone around who clearly does not give a fuck about what you think” — how would the history of philosophy have been different had most of its major figures, contrary to fact, owned cats?
5. “Philosophical training has to stay relevant” — why one philosophy PhD program has replaced its language requirement with a course on memes and emojis.
6. Philosophy brain drain? — concerned about the political climate in the US, a metaphysician considers a position at a nearby possible university.
7. “If philosophers actually knew what was happening in the real world nowadays, there’s no way they could go on doing philosophy” — a defense of the “ivory tower”

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