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1. “Your salary, health insurance and career prospects would all depend on the inflexibility of your ideology” — Jennifer Morton on the problems with “viewpoint diversity” hiring requirements
2. “Any purported… benefit of the introduction of AI into university… needs to be really carefully weighed against… the undeniable cost of AI use:… rendering our students subcognitive” — Anastasia Berg, debating Hollis Robbins, on the topic of AI in higher ed
3. An online memorial symposium on the philosophy of Paul Snowdon — the first substantive post, by Dan Burnston, is on arguments for animalism about personal identity (at The Brains Blog)
4. The kids are not partying, and your social calendar’s about as empty as a lecture hall at 8am — data on the social aspects of the good life from Derek Thomson (via MR)
5. “Moderates… have this really bad rap [but they] have repeatedly helped achieve progress… and are important for preventing catastrophe” — Marcus Arvan talks about why it’s okay to be a moderate, at Academic Edgelords
6. “Professors can reconceive of the classroom, but there is only so much we control” — your students are experts at using AI to fool you into thinking they’re doing the assignments; something has to change
7. Is Descartes gaslighting us? — no, but the accusations made against him by his contemporaries illuminate how “emotionally unsettling” philosophy can be, says Sandrine Parageau
8. Where is sound? Where do sound engineers think sound is? Why ask them? — Jeff Hawley brings experimental philosophy of sound to an audience of audiovisual technology professionals in an interview conducted by Guy Campos for AV Magazine

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