Links of late…
- What counts as cheating in video games? What about in single-player video games? — Charles Joshua Horn explores these questions
- “Models of the mind and brain [in cognitive science] make use of idealized terms that have no counterpart in reality… Still [they’re] consistent with a version of scientific realism.” — a symposium on Michael Kirchhoff’s “The Idealized Mind” (at Brains)
- “I have lost the very best tool that I have to see if I am being effective in my capacity as an instructor” — Megan Fritts is one of several professors interviewed by PBS Newshour for its report on the effects of AI on academia
- The philosophy in Tom Stoppard’s plays — an appreciation of the playwright, who died on November 29th
- A look at the various arguments for affirmative action in academic hiring — by Victor Kumar, who concludes that “If we’re serious about diversity, we should treat hiring-stage affirmative action as a secondary tool and devote most of our energy to fixing the academic pipeline”
- “I was twenty-five, young enough to be severely disillusioned by the limits I had encountered [in grad school]… I was also nostalgic for my life outside of academia, which I had never fully experienced. So I turned the Barnard offer down and left philosophy…” — Naomi Zack’s 2021 Dewey Lecture
- “Can an AI write Hannah Arendt’s unfinished book?” — Joshua Miller discusses the very idea of it, an attempt he made at it, what it says about current scholarship, and what a proper go at it would be like
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