Items of interest elsewhere…

1. A survey of Kant’s relationships with women, including the “catastrophically underrated” Caroline von Keyserlingk — Daniel Andreas dishes on Kant’s love life. Don’t miss the sexy letter from Maria Charlotta Jacobi
2. “You applied to a PhD program in philosophy in the U.S. You haven’t been admitted. You haven’t been rejected. You’re in limbo.” — some explanation and advice from Eric Schwitzgebel (UC Riverside)
3. “Williams was seeking to reconcile dateless truth with transient meanings, naked reality with the mediation of perception and language” — a Nietzschean appreciation of Bernard Williams in Prospect Magazine
4. “As a courtier, Leibniz is always striving to watch which way the wind blows, and is a master of the art of saying different things to different people” — Justin Smith-Ruiu on Leibniz and Peter the Great
5. PBS is producing a three-part documentary on Henry David Thoreau — its first big reveal: how to pronounce “Thoreau”
6. Over 32,000 medieval manuscripts have been digitally transcribed in four months using AI — though the error rate of 9.7% indicates that at this point reliable transcription “depends on medievalists and technologists working together”
7. “What will happen to science when AI models produce results beyond our ability to understand?” — extrapolations from AI chess engines to the content and pace of AI-produced science

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