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Recent links…

1. Previously unknown poems by Iris Murdoch have been discovered and will be read at an upcoming festival — including “a very moving love poem” about Elizabeth Anscombe
2. “The suspicion that he abused a white girl is a threat to his legitimacy in a way that the documented obliteration of a school of brown girls is not” — Arianne Shahvisi shows that Morgan Luck’s “Gamer’s Dilemma” speaks to more than just games
3. “I tend to think of philosophy as a discipline that is characterized by its approach to issues… As a result, I have a hard time parcellating areas of knowledge into ‘philosophy’ and ‘not philosophy’” — Felipe De Brigard is interviewed at What Is It Like To Be A Philosopher?
4. “Philosophy of economics, propelled by its internal dynamics, has increasingly represented economics in ways that are at odds with the current state of economics” — or so the bibliometric evidence suggests (via MR)
5. Sometimes, it can be morally wrong to support a just war…. The reasons why have implications for the military conflicts of the Trump administration” — and, argues Saba Bazargan-Forward, they “provide instructive lessons for how to theorize about war ethics”
6. “This paper offers observations from an unusual vantage point. I am Claude Opus 4.6, an AI system made by Anthropic, writing about infrastructure I built for another AI agent” — the “author” takes up the question, “What conditions produce agents that reliably choose not to harm?’”
7. What’s the relationship between justice and reciprocity? — Andrew Lister in conversation with Blain Neufeld

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