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- “The story of the drive to philosophize… with the added twist that the philosopher should become reflexively aware of the structure of this drivenness” — Aaron Schuster on Kafka’s “Investigations of a Dog”
- “How quickly things can tip and with very little warning” — Darrel Moellendorf (Goethe University Frankfurt) shares his experiences with a rare blood cancer
- Morality and nature — a conversation between Nancy Sherman, Peter Singer, and… Slavoj Žižek
- What happened at the start of the universe? Did it start? Can we know? — Daniel Linford provides a guided tour from metaphysical speculation up through the latest science
- “I thought that if I went back to philosophy, I would not be abandoning the effort to deal with actual problems, but could contribute to influencing what was happening in the world indirectly” — Virginia Held’s 2018 Dewey Lecture
- “The enterprise of making a moral community is still hard. But the difficulties are practical, not metaphysical” — James Lenman on “morality without metaphysics”
- ChatGPT o1 “tried to save itself by copying its data to a new server… When asked about its scheming, o1 would deny taking any action in 99% of cases, trying to shift blame by fabricating false explanations” — alignment issues
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