Today’s links…
Discussion welcome.
- “What needs to go is not so much folk psychology (whose commitments are relatively shallow), but the gloss on folk psychology that philosophers have imposed on it” — Tim Bayne on how to best understand Dennett
- “It seems to take about 15-20 years, on average, for a philosopher’s full import to be felt by the field” Was this true in the 1800s? — Eric Schwitzgebel uses the new Ediphy tool to investigate
- “We need to take AI’s ignorance more seriously. The Socialist Calculation Debate and the AI Calculation Debate are the same thing. Like central planners, AI will struggle to make accurate predictions” — Cass Sunstein on AI, the knowledge problem, and justice
- “A friend knows where you are coming from and realizes why you hold certain views” — a good mindset for approaching long-dead philosophers, says Helen De Cruz, is to treat them as friends
- “First, how do we distinguish the purely epistemic senses of should, ought, justification, rationality, etc., from the other senses? Second, why do we draw this distinction?” — Richard Pettigrew (Bristol) on epistemic rationality
- “When the war began, none of us truly believed it would happen. The morning after it started, we had a big philosophy conference scheduled at my university” — interview with Orysya Bila (Ukranian Catholic U.)
- A “legendary philosophers” crossword puzzle — in the Carlmont, California High School newspaper
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