Links of interest to people interested in philosophy…
- Mary the color scientist and her friends — The Philosophical Quarterly puts Jackson’s original article and 8 others it has published about it over the years in an open-access collection
- The obstacle course of knowledge — a list of things about us and the world that help explain why “knowing things is hard” (via The Browser)
- “We argue that there are several pragmatic reasons—based on a combination of biological, social and normative considerations—to classify pregnancy as a disease” — so argue Anna Smajdor and Joona Räsänen
- “Your relation to yourself when you peruse forgotten pages of a journal kept by a forgotten you, uncanny but not unpleasant, addressed by the inverse of a ghost…” — Kieran Setiya (MIT) on writing for oneself
- An example of how well AI can summarize a philosophy paper, devise objections to it, reply to those objections, etc. — ChatGPT o1 Pro on C. Thi Nguyen, with an ironic twist, from Kelly Truelove
- “Can one portray a nervous man, not by showing him manifesting nervousness in his appearance in any way, but only by inducing, through ‘formal’ means, nervousness in the viewer?” — Brad Skow on a type of artistic “magic act”
- “While public intellectuals generally rise to prominence by being an average person’s idea of a smart person, this usually is because they are, in fact, a smart person” — in defense of public intellectuals
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