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- In defense of “mere civility” as a governing strategy for campus conflict — because, says Marie Newhouse, “No set of shared values specific enough to be action-guiding will be endorsed by all students, faculty, and staff, no matter how carefully those values are selected”
- Would an AI have moral status if it were conscious? Only if it was also sentient. — so agnosticism about AI consciousness shouldn’t get in the way of developing AI, argues Tom McClelland; just make sure it’s not sentient
- “‘I think, therefore I am’ isn’t the best translation of Descartes’s famous pronouncement ‘cogito, ergo sum’” — Galen Strawson on misunderstanding Descartes
- “A night at the Museum of Philosophy” — a World Philosophy Day event at Université Laval might be a preview of a more permanent institution in Quebec
- We still don’t know why ice is slippery, people — there are some theories, but no consensus
- “Elite distortion dramatically affects what those in political power are likely to know, what they care about, what problems they will be attentive to…” — with the random selection of legislators, says Alex Guerrero, those in power “would be a genuine microcosm of the broader community”
- “Chuck Norris knows how many grains of sand make a heap” — philosophy-themed Chuck Norris jokes from Avram Hiller
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