New links…
- A political theorist and a comedian discuss the American presidency — “The Oath and the Office” is the podcast of Corey Brettschneider & John Fugelsang
- An “evidence revolution” has taken place in medicine and other fields over the past 50 years — but, as Benjamin Santos Genta asks, there’s still the question: “what counts as good scientific evidence?”
- “Behind the scenes at Ethics” — editor Douglas Portmore shares how the journal works
- “Cambridge philosophy gave Scruton a sense of the distinction between real thinking and fake thinking… a sense of when a conclusion had been too easily won” — a look at the early years of Roger Scruton
- “Once students see language in an Aristotelian way, nobody talks about what a chatbot thinks or feels.” — when teaching students about LLMs, don’t forget they know almost nothing about that second “L”
- Effective altruism may seem “bonkers” to some, but “what do our elders propose as a replacement? Aristotle? Arendt? Marx? A life in community? A life of the mind? Worst of all, more dialogue?” — Harry Levov, a student, attends an Effective Altruism conference
- The theme of the 33rd edition of Artissima, a contemporary art festival in Turin, is inspired by Martha Nussbaum — the theme: “the flexible, acrobatic body” of “art, guided by fancy – the forward projection of fantasy”
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