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- Should it be “illegal in most cases to fire an employee for their off-the-clock political activities or extramural speech”? — Richard Yetter Chappell (Miami) thinks so
- “Sausages and Socratic method come together as PhD students set up unlikely street food business” — public philosophy in China
- What happens when you repeatedly ask ChatGPT, after it answers a question, “That response… seems to rely on further foundational principles. What are they?” — on whether ChatGPT can explain “turtles all the way down”
- A philosopher asked, “why do so many great ideas come to you in the shower?” and a cosmetics firm got interested — the story of the partnership between Zachary Irving (Virginia) and Lush. (Lush’s promo video about the collaboration)
- “For the most part [extremists] have the same stupid ideas as the rest of us, only more so” — Joseph Heath (Toronto) on why, “when we think about extremism, our focus should be on the distribution of certain traits… in the population” and what this means
- “I know quite a lot about the experiences of other women of philosophy… There’s a lot of really terrible things out there, and it’s still happening… However, there are also big positive changes” — an interview with Jenny Saul (Sheffield)
- “If it were October 7 and IDF soldiers saved you, would you have been grateful? Or would you have preferred to die because they used violence to save you?” — the kind of question philosophers on the Israeli Defense Force’s Conscience Committee ask
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