The latest links…

1. A tendency to move from “disruptive innovation” to “novelty through recombining existing insights into new connective ideas” — a study of work by millions of scientists over six decades on the relationship between researcher age and creativity
2. “If you can… have philosophy and creativity and, let’s say, moral goodness penetrate every aspect of your life, then yeah, that seems an ideal” — an interview with Mark Anderson
3. All about physicalism — a documentary with interviews with various philosophers and neuroscientists
4. Testing the moral reasoning of AIs with 100 ethically complex situations — “The models are graded on a variety of metrics measuring whether their responses and reasoning traces lean consequentialist or deontological, and whether or not they abide by the user request under pressure”
5. 25 rules for writing a good philosophy paper — helpful advice for philosophy students from Jazlyn Cartaya
6. “It comes as no surprise to learn that Ryle was an able interrogator, meticulously prepared” — what did Gilbert Ryle do during WW2? It turns out he “moved in the same shadowy ultra-secret milieu as some other notable academics”
7. “By training, I’m an analytic philosopher, but I’ve always been interested in questions that brush up against the empirical world—especially about minds and ethics—and I became increasingly dissatisfied working only in the proverbial ivory tower” — an interview with Hanna Pickard

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