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CategoryHow Do You Use Various Social Media Platforms? How Should You?
The proliferation of social media platforms raises questions about how, if at all, we should use them. (more…)
Dennett on AI: We Must Protect Ourselves Against “Counterfeit People”
“Creating counterfeit digital people risks destroying our civilization.”
Students Submitting AI-Authored Papers: Poll & Discussion
Did your students use ChatGPT or other LLM tools to cheat on their assignments? If you taught a philosophy course this term, please respond to the one-question poll, below. (more…)
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GPT-4 and the Question of Intelligence
“The central claim of our work is that GPT-4 attains a form of general intelligence, indeed showing sparks of artificial general intelligence.” (more…)
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update
The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources and new reviews of philosophy books, and a reminder about the new “Open-Access Book Reviews in Academic Philosophy Journals” section… (more…)
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update
The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources and new reviews of philosophy books… (more…)
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Philosophy News of 2022
A brief look back…
Light Posting over the Next Couple of Days
Owing to travel to a place with very spotty internet… (more…)
Summer 2023 Programs in Philosophy for High School Students
Please use the comments section on this post to share information about 2023 Summer Programs in Philosophy for high school students. (more…)
All Souls Philosophy Exam Questions
A necessary condition of becoming an Examination (or Prize) Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, is taking an exam. (more…)
Birkbeck Graduate Students on Proposed Cuts
As noted last month, the Department of Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London and other units there are facing drastic cuts. The department’s graduate (post-graduate, or PGR) students have now written a letter to the administration objecting to the cuts. (more…)
To φ Or Not To φ
Talking Philosophy with ChatGPT
Open AI recently released ChatGPT, a more conversational and seemingly more linguistically adept language model that is able to “answer follow-up questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises, and reject inappropriate requests.”
Thinking it might be fun to try to see how the language model performs as a Socratic conversation partner, I attempted a r..
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Winsberg to take up Global Professorship at Cambridge
Eric Winsberg, currently professor of philosophy at the University of South Florida, has secured one of the British Academy’s Global Professorships, and will for the next four years be based at the University of Cambridge. (more…)
The Artful Geometry of Logic
A research team has amassed a collection of Aristotelian diagrams created between the years of 830 and 2021 and have placed them online.
Venues for Public Philosophy
The Public Philosophy Network (PPN) is putting together a list of venues that publish public philosophy. (more…)
Philosophy Teaching & Learning Materials on Professors’ Websites
Individual philosophy instructors often post publicly available resources for students on their websites. Here’s a place to share them. (more…)
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Going To Grad School Despite the Odds
“When you, as an undergrad, were told, repeatedly, that the odds of securing a good job in academia were long but you decided to roll the dice anyway, how did you rationalize the decision? What did you tell yourself? Be honest.” (more…)
Penn State’s Programs for Prospective Philosophy Grads from Underrepresented Groups
The Department of Philosophy at Penn State, known for its efforts to promote diversity in philosophy (see here and here, for example), will once again be putting on a program for prospective graduate students. (more…)
Questions from DN Readers and/or for DN Readers
In lieu of a guest post today, I’m sharing a few questions from from Daily Nous readers. Perhaps you can help with answers…
Recent Commentary from Philosophers on Abortion and the Supreme Court
What are philosophers writing recently about abortion and the pending Supreme Court decision, drafted by Justice Samuel Alito, overturning Roe v. Wade and eliminating federal protections of abortion rights? (more…)
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New “Philosophy in Biology and Medicine” MA at Bordeaux
The University of Bordeaux is launching a new Master’s degree program in “Philosophy in Biology and Medicine.” (more…)