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New $10,000 Prize and Lectureship in Bioethics

June 27, 2019

There’s a new prize and lecture that “recognizes junior and mid-career scholars who have made important theoretical contributions to the field of bioethics.”
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Hartry Field Will Be 2018-2019 Romanell Lecturer

March 20, 2018

Hartry Field, Silver Professor of Philosophy at New York University, has been selected to give the 2018–2019 Romanell Lecture on Philosophical Naturalism at the 2019…
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Williamson to Deliver the 2018-2019 Sanders Lecture

December 11, 2017

The American Philosophical Association (APA) has announced that Timothy Williamson (New College, Oxford) will deliver the 2018-2019 Sanders Lecture.
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How To Use Recitation/Discussion Sections

September 14, 2017

Many college course have meetings of recitation or discussion sections in addition to the course lectures which are sometimes run by the professor, sometimes…
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Peter Carruthers to Deliver the 2017-18 Romanell Lecture

February 13, 2017

Peter Carruthers, professor of philosophy at the University of Maryland, has been awarded the honor of delivering the 2017–2018 Patrick Romanell Lecture at the American…

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WiseGuy on A Philosopher Among the MacArthur Fellows
of course.. they gave it to him and not me.
David Wallace on AI in Peer Review: Practices & Policies
Let’s stipulate that Dropbox genuinely has no ties to AI companies. What about using Gmail or OneDrive? I don’t see how one could consistently (e.g.) abjure using Gemini…
David Wallace on AI in Peer Review: Practices & Policies
That’s my (4): no objection in principle but it is probably sensible to draw a bright line.
Meme on New Study on AI’s Philosophical Skills
Surreptitiously
Michael on A Philosopher Among the MacArthur Fellows
Yes, memory is narrative storytelling using context triggered neurological networks. Freud speculated about memory traces, Friston called the Bayesian probability clouds.
Luca Barlassina on A Philosopher Among the MacArthur Fellows
Amazing! Congrats!
Patrick Lin on New Study on AI’s Philosophical Skills
I assume they'll be using the rigorous standard set by the US Supreme Court: "I'll know it when I see it."
Nicolas Delon on New Study on AI’s Philosophical Skills
How do you get credit anonymously?
Meme on New Study on AI’s Philosophical Skills
Still need someone to start it (I’m more of an “ideas guy who will take all the credit” myself).
Jukka on AI in Peer Review: Practices & Policies
That's a laudable editorial practice. But AI & Society and a social contract between readers and journals: well, I turn to Jill; https://jilltxt.net/misaligned-citations-and-llm-generated-scientific-fraud/
Dee on AI in Peer Review: Practices & Policies
And if evidence of bad behavior from Dropbox comes to light, I'll trust them less than I do at the moment. Many of us have used Dropbox for…
Kate on AI in Peer Review: Practices & Policies
Just on point 2. I don't really think that editors are asking for reviewers to know what *you* think of it in a way that excludes what you…
Sander Verhaegh on Analytic Philosophy and McCarthyism: A New Look (guest post)
Thanks Conner, interesting suggestion! I guess the list of philosophers targeted by Red hunters is too short to draw any firm conclusions. But even this short list does…
Protrepticus on New Study on AI’s Philosophical Skills
“What exactly do you mean by…?” There is a potential demarcation problem here. Before asking whether AI can ‘do philosophy’, we need some account of what counts as…
Conner Schultz on Analytic Philosophy and McCarthyism: A New Look (guest post)
Thanks, Sander—this was an interesting read, and I appreciate you bringing (much needed) archival data to bear on this debate. Some aspects of the McCarthyist thesis have long…