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New: Journal of Social and Political Philosophy

The Journal of Social and Political Philosophy (JSPP) is a new peer-reviewed journal that aims to serve as a “forum in which to address the new challenges facing social and political thought in the twenty-first century.” (more…)

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As philosophy teachers, “we tend to think about content much more than we should, and we tend to think about experience much less than we should” -- an interview with Stephen Bloch-Schulman (Elon), who devises some interesting pedagogical experiences for his students
“The trick is to resist identifying the material realm with what can, in principle, be reverse engineered or designed” -- Rory O’Connell (Chicago) on how “the cost of eroding the distinction between genuine thought and artificial intelligence is nothing less than our self-understanding as human beings”
What, if anything, is wrong with using an AI to write a thank you note, or an expression of sympathy, or a love letter? -- Kelly Weirich (Pierce) on "emotional outsourcing"
“Each individual will be forced to be free” -- an "interview" with Jean-Jacques Rousseau at 3:16AM
“On the surface, banking regulation appears to be a set of fairly technical problems. But there are deeply normative issues at stake here” -- Richard Endörfer (Gothenburg) clearly explains those problems, identifies those issues, and assesses the costs and benefits of different approaches to them
“Ukrainians have all but stopped criticizing the government. But it is a philosopher’s job to think critically and speak naïvely” -- a profile of Ukrainian philosopher Irina Zherebkina, who has just left her position at Kharkiv to take one at LSE
“If we do someday create AI entities with real moral considerability similar to non-human animals or similar to humans, we should design them so that ordinary users will emotionally react to them in a way that is appropriate to their moral status” -- the "emotional alignment design policy" of Mara Garza and Eric Schwitzgebel (Riverside)
Aphantasia is the neurological condition of being unable to mentally visualize imagery, or see things with your “mind’s eye” -- How might having this condition affect one's philosophical beliefs? Reflections from Mette Leonard Høeg (Oxford) and photos from Derek Parfit, both aphantasic
Last year, Inquiry published a paper by Hanno Sauer (Utrecht) arguing against the value of the history of philosophy. It has now published a rebuttal. -- Its author? Hanno Sauer. And yes, it was anonymously refereed.
“For some tasks and some [large language] models, there’s a threshold of complexity beyond which the functionality of the model skyrockets” -- "Researchers are racing not only to identify additional emergent abilities but also to figure out why and how they occur at all—in essence, to try to predict unpredictability"
“It seems impossible to be confident about the identification of more than a few of the philosophers whom Raphael depicts” -- a guided tour of Raphael's "The School of Athens" and the history of its interpretations
“What is the evidence for retrocausality?… The relevant experiments just won a Nobel Prize. The tricky part is showing that retrocausality gives the best explanation of these results” -- Huw Price (Cambridge) and Ken Wharton (San Jose) on the case for retrocausality
Frog and Toad read “Lives of the Eminent Philosophers” -- Brad Skow (MIT) tells the tale
He, “more than any other single figure, is responsible for founding the orthodox neo-Kantianism that dominated academic philosophy in Germany from the 1870s until the end of the First World War” -- an "interview" with Hermann Cohen at 3:16AM
The designs for a new museum in Athens have been selected, and “the project aims to reflect the spirit of the location—Plato’s Academy” -- "the architectural design for the museum is open-plan and has long-term sustainability in mind"
The right to cognitive liberty -- Nita Farahany (Duke) explains what it is and how technological developments make its recognition urgent and important, in an interview at NPR
“There’s no way you can have one single statistical criterion that captures all normative desiderata” -- a brief, interesting interview with computer scientist Arvind Narayanan (Princeton) on statistics, machine learning, AI, interdisciplinarity, and ethics
What do you know about these twelve women philosophers of 19th Century Britain? -- learn more by listening in on a conversation between Alison Stone (Lancaster) and Morteza Hajizadeh (Auckland)
“I’m really shocked by how little attention there has been to the role of creativity in moral life among philosophers” -- Mandi Astola (Delft) on phronesis as moral creativity
An introductory philosophy course centered around the question, “What is Philosophy?” -- Christopher P. Noble (New College of Florida) describes why and how he teaches it
“The Grand Prize [$150,000] will go to the first team to read four passages of text from the inside of the two intact scrolls” -- a contest to use machine learning, 3D x-rays, and other technology to read the ancient philosophy, mathematics, literature, etc., trapped in the carbonized, ashen, and unopenable Herculaneum scrolls
“It is likely that for any given approach… you take to a problem, you as an individual or a group of like-minded individuals only see one piece of a fairly large puzzle” -- Ryan Muldoon (Buffalo) on how "the big tools of liberal democracy—discussion and debate—only work well if these tools are built on diverse inputs"
“Why do I want to live with a dog, and why this dog?” -- the ethical considerations of choosing a dog, from Jessica Pierce (U.of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
A useful and brief guide for your students about how to use ChatGPT effectively and ethically in their academic work -- by Benjamin Smart and Catherine Botha (Johannesburg)
“Ukrainians have been vigorously discussing what their institutions will look like in the post-war period, and moral and political philosophers can contribute much to these debates” -- an interview with Aaron Wendland (KCL, Massey College) about the his work to help Ukrainians, including further details about the philosophy benefit conference taking place this week
A previously unpublished book-length manuscript by Michel Foucault, “Philosophical Discourse,” will be published later this Spring -- here's the table of contents
“Dutch academics are now in a very dangerous situation where genuine academic freedom” -- "Dutch universities have been given a template of how to get rid of academics they find a nuisance... make the workplace hellish for the employee"
The liar paradox & the set-theoretic multiverse -- a discussion between Joel David Hamkins (Notre Dame) and Graham Priest (CUNY) on Robinson's Podcast
“I’m not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it and it must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things” -- Machiavelli is "interviewed" at 3:16AM
A discussion of English early modern women philosophers and their letters -- Jacqueline Broad (Monash) talks with Morteza Hajizadeh (Auckland)

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