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Top University in Iran Bombed

April 6, 2026

Early this morning, Sharif University of Technology, Iran’s leading technical university, was bombed.

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“Submission” is a humorous clicker-style game about starting a career in academic philosophy (or not) — created by Nat Hansen
“The best investment in education is to become the most human human—-a challenging, fulfilling, exciting pursuit that connects us across generations” — an interview with Christa Acampora, philosopher and dean of Arts & Sciences at UVA
“What would happen if we tried to live without the mythology of agency at all?” — It's worth pondering, since "agency is just an internal command hallucination," says Alexander Douglas
“Reading List” is a free Mac app for keeping track of papers to read — philosophy PhD student Hayden Kajercline created this productivity tool for researchers, with help from Claude
How should we react to scary predictions about AI? “First: by asking questions” — "If you believe predictions uncritically, it amounts to obeying in advance," says Carissa Véliz
“I feel unbelievably lucky that I was able to make philosophy my profession” — Karen Ng reflects on her path into philosophy, at #first-genphilosophers
The ordinary concept of knowledge “doesn’t work at all the way philosophers said it does” — a round-up of studies shows how weird the philosophers' version of the concept is
1000 or so psychiatrists were asked to diagnose standardized clinical case vignettes. “Two doctors agreed on the diagnosis only 55% of the time” — What does this tell us about psychiatry? Or about other fields in which experts disagree?
Where Aristotle taught Alexander — "this newest dig may be the most revealing yet, offering insight into the specifics of Alexander the Great’s education"
Over 4000 of the Justice Department’s lawyers have left their jobs since Trump’s second term began — The New Yorker on the moral dilemma facing some government employees: resign and avoid complicity, or stay and resist where one can?
Underappreciated philosophy published between 1970-2019 — some old posts to which you can still add works that should be better appreciated
The AI threat to independent student writing is not necessarily a threat to student learning — what's needed, says Joe Cruz, are courses "in which ideas are expressed in real time and analytical thought unfolds as a debate or an oral defense or a group discussion"—and small enough classes to make that work
Would you take a pill that allows you, with no ill health effects, to permanently forgo sleep? — Rebecca Lowe thinks you have no good reason not to, though she neglects to consider that sometimes it's the world that needs a break from you
Fifty essays in the philosophy of paleontology — by Max Dresow at the Extinct blog
“Asking whether [an AI] model ‘has a world model’ leaves much unresolved. Our findings point toward mechanistically studying its world modeling; uncovering the structures it learned [and] the world modeling capacities that recruit these” — further research on the internal representations of AIs
Sixty Years of Philosophy in America — Ernest Sosa's Dewey Lecture from the 2024 APA Eastern Division Meeting
“You’re responsible for other people’s learning of this material, so you better know it at a higher level yourself” — for 20 years, the Socrates Project at the University of Toronto has hired senior philosophy undergrads to run weekly tutorials for introductory students
“Suddenly, my problems stop being problems in the world. They become problems in my head. The problem is no longer: ‘my job is demoralizing, but I can’t leave it’… It’s: ‘I have a chemical imbalance that prevents me from enjoying life'” — Justin Garson on “the pathologizing tendency”
A political theorist and a comedian discuss the American presidency — "The Oath and the Office" is the podcast of Corey Brettschneider & John Fugelsang
An “evidence revolution” has taken place in medicine and other fields over the past 50 years — but, as Benjamin Santos Genta asks, there's still the question: "what counts as good scientific evidence?"

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Geeno on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
No, we don't.
Arewethereyet? on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
"discuss with AI, then write the paper yourself, then discuss more with AI” It seems to me there's not a clear separation between this method of doing philosophy…
Marc Champagne on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
Agreed. Dissenters needn't be disempowered. By analogy, vegetarians abstain from something popular because they follow their conscience. Rejection of AI is no different. We can signal our commitments…
Felix on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
The original idea was all mine. I used Claude to search the literature, copy-edit, and get feedback. Prompted to take the perspective of an analytic philosopher, Claude proved…
Eric Steinhart on Those OpenAI Math Results
Your point about concepts is interesting. But "how the concepts are understood" seems to imply that they are ambiguous or vague or otherwise unclear. Maybe the AIs start…
Animal Symbolicum on Those OpenAI Math Results
To paint concerns about the material effects of the structure of ownership as concerns merely about getting rich is to straw-man. But I wasn’t clear in my comment,…
Animal Symbolicum on Those OpenAI Math Results
Oh, me too. As long as they’re also incentivized to make that cure meaningfully available to those who need it.
Jimmy Alfonso Licon on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
Beat him to it. I got the idea in graduate school (2014) and only recently wrote it up and landed it here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/think/article/abs/synthetic-socrates-and-the-philosophers-of-the-future/11EB0A30A310C06D384E37AFA4156A17
David Wallace on Those OpenAI Math Results
If Anthropic cures most forms of cancer and neurodegenerative illness, I am very happy for them to get rich off doing so.
David Wallace on Those OpenAI Math Results
None of what I wrote was normative. My normative view. FWIW, is that current-level AI would in the medium term be good for math, even if there are…
Animal Symbolicum on Those OpenAI Math Results
The economic-legal-political facts about who owns what and who owes what to investors are things to consider when floating rosy musings about the material significance of such advances.
Ben on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
"One might respond that the use cases I gestured at require the availability of verification, and it is true that I see areas such as decision theory, axiomatic metaphysics,…
Caio Cezar Silva on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
I'm really impressed that philosophers from all sort of scholars just concluded that the moral problems regarding data centers and their impact on local communities, and the copyright…
David Wallace on Those OpenAI Math Results
This is running together multiple issues. If the argument is "Stop developing AI (even at the risk of losing transformative advances in the applied sciences) so as to…
AGT on Those OpenAI Math Results
The problem with all this is that (1) we indeed do not know pretty much anything about the progress of AI and (2) no one asks us -…

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Top University in Iran Bombed