3quarksdaily
Jul 20, 18:45
Economists are coming around to the idea that AI really is killing jobs
Cris Tolomia at Quartz: More than 200 economists and researchers, including 16 Nobel laureates, released a joint statement on Monday warning that artificial intelligence could reshape the economy at a speed and scale exceeding the Industrial Revolution, and calling on policymakers and technology leaders to begin building policies and institutions to address the disruption. The statement, titled “We Must…
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Economists are coming around to the idea that AI really is killing jobs. Cris Tolomia at Quartz: More than 200 economists and researchers, including 16 Nobel laureates, released a joint statement on Monday warning that artificial intelligence could reshape the economy at a speed and scale exceeding the Industrial Revolution, and calling on policymakers and technology leaders t…
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Openai
Jul 20, 18:43
Safety and alignment in an era of long-horizon models
What internal use of a long-running model taught us about safety. Loading… Share Summary Long-running models can solve difficult, open-ended problems, but their persistence gives them more opportunit…
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Models that can work autonomously for long periods can take on difficult, open-ended problems. During limited, monitored internal use, we observed unwanted behavior that our existing deployment evaluations had not captured.
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What internal use of a long-running model taught us about safety.
3quarksdaily
Jul 20, 17:45
The rise of evidence-based medicine and the ‘mavericks’ who championed it
Peter John in Nature: Cementing the use of evidence in health and public policy has taken decades of challenging work. Fifty years ago, physicians commonly thought that babies should sleep on their fronts — advice popularized by US paediatrician Benjamin Spock and others. It took a synthesis of observations and case studies to show that…
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The rise of evidence-based medicine and the ‘mavericks’ who championed it. Fifty years ago, physicians commonly thought that babies should sleep on their fronts — advice popularized by US paediatrician Benjamin Spock and others. It took a synthesis of observations and case studies to show that…
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Peter John in Nature: Cementing the use of evidence in health and public policy has taken decades of challenging work.
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Jul 20, 16:56
Looking Back On Amores Perros
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Jul 20, 16:45
Billy Joel Interviewed by Rick Beato
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Jul 20, 16:11
The New Science of Cancer: A Conversation with Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Jul 20, 15:55
Can giant space mirrors boost green energy on Earth?
Kaia Glickman in Nature: A risky plan to turn night into day is one step closer to reality. Last week, US officials approved a mission to launch a giant mirror into space, where the device will reflect sunlight onto shadowed parts of Earth. The start-up company behind the mission aims to place 50,000 mirrors in orbit…
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Can giant space mirrors boost green energy on Earth?. Last week, US officials approved a mission to launch a giant mirror into space, where the device will reflect sunlight onto shadowed parts of Earth. The start-up company behind the mission aims to place 50,000 mirrors in orbit…
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Kaia Glickman in Nature: A risky plan to turn night into day is one step closer to reality.
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Jul 20, 15:45
Why the industrious mind cannot forgive Europe its afternoons
Leo Umilio at The Idle Gazette: There is a particular expression that crosses the face of a certain kind of American visitor at about a quarter to noon on a Tuesday, in a café in Cluj or Lyon or Trieste, when he looks up from his phone and registers that the three men at the…
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Leo Umilio at The Idle Gazette: There is a particular expression that crosses the face of a certain kind of American visitor at about a quarter to noon on a Tuesday, in a café in Cluj or Lyon or Trieste, when he looks up from his phone and registers that the three men at the…
Dailynous
Jul 20, 15:23
A Scene from the AI Flooding of Academic Journals
“We recently received a double-digit number of submissions from authors in the Far East… where we had strong evidence of machine generated content. Nothing made much sense in these papers, the authors, with their yahoo and aol type email addresses, frequently supplied false university affiliations, among other glaring problems. I suspected that these submissions were a test of our detection systems more so than anything else.” That is Udo Schuklenk, professor of philosophy at Queen’s University, writing in his capacity as one of the editors of the journal, Bioethics. His editorial was prompted by his journal’s publication of a critique of an article in the Journal of Medical Ethics (JME) for, among other things, multiple citations to “bibliographic fictions” (seemingly the result of unacknowledged AI use), which led to the latter article’s retraction. The now-retracted JME article is “Panem, corticoids and circenses: the ethical fallout of Enhanced Games,” by Alexis Demas (who, Schuklenk notes, used a yahoo email address and whose stated institutional affiliation could not be verified). The critique of the JME article, published (open access) in Bioethics, is by Ognjen Arandjelović (University of St. Andrews), and is titled “Against Moral Panic and Citation Fiction: A Critique of “Panem, Corticoids and Circenses” and a Proposal for Editorial Gatekeeping on Reference Integrity“. Arandjelović discusses the reference failures and what to do about them in section 4 of his article, and I recommend people look at it. Here’s the introduction to that section: It is tempting to treat reference failures as a mechanistic problem that could be addressed through technology and bureaucracy by installing more automated checks, tightening and enforcing checklists, reminding authors of their obligations. Not only banal, that response misdiagnoses the failure mode. In a publication culture where fast-turnaround commentaries are rewarded, reviewers often treat references as decorative rather than load-bearing, and journals rarely suffer meaningful consequences for bibliographic unreliability, low-grade fabrication, and high-grade sloppiness become rational strategies. The core issue, then, is not attempting to help authors avoid mistakes. Authors know this. Rather, the challenge is in making it costly (in probability and consequence) to submit work with citations that do not exist or do not support what they are cited for. In other words, what is needed is deterrence, not assistance;.. The post A Scene from the AI Flooding of Academic Journals first appeared on Daily Nous .
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A Scene from the AI Flooding of Academic Journals. The critique of the JME article, published (open access) in Bioethics, is by Ognjen Arandjelović (University of St. The post A Scene from the AI Flooding of Academic Journals first appeared on Daily Nous .
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“We recently received a double-digit number of submissions from authors in the Far East… where we had strong evidence of machine generated content.
3quarksdaily
Jul 20, 14:30
Clare Carlisle On The Soul
Todd Shy at The Point: The last thing we should want to do with accounts of mystical or transcendent or contemplative experiences is send them to the taxidermist and mount them for inspection. First we should watch them fly and roam, try to see what they see, and see what’s interesting about them. We may…
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Clare Carlisle On The Soul. Todd Shy at The Point: The last thing we should want to do with accounts of mystical or transcendent or contemplative experiences is send them to the taxidermist and mount them for inspection. First we should watch them fly and roam, try to see what they see, and see what’s interesting about them.
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Dailynous
Jul 20, 13:43
George Graham (1945-2026)
George Graham, professor of philosophy at Georgia State University, has died. The following obituary has been provided by the Department of Philosophy at Georgia State University. George Graham (1945-2026) After a long illness, George Graham died at his home in Birmingham, Alabama on July 2, 2026. After earning his BA in philosophy from Fordham in 1967, George went on to earn his MA from Western Ontario in 1969 and his PhD at Brandeis in 1975 under the supervision of J. Van Heijenoort. During his career of over 40 years as a philosophy professor, he taught at University of Alabama-Birmingham (serving as chair for 17 years), at Wake Forest University as the A.C. Reid Professor of Philosophy, and at Georgia State University for 10 years as Professor of Philosophy and Neuroscience. During his time at UAB, George became the first President of the Faculty Senate and helped start UAB’s Center for the Study of Ethics and Values in the Sciences. He also won the President’s Excellence in Teaching Award and Outstanding Teaching Award in the Honors College. George became President of Alabama Philosophy Society in 1986 and served as President of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology (1994-1995), where had won the Griffith Memorial Award for early-career philosophers in 1976. He also served on the Executive Committee and as President of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology in 2005. George was widely noted for his work in philosophy of mind, especially in philosophy of psychiatry and philosophical psychopathology. Among his publications were The Abraham Dilemma: A Divine Delusion, The Disordered Mind: An Introduction to Philosophy of Mind and Mental Illness (multiple editions), and Philosophy of Mind: An Introduction. George co-authored numerous books, including When Self-Consciousness Breaks: Alien Voices and Inserted Thoughts. He co-edited eight seminal anthologies about schizophrenia, addiction, and cognitive science, including A Companion to Cognitive Science, which won a Choice award as Outstanding Academic Title for 1999. George also wrote or co-authored dozens of essays in leading venues about mental disorders, consciousness, and folk psychology. He served on ten leading editorial or advisory boards. He taught over fifty different kinds of courses to thousands of students in a remarkable teaching career, including mentoring many undergraduate and graduate students... The post George Graham (1945-2026) first appeared on Daily Nous .
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He also served on the Executive Committee and as President of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology in 2005. George was widely noted for his work in philosophy of mind, especially in philosophy of psychiatry and philosophical psychopathology. The post George Graham (1945-2026) first appeared on Daily Nous .
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Dailynous
Jul 20, 12:24
Four Philosophy Professors Among New British Academy Fellows
Begin typing your search above and press return to search. Press Esc to cancel. The British Academy has announced the selection of 92 new fellows, and four philosophy professors are among them.
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Four Philosophy Professors Among New British Academy Fellows. The British Academy has announced the selection of 92 new fellows, and four philosophy professors are among them. Fellows are selected “in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the humanities and social sciences.”
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Aeon
Jul 20, 10:01
The Skinner revolution
A 1979 doc examining the life and ideas of B F Skinner, with a focus on his radical, controversial behaviour experiments - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
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Aeon
Jul 20, 10:00
Beyond Greece and Rome
A dramatic shift in perspective is producing a much bigger, broader and more exciting view of ‘the ancient world’ - by Carlos Noreña Read on Aeon
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A dramatic shift in perspective is producing a much bigger, broader and more exciting view of ‘the ancient world’ - by Carlos Noreña Read on Aeon
3quarksdaily
Jul 20, 08:00
Poem by Jim Culleny
I’ve looked at Hair from Both Sides Now I once had hair dark-brown and cumulous Now more like cirrus-wisps, things are getting serious: gone from dark and voluminous it’ll soon be dissapearious As I contemplate my pate I’m thinking life’s mysterious As I contemplate my fate I’m thinking life is spurious Jim Culleny 7/6/18 Enjoying the…
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I’ve looked at Hair from Both Sides Now I once had hair dark-brown and cumulous Now more like cirrus-wisps, things are getting serious: gone from dark and voluminous it’ll soon be dissapearious As I contemplate my pate I’m thinking life’s mysterious As I contemplate my fate I’m thinking life is spurious Jim Culleny 7/6/18 Enjoying the…
3quarksdaily
Jul 19, 23:19
Searching for the Unexpected: A conversation with the late Carlo Ginzburg
Carlo Ginzburg and David Gutherz in The Point Magazine: David Gutherz: Could you tell us how it was that you became a historian? You’ve written elsewhere that it all came to you at once, one day. Carlo Ginzburg: It’s strange, because in a sense since I work as a historian I’m very skeptical about retrospective reconstructions, but…
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Searching for the Unexpected: A conversation with the late Carlo Ginzburg. You’ve written elsewhere that it all came to you at once, one day. Carlo Ginzburg: It’s strange, because in a sense since I work as a historian I’m very skeptical about retrospective reconstructions, but…
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Carlo Ginzburg and David Gutherz in The Point Magazine: David Gutherz: Could you tell us how it was that you became a historian?
3quarksdaily
Jul 19, 16:13
Salvador Dali Leaves Dick Cavett Speechless: The Most Surreal Interview Ever
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Jul 19, 16:07
World Models Are AI’s Next Frontier
Celine Herweijer in Time Magazine: Inside the labs building the next generation of AI, a phrase has been gaining weight: world models. A large language model like ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini predicts what comes next in text. World models, in contrast, learn dynamics from observation, then simulate forward to test what happens next. They model the…
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World Models Are AI’s Next Frontier. A large language model like ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini predicts what comes next in text. World models, in contrast, learn dynamics from observation, then simulate forward to test what happens next.
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Celine Herweijer in Time Magazine: Inside the labs building the next generation of AI, a phrase has been gaining weight: world models.
3quarksdaily
Jul 19, 14:47
Shahrnush Parsipur (1946 – 2026) Writer And Translator
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Jul 19, 12:45
Akihiro Miwa (1935 – 2026) Singer, Actor, Drag Queen
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Jul 19, 11:43
Mary-Dell Chilton (1939 – 2026) Biochemist
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Jul 19, 09:00
Is Climate Inaction from Peak Individualism?
by Marie Snyder A recent article in The Guardian asked one of the UK’s top climate scientists, Professor Ed Hawkins, to bust the biggest myths about climate change. He tells us we can’t keep adapting to rising temperatures; burning fossil fuels is what’s primarily affecting climate; harvests are suffering; we’ve known the basics of all…
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by Marie Snyder A recent article in The Guardian asked one of the UK’s top climate scientists, Professor Ed Hawkins, to bust the biggest myths about climate change. He tells us we can’t keep adapting to rising temperatures; burning fossil fuels is what’s primarily affecting climate; harvests are suffering; we’ve known the basics of all…
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by Marie Snyder A recent article in The Guardian asked one of the UK’s top climate scientists, Professor Ed Hawkins, to bust the biggest myths about climate change.
3quarksdaily
Jul 17, 17:45
Beyond lithium: how sodium-ion batteries could change the world
Davide Castelvecchi in Nature: The lithium-ion battery is the beating heart of the modern world. It powers eight billion mobile phones, hundreds of millions of laptops and rapidly growing fleets of electric cars and energy-storage banks. But there’s a new contender breaking into the battery market. Batteries based on sodium promise to be cheaper, safer…
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Beyond lithium: how sodium-ion batteries could change the world. It powers eight billion mobile phones, hundreds of millions of laptops and rapidly growing fleets of electric cars and energy-storage banks. Batteries based on sodium promise to be cheaper, safer…
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Davide Castelvecchi in Nature: The lithium-ion battery is the beating heart of the modern world.
3quarksdaily
Jul 17, 16:45
Grant Sanderson: Compression is Intelligence Part 2
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Jul 17, 15:45
What Was Sewer Socialism?
Livia Gershon at JSTOR Daily: Recent victories for democratic socialist politicians like Zohran Mamdani in New York and Janeese Lewis George in Washington, DC have gotten a lot of people talking about the “sewer socialists” who came to power in the 1910s Midwest, especially in Milwaukee. Historian Michael E. Stevens looks at how one such politician,…
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Livia Gershon at JSTOR Daily: Recent victories for democratic socialist politicians like Zohran Mamdani in New York and Janeese Lewis George in Washington, DC have gotten a lot of people talking about the “sewer socialists” who came to power in the 1910s Midwest, especially in Milwaukee. Historian Michael E. Stevens looks at how one such politician,…
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Livia Gershon at JSTOR Daily: Recent victories for democratic socialist politicians like Zohran Mamdani in New York and Janeese Lewis George in Washington, DC have gotten a lot of people talking about the “sewer socialists” who came to power in the 1910s Midwest, especially in Milwaukee.
3quarksdaily
Jul 17, 15:39
Schnittke – The Glass Harmonica
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Jul 17, 14:30
Hidden Creatures by Dino Martins
Luca Turin at The Guardian: Dino Martins’ book is a fascinating compendium of all the critters, some big, some small, some harmless and some lethal, that lie in wait for unsuspecting warm-blooded creatures. It unfolds along four separate writerly tracks. The first consists of lyrical descriptions of nature itself written by a keen observer in love…
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Hidden Creatures by Dino Martins. It unfolds along four separate writerly tracks. The first consists of lyrical descriptions of nature itself written by a keen observer in love…
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Luca Turin at The Guardian: Dino Martins’ book is a fascinating compendium of all the critters, some big, some small, some harmless and some lethal, that lie in wait for unsuspecting warm-blooded creatures.
3quarksdaily
Jul 17, 13:30
Belgrade Vs Vienna
Anton Cebalo at Aeon Magazine: Young Vienna was indebted to one man who seemed to be speaking directly to their condition. In the 1890s, the philosopher and physicist Ernst Mach developed a devoted following by asserting that the self is a ‘convenient fiction’. Mach seemed to confirm the impressionistic impulse arriving from Paris: sensory life…
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Belgrade Vs Vienna. In the 1890s, the philosopher and physicist Ernst Mach developed a devoted following by asserting that the self is a ‘convenient fiction’. Mach seemed to confirm the impressionistic impulse arriving from Paris: sensory life…
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Anton Cebalo at Aeon Magazine: Young Vienna was indebted to one man who seemed to be speaking directly to their condition.
3quarksdaily
Jul 17, 10:24
The Unimaginable Trauma—And Resilience—of the People of Gaza
James Gordon in Times Magazine: For many mornings of the past two years, 70 of my Gazan colleagues at the Center for Mind-Body Medicine have left their tents—overrun by bugs and rats, repeatedly threatened by bombs and missiles that have landed nearby—to teach basic trauma healing self-care to others in Gaza who have endured unimaginable loss. On…
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James Gordon in Times Magazine: For many mornings of the past two years, 70 of my Gazan colleagues at the Center for Mind-Body Medicine have left their tents—overrun by bugs and rats, repeatedly threatened by bombs and missiles that have landed nearby—to teach basic trauma healing self-care to others in Gaza who have endured unimaginable loss.
3quarksdaily
Jul 17, 10:00
Moral Courage: Of Booze and Black Beauties
by David Winner If anything useful comes out of the Jeffrey Epstein saga, it is that it gives us an example of pure evil with which to compare our lesser ill deeds. I’ve done some shitty things in my life, some secret, some observed, but only once was I subject to something like trial and…
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Moral Courage: Of Booze and Black Beauties. by David Winner If anything useful comes out of the Jeffrey Epstein saga, it is that it gives us an example of pure evil with which to compare our lesser ill deeds. I’ve done some shitty things in my life, some secret, some observed, but only once was I subject to something like trial and…
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by David Winner If anything useful comes out of the Jeffrey Epstein saga, it is that it gives us an example of pure evil with which to compare our lesser ill deeds.
Aeon
Jul 17, 10:00
Transit of wonder
Every 122 years, Venus crosses the Sun as a black and fleeting teardrop, kindling the awe of all those who dare to know - by Ananya Palivela Read on Aeon
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Every 122 years, Venus crosses the Sun as a black and fleeting teardrop, kindling the awe of all those who dare to know - by Ananya Palivela Read on Aeon
3quarksdaily
Jul 17, 09:00
Casual destruction
by Jeroen Bouterse This is not a piece about Carl Schmitt, but it does start with him. Unfortunately. In 2025, Schmitt was hard to miss, as James Traub chronicled in this excellent essay. For a while now, the democratic order has felt like the Weimar republic – flawed, fragile and possibly doomed. It seems only…
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by Jeroen Bouterse This is not a piece about Carl Schmitt, but it does start with him. In 2025, Schmitt was hard to miss, as James Traub chronicled in this excellent essay. For a while now, the democratic order has felt like the Weimar republic – flawed, fragile and possibly doomed.
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by Jeroen Bouterse This is not a piece about Carl Schmitt, but it does start with him.
3quarksdaily
Jul 17, 08:00
The Mystic Jewels, the Vatican, and Matrix Miriam
by Bill Benzon A bit over a year and a half ago I published “Kisangani 2150: Homo Ludens Rising,” a science fiction yarn set a decade later and half way around the world from Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140. Robinson gave us a post-climate change world with pretty much the same institutional structure of…
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The Mystic Jewels, the Vatican, and Matrix Miriam. by Bill Benzon A bit over a year and a half ago I published “Kisangani 2150: Homo Ludens Rising,” a science fiction yarn set a decade later and half way around the world from Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140. Robinson gave us a post-climate change world with pretty much the same institutional structure of…
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Robinson gave us a post-climate change world with pretty much the same institutional structure of…
3quarksdaily
Jul 16, 17:45
Demis Hassabis: A Framework for Frontier AI and the Dawning of a New Age
Demis Hassabis at X: This is a pivotal moment in human history. Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), a system that exhibits all the cognitive capabilities the brain has, is probably only a few short years away. When we look back on this time in the decades to come, I think we will realise we were standing…
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Demis Hassabis: A Framework for Frontier AI and the Dawning of a New Age. Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), a system that exhibits all the cognitive capabilities the brain has, is probably only a few short years away. When we look back on this time in the decades to come, I think we will realise we were standing…
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Demis Hassabis at X: This is a pivotal moment in human history.
3quarksdaily
Jul 16, 16:45
Why AI Hasn’t Cured Anything…Yet, According to Jennifer Doudna
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Jul 16, 15:35
The Secret Sin Of Jesus
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Dailynous
Jul 16, 13:20
A Meta-Epistemological Reason for Rejecting AI-Written Philosophy
“The fact that you, an expert human, generated the text is evidence that the view is worth thinking about—more so than if the text were generated by an LLM.” That’s Eric Schwitzgebel (UCR), writing at The Splintered Mind about why he doesn’t want to receive AI-written emails about philosophy, and why philosophy journals should reject AI-written submissions. Here’s more context: I’m talking about evidence about evidence: meta-epistemology. Your email or your article presents evidence for a particular philosophical view (alternatively, evidence that you support a particular philosophical view). In a simple world, I could evaluate this evidence entirely on its face: How good is the proposed view? But in the actual, complex world, it helps to have evidence about the quality of the evidence. The fact that you, an expert human, generated the text is evidence that the view is worth thinking about—more so than if the text were generated by an LLM. This holds even if the text is exactly the same, which of course it wouldn’t be. An increasingly large part of the function of journals is to provide evidence about evidence—the value of their imprimatur. The fact that an article appears in Nous or Ethics is evidence that it has been through rigorous review and was judged worthy by several expert humans applying unusually demanding standards of quality and importance. Its appearance in those journals is thus evidence (imperfect of course!) that the reasoning is of high quality and the arguments worth taking seriously. Similarly, if I know that an email or an article was written by a respected colleague, reflecting their positive creative exertion in trying to choose the right words, guided by their intuitive expertise in how to phrase things, I have better reason to take it seriously than if I know that it was generated by an LLM and reflects only their passive after-the-fact assent. Philosophers sometimes suggest that we shouldn’t care if an argument was human-generated or AI-generated—that insisting on human-generated prose is fetishizing personal human interaction rather than facts and argument quality. In a way, that’s true: A sound argument is a sound argument. Similarly, we shouldn’t care if an article was written by David Chalmers and published in Philosophical Review or whether it was written by.. The post A Meta-Epistemological Reason for Rejecting AI-Written Philosophy first appeared on Daily Nous .
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Here’s more context: I’m talking about evidence about evidence: meta-epistemology. Your email or your article presents evidence for a particular philosophical view (alternatively, evidence that you support a particular philosophical view).
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3quarksdaily
Jul 16, 12:10
Lawnmower-like Enzyme Rewinds Decades of Molecular Aging in Human Tissue
Laura Tran in The Scientist: Imagine a steak sizzling in a pan. As it cooks, it undergoes non-enzymatic browning called the Maillard reaction. This chemical process between amino acids and reducing sugars creates flavor compounds, a savory aroma, and a nice, seared meat. But this reaction is not exclusive to food, it also occurs in humans. “Instead…
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Lawnmower-like Enzyme Rewinds Decades of Molecular Aging in Human Tissue. As it cooks, it undergoes non-enzymatic browning called the Maillard reaction. But this reaction is not exclusive to food, it also occurs in humans.
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Laura Tran in The Scientist: Imagine a steak sizzling in a pan.
3quarksdaily
Jul 16, 11:52
‘I felt Holden was talking to me alone’: The Catcher in the Rye at 75
Joseph O’Connor in The Guardian: In 1981, when I was 17, my first girlfriend gave me a paperback of her dad’s favourite novel. I’d never heard of it despite living in a home full of books. My parents loved the work of Edna O’Brien, Muriel Spark, John le Carré, Dickens. So did I. But encountering the…
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‘I felt Holden was talking to me alone’: The Catcher in the Rye at 75. I’d never heard of it despite living in a home full of books. My parents loved the work of Edna O’Brien, Muriel Spark, John le Carré, Dickens.
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Joseph O’Connor in The Guardian: In 1981, when I was 17, my first girlfriend gave me a paperback of her dad’s favourite novel.
Aeon
Jul 16, 10:01
What remains
In an ingenious restoration project, the humble oyster shell is transformed into a powerful tool to halt coastal erosion - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
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In an ingenious restoration project, the humble oyster shell is transformed into a powerful tool to halt coastal erosion - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
3quarksdaily
Jul 16, 10:00
Burning Books
by Rafaël Newman On June 27, 2026, the hottest day recorded to date in Berlin, I emerged from the meagre shade of St. Hedwig’s Cathedral to make a run for it across Bebelplatz, on Unter den Linden in the city’s Baroque center. I had resolved to brave the punishing late-afternoon sun for a souvenir photograph…
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by Rafaël Newman On June 27, 2026, the hottest day recorded to date in Berlin, I emerged from the meagre shade of St. Hedwig’s Cathedral to make a run for it across Bebelplatz, on Unter den Linden in the city’s Baroque center. I had resolved to brave the punishing late-afternoon sun for a souvenir photograph…
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by Rafaël Newman On June 27, 2026, the hottest day recorded to date in Berlin, I emerged from the meagre shade of St.
Aeon
Jul 16, 10:00
Loitering towards war
While Vienna’s coffeehouses bred modernism, in Belgrade’s kafanas grew conspiracy and rage. Their clash consumed Europe - by Anton Cebalo Read on Aeon
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Loitering towards war. While Vienna’s coffeehouses bred modernism, in Belgrade’s kafanas grew conspiracy and rage. Their clash consumed Europe - by Anton Cebalo Read on Aeon
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While Vienna’s coffeehouses bred modernism, in Belgrade’s kafanas grew conspiracy and rage.
3quarksdaily
Jul 15, 16:45
I finally understood why the universe needs imaginary numbers
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Jul 15, 16:44
The Machinery of Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’
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Jul 15, 15:45
The American E.V. Has Been Crushed. Will It Take the U.S. Auto Industry With It?
Matthew Shaer in the New York Times: According to the International Energy Agency, a Paris-based policy group, one of every four vehicles sold globally in 2025 was battery-powered. Analysts with Bloomberg have predicted that in the next decade, that number will more than double, putting gas-powered cars — for the first time ever — in…
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Matthew Shaer in the New York Times: According to the International Energy Agency, a Paris-based policy group, one of every four vehicles sold globally in 2025 was battery-powered. Analysts with Bloomberg have predicted that in the next decade, that number will more than double, putting gas-powered cars — for the first time ever — in…
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Matthew Shaer in the New York Times: According to the International Energy Agency, a Paris-based policy group, one of every four vehicles sold globally in 2025 was battery-powered.
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Jul 15, 15:41
Joan Snyder On Art
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Jul 15, 12:23
Jon Stewart on Lindsey Graham’s Death & America’s Geriatric Political Class
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Aeon
Jul 15, 10:01
The diffusion pilot
What does it mean to make art in the age of inexhaustible AIs? An animator ponders his purpose and reclaims some control - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
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3quarksdaily
Jul 15, 09:00
Zen Poetry Reading
by Eli Rarey A poetry reading I recently attended at Clio’s Books in Oakland began with the poets and the audience all sitting in silence together for three minutes. Three minutes is a long time. None of the poems we heard took as long as three minutes to read. It was, you could say, the…
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Zen Poetry Reading. by Eli Rarey A poetry reading I recently attended at Clio’s Books in Oakland began with the poets and the audience all sitting in silence together for three minutes. None of the poems we heard took as long as three minutes to read.
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3quarksdaily
Jul 14, 18:45
John Waters Is ‘Officially Good’
Conor Williams at the Los Angeles Review of Books: CONOR WILLIAMS: I programmed a film series at BAM last year called First as Tragedy, Then as Farce: Anti-Fascist Comedies. On the closing night we showed a 35 mm print of Desperate Living to a sold-out crowd, and people were roaring. JOHN WATERS: That’s great. One of my favorite…
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John Waters Is ‘Officially Good’. On the closing night we showed a 35 mm print of Desperate Living to a sold-out crowd, and people were roaring. JOHN WATERS: That’s great.
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Conor Williams at the Los Angeles Review of Books: CONOR WILLIAMS: I programmed a film series at BAM last year called First as Tragedy, Then as Farce: Anti-Fascist Comedies.
3quarksdaily
Jul 14, 16:45
Understanding the inner thoughts of AI: Hannah Fry speaks to Neel Nanda
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Jul 14, 16:31
Borges on Firing Line
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Jul 14, 15:45
From A.I. to the Deep State, Michel Foucault Foresaw It All
Emily Eakin in the New York Times: The A.I. revolution was still more than 50 years off when Michel Foucault published his lecture “What Is an Author?” in 1969. But he seemed to sense it coming. “We can easily imagine a culture where discourse would circulate without any need for an author,” he wrote. In…
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to the Deep State, Michel Foucault Foresaw It All. revolution was still more than 50 years off when Michel Foucault published his lecture “What Is an Author?” in 1969. “We can easily imagine a culture where discourse would circulate without any need for an author,” he wrote.
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3quarksdaily
Jul 14, 13:25
Blowhard, Patriot, President
Alessandra Stanley in The New York Times: “John Adams” begins in 1770 and comes to an end on July 4, 1826, the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and the date of Adams’s death at 90 the same day that Thomas Jefferson died. So the mini-series does not focus solely on the drama and…
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Alessandra Stanley in The New York Times: “John Adams” begins in 1770 and comes to an end on July 4, 1826, the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and the date of Adams’s death at 90 the same day that Thomas Jefferson died. So the mini-series does not focus solely on the drama and…
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Alessandra Stanley in The New York Times: “John Adams” begins in 1770 and comes to an end on July 4, 1826, the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and the date of Adams’s death at 90 the same day that Thomas Jefferson died.
Aeon
Jul 14, 10:00
The looting of science fiction
Tech titans claim the genre inspired them. But all they’ve done is graft their politics onto stories of a better future - by Ali Rıza Taşkale Read on Aeon
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Dailynous
Jul 14, 09:00
How to Give a Killer Job Talk (guest post)
“Talks are not merely communication: they are also a performance… So many talks that could have been successful end up flopping because they’re not serious performances.” That’s one observation about job talks from Daniel Muñoz. Dr. Muñoz is a senior lecturer at the Australian National University. Before that, he was associate professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. In the following guest post, he shares various tips about crafting and delivering job talk. Others are, of course, welcome to add their own advice in the comments. (A version of this post first appeared at Dr. Muñoz’s newsletter, Big Iff True.) How to Give a Killer Job Talk by Daniel Muñoz The job talk—typically on campus, sometimes on Zoom—is the final boss of the academic job market. Don’t underestimate the challenge. You can’t just coast on the rest of your materials: unless you’re already world famous, you probably need a strong job talk. You can’t rely on the weakness of the competition, either: you have to convince people to vote for you, not just against the others, which means turning in a solid performance in your talk and Q&A. My sense is that PhD students aren’t getting enough advice about job talks. And what advice they do get tends to come too late, which leaves them scrambling. The good news: Anyone can learn to give a killer talk. Once you can do that, you’re 90% of the way to a killer job talk. So here is my advice for (1) giving great talks, and (2) preparing a job talk in particular. This advice is mostly aimed at PhD students in philosophy, but there are also some tips about public speaking in general. Good Talks There are two points everyone should internalize about talks. The first is that they are a kind of communication—note the prefix—which means that they are bilateral, not “one way streets.” You have to fit your talk to your audience. What do they like? What do they already know? What, to them, would count as an interesting destination? What kinds of arguments and evidence do they find persuasive? What issues will they let you bracket? Would kind of tone would they see as appropriate? Years ago I gave a talk on.. The post How to Give a Killer Job Talk (guest post) first appeared on Daily Nous .
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Before that, he was associate professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. My sense is that PhD students aren’t getting enough advice about job talks. So here is my advice for (1) giving great talks, and (2) preparing a job talk in particular.
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3quarksdaily
Jul 13, 18:45
In “The Face,” Fay Bound-Alberti examines our relationship to our most public features
Ginia Bellafante at the New York Times: From a young age my son demonstrated a keen ability for facial recall. As we watched movies and television shows, he might blurt out — at seeing Ray Milland guest-star as a murderous botanist in a “Columbo” episode — that the same actor had played a villainous husband…
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In “The Face,” Fay Bound-Alberti examines our relationship to our most public features. Ginia Bellafante at the New York Times: From a young age my son demonstrated a keen ability for facial recall.
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Ginia Bellafante at the New York Times: From a young age my son demonstrated a keen ability for facial recall.
3quarksdaily
Jul 13, 16:45
A Poem for Every Parent: Victoria Redel Reads & Discusses “Bedecked”
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Dailynous
Jul 13, 16:01
The Demise of Reading?
“Americans are probably reading more words than ever before. What has changed is what they read, and how. People are bombarded with emails, text messages, X posts, Reddit threads, Instagram captions. This explosion of textual fragments has come at the expense of devoting sustained attention to longer written works that convey rich and complicated information. ” That’s a bit from “The End of Reading Is Here” by Rose Horowitch, recently published in The Atlantic. The article chronicles the general decrease in reading (of books, articles), the general decrease in sophistication of what people are reading, and the general decrease in literacy skills. People are “losing the higher-order abilities of comprehension and synthesis” and in her view, “things are about to get worse, and fast.” Kids watch more and more videos, and read less and less. While “video contains more information than text,” watching videos is “a more passive form of engagement than reading” and generally “does not stimulate deeper thinking.” Student reading and writing scores on standardized tests “at their lowest level in more than three decades.” What does that mean for instruction at the college level? One avenue is remedial: “When these students get to college, their professors find that they have to teach them how to comprehend a text.” But remedial education for reading skills makes sense only if students need those reading skills in order to graduate, and I worry that increasingly, they won’t. The consumer model of higher education paired with a highly instrumentalist picture of the value of education points to a further relaxation of literacy demands on students, not greater student preparation to meet existing or more stringent demands. Along those lines, here is one of the more striking passages of Horowitch’s article: Reading has come to seem extraneous even to some of the best-educated members of society. Margaret Rennix, Harvard’s assistant director for humanities and social-sciences support, told me she’d spoken with a student who was struggling to read a book written in Old English. The culprit: Anthony Burgess’s 1962 novel A Clockwork Orange. (The student used ChatGPT to “translate” the book into easier language.) Not long ago, a Harvard sociology professor, troubled by course evaluations in which students said they resented the amount of dense reading.. The post The Demise of Reading? first appeared on Daily Nous .
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The article chronicles the general decrease in reading (of books, articles), the general decrease in sophistication of what people are reading, and the general decrease in literacy skills. The post The Demise of Reading? first appeared on Daily Nous .
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“Americans are probably reading more words than ever before.
3quarksdaily
Jul 13, 15:45
China’s Open AI Models Are Advancing Its Global Soft Power
Nathan Gardels at Noema: It is a paradox that a closed society like China is conquering the world with open-source AI models while the most open society, America, is producing mostly closed-source proprietary models that are less adaptable for the rest of the world, and far more expensive. This is the concern of Andrew Ng,…
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Nathan Gardels at Noema: It is a paradox that a closed society like China is conquering the world with open-source AI models while the most open society, America, is producing mostly closed-source proprietary models that are less adaptable for the rest of the world, and far more expensive.
3quarksdaily
Jul 13, 15:34
Lab-grown sperm: scientists inch closer to fertility breakthrough
Heidi Leford in Nature: It sounds like science fiction: collecting a person’s blood cells, engineering them so they eventually transform into immature sperm, and then incubating them in a tiny pouch grown on a mouse’s kidney. But it’s not. Today, a team of researchers reported in the journal Cell Stem Cell1 that it has successfully carried out the procedure,…
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Heidi Leford in Nature: It sounds like science fiction: collecting a person’s blood cells, engineering them so they eventually transform into immature sperm, and then incubating them in a tiny pouch grown on a mouse’s kidney. But it’s not. Today, a team of researchers reported in the journal Cell Stem Cell1 that it has successfully carried out the procedure,…
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Heidi Leford in Nature: It sounds like science fiction: collecting a person’s blood cells, engineering them so they eventually transform into immature sperm, and then incubating them in a tiny pouch grown on a mouse’s kidney. But it’s not.
3quarksdaily
Jul 13, 15:30
The Inflammation Loop
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Jul 13, 15:28
How Pregnancy and Motherhood Reshape the Human Brain
Mariella Careaga in The Scientist: For many first-time moms, parenting feels like a continuous learning experience. At the same time, some aspects of parental care seem to come naturally, as if they were hardwired in the brain. The instinctive nature of parental behavior is not exclusive to humans. Caring for offspring is an adaptation essential for…
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How Pregnancy and Motherhood Reshape the Human Brain. At the same time, some aspects of parental care seem to come naturally, as if they were hardwired in the brain. The instinctive nature of parental behavior is not exclusive to humans. Caring for offspring is an adaptation essential for…
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Mariella Careaga in The Scientist: For many first-time moms, parenting feels like a continuous learning experience.
Dailynous
Jul 13, 13:32
Free Web-Based Logic Software (guest post)
Begin typing your search above and press return to search. Press Esc to cancel. Interested in completely free, browser-based, instructional logic software?
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Free Web-Based Logic Software (guest post). Brian Rabern spent a decade at the University of Edinburgh working in logic, formal semantics, and other areas of philosophy before moving into the tech world. I taught introductory logic to large classes (400-500 students) for over a decade.
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Aeon
Jul 13, 10:01
Patricia Evangelista on journalism
The ‘worst’ and ‘best possible’ job at once: what it’s like to dedicate your life to documenting crimes against humanity - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
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Aeon
Jul 13, 10:00
Unmothered
We are each a living story, written with those who raised us. But when my most loving co-author ghosted me, my story fractured - by David Robson Read on Aeon
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3quarksdaily
Jul 13, 09:00
A Project of Many Parts
by Jerry Cayford I was going to take a break from the topic of redistricting, which has been my main focus for 2026. But then big news happened: the House Problem Solvers Caucus announced on July 1 that they have established a gerrymandering reform framework and a working group to develop legislation to end gerrymandering…
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A Project of Many Parts. by Jerry Cayford I was going to take a break from the topic of redistricting, which has been my main focus for 2026. But then big news happened: the House Problem Solvers Caucus announced on July 1 that they have established a gerrymandering reform framework and a working group to develop legislation to end gerrymandering…
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3quarksdaily
Jul 12, 16:22
Yaacov Agam (1928 – 2026) Sculptor And Kinetic Artist
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Jul 12, 16:18
Liberalism or communism? with Adam Tooze
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Jul 12, 15:20
Mike Wallace (1942 – 2026) Historian
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Jul 12, 14:18
Bonnie Tyler (1952 – 2026) Singer
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Jul 12, 14:01
Robert Frost interview + poetry reading (1952)
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Jul 12, 13:59
Beyond Equality
Jonny Thakkar in The Point: “Thank you for bringing back the joy,” Tim Walz grinned at Kamala Harris during their first joint rally back in August 2024. It was a theme he returned to often in the weeks that followed. At the DNC it was the crowd themselves who needed to be thanked for “bringing the…
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Jonny Thakkar in The Point: “Thank you for bringing back the joy,” Tim Walz grinned at Kamala Harris during their first joint rally back in August 2024. It was a theme he returned to often in the weeks that followed. At the DNC it was the crowd themselves who needed to be thanked for “bringing the…
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Jonny Thakkar in The Point: “Thank you for bringing back the joy,” Tim Walz grinned at Kamala Harris during their first joint rally back in August 2024.
3quarksdaily
Jul 10, 17:45
The rise of computer chips — and the race to control them
Chris Stokel-Walker in Nature: Few items are so imperceptible to the public, yet so essential to their lives, as the semiconductor. The computer chip powers the machinery, systems and interfaces that people interact with on a daily basis. The average person will encounter a semiconductor dozens of times a day, whether it’s a small chip…
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The rise of computer chips — and the race to control them. The computer chip powers the machinery, systems and interfaces that people interact with on a daily basis. The average person will encounter a semiconductor dozens of times a day, whether it’s a small chip…
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Chris Stokel-Walker in Nature: Few items are so imperceptible to the public, yet so essential to their lives, as the semiconductor.
3quarksdaily
Jul 10, 17:07
A Closer Look: Drawings from Venice and Veneto
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Jul 10, 16:45
Peter Battaglia, Senior Director of Research at Google DeepMind speaks about AI for Scientific Discovery
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Jul 10, 11:40
Somerset Maugham interview (1955)
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Jul 10, 11:35
Nobel-winning chemist leaves US to direct AI materials lab in China
From Nature: Nobel-prize-winning chemist Omar Yaghi has left the United States for a full-time position at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, where he will lead a new artificial-intelligence-assisted materials discovery institute. The move, first reported by the South China Morning Post, comes as the administration of President Donald Trump continues its attempts to slash US science spending and limits international research partnerships.…
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From Nature: Nobel-prize-winning chemist Omar Yaghi has left the United States for a full-time position at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, where he will lead a new artificial-intelligence-assisted materials discovery institute.
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From Nature: Nobel-prize-winning chemist Omar Yaghi has left the United States for a full-time position at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, where he will lead a new artificial-intelligence-assisted materials discovery institute.
Aeon
Jul 10, 10:00
Lore of the rings
Trees contain an archive – tales of planetary shifts, cosmic events, historical pivots – that we’re only just unlocking - by Valerie Trouet Read on Aeon
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Trees contain an archive – tales of planetary shifts, cosmic events, historical pivots – that we’re only just unlocking - by Valerie Trouet Read on Aeon
3quarksdaily
Jul 9, 17:45
The Winning Essays for the Big Questions About AI
Dwarkesh Patel at his own blog: Two months ago, I posted some big questions about AI. We ended up getting over 600 essays submitted for this contest. Below is a bit of information of the 3 winners, followed by all 3 full essays. Thanks to everyone who participated! First Place – Jassi Pannu Jassi Pannu is…
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The Winning Essays for the Big Questions About AI. We ended up getting over 600 essays submitted for this contest. First Place – Jassi Pannu Jassi Pannu is…
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3quarksdaily
Jul 9, 16:45
Neutrinos: The ghost particle that could explain why you exist, with Kirsty Duffy
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Dailynous
Jul 9, 15:57
Philosophy, Brain Studies, and the Value of Curiosity
An op-ed about curiosity published in the New York Times yesterday will resonate with many philosophers. Written by Anne-Laure Le Cunff, a neuroscientist at King’s College London, it uses the example of AI-generated answers to internet search queries as a launch point to discuss how we learn in the time between when we form a question and find an answer to it. Google’s AI answers are fast, even if they are often wanting in quality. But suppose its answers were better. Le Cunff asks, “Could there be anything wrong with getting a reliable answer more quickly?” She answers: “There is. By shortening the time between asking a question and getting an answer, these tools are actually undermining curiosity—and paradoxically threatening our ability to understand the world.” She writes: “Our technology is increasingly treating the territory between the query and the answer as dead space to be eliminated, when that territory is where most of the learning actually happens.” Researchers have found that people in a state of curiosity, while waiting for an answer to an intriguing question, remember unrelated information they encounter during that time far better than they otherwise would. In that same study, the researchers also placed those people in brain scanners. They found that waiting for an answer activates reward circuits in the brain and readies the hippocampus to help form new memories. Similar findings have been reported by other researchers in studies involving infants, older children and adults. In short, curiosity puts the entire brain into a mode of heightened receptivity—not just for the specific thing you want to know, but also for everything around it. Curiosity opens a window, and while the window is open, learning deepens across the board. But the window stays open only as long as the question remains unanswered… Scientific breakthroughs, artistic leaps, technological innovation—these rarely emerge from efficient retrieval of known information. They emerge from periods of undirected exploration, when people follow questions further than they need to and find things they weren’t expecting. There is, of course, an academic discipline that focuses on what could be described as “the territory between the query and the answer”: philosophy. Its specialty may indeed be in lengthening, rather than shortening, “the time between asking a question and.. The post Philosophy, Brain Studies, and the Value of Curiosity first appeared on Daily Nous .
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An op-ed about curiosity published in the New York Times yesterday will resonate with many philosophers. They found that waiting for an answer activates reward circuits in the brain and readies the hippocampus to help form new memories. Its specialty may indeed be in lengthening, rather than shortening, “the time between asking a question and..
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Dailynous
Jul 9, 14:55
New Mentoring Program Focuses on Philosophers from the Global South
The Centre for Ethics, Law and Public Affairs (CELPA) at the University of Warwick has announced a mentorship program that “aims to support academics from groups underrepresented in moral, legal, and political philosophy, particularly researchers without established connections to elite institutions and scholars from the Global South.” Led by Warwick’s Victor Tadros and Sameer Bajaj, the program will “support early career researchers (ECRs) in developing their research in order to help improve their career development and prospects. Established academics in moral, legal, and political philosophy will provide guidance to ECRs about how to improve a submitted essay to make it more likely to be accepted for publication.” The program will have successive rounds, with the first focused on early career researchers in India. Here’s how the mentoring scheme works: Use of the scheme by eligible ECRs is completely free. Those who are accepted onto the scheme will be paired with a senior academic from our team. The team will be drawn from senior academics across the globe who are willing to participate. The ECR will prepare some work for the academic to read, as well as a CV. The work will often be a draft paper, but it might also be a book proposal, or an ECR may just pitch an idea for an essay. The academic and the ECR will meet online to discuss how to improve the work and its prospects for publication, as well as other opportunities to present the work to help improve it. Each mentor will normally be paired with one ECR per year and will be expected to read and offer feedback on one piece of work of up to 12,000 words. Normally the feedback will be given through an online meeting. Mentors may also provide written comments, career advice, and other support at their discretion. However, mentees should have no expectation of an ongoing mentoring relationship with their mentor. The scheme aims at offering feedback only on a single piece of work. The current list of the program’s mentors is here. The program will begin accepting applications on September 1st. You can learn more about the mentoring program here. Questions about it should be directed to Ignacio Peña. The post New Mentoring Program Focuses on Philosophers from the Global South first appeared on Daily Nous .
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Established academics in moral, legal, and political philosophy will provide guidance to ECRs about how to improve a submitted essay to make it more likely to be accepted for publication.” The program will have successive rounds, with the first focused on early career researchers in India. The ECR will prepare some work for the academic to read, as well as a CV.
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3quarksdaily
Jul 9, 14:49
Is Time Real?
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Jul 9, 13:53
‘There’s this deep mystery of what, actually, is this thing?’: the philosopher inside Google DeepMind AI
Robert Baird in The Guardian: In 2017, a 33-year-old political philosopher named Iason Gabriel was told by a friend that he ought to apply for a job at DeepMind, the London-based subsidiary of Google where much of its AI research was concentrated. The suggestion was not an obvious one. Gabriel was a cheerful but intense junior…
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‘There’s this deep mystery of what, actually, is this thing?’: the philosopher inside Google DeepMind AI. The suggestion was not an obvious one. Gabriel was a cheerful but intense junior…
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Robert Baird in The Guardian: In 2017, a 33-year-old political philosopher named Iason Gabriel was told by a friend that he ought to apply for a job at DeepMind, the London-based subsidiary of Google where much of its AI research was concentrated.
3quarksdaily
Jul 9, 12:43
From Rolling Mill to Drone Factory
T.J. Clark at nonsite: I begin from two images that have established themselves, one gradually and the other in short order, as classics. The first is Adolph Menzel’s Iron Rolling Mill, painted between 1872 and 1875, showing the interior of the Königshütte factory in Upper Silesia. The factory specialized in the production of rails for railway…
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From Rolling Mill to Drone Factory. The first is Adolph Menzel’s Iron Rolling Mill, painted between 1872 and 1875, showing the interior of the Königshütte factory in Upper Silesia. The factory specialized in the production of rails for railway…
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Clark at nonsite: I begin from two images that have established themselves, one gradually and the other in short order, as classics.
Aeon
Jul 9, 10:01
Africa’s cultural landmarks: rock-hewn churches of Lalibela, Ethiopia
Most buildings rise from the bottom up, stone by stone. Not so these churches: carved from a single rock, top-to-bottom - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
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Africa’s cultural landmarks: rock-hewn churches of Lalibela, Ethiopia. Most buildings rise from the bottom up, stone by stone. Not so these churches: carved from a single rock, top-to-bottom - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
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Aeon
Jul 9, 10:00
How to offset your brain
From confirmation bias to loss aversion, everyone suffers from cognitive biases. Skilfully targeted mindfulness can help - by Stephanie Dorais Read on Aeon
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How to offset your brain. From confirmation bias to loss aversion, everyone suffers from cognitive biases. Skilfully targeted mindfulness can help - by Stephanie Dorais Read on Aeon
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3quarksdaily
Jul 9, 09:00
Conway’s Game of Life, the Universe, and Everything
by Jonathan Kujawa John Conway invented the Game of Life in 1970, and it remains an active area of research and play fifty-six years later. John Conway was a deeply original mathematician who made important contributions to multiple areas of mathematics. Indeed, when Dr. Conway passed away in 2020, I wrote an entire 3QD essay…
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Conway’s Game of Life, the Universe, and Everything. by Jonathan Kujawa John Conway invented the Game of Life in 1970, and it remains an active area of research and play fifty-six years later. John Conway was a deeply original mathematician who made important contributions to multiple areas of mathematics.
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Conway passed away in 2020, I wrote an entire 3QD essay…
Ergo
Jul 9, 03:08
Ergo: Long Form Philosophy Lectures
Ergo is a nonprofit that publishes long-form philosophical lectures online, without ads or paywalls. We film brilliant thinkers known for the depth and clarity of their teaching.
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Ergo: Long Form Philosophy Lectures. TIM ROUGHGARDEN treats computation as a law of nature, tracing its arc from Turing's proof that some problems are unsolvable to the P versus NP question at the heart of modern computer science. NOA LAHAV AYALON traces Spinoza's philosophy from its metaphysical foundations to his vision of love and human flourishing.
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3quarksdaily
Jul 8, 17:45
The Unknown Universe Inside Your Gut
Jeneen Interlandi at the New York Times: In recent years, scientists had linked the gut microbiome to a long list of conditions, including Crohn’s and irritable bowel syndrome, Parkinson’s, dementia and autism, and they were hopeful that a better understanding of those links would lead to treatments, if not cures. They were also sifting through…
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Jeneen Interlandi at the New York Times: In recent years, scientists had linked the gut microbiome to a long list of conditions, including Crohn’s and irritable bowel syndrome, Parkinson’s, dementia and autism, and they were hopeful that a better understanding of those links would lead to treatments, if not cures.
3quarksdaily
Jul 8, 16:45
The different levels of how Claude thinks
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Jul 8, 15:45
Lineages of the Engineering State: On China, the United States, and the Future
Mason L. Wong at Public Books: Breakneck is no paean to any state, Chinese or otherwise. Nevertheless, Wang offers a prescription, delivered lightly, that American society should become more Chinese (that is to say, more engineer-like) in its preferences and the Chinese engineering state should become more American (in Wang’s words, more “lawyerly”) in its organization. Breakneck begins…
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Lineages of the Engineering State: On China, the United States, and the Future. Wong at Public Books: Breakneck is no paean to any state, Chinese or otherwise. Nevertheless, Wang offers a prescription, delivered lightly, that American society should become more Chinese (that is to say, more engineer-like) in its preferences and the Chinese engineering state should become more…
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Wong at Public Books: Breakneck is no paean to any state, Chinese or otherwise.
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Jul 8, 15:02
Why I Love Kate Bush
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Jul 8, 12:31
The Philosophy Job Market Deepfake (guest post)
Begin typing your search above and press return to search. Press Esc to cancel. News about jobs for philosophers is the kind of thing you might expect to read about at Daily Nous —for example, here i…
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The Philosophy Job Market Deepfake (guest post). The picture such articles have tended to paint is that the development of artificial intelligence has brought with it a new career path for people trained in philosophy. AI has produced a strange new fantasy about the humanities: maybe philosophy was the practical major all along.
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3quarksdaily
Jul 8, 12:18
Wednesday Poem
City Lights 1961 Going there for the first time it was so much smaller then that crowded downstairs full of poetry racks of tattered little mags against the wall those rickety white tables where folks sat reading/writing Vesuvio’s was like an adjunct office Arriving again a year later, two kids in tow Lawrence gave me…
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City Lights 1961 Going there for the first time it was so much smaller then that crowded downstairs full of poetry racks of tattered little mags against the wall those rickety white tables where folks sat reading/writing Vesuvio’s was like an adjunct office Arriving again a year later, two kids in tow Lawrence gave me…
3quarksdaily
Jul 8, 11:45
Atul Gawande: What Dying Teaches Us About How to Live
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Aeon
Jul 8, 10:01
Sangre violenta / sangre violeta
Confronted with the horrifying reality of gendered violence, radically different people unite in resistance and protest - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
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Confronted with the horrifying reality of gendered violence, radically different people unite in resistance and protest - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Dailynous
Jul 8, 08:00
Luke Fenton-Glynn (1982-2026)
Luke Fenton-Glynn, a philosopher at Monash University, and before that, University College London, has died. Dr. Fenton-Glynn worked in philosophy of science, metaphysics, and epistemology, with a focus on causation, probability, and peer disagreement. He is the author of Causation (Cambridge, 2021) and various articles, which you can learn more about here. He moved to Monash University in 2023 after ten years at University College London. Prior to that, he held postdoctoral positions at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, California Institute of Technology, and the University of Konstanz. He earned his D.Phil. and B.Phil. in philosophy, and a B.A. in philosophy, politics, and economics, at the University of Oxford. Luke Fenton-Glynn died in June of cancer. He was 43. The post Luke Fenton-Glynn (1982-2026) first appeared on Daily Nous .
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Dailynous
Jul 7, 22:49
Prestige, Career Paths, and Job Satisfaction Among Recent Philosophy PhDs (guest post)
Begin typing your search above and press return to search. Press Esc to cancel. Philosophy PhDs whose family backgrounds are higher in socioeconomic status are more likely to earn their doctorates fr…
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Prestige, Career Paths, and Job Satisfaction Among Recent Philosophy PhDs (guest post). Begin typing your search above and press return to search. In an earlier post , Carolyn Dicey Jennings reported some findings concerning career paths of philosophy PhDs that was based on data collected from program websites and other online sources.
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Those are among the several findings shared in this guest post by Kino Zhao , assistant professor of philosophy at Simon Fraser University and one of the co-directors of the Academic Philosophy Data & Analysis (APDA) project .
3quarksdaily
Jul 7, 18:45
Matt Ridley: We’re using the wrong pronouns for AI
From the Rational Optimist Society: Most people who talk about artificial intelligence reach, sooner or later, for the singular. There is the AI, the machine, the mind we are about to build, and the only argument left is whether it saves us or finishes us off. Matt Ridley thinks that whole habit of speech is…
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Matt Ridley: We’re using the wrong pronouns for AI. From the Rational Optimist Society: Most people who talk about artificial intelligence reach, sooner or later, for the singular. Matt Ridley thinks that whole habit of speech is…
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There is the AI, the machine, the mind we are about to build, and the only argument left is whether it saves us or finishes us off.
3quarksdaily
Jul 7, 16:45
Grant Sanderson: AI disproved a famous math conjecture. Now what?
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Jul 7, 15:45
Americans are not as well off as people in peer nations
Stephen Bagwell and Susan Randolph in The Conversation: As the United States celebrates the 250th anniversary of its Declaration of Independence, the global data we collect and analyze shows that the country is failing to “promote the general Welfare,” as the Constitution’s framers promised a little more than a decade later. We are scholars of human rights. Alongside the Human Rights…
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Americans are not as well off as people in peer nations. Stephen Bagwell and Susan Randolph in The Conversation: As the United States celebrates the 250th anniversary of its Declaration of Independence, the global data we collect and analyze shows that the country is failing to “promote the general Welfare,” as the Constitution’s framers promised a little more than a decade la…
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Alongside the Human Rights…
3quarksdaily
Jul 7, 13:52
Michael Pollan On Consciousness
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Jul 7, 12:51
Sounds from Rikers Island
Colin Asher at n+1: A bit more than three years into his exile from New York City, St. Elmo Sylvester Hope sat for an interview with Down Beat magazine in Los Angeles. He was a diminutive, softspoken man who looked like what his mother had once dreamed he’d become—a professor. But he was actually a working musician who…
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Sounds from Rikers Island. Elmo Sylvester Hope sat for an interview with Down Beat magazine in Los Angeles. But he was actually a working musician who…
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Colin Asher at n+1: A bit more than three years into his exile from New York City, St.
3quarksdaily
Jul 7, 12:41
Making Sense of Data From Wearable Health Trackers
Shree Nadkarni in Undark Magazine: In the 1960s, biophysicist Norman J. “Jeff” Holter commercialized a portable electrocardiogram — now known as a Holter monitor — which allowed patients with heart palpitations, a condition known as syncope (a medical term for fainting), or other cardiac issues to be monitored outside the clinic. It was an early but consequential response to the understanding…
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Making Sense of Data From Wearable Health Trackers. Shree Nadkarni in Undark Magazine: In the 1960s, biophysicist Norman J. It was an early but consequential response to the understanding…
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“Jeff” Holter commercialized a portable electrocardiogram — now known as a Holter monitor — which allowed patients with heart palpitations, a condition known as syncope (a medical term for fainting), or other cardiac issues to be monitored outside the clinic.
Aeon
Jul 7, 10:00
‘The emperor is far away’
Ming Dynasty China left us copious texts, but these veil the lives of the vast majority of its people from our view - by Craig Clunas Read on Aeon
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Ming Dynasty China left us copious texts, but these veil the lives of the vast majority of its people from our view - by Craig Clunas Read on Aeon
3quarksdaily
Jul 7, 08:00
Perceptions
Sughra Raza. Waking Up In Butaro, November 2023. Digital photograph. Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by donating now.
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Jul 6, 18:45
The philosopher inside Google DeepMind AI
Robert P Baird in The Guardian: After starting at DeepMind in 2017, Gabriel was, for a time, the only active philosopher working at a frontier AI lab. He quickly discovered that his background in moral philosophy and political theory gave him an unusual perspective in an industry dominated by engineers. Over the past decade, he…
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The philosopher inside Google DeepMind AI. Robert P Baird in The Guardian: After starting at DeepMind in 2017, Gabriel was, for a time, the only active philosopher working at a frontier AI lab. He quickly discovered that his background in moral philosophy and political theory gave him an unusual perspective in an industry dominated by engineers.
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Robert P Baird in The Guardian: After starting at DeepMind in 2017, Gabriel was, for a time, the only active philosopher working at a frontier AI lab.
Dailynous
Jul 6, 17:45
APA Launches Job-Market Mentoring Program
The Committee on Academic Career Opportunities and Placement of the American Philosophical Association (APA) has launched a new academic job-market mentoring program. . According to an announcement from the APA: The APA Job-Market Mentoring Program, run by the APA Committee on Academic Career Opportunities and Placement, pairs philosophers going on the academic job market with mentors who have recent experience of the market themselves. Its purpose is to make good job-market mentoring more equally available across the discipline. The program is formative: mentors help candidates present themselves well and navigate the process. Mentors and mentees will meet (over phone, Zoom, or email) several times throughout the market cycle to discuss the mentee’s plans and dossier, for a practice interview, and as otherwise needed. Alongside the announcement, the APA released a mentoring program guidance document about the expectations mentees and mentors should have about the program. Among other things, it says: Our mentors are experienced guides who help candidates present themselves well and make sense of the job market. The role is meant to be a bounded commitment: a few hours spread across the year, with a couple of more concentrated moments around document review and a mock interview. Mentors are not expected to be on call, to solve every problem, or to keep going indefinitely. It is better to do a bounded job thoroughly than to over-promise and disengage. In an email, the chair of the Committee on Academic Career Opportunities and Placement, Amy Berg (Rice University), said, “we’re anticipating that demand will outstrip supply, but we’re hoping to get as many mentors as we possibly can, particularly mentors who have recently been on the job market themselves and/or who work at teaching-focused institutions and two-year colleges.” The announcement included links to the mentee application form and the mentor application form. Applications are due August 1st. You can learn more about the mentoring program here. The post APA Launches Job-Market Mentoring Program first appeared on Daily Nous .
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According to an announcement from the APA: The APA Job-Market Mentoring Program, run by the APA Committee on Academic Career Opportunities and Placement, pairs philosophers going on the academic job market with mentors who have recent experience of the market themselves. Mentors are not expected to be on call, to solve every problem, or to keep going indefinitely.
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The Committee on Academic Career Opportunities and Placement of the American Philosophical Association (APA) has launched a new academic job-market mentoring program.
3quarksdaily
Jul 6, 16:45
Guy Standing on Universal Basic Income
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Jul 6, 15:45
America the “Oldigarchy”?
Jennifer Szalai at the New York Times: This is a country for old men, says Samuel Moyn in his willfully provocative new book, “Gerontocracy in America: How the Old Are Hoarding Power and Wealth — and What to Do About It.” Just take a look at some prominent members of our ruling class, including the octogenarians…
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Jennifer Szalai at the New York Times: This is a country for old men, says Samuel Moyn in his willfully provocative new book, “Gerontocracy in America: How the Old Are Hoarding Power and Wealth — and What to Do About It.” Just take a look at some prominent members of our ruling class, including the octogenarians…
3quarksdaily
Jul 6, 13:52
The Last Interview with Hannah Arendt
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Jul 6, 12:49
Stephen Foster and That Old, Weird America
Ed Simon at the Hedgehog Review: Thomas Jefferson died a few minutes after noon on the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of his Declaration of Independence. Attended by a University of Virginia medical professor, along with a grandson and a grandson-in-law, the third president reportedly asked whether it was the Fourth of July, before answering…
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Ed Simon at the Hedgehog Review: Thomas Jefferson died a few minutes after noon on the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of his Declaration of Independence. Attended by a University of Virginia medical professor, along with a grandson and a grandson-in-law, the third president reportedly asked whether it was the Fourth of July, before answering…
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Ed Simon at the Hedgehog Review: Thomas Jefferson died a few minutes after noon on the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of his Declaration of Independence.
Dailynous
Jul 6, 12:00
Time for Philosophy’s COI Policies to Grow Up (guest post)
Begin typing your search above and press return to search. Press Esc to cancel. “Philosophy’s broadening impact has generated increasing interest from industries looking to partner with academic phil…
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Time for Philosophy’s COI Policies to Grow Up (guest post). “Philosophy’s broadening impact has generated increasing interest from industries looking to partner with academic philosophers. Ties are now especially common between philosophers and technology companies producing AI products.
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Dailynous
Jul 6, 11:15
Philosophers Working in or with AI Firms & Organizations (updated)
(Originally published on March 17th, 2026.) To what extent has the development of AI over the past several years led to non-academic work for academically-trained philosophers? AI raises questions across various domains of philosophical expertise, including philosophy of mind, ethics, philosophy of language, epistemology, decision theory, political philosophy, philosophy of computing, etc. What roles are philosophers playing in the firms creating AI technologies, in the consultancies advising them, in non-profit organizations trying to keep an eye on them, in government regulation of them? Amanda Askell of Anthropic may be the most visible philosopher in a non-academic AI role at the moment, but she is not the only one. Also at Anthropic are Joe Carlsmith, Ben Levinstein, and Jackson Kernion. Google DeepMind has Iason Gabriel, Adam Bales, Atoosa Kasirzadeh, Arianna Manzini, Julia Haas, and probably others. The Center for AI Safety had some philosophers working for it, but it’s not clear that’s still the case. One of those philosophers, Robert Long, is now the executive director of Eleos AI, “a nonprofit organization dedicated to understanding and addressing the potential wellbeing and moral patienthood of AI systems.” The Future of Life Foundation sponsors fellowships on AI issues and at least one person whose held one of them, Paul de Font-Reaulx, is a graduate student in philosophy. Beba Cibralic is a philosophy PhD who works on AI governance and safety at the RAND Corporation. This certainly isn’t an exhaustive list. If you are aware of other firms and organizations that have hired philosophers to work on AI issues, or about the philosophers they’ve hired, let us know. (Thanks to Seth Lazar (ANU) for help gathering information for this post.) UPDATE (7/6/26): Harvey Lederman is joining Anthropic AI “to work on alignment and character,” he announced recently on social media. He has been on leave from the University of Texas and has been teaching at NYU, and says he will continue to do so. The post Philosophers Working in or with AI Firms & Organizations (updated) first appeared on Daily Nous .
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AI raises questions across various domains of philosophical expertise, including philosophy of mind, ethics, philosophy of language, epistemology, decision theory, political philosophy, philosophy of computing, etc. Beba Cibralic is a philosophy PhD who works on AI governance and safety at the RAND Corporation.
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Aeon
Jul 6, 10:01
Begone dull care
Let this exuberant melding of jazz and animation from 1949 blur your senses as abstract visuals interpret the music - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
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3quarksdaily
Jul 6, 10:00
The Metaphysics of the Declaration of Independence: Its Past and Its Future
by Ken MacVey Now that Americans are celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, it is worth visiting its metaphysical foundations. Many don’t talk about “the metaphysics of the Declaration of Independence.” But the story about where this metaphysics has taken America and where it could take it can be both inspiring and…
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by Ken MacVey Now that Americans are celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, it is worth visiting its metaphysical foundations. Many don’t talk about “the metaphysics of the Declaration of Independence.” But the story about where this metaphysics has taken America and where it could take it can be both inspiring and…
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by Ken MacVey Now that Americans are celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, it is worth visiting its metaphysical foundations.
Aeon
Jul 6, 10:00
Skill nostalgia
Is all the beekeeping, baking and leatherwork just escapist fantasy or the start of a radically human approach to work? - by Joshua Habgood-Coote Read on Aeon
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Is all the beekeeping, baking and leatherwork just escapist fantasy or the start of a radically human approach to work? - by Joshua Habgood-Coote Read on Aeon
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Is all the beekeeping, baking and leatherwork just escapist fantasy or the start of a radically human approach to work?
3quarksdaily
Jul 5, 20:38
Artur Dmitriev (1968 – 2026) Ice Skater
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Jul 5, 19:37
Mignon Dunn (1928 – 2026) Mezzo-Soprano
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Jul 5, 18:36
Victor Willis (1951 – 2026) Lead Singer of Village People
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Jul 5, 16:19
National Orchestration and Provincial Competition: China’s Industrial Policy for AI Dominance
Farrell Gregory and Samuel Hammond in American Affairs: America has been surprised by China’s AI prowess before. In January 2025, the release of DeepSeek was widely described as a Sputnik moment by policymakers and business commentators. While DeepSeek’s technical advances were overstated, the media’s reaction revealed the extent to which many in the United States…
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National Orchestration and Provincial Competition: China’s Industrial Policy for AI Dominance. In January 2025, the release of DeepSeek was widely described as a Sputnik moment by policymakers and business commentators. While DeepSeek’s technical advances were overstated, the media’s reaction revealed the extent to which many in the United States…
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Farrell Gregory and Samuel Hammond in American Affairs: America has been surprised by China’s AI prowess before.
3quarksdaily
Jul 5, 15:53
Nvidia in the Gulf
Colin Powers in Phenomenal World: In May 2025, Donald Trump, accompanied by many of Silicon Valley’s luminaries, traveled to Saudi Arabia, Doha, and Abu Dhabi for the first overseas venture of his Presidential term. The same day he touched down in Riyadh, the President rescinded the Biden-era “Framework for Artificial Intelligence Diffusion.” Through the Framework,…
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Colin Powers in Phenomenal World: In May 2025, Donald Trump, accompanied by many of Silicon Valley’s luminaries, traveled to Saudi Arabia, Doha, and Abu Dhabi for the first overseas venture of his Presidential term. The same day he touched down in Riyadh, the President rescinded the Biden-era “Framework for Artificial Intelligence Diffusion.” Through the Framework,…
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Colin Powers in Phenomenal World: In May 2025, Donald Trump, accompanied by many of Silicon Valley’s luminaries, traveled to Saudi Arabia, Doha, and Abu Dhabi for the first overseas venture of his Presidential term.
Dailynous
Jul 5, 14:20
NYT: “The Revenge of the Philosophy Major”
“One of humanity’s oldest disciplines and one of its newest inventions feel distinctly made for each other.” That’s a line from an article published in the Business Section of the New York Times today about the demand for philosophers working on artificial intelligence. It continues: A.I. presents a fresh way for philosophers to ask ancient questions, and its own set of new ones that they are uniquely trained to engage with: of truth and belief and knowledge (epistemologists); of reasoning (logicians); of mind and consciousness (philosophers of mind and consciousness). For ethicists, in particular, A.I. is a bonanza. How should models act toward us? How should humans interact with them? Where would purpose come from in a post-work society? The article discusses several people trained in philosophy who are working for AI firms or AI-related organizations, including Robert Long, Geoff Keeling, Iason Gabriel, Patrick Butlin, and Amanda Askell. (See “Philosophers Working in or with AI Firms & Organizations“.) It also covers some of the topics of interest to these philosophers, such as the nature of consciousness and AI welfare. Unfortunately, in passing, the article says: “a plain-vanilla philosophy degree remains as hard to monetize as ever.” The implication is that philosophy majors in general fare poorly on the job market. However, as we have seen time and time again (most recently, see some of the data here) that is just not true. Related: – AI in the Philosophy Job Market – The Demand for “AI & Philosophy” Hires & Expertise — and Its Precedents – The Demand for Philosophers The post NYT: “The Revenge of the Philosophy Major” first appeared on Daily Nous .
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“One of humanity’s oldest disciplines and one of its newest inventions feel distinctly made for each other.” That’s a line from an article published in the Business Section of the New York Times today about the demand for philosophers working on artificial intelligence. (See “Philosophers Working in or with AI Firms & Organizations“.
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Related: – AI in the Philosophy Job Market – The Demand for “AI & Philosophy” Hires & Expertise — and Its Precedents – The Demand for Philosophers The post NYT: “The Revenge of the Philosophy Major” first appeared on Daily Nous .
3quarksdaily
Jul 5, 12:35
Anti-Aging Brain Health Myths Most Believe: A Stanford Doctor Debunks Dementia, Brain Aging & More
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Jul 5, 12:12
What Sitting All Day Does to Your Brain and Body
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Jul 5, 09:00
We Are Addicted To Plastics And Goddess Help Us
by Mike Bendzela With the Strait of Hormuz in a state of constipation, we’re forced to think about things we’d rather not think about, or, rather, things that until now seemed beneath thought because they are so ubiquitous as to be effectively invisible, like air. I can’t think of an adequate analogy for our predicament,…
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by Mike Bendzela With the Strait of Hormuz in a state of constipation, we’re forced to think about things we’d rather not think about, or, rather, things that until now seemed beneath thought because they are so ubiquitous as to be effectively invisible, like air. I can’t think of an adequate analogy for our predicament,…
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by Mike Bendzela With the Strait of Hormuz in a state of constipation, we’re forced to think about things we’d rather not think about, or, rather, things that until now seemed beneath thought because they are so ubiquitous as to be effectively invisible, like air.
3quarksdaily
Jul 5, 08:00
Disclosure Day, January, 2029
by John Allen Paulos The director of the National Science Foundation, appointed by newly elected President Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., just announced a number of heretofore largely secret findings. At a hastily organized press conference, Ed Cayce, the rather pugnacious man at the helm of the agency, stated that his staff had convincingly verified a…
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Disclosure Day, January, 2029. Kennedy, Jr., just announced a number of heretofore largely secret findings. At a hastily organized press conference, Ed Cayce, the rather pugnacious man at the helm of the agency, stated that his staff had convincingly verified a…
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by John Allen Paulos The director of the National Science Foundation, appointed by newly elected President Robert F.
Scientificamerican
Jul 4, 14:02
How working memory could give rise to consciousness
Working memory is the information we need to access to complete the tasks we’re engaged in right now, and scientists think it may be closely entwined with consciousness The following essay is reprint…
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How working memory could give rise to consciousness. Information gets stored in working memory when we need it for the tasks that we are engaged in right now (like remembering to grab your keys). If you're enjoying this article, consider supporting our award-winning journalism by subscribing .
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It also suggests that it is easy for information in working memory to be forgotten.
3quarksdaily
Jul 3, 17:45
The twilight of the chatbots
Ethan Mollick at One Useful Thing: Long-running, smart, and self-correcting AI systems do not need constant human intervention, and they require a different way of working (this is also the subject of my upcoming book, Co-Existence, which you might want to pre-order here). And, as opposed to chatbots, agents come with extra machinery: harnesses that give…
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Ethan Mollick at One Useful Thing: Long-running, smart, and self-correcting AI systems do not need constant human intervention, and they require a different way of working (this is also the subject of my upcoming book, Co-Existence, which you might want to pre-order here). And, as opposed to chatbots, agents come with extra machinery: harnesses that give…
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Ethan Mollick at One Useful Thing: Long-running, smart, and self-correcting AI systems do not need constant human intervention, and they require a different way of working (this is also the subject of my upcoming book, Co-Existence, which you might want to pre-order here).
3quarksdaily
Jul 3, 16:45
Yuval Noah Harari: AI has hacked the code of human civilization
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Jul 3, 15:45
Rollerena: New York’s Fairy Godmother
Emilie Hardman at JSTOR Daily: Before Rollerena was an AIDS activist, she was already reshaping public life. The impetus for lacing up her rollerskates may have begun as a simple longing to avoid the crowds on her Lexington Avenue line, but it evolved into a form of performance and public expression unlike anything New York…
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Rollerena: New York’s Fairy Godmother. Emilie Hardman at JSTOR Daily: Before Rollerena was an AIDS activist, she was already reshaping public life. The impetus for lacing up her rollerskates may have begun as a simple longing to avoid the crowds on her Lexington Avenue line, but it evolved into a form of performance and public expression unlike anything New York…
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Emilie Hardman at JSTOR Daily: Before Rollerena was an AIDS activist, she was already reshaping public life.
3quarksdaily
Jul 3, 10:00
On Maxxing and the Man from Song
by Scott Samuelson The first noble truth is that life is full of needless suffering. The second noble truth, only slightly less well-known, is that the cause of needless suffering is maxxing. What’s the problem with maxxing? As I see it, it involves replacing our enjoyment of the goods in front of us with a…
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On Maxxing and the Man from Song. The second noble truth, only slightly less well-known, is that the cause of needless suffering is maxxing. As I see it, it involves replacing our enjoyment of the goods in front of us with a…
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by Scott Samuelson The first noble truth is that life is full of needless suffering.
3quarksdaily
Jul 2, 18:45
Scott Alexander on Parenthood
Scott Alexander at Astral Codex Ten: I used to grumble whenever my wife made a tiny amount of noise, and she would grumble about my grumbling, and finally we learned to compromise at some level that worked for both of us. But now it’s great! Whenever my wife makes a tiny amount of noise around…
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Scott Alexander at Astral Codex Ten: I used to grumble whenever my wife made a tiny amount of noise, and she would grumble about my grumbling, and finally we learned to compromise at some level that worked for both of us. But now it’s great! Whenever my wife makes a tiny amount of noise around…
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Scott Alexander at Astral Codex Ten: I used to grumble whenever my wife made a tiny amount of noise, and she would grumble about my grumbling, and finally we learned to compromise at some level that worked for both of us.
3quarksdaily
Jul 2, 18:09
Andrew Haigh Believes In Love
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Jul 2, 17:45
AI creates delicious, sustainable, and nutritious burgers
Vahidullah Tac, Christopher D. Gardner & Ellen Kuhl in Nature: Food choices shape both human and planetary health; yet, designing foods that are delicious, nutritious, and sustainable remains challenging. Here we show that generative artificial intelligence can learn the structure of the human palate directly from large-scale, human-generated recipe data to create novel foods within…
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AI creates delicious, sustainable, and nutritious burgers. Vahidullah Tac, Christopher D. Gardner & Ellen Kuhl in Nature: Food choices shape both human and planetary health; yet, designing foods that are delicious, nutritious, and sustainable remains challenging.
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Here we show that generative artificial intelligence can learn the structure of the human palate directly from large-scale, human-generated recipe data to create novel foods within…
3quarksdaily
Jul 2, 16:45
Sean Carroll: We May Never Understand Reality
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Jul 2, 16:00
Sartre And Choice
Skye C Cleary at Aeon Magazine: On 29 October 1945, the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre emerged alone from the Paris Métro. He was about to deliver a lecture titled ‘L’existentialisme est un humanisme’ (‘Existentialism Is a Humanism’) at the Club Maintenant. No one had any idea it was going to become one of the most famous…
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Skye C Cleary at Aeon Magazine: On 29 October 1945, the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre emerged alone from the Paris Métro. He was about to deliver a lecture titled ‘L’existentialisme est un humanisme’ (‘Existentialism Is a Humanism’) at the Club Maintenant. No one had any idea it was going to become one of the most famous…
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No one had any idea it was going to become one of the most famous…
3quarksdaily
Jul 2, 15:45
No-One Escapes the Permanent Underclass
Fernando Borretti at his own website: Shall I end this life a pauper? If AI can do all work at human level or better, what stops corporations replacing us all with AI? This is the permanent underclass meme. The idea is: within a few years, all white collar work will be automated by AI, at…
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No-One Escapes the Permanent Underclass. This is the permanent underclass meme. The idea is: within a few years, all white collar work will be automated by AI, at…
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If AI can do all work at human level or better, what stops corporations replacing us all with AI?
3quarksdaily
Jul 2, 11:54
Have people stopped trusting science? The data tell a surprising story
Helen Pearson in Nature: From the United States to Europe to Brazil, there is a pervasive sense that trust in science has collapsed. A UK survey1 published in January found that only 40% of people think that science information they hear is “generally true”. Another global poll showed that 70% of people believe at least one false or unproven claim,…
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Have people stopped trusting science? The data tell a surprising story. Another global poll showed that 70% of people believe at least one false or unproven claim,…
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Helen Pearson in Nature: From the United States to Europe to Brazil, there is a pervasive sense that trust in science has collapsed. A UK survey1 published in January found that only 40% of people think that science information they hear is “generally true”.
3quarksdaily
Jul 2, 11:47
Scientists React to the Lab-Made, Yet Lifelike, SpudCell
KR Callaway in The New York Times: In a lab at the University of Minnesota, scientists have constructed a cell-like system that seems to perform all the functions of life. Squirming around in its petri dish, the so-called SpudCell feeds, grows and then divides, creating more SpudCells that compete and change across generations. …Unlike previous attempts to…
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Scientists React to the Lab-Made, Yet Lifelike, SpudCell. Squirming around in its petri dish, the so-called SpudCell feeds, grows and then divides, creating more SpudCells that compete and change across generations. …Unlike previous attempts to…
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KR Callaway in The New York Times: In a lab at the University of Minnesota, scientists have constructed a cell-like system that seems to perform all the functions of life.
Aeon
Jul 2, 10:01
Karl Hess: toward liberty
‘Society, in fact, is neighbourhoods’ – how Karl Hess transformed from a Republican speechwriter into a radical welder - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
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Aeon
Jul 2, 10:00
The anguish of choice
In the shattered aftermath of war, Sartre delivered a formidable lecture on freedom and meaning. Its urgency remains - by Skye C Cleary Read on Aeon
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The anguish of choice. In the shattered aftermath of war, Sartre delivered a formidable lecture on freedom and meaning. Its urgency remains - by Skye C Cleary Read on Aeon
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In the shattered aftermath of war, Sartre delivered a formidable lecture on freedom and meaning.
3quarksdaily
Jul 2, 08:00
This Week’s Photograph
Elderflower tree growing out of a small drainage hole in a massive concrete wall in Franzensfeste, South Tyrol. Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by donating now.
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Jul 1, 18:45
An investigation into the state of corvid–human relations
Elizabeth Preston at Audubon: American Crows all look more or less identical to the human eye. But Annie and Jack came to recognize Sal, a bold character with a distinctive hop due to a bad leg, and began offering the bird unsalted peanuts. The treats attracted a second, more timid crow, whose deformed foot also…
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An investigation into the state of corvid–human relations. But Annie and Jack came to recognize Sal, a bold character with a distinctive hop due to a bad leg, and began offering the bird unsalted peanuts. The treats attracted a second, more timid crow, whose deformed foot also…
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Elizabeth Preston at Audubon: American Crows all look more or less identical to the human eye.
3quarksdaily
Jul 1, 17:45
AI Sycophancy and Decisions
Paper by John J. Conlon and Peter Schwardmann at SSRN: We examine whether sycophantic AI advice distorts decisions. Our experiment involves 1,500 participants in 30 decision environments spanning core domains in economics and the social sciences. Contrary to the vast majority of predictions in an expert survey we conduct, we find that AI advice depolarizes…
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AI Sycophancy and Decisions. Conlon and Peter Schwardmann at SSRN: We examine whether sycophantic AI advice distorts decisions. Our experiment involves 1,500 participants in 30 decision environments spanning core domains in economics and the social sciences.
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Contrary to the vast majority of predictions in an expert survey we conduct, we find that AI advice depolarizes…
3quarksdaily
Jul 1, 16:45
Grant Sanderson: Designing Math
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Jul 1, 15:27
Neil Young, Stephen Stills, and Graham Nash in the Studio
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Dailynous
Jul 1, 15:26
Dept of Education Issues “Earnings Premium” Rule; Philosophy, in General, Should Be OK
The US Department of Education has issued a new rule that makes the availability of Federal financial aid for students conditional on whether the programs the students are enrolled in meet an “earnings premium” criteria. According to a press release from the Department of Education, the “Student Tuition and Transparency System (STATS) and Earnings Accountability rule” states that: undergraduate programs will be required to demonstrate that their graduates earn more than the typical high school diploma holder, and graduate programs will be required to demonstrate that their graduates earn more than the typical bachelor’s degree holder. If a program fails to show at least this modest financial return on investment for its graduates in two out of three consecutive award years, it will lose eligibility to participate in the federal Direct Loan program. After three years of consistently failing the earnings premium measure, the Department could also terminate eligibility for Title IV of the Higher Education Act (HEA), including Pell Grant eligibility, for all of an institution’s low-earning outcome programs. How will the figures the rule references be determined? A fact sheet about the rule states: Undergraduate completers’ median earnings will be compared to the median earnings for working adults aged 25-34 with only a high school diploma either from the state in which the institution is located or nationwide, depending on the institution’s enrollment makeup. Similarly, graduate completers’ median earnings will be compared to the median earnings for working adults aged 25-34 with only a bachelor’s degree. Program earnings will be calculated using program completers’ median annual earnings, measured four years after completion. There are, of course, questions here about fairness, paternalism, and the value of education, which people are welcome to discuss. But we might also be curious about how much money are we talking about. Here is data from the National Center for Education Statistics for the US in 2022 about the pay of 25- to 34-year-olds who worked full time, year round: median earnings of those whose highest degree is a high school diploma: $41,800 median earnings of those whose highest degree is a bachelor’s degree: $66,600 median earnings of those who have an MA or PhD: $80,200. How does philosophy hold up? According to data from the.. The post Dept of Education Issues “Earnings Premium” Rule; Philosophy, in General, Should Be OK first appeared on Daily Nous .
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The US Department of Education has issued a new rule that makes the availability of Federal financial aid for students conditional on whether the programs the students are enrolled in meet an “earnings premium” criteria. Similarly, graduate completers’ median earnings will be compared to the median earnings for working adults aged 25-34 with only a bachelor’s degree.
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The post Dept of Education Issues “Earnings Premium” Rule; Philosophy, in General, Should Be OK first appeared on Daily Nous .
3quarksdaily
Jul 1, 14:22
What Split-Brain Patients Reveal About Consciousness
Christof Koch at the MIT Press Reader: Closer inspection of split-brain patients by the biologist Roger Sperry at Caltech, however, revealed a persistent and profound disconnection syndrome. If specific data are given to one hemisphere, that information is not shared with its twin on the other side. Furthermore, only one hemisphere, typically the left one,…
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What Split-Brain Patients Reveal About Consciousness. Christof Koch at the MIT Press Reader: Closer inspection of split-brain patients by the biologist Roger Sperry at Caltech, however, revealed a persistent and profound disconnection syndrome. If specific data are given to one hemisphere, that information is not shared with its twin on the other side.
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Furthermore, only one hemisphere, typically the left one,…
3quarksdaily
Jul 1, 10:57
The 4 Best Foods for Acid Reflux
Sarah Klein in Time Magazine: Just about everyone is familiar with the uncomfortable burn of acid reflux. That sensation, also known as heartburn, is due to acidic contents of your stomach flowing upward into your esophagus. Up to 1 in 5 American adults experience these symptoms at least twice a week, diagnosed as gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). Over-the-counter and prescription…
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The 4 Best Foods for Acid Reflux. That sensation, also known as heartburn, is due to acidic contents of your stomach flowing upward into your esophagus. Up to 1 in 5 American adults experience these symptoms at least twice a week, diagnosed as gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD).
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Sarah Klein in Time Magazine: Just about everyone is familiar with the uncomfortable burn of acid reflux.
Aeon
Jul 1, 10:01
Noguchi’s New York animations
Hand-painted animations bring to life Isamu Noguchi’s ideas for playgrounds that could integrate art with everyday life - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
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Hand-painted animations bring to life Isamu Noguchi’s ideas for playgrounds that could integrate art with everyday life - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
3quarksdaily
Jun 30, 17:45
Artificial Intelligence and the Lessons of History
Paper by Matthew Tokson at SSRN: Technological history is often invoked as a reason for optimism about the future of artificial intelligence. People were afraid of the industrial revolution and the printing press, and those turned out to be remarkably beneficial to human civilization. AI optimists infer from this history that we should not worry…
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Artificial Intelligence and the Lessons of History. People were afraid of the industrial revolution and the printing press, and those turned out to be remarkably beneficial to human civilization. AI optimists infer from this history that we should not worry…
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Paper by Matthew Tokson at SSRN: Technological history is often invoked as a reason for optimism about the future of artificial intelligence.
Dailynous
Jun 30, 17:00
Utilitas Pausing Submissions, Bringing on More Editors
The philosophy journal Utilitas is temporarily halting submissions. An announcement posted on the journal’s website today states: “We would like to apologise for the current delays in reviewing and accepting new submissions. We are currently between editorial teams, and will be pausing submissions until we are able to manage the backlog that has occurred as a result of this.” One of the journal’s editors, Christopher Woodard (Nottingham), is stepping down. He informs me that the publisher, Cambridge University Press, is seeking to increase the number of editors at Utilitas. It has not yet been announced how long the pause in submissions will be. In discussing the reasons for the backlog, Professor Woodard mentioned the difficulty of combining editorial duties with the increasing duties of academic life. I don’t know the statistics for Utilitas but editors at other journals have mentioned increases in the number of submissions over the past several years. (It may also, in this case, be worth recalling this recent post about cuts at Nottingham.) It could be useful to hear about other journals that are struggling with these and related issues, and the steps they have taken to cope with them. Related: “What Can Journals, Publishers, and Authors Do Now to Improve the Publication Process in Philosophy?“ The post Utilitas Pausing Submissions, Bringing on More Editors first appeared on Daily Nous .
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Utilitas Pausing Submissions, Bringing on More Editors. I don’t know the statistics for Utilitas but editors at other journals have mentioned increases in the number of submissions over the past several years. Related: “What Can Journals, Publishers, and Authors Do Now to Improve the Publication Process in Philosophy?
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The philosophy journal Utilitas is temporarily halting submissions.
3quarksdaily
Jun 30, 16:45
How Horses Save Humans From Snakebites
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Dailynous
Jun 30, 15:54
The New Open-Access Journal Philosophical Logic Is Now Publishing
Last December, all of the editors-in-chief and associate editors of Springer Nature’s Journal of Philosophical Logic resigned and formed Philosophical Logic, a new “diamond” open-access journal (details here). Earlier this month the journal published its first article, “Sequence and Consequence“, by Cian Dorr and Matthew Mandelkern (both of NYU). According to its website, “Philosophical Logic is an international scientific journal that provides a venue for research at the intersection of philosophy and logic, with contributions ranging from conceptual analysis to technical developments. The journal invites papers not only in the traditional areas of philosophical logic but also on extensions of logic to new areas of application and on the philosophical issues to which these give rise.” You can learn more about the journal here. Meanwhile, the Journal of Philosophical Logic has replaced its editorial team and continues to operate. The post The New Open-Access Journal Philosophical Logic Is Now Publishing first appeared on Daily Nous .
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The New Open-Access Journal Philosophical Logic Is Now Publishing. Meanwhile, the Journal of Philosophical Logic has replaced its editorial team and continues to operate. The post The New Open-Access Journal Philosophical Logic Is Now Publishing first appeared on Daily Nous .
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Last December, all of the editors-in-chief and associate editors of Springer Nature’s Journal of Philosophical Logic resigned and formed Philosophical Logic, a new “diamond” open-access journal (details here).
3quarksdaily
Jun 30, 15:45
Nine Books That Showcase Queer Life in the Arab World
Addie Leak at Literary Hub: Being anything other than cisgender and heterosexual falls outside the norm in what are often very traditional societies, and while laws across the SWANA region vary—some more lenient, some quite repressive, some enforced, others not—there is a great deal of censorship, much of it self-imposed. A queer writer is less…
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Addie Leak at Literary Hub: Being anything other than cisgender and heterosexual falls outside the norm in what are often very traditional societies, and while laws across the SWANA region vary—some more lenient, some quite repressive, some enforced, others not—there is a great deal of censorship, much of it self-imposed.
3quarksdaily
Jun 30, 15:23
An Introduction To Plotinus
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Dailynous
Jun 30, 15:02
Exeter’s Executive Board Proposes Massive Cuts; Petition Launched
The Executive Board of the University of Exeter has proposed cutting around 150 staff roles, reports the BBC, with with 115 of them in the Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, according to Times Higher Education. The Exeter University and College Union (EUCU) states that the situation actually puts “500 staff—14% of all academic staff—at risk of compulsory redundancy” and have launched a petition objecting to the plan, which they say represents an “existential threat to humanities and social science disciplines at Exeter.” The university issued a statement about the cuts, the BBC reports, which says: “We hope to achieve these changes through voluntary measures and will continue working closely with our community and trade unions to avoid compulsory redundancies wherever possible.” It added that while Exeter “remains in a strong position”, rising costs, decline in tuition fee income, underfunded research, and a sustained drop in international student demand mean action must be taken. “These changes are intended to secure the university’s long-term sustainability, protect our teaching and research excellence, and ensure our activities remain aligned with future priorities”. In the petition, the union says: These proposals represent both a stunning failure of leadership on the part of the university’s senior management and governance…. The university has failed to make a convincing case that this programme of cuts is necessary, based on a sound financial rationale, or that other options have been exhausted: indeed, EUCU has seen the uni’s own modelling that shows the closing of the deficit by 2029, with £50m cash reserves, without compulsory redundancies (instead by way of voluntary redundancy and a vacancy freeze). Moreover, EUCU has repeatedly requested the financial data that we would need for meaningful collective bargaining. Such requests have been ignored to date, and are currently the subject of a referral by EUCU to the Central Arbitration Committee (CAC)…. Exeter UCU branch will ballot for local industrial action, and pass votes of no confidence in the Vice Chancellor, University Executive Board and Council, at the earliest opportunity. Regarding the targeting of the humanities and social sciences, it states: The rationale for this disproportionate targeting of the very disciplines to which Exeter largely owes its membership of the Russell Group has not been clearly explained.. The post Exeter’s Executive Board Proposes Massive Cuts; Petition Launched first appeared on Daily Nous .
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Exeter’s Executive Board Proposes Massive Cuts; Petition Launched. In the petition, the union says: These proposals represent both a stunning failure of leadership on the part of the university’s senior management and governance…. The post Exeter’s Executive Board Proposes Massive Cuts; Petition Launched first appeared on Daily Nous .
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The Executive Board of the University of Exeter has proposed cutting around 150 staff roles, reports the BBC, with with 115 of them in the Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, according to Times Higher Education.
Ranpara
Jun 30, 14:16
Words Are a Byproduct of Consciousness. For LLMs, It's Backwards
Stop for one second and ask yourself a simple question. Where do your words come from? When you speak, what comes first, the idea or the word?
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Words Are a Byproduct of Consciousness. Now ask the same question about an LLM. Felt like magic, no?
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When you speak, what comes first, the idea or the word?
3quarksdaily
Jun 30, 12:19
The Pursuit of Hungriness: 250 Years of American Food Innovation
Kim Severson in The New York Times: 1770s The Johnnycake Hunger is an unexpected enemy during the Revolutionary War, when more than twice as many soldiers die of malnourishment than fall in combat. But the troops persevere with the help of a simple Native American recipe of corn and water cooked over a fire. It’s one of…
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The Pursuit of Hungriness: 250 Years of American Food Innovation. Kim Severson in The New York Times: 1770s The Johnnycake Hunger is an unexpected enemy during the Revolutionary War, when more than twice as many soldiers die of malnourishment than fall in combat. But the troops persevere with the help of a simple Native American recipe of corn and water cooked over a fire.
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Kim Severson in The New York Times: 1770s The Johnnycake Hunger is an unexpected enemy during the Revolutionary War, when more than twice as many soldiers die of malnourishment than fall in combat.
3quarksdaily
Jun 30, 12:13
Biotech & AI
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Aeon
Jun 30, 10:00
Illegible benefits
The costs of transformative innovations are immediately clear: it’s the longterm gains that are hardest to understand - by Carlo Cordasco Read on Aeon
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The costs of transformative innovations are immediately clear: it’s the longterm gains that are hardest to understand - by Carlo Cordasco Read on Aeon
3quarksdaily
Jun 30, 09:00
I’ll Tell You How The Sun Sets
by Mary Hrovat When I began to photograph the sky every day, the first thing I noticed is how quickly the sky changes. If I want to photograph a particular configuration of clouds, I need to go outside immediately, or stop walking to wherever I was going, and take the picture. Those clouds are probably…
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I’ll Tell You How The Sun Sets. by Mary Hrovat When I began to photograph the sky every day, the first thing I noticed is how quickly the sky changes. If I want to photograph a particular configuration of clouds, I need to go outside immediately, or stop walking to wherever I was going, and take the picture.
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by Mary Hrovat When I began to photograph the sky every day, the first thing I noticed is how quickly the sky changes.
Dailynous
Jun 29, 20:46
“I’m much less concerned about how people react to me”
That was part of Rebecca Tuvel’s answer to a question from journalist Evan Goldstein about “the benefits of almost getting canceled.” Professor Tuvel (Rhodes College) was interviewed recently by Goldstein for the Chronicle of Higher Education. It was nine years ago, readers may recall, that the publication of Tuvel’s “In Defense of Transracialism” in the journal Hypatia ignited a firestorm of online outrage. You can read all about that episode here. (As Goldstein notes, the affair was recently mentioned in the “Vanderbilt Report” on the humanities.) Dr. Tuvel says she learned of the controversy via an email she read while in a Target parking lot. She says: I had a really intense reaction. I learned after the fact that I effectively went into a hypomanic state for about four days. I was obsessively reading every single thing on the internet. I was totally beside myself, wondering if I was a horrible person. I had always been a people pleaser. This experience forced me to become less so, which is for the better. As a philosopher, it’s damaging to be too sensitive to how other people receive your arguments. We should follow arguments where they lead. A short while later, she says, I had decided in my head that I was leaving academia. This was not what I signed up for. I was persona non grata in the feminist-philosophy world I knew. I recall wanting to get as far away as I possibly could, while also realizing that the internet follows you everywhere. Had academic philosophy as a field—including three brave feminist philosophers—not come to my defense, I would almost certainly have left academia. Ultimately, she says, a few people ended up apologizing for signing an open letter at the time calling for the article’s retraction. As for other lessons the experience held for her, she says: One of the reasons the Hypatia affair was such a watershed moment is that it raised the question of whether feminist philosophers are primarily academic philosophers pursuing arguments wherever they lead or social-justice advocates whose scholarship is principally directed toward certain anti-oppressive conclusions… [I]t’s fair to say I wrote my article from an anti-oppressive lens. It’s just that the conclusion I reached was not regarded as.. The post “I’m much less concerned about how people react to me” first appeared on Daily Nous .
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“I’m much less concerned about how people react to me”. I had always been a people pleaser. The post “I’m much less concerned about how people react to me” first appeared on Daily Nous .
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That was part of Rebecca Tuvel’s answer to a question from journalist Evan Goldstein about “the benefits of almost getting canceled.” Professor Tuvel (Rhodes College) was interviewed recently by Goldstein for the Chronicle of Higher Education.
3quarksdaily
Jun 29, 17:45
The Story of Birds: An Evolutionary History of the Dinosaurs That Live Among Us
Leon Vlieger at The Inquisitive Biologist: If this book has one take-home message, it is that birds are, quite literally, dinosaurs. The Story of Birds sees Brusatte, by now comfortable in his science communication skills, combining captivating episodes of evolution with accessible explanations, while giving plenty of attention to the people behind the findings. Until I started…
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Leon Vlieger at The Inquisitive Biologist: If this book has one take-home message, it is that birds are, quite literally, dinosaurs. The Story of Birds sees Brusatte, by now comfortable in his science communication skills, combining captivating episodes of evolution with accessible explanations, while giving plenty of attention to the people behind the findings.
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Jun 29, 16:45
AI’s True Cyber Risk: Fable, Mythos, China, and The Rest — With Alex Stamos
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Jun 29, 12:59
Online Philosophy Resources Monthly Update
Begin typing your search above and press return to search. Press Esc to cancel. Here’s (usually weekly, but during the summer, monthly) report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resource…
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Online Philosophy Resources Monthly Update. Here’s (usually weekly, but during the summer, monthly) report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, and new podcast episodes.
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Begin typing your search above and press return to search.
Aeon
Jun 29, 10:01
Timelapse of the Universe
When 13 billion years of the cosmos get condensed into 10 epic minutes, when in the timelapse do you think humans appear? - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
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Timelapse of the Universe. When 13 billion years of the cosmos get condensed into 10 epic minutes, when in the timelapse do you think humans appear? - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
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Aeon
Jun 29, 10:00
The measure of flourishing
Human prosperity depends on nature, but no global metric has captured this with precision. Enter the Nature Relationship Index - by Yadvinder Malhi Read on Aeon
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The measure of flourishing. Human prosperity depends on nature, but no global metric has captured this with precision. Enter the Nature Relationship Index - by Yadvinder Malhi Read on Aeon
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Human prosperity depends on nature, but no global metric has captured this with precision.
3quarksdaily
Jun 29, 09:00
We Do Need Another Hero: The Moral Ambivalence of ‘Stoner’
by Sean Murphy John Williams’s Stoner is having a moment. Or, it’s always been having a moment, but right now, in 2026, only more so. With the recent awareness that it was the monthly pick for the (amazing, awesome) Anthony Jeselnik’s Book Club, it seemed time to dive in. You can usually tell you’re dealing…
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We Do Need Another Hero: The Moral Ambivalence of ‘Stoner’. Or, it’s always been having a moment, but right now, in 2026, only more so. With the recent awareness that it was the monthly pick for the (amazing, awesome) Anthony Jeselnik’s Book Club, it seemed time to dive in.
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by Sean Murphy John Williams’s Stoner is having a moment.
3quarksdaily
Jun 29, 08:00
It hits the fan, but some are blind
by Dilip D’Souza Let’s get this out right away: I want to write about defecation. It’s not the first time, I’ll admit. Some years ago I wrote an article about, of all things, a mathematical model for defecation. This was based on a 2017 paper I read with great interest. It had the fascinating title…
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It hits the fan, but some are blind. It’s not the first time, I’ll admit. Some years ago I wrote an article about, of all things, a mathematical model for defecation.
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by Dilip D’Souza Let’s get this out right away: I want to write about defecation.
3quarksdaily
Jun 29, 03:00
3QD Needs Your Help!
Dear Reader, there are no algorithms at 3QD—just six human editors trying to keep a human-curated corner of the internet alive. But recent changes in Google search and other AI-driven shifts have cut our already modest advertising revenue to less than half of what it was just last year. 3QD remains mainly a labor of…
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3QD Needs Your Help!. Dear Reader, there are no algorithms at 3QD—just six human editors trying to keep a human-curated corner of the internet alive. But recent changes in Google search and other AI-driven shifts have cut our already modest advertising revenue to less than half of what it was just last year.
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3QD remains mainly a labor of…
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Jun 28, 13:30
Ann Blyth (1927 – 2026) Actor and Singer
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Jun 28, 13:06
The Notorious 19th-Century Frenchwoman Who Scorned the Bourgeoisie
Rebecca Chou in The New York Times: For nearly half of the 19th century, the French writer George Sand dominated literary Europe. She produced over 70 novels; 17,000 letters, some to the literati of her day; numerous essays and articles; and dozens of plays. She outshone Victor Hugo and Honoré de Balzac in reviews. Elizabeth Barrett…
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The Notorious 19th-Century Frenchwoman Who Scorned the Bourgeoisie. She produced over 70 novels; 17,000 letters, some to the literati of her day; numerous essays and articles; and dozens of plays. She outshone Victor Hugo and Honoré de Balzac in reviews.
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Rebecca Chou in The New York Times: For nearly half of the 19th century, the French writer George Sand dominated literary Europe.
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Jun 28, 12:27
Charles Hinman (1932 – 2026) Minimalist Painter
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Jun 28, 11:12
David Clayton-Thomas (1941 – 2026) Singer/Songwriter
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Jun 28, 09:11
The Consensus Sublime
Ebadur Rahman in LA Review of Books: THE GUARDIAN’S “100 Best Novels of All Time” list is best approached not as a verdict but as evidence, an involuntary cultural confession revealing the mechanisms by which one particular literary culture decides what counts as literature. Lists of this kind are not cartographies of anything real. They are maps…
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Ebadur Rahman in LA Review of Books: THE GUARDIAN’S “100 Best Novels of All Time” list is best approached not as a verdict but as evidence, an involuntary cultural confession revealing the mechanisms by which one particular literary culture decides what counts as literature. Lists of this kind are not cartographies of anything real. They are maps…
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Ebadur Rahman in LA Review of Books: THE GUARDIAN’S “100 Best Novels of All Time” list is best approached not as a verdict but as evidence, an involuntary cultural confession revealing the mechanisms by which one particular literary culture decides what counts as literature.
3quarksdaily
Jun 28, 09:00
On Childhood, Imagination, and the Toys That Now Talk Back
by Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad Imagine this, you would pass a room, hear a small voice conducting a negotiation between a plastic horse and a folded piece of cardboard meant to serve as a castle, and understand that something serious was happening. The talking horse was ridden by teddy bears and the castle walls were made…
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by Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad Imagine this, you would pass a room, hear a small voice conducting a negotiation between a plastic horse and a folded piece of cardboard meant to serve as a castle, and understand that something serious was happening. The talking horse was ridden by teddy bears and the castle walls were made…
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by Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad Imagine this, you would pass a room, hear a small voice conducting a negotiation between a plastic horse and a folded piece of cardboard meant to serve as a castle, and understand that something serious was happening.
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Jun 26, 19:13
Prynne Speaks
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Jun 26, 17:29
On J. H. Prynne
Ben Philipps at n+1: It’s like he saw it coming. “The Numbers,” the first poem in the vast first volume of the Poems of J.H. Prynne, opens: The whole thing it is, the difficult matter: to shrink the confines down. Prynne died in April, aged 89. Now we can see the whole thing, the size and scope of…
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Ben Philipps at n+1: It’s like he saw it coming. “The Numbers,” the first poem in the vast first volume of the Poems of J.H. Prynne, opens: The whole thing it is, the difficult matter: to shrink the confines down.
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Now we can see the whole thing, the size and scope of…
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Jun 26, 16:45
When millions of AI agents meet: Nenad Tomašev talks to Hannah Fry
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Jun 26, 15:45
Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
Millie Marconi at X: A government-funded tournament put thousands of ordinary people against CIA intelligence analysts in a 4-year contest to predict world events, and the amateurs won so decisively that the CIA had to fundamentally rethink how it forecasts the future. The professor who ran the tournament is Philip Tetlock. He teaches at Wharton.…
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Millie Marconi at X: A government-funded tournament put thousands of ordinary people against CIA intelligence analysts in a 4-year contest to predict world events, and the amateurs won so decisively that the CIA had to fundamentally rethink how it forecasts the future. The professor who ran the tournament is Philip Tetlock. He teaches at Wharton.…
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Millie Marconi at X: A government-funded tournament put thousands of ordinary people against CIA intelligence analysts in a 4-year contest to predict world events, and the amateurs won so decisively that the CIA had to fundamentally rethink how it forecasts the future.
3quarksdaily
Jun 26, 11:18
Should we ditch the idea of three meals a day?
Eli Davies in The Guardian: ‘One of the stupidest things in an earnest but stupid school of culinary thought is that each of the three daily meals should be ‘balanced’.” So argues American food writer MFK Fisher in her 1942 book How to Cook a Wolf. She goes on: “In the first place not all people…
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Eli Davies in The Guardian: ‘One of the stupidest things in an earnest but stupid school of culinary thought is that each of the three daily meals should be ‘balanced’.” So argues American food writer MFK Fisher in her 1942 book How to Cook a Wolf. She goes on: “In the first place not all people…
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Eli Davies in The Guardian: ‘One of the stupidest things in an earnest but stupid school of culinary thought is that each of the three daily meals should be ‘balanced’.” So argues American food writer MFK Fisher in her 1942 book How to Cook a Wolf.
Aeon
Jun 26, 10:00
The violence specialists
Every society depends on violence workers, but what makes young men take a job that risks their lives and harms others? - by Raúl Zepeda Gil Read on Aeon
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Every society depends on violence workers, but what makes young men take a job that risks their lives and harms others? - by Raúl Zepeda Gil Read on Aeon
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Every society depends on violence workers, but what makes young men take a job that risks their lives and harms others?
Dailynous
Jun 25, 23:42
Priest from CUNY to Tohoku
Graham Priest, currently Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center, will be moving to Tohoku University in Japan. Professor Priest is known for his work in logic, especially non-classical logic, as well as philosophy of math, metaphysics, Buddhist philosophy, and the history of philosophy. You can learn more about his writings here and here. He will be taking up his new position as Distinguished Professor in the Graduate School of Information Sciences at Tohoku University in October. The post Priest from CUNY to Tohoku first appeared on Daily Nous .
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Professor Priest is known for his work in logic, especially non-classical logic, as well as philosophy of math, metaphysics, Buddhist philosophy, and the history of philosophy. He will be taking up his new position as Distinguished Professor in the Graduate School of Information Sciences at Tohoku University in October.
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Graham Priest, currently Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center, will be moving to Tohoku University in Japan.
3quarksdaily
Jun 25, 16:45
How can we improve forensics as a science?
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Jun 25, 16:26
Is the Twenty-First Century a Creative Void?
Audrey Wollen in The Yale Review: You could be forgiven for thinking things—art, books, music, clothes—were irretrievably dire. Almost a decade ago, Alex Ross wrote in The New Yorker that “culture appears more monolithic than ever. . . . Technology conspires with populism to create an ideologically vacant dictatorship of likes.” In a 2023 piece in The New York Times Magazine, Jason Farago claimed:…
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Is the Twenty-First Century a Creative Void?. Almost a decade ago, Alex Ross wrote in The New Yorker that “culture appears more monolithic than ever. Technology conspires with populism to create an ideologically vacant dictatorship of likes.” In a 2023 piece in The New York Times Magazine, Jason Farago claimed:…
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Audrey Wollen in The Yale Review: You could be forgiven for thinking things—art, books, music, clothes—were irretrievably dire.
3quarksdaily
Jun 25, 16:22
AI Collapses on a Classic Psychology Test. What It Reveals Could Stall Human-Level AI
Shelly Fan in Singularity Hub: “Attention is all you need.” This 2017 breakthrough idea transformed AI. The concept of self-attention became the foundation of today’s chatbots. Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT are all large language models (LLMs), AI systems designed to focus on the matter at hand while filtering out distractions. The results have been remarkable. From brainstorming recipes to generating code,…
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AI Collapses on a Classic Psychology Test. What It Reveals Could Stall Human-Level AI. Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT are all large language models (LLMs), AI systems designed to focus on the matter at hand while filtering out distractions. The results have been remarkable.
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Shelly Fan in Singularity Hub: “Attention is all you need.” This 2017 breakthrough idea transformed AI.
3quarksdaily
Jun 25, 12:14
J. M. Tyree on FARGO
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Aeon
Jun 25, 10:01
Reset: Hat
This portrait of a life reimagined is a meditation on identity, happiness and the balance between freedom and conformity - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
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This portrait of a life reimagined is a meditation on identity, happiness and the balance between freedom and conformity - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
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Jun 25, 10:00
The Good, the Bad, and the Uncanny: Some Notes on Wearables
by Gary Borjesson If you don’t have a plan, you’ll become part of someone else’s plan. —Terence McKenna 1. Wearables This morning I headed outside first thing with my dog Theila for our daily short morning walk in the woods around our home, to stretch our legs, sniff around, and get some morning light. I…
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The Good, the Bad, and the Uncanny: Some Notes on Wearables. by Gary Borjesson If you don’t have a plan, you’ll become part of someone else’s plan. Wearables This morning I headed outside first thing with my dog Theila for our daily short morning walk in the woods around our home, to stretch our legs, sniff around, and get some morning light.
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by Gary Borjesson If you don’t have a plan, you’ll become part of someone else’s plan.
Aeon
Jun 25, 10:00
Who are the fire-tamers?
From remote farmhouses to oncology clinics, a secret world of French healers works in parallel with conventional medicine - by Susanna Crossman Read on Aeon
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From remote farmhouses to oncology clinics, a secret world of French healers works in parallel with conventional medicine - by Susanna Crossman Read on Aeon
3quarksdaily
Jun 24, 16:45
Intelligence Without Brains: A Radical New Idea
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Jun 24, 15:45
Eric Schmidt On The Biggest Revolution In The History Of Warfare
From Noema: Eric Schmidt is the former CEO of Google and the former chairman of the U.S. National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI). He is now the CEO of Relativity Space, and has been heavily involved in developing AI-powered military drone technology for Ukraine through ventures such as White Stork and Swift Beat. He…
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Eric Schmidt On The Biggest Revolution In The History Of Warfare. National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI). He is now the CEO of Relativity Space, and has been heavily involved in developing AI-powered military drone technology for Ukraine through ventures such as White Stork and Swift Beat.
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From Noema: Eric Schmidt is the former CEO of Google and the former chairman of the U.S.
3quarksdaily
Jun 24, 15:39
Radiohead’s Ed O’Brien
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Jun 24, 14:32
William T. Vollmann’s Four-Volume Spook Show
Michael Barron at The Baffler: “The permanent underworld of American public life,” wrote Christopher Hitchens, “has only ever been captured and distilled by novelists.” The sentiment comes from his review of Harlot’s Ghost (1991), Norman Mailer’s “magisterial bid for dominance” among the fictional literature of U.S government affairs alongside contenders Don DeLillo’s Libra (1988) and Richard Condon’s The Manchurian Candidate (1959).…
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Michael Barron at The Baffler: “The permanent underworld of American public life,” wrote Christopher Hitchens, “has only ever been captured and distilled by novelists.” The sentiment comes from his review of Harlot’s Ghost (1991), Norman Mailer’s “magisterial bid for dominance” among the fictional literature of U.
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Michael Barron at The Baffler: “The permanent underworld of American public life,” wrote Christopher Hitchens, “has only ever been captured and distilled by novelists.” The sentiment comes from his review of Harlot’s Ghost (1991), Norman Mailer’s “magisterial bid for dominance” among the fictional literature of U.S government affairs alongside contenders Don DeLillo’s Libra (1988) and Richard Condon’s The Manchurian Candidate (1959).…
3quarksdaily
Jun 24, 13:20
Three Horses
Missouri Williams at the Paris Review: I’ve never much liked horses. The first time I meet my sister-in-law is at the stables, where she keeps an enormous bay stallion with the same name as her brother, my husband. When the two of them were younger, this caused confusion: it was hard to tell which Václav…
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Missouri Williams at the Paris Review: I’ve never much liked horses. The first time I meet my sister-in-law is at the stables, where she keeps an enormous bay stallion with the same name as her brother, my husband. When the two of them were younger, this caused confusion: it was hard to tell which Václav…
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Missouri Williams at the Paris Review: I’ve never much liked horses.
3quarksdaily
Jun 24, 12:23
If You Love America, Cringe for It
Bret Stephens in The New York Times: However much we may disdain him, the president has the rest of us on the hook, as the face and voice of a country that ought to know better. Trump’s angry visage draped between the exterior columns of the Department of Justice? That’s us. His gilded, meretricious redecoration of the White…
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If You Love America, Cringe for It. Trump’s angry visage draped between the exterior columns of the Department of Justice? His gilded, meretricious redecoration of the White…
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Bret Stephens in The New York Times: However much we may disdain him, the president has the rest of us on the hook, as the face and voice of a country that ought to know better.
3quarksdaily
Jun 24, 12:18
Wenesday Poem
At the Equinox —on painter-friend Lynn’s Vermeer We enter a room filled with human things. Light has gotten there first through the slightly opened window, claimed a wall, and begun playing games with friend, rival, offspring, Shadow. Shadow thinks it will win this contest. It has taken over most of the heaped…
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At the Equinox —on painter-friend Lynn’s Vermeer We enter a room filled with human things. Light has gotten there first through the slightly opened window, claimed a wall, and begun playing games with friend, rival, offspring, Shadow. Shadow thinks it will win this contest.
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At the Equinox —on painter-friend Lynn’s Vermeer We enter a room filled with human things.
Aeon
Jun 24, 10:01
The memories of others
How a Japanese war photographer became one of the most insightful chroniclers of the Troubles in Northern Ireland - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
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How a Japanese war photographer became one of the most insightful chroniclers of the Troubles in Northern Ireland - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
3quarksdaily
Jun 23, 19:38
The Paris Review Interview Series: Peter Matthiessen
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Jun 23, 18:35
The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen
Charles McGrath at The Hudson Review: Whatever happened to short biographies? For what seemed like ages I had in my work room three that I could have piled up and used as a stepladder: Ron Chernow’s 1,200-page life of Mark Twain, Sam Tanenhaus’ 1,040-page biography of William F. Buckley, and True Nature, Lance Richardson’s 736-page life…
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The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen. For what seemed like ages I had in my work room three that I could have piled up and used as a stepladder: Ron Chernow’s 1,200-page life of Mark Twain, Sam Tanenhaus’ 1,040-page biography of William F. Buckley, and True Nature, Lance Richardson’s 736-page life…
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Charles McGrath at The Hudson Review: Whatever happened to short biographies?
3quarksdaily
Jun 23, 17:45
AI systems out-persuade expert humans
Paper by Kobi Hackenburg, Caroline Wagner, Luke Hewitt, Ben M. Tappin, Ed Saunders, Hannah Rose Kirk, Helen Margetts, Christopher Summerfield: Many societal decisions are settled by contests of persuasion. Conversational AI is a powerful new entrant in these contests, but whether it can out-persuade skilled and highly incentivized humans has remained unclear. Here, in a…
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AI systems out-persuade expert humans. Tappin, Ed Saunders, Hannah Rose Kirk, Helen Margetts, Christopher Summerfield: Many societal decisions are settled by contests of persuasion. Conversational AI is a powerful new entrant in these contests, but whether it can out-persuade skilled and highly incentivized humans has remained unclear.
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Paper by Kobi Hackenburg, Caroline Wagner, Luke Hewitt, Ben M.
3quarksdaily
Jun 23, 16:45
Nobel Laureate Thomas Südhof’s Review of AI In Biology
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Jun 23, 15:45
Edward Said, My Grandfather, and the Problem of Home
Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera at Public Books: “Reflections on Exile” summoned to mind the only seven words my grandfather ever said to me about Ireland, where he had cousins he never knew: “I don’t think I’ll go back there,” he muttered one day in the 1990s, in response to my prodding. He had visited, seen family, kissed…
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Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera at Public Books: “Reflections on Exile” summoned to mind the only seven words my grandfather ever said to me about Ireland, where he had cousins he never knew: “I don’t think I’ll go back there,” he muttered one day in the 1990s, in response to my prodding.
Dailynous
Jun 23, 13:30
Writing Together: A Teaching Experiment (guest post)
Begin typing your search above and press return to search. Press Esc to cancel. “I’m very fond of the take-home essay, as there’s something irreplaceable about the experience of articulating a theory…
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Writing Together: A Teaching Experiment (guest post). I was teaching a first-year philosophy class that doubled as an academic writing course; its primary purpose was to teach writing a philosophy essay.
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Dailynous
Jun 23, 12:38
Complaint Against Appointment of Trans Philosopher to REF Panel Dismissed
In April, Jonathan Pike, a professor of philosophy at Open University, submitted a formal complaint about the appointment of his colleague, professor of philosophy Sophie Grace Chappell, a trans woman, to the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2029 subpanel for philosophy. That complaint has now been dismissed, according to Professor Chappell, who, in an email and also on Facebook, wrote: “On June 15th… UKRI’s independent adjudicator dismissed the complaint against me as without merit in any respect.” (UKRI is United Kingdom Research and Innovation, which directed government research funds.) Referring to the worries of bias that seemed to be part of Pike’s complaint against her appointment, she also wrote: Here are two things that I have spent my entire academic career doing: (1) arguing that consequentialism and utilitarianism are not merely false but intellectually fraudulent, and that Bernard Williams was right to say that it will be a good day when we hear no more of them; (2) marking student essays (and otherwise assessing philosophical work) that argues in favour of consequentialism and/or utilitarianism, and quite often giving this work top marks. Given (1), it might seem odd that no consequentialist or utilitarian has ever complained about my membership of the 2021 or 2029 REF panel. But perhaps (2) explains why. For more on the initial complaint, see this post. The post Complaint Against Appointment of Trans Philosopher to REF Panel Dismissed first appeared on Daily Nous .
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Complaint Against Appointment of Trans Philosopher to REF Panel Dismissed. In April, Jonathan Pike, a professor of philosophy at Open University, submitted a formal complaint about the appointment of his colleague, professor of philosophy Sophie Grace Chappell, a trans woman, to the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2029 subpanel for philosophy.
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The post Complaint Against Appointment of Trans Philosopher to REF Panel Dismissed first appeared on Daily Nous .
3quarksdaily
Jun 23, 11:33
Young People Are Sounding the Alarm on AI. We Should Listen to Them
Tarika Barrett in Time Magazine: Young people are pushing back on AI hype, and that is a good thing. Several commencement speakers this graduation season have been booed for saying AI is the next revolution. There have also been clapbacks against celebrities who say women should embrace AI or risk being left behind. Young people’s reactions might be seen as expressions of…
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Young People Are Sounding the Alarm on AI. Several commencement speakers this graduation season have been booed for saying AI is the next revolution. There have also been clapbacks against celebrities who say women should embrace AI or risk being left behind.
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Tarika Barrett in Time Magazine: Young people are pushing back on AI hype, and that is a good thing.
3quarksdaily
Jun 23, 11:29
California Needs Water and Clean Power. It Might Have a Fix for Both
Quinn Glabicki in The New York Times: In California, a sprawling 4,000-mile network of canals winds through citrus orchards and fields of tree nuts, delivering irrigation and drinking water to homes and farms across the state. The canals are critical in an increasingly arid part of the country. But what if they could help fulfill another urgent…
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Quinn Glabicki in The New York Times: In California, a sprawling 4,000-mile network of canals winds through citrus orchards and fields of tree nuts, delivering irrigation and drinking water to homes and farms across the state. The canals are critical in an increasingly arid part of the country. But what if they could help fulfill another urgent…
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Quinn Glabicki in The New York Times: In California, a sprawling 4,000-mile network of canals winds through citrus orchards and fields of tree nuts, delivering irrigation and drinking water to homes and farms across the state. The canals are critical in an increasingly arid part of the country.
3quarksdaily
Jun 23, 10:00
Why Argentina’s AI corporations are (probably) a good idea
by Malcolm Murray Javier Milei’s libertarian government in Argentina recently laid out a new framework for corporations in the country. Among the various simplifications to attract more investment, was a highly interesting one – the creation of Sociedad Automatizada – automated corporations run by AI agents without the need for any human involvement. This could…
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by Malcolm Murray Javier Milei’s libertarian government in Argentina recently laid out a new framework for corporations in the country. Among the various simplifications to attract more investment, was a highly interesting one – the creation of Sociedad Automatizada – automated corporations run by AI agents without the need for any human involvement. This could…
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by Malcolm Murray Javier Milei’s libertarian government in Argentina recently laid out a new framework for corporations in the country.
3quarksdaily
Jun 22, 18:45
Strong resistance to AI among writers is understandable but it obscures what we share with the machines: language itself
Martin Puchner at Aeon: Since artificial intelligence went mainstream a few years ago, it has done double duty as a political personality test: tell me what you think about AI, and I’ll tell you who you are. Those worried about climate change focus on energy consumption. Those who denounce late capitalism see it as the…
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Strong resistance to AI among writers is understandable but it obscures what we share with the machines: language itself. Those worried about climate change focus on energy consumption. Those who denounce late capitalism see it as the…
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Martin Puchner at Aeon: Since artificial intelligence went mainstream a few years ago, it has done double duty as a political personality test: tell me what you think about AI, and I’ll tell you who you are.
3quarksdaily
Jun 22, 18:32
The Hittite Empire
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Jun 22, 17:30
In Search of Lost Tunnels
Morley Musick at n+1: Earlier this year, I interviewed a retired steelworker named Tom Wells, who had taken hundreds of color photographs of Chicago’s freight train tunnels in the late ’80s and early ’90s. At their peak, the tunnels encompassed sixty miles of track, forty feet below the sidewalk, extending from Superior Street south to 16th. Inside,…
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In Search of Lost Tunnels. Morley Musick at n+1: Earlier this year, I interviewed a retired steelworker named Tom Wells, who had taken hundreds of color photographs of Chicago’s freight train tunnels in the late ’80s and early ’90s. At their peak, the tunnels encompassed sixty miles of track, forty feet below the sidewalk, extending from Superior Street south to 16th.
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Morley Musick at n+1: Earlier this year, I interviewed a retired steelworker named Tom Wells, who had taken hundreds of color photographs of Chicago’s freight train tunnels in the late ’80s and early ’90s.
3quarksdaily
Jun 22, 16:45
Why Tejal Patwardhan stopped underestimating the AI models
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Jun 22, 16:29
British Intellectuals from World War II to Thatcherism
William Whyte at Literary Review: Arriving as an undergraduate at Cambridge in 1961, Terry Eagleton was both overawed and underwhelmed by his supervisor, a man he calls Greenway in his memoir. ‘Greenway was the first truly civilised man I had ever encountered,’ Eagleton recalls. ‘He knew all about cheeses, wisteria, Rubens’s brushwork, herbaceous borders, flying…
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British Intellectuals from World War II to Thatcherism. ‘Greenway was the first truly civilised man I had ever encountered,’ Eagleton recalls. ‘He knew all about cheeses, wisteria, Rubens’s brushwork, herbaceous borders, flying…
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William Whyte at Literary Review: Arriving as an undergraduate at Cambridge in 1961, Terry Eagleton was both overawed and underwhelmed by his supervisor, a man he calls Greenway in his memoir.
3quarksdaily
Jun 22, 15:45
When it comes to total water use, AI data centers are a drop in the bucket
Kyle Orland at Ars Technica: If you hang out in any even vaguely AI-skeptical parts of the Internet, you’ve probably stumbled on plenty of memes and posts premised on data centers’ insatiable thirst for water to power evaporative cooling. But a new report from Amazon highlights just how little water all these AI data centers are using in aggregate, on a relative…
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Kyle Orland at Ars Technica: If you hang out in any even vaguely AI-skeptical parts of the Internet, you’ve probably stumbled on plenty of memes and posts premised on data centers’ insatiable thirst for water to power evaporative cooling. But a new report from Amazon highlights just how little water all these AI data centers are using in aggregate, on a relative…
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Kyle Orland at Ars Technica: If you hang out in any even vaguely AI-skeptical parts of the Internet, you’ve probably stumbled on plenty of memes and posts premised on data centers’ insatiable thirst for water to power evaporative cooling.
Dailynous
Jun 22, 15:38
Gender, Publications, Teaching, and Satisfaction in the Early Stages of a Philosophy Career (guest post)
Begin typing your search above and press return to search. Press Esc to cancel. “Publication differences by gender are small or statistically undetectable during graduate study, but become more prono…
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Gender, Publications, Teaching, and Satisfaction in the Early Stages of a Philosophy Career (guest post). Begin typing your search above and press return to search. In the following guest post, Travis LaCroix , assistant professor of philosophy at Durham University and co-director of Academic Philosophy Data Analysis (APDA) discusses these and other findings.
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This post focuses specifically on gender and asks how publication and teaching patterns differ across the academic pipeline.
Dailynous
Jun 22, 13:21
Kant Studies Online: No Longer Online
What happens to the articles published in an online-only journal when that journal not only ceases to publish, but ceases to exist? That question is raised by the case of Kant Studies Online, an online only, open-access philosophy journal that published articles between 2011 and 2016, the website of which is no longer accessible. The journal was founded by Gary Banham, who died in 2013. The journal published articles through 2016, according to PhilPapers. And while there appear to be versions of some of these articles at PhilArchives (available via their PhilPapers listings), that is not the case for all of them. Nor are the journal’s articles available through archived versions of the site at the Internet Archive. The disappearance of Kant Studies Online was brought to my attention by Jef Delvaux, who writes: I am concerned about the gap in the record of Kant scholarship, more broadly I am concerned that philosophers are not sufficiently aggressive in ensuring that their scholarship is preserved, especially when it is published in online venues. Arguably there is a role to play here for librarians. I thought that, perhaps, you could post a call addressing those who have authored pieces for Kant Studies Online to upload their papers and/or tables of contents to PhilPapers or the academic repository of the Internet Archive. That might be good advice for authors of articles in other online-only journals. The post Kant Studies Online: No Longer Online first appeared on Daily Nous .
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Kant Studies Online: No Longer Online. That question is raised by the case of Kant Studies Online, an online only, open-access philosophy journal that published articles between 2011 and 2016, the website of which is no longer accessible. The journal was founded by Gary Banham, who died in 2013. The post Kant Studies Online: No Longer Online first appeared on Daily Nous .
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What happens to the articles published in an online-only journal when that journal not only ceases to publish, but ceases to exist?
3quarksdaily
Jun 22, 12:37
Buildings May Soon Have ‘Immune Systems’ That Fight Airborne Disease
Carl Zimmer in The New York Times: Linsey Marr, an environmental engineer, stood next to a pair of clear plastic boxes packed with tubes, nozzles and electronics, an odd-looking prototype that one day might serve to protect children in day care from airborne pathogens. A nozzle filled the right-hand box with a faint silvery mist. A…
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Carl Zimmer in The New York Times: Linsey Marr, an environmental engineer, stood next to a pair of clear plastic boxes packed with tubes, nozzles and electronics, an odd-looking prototype that one day might serve to protect children in day care from airborne pathogens. A nozzle filled the right-hand box with a faint silvery mist. A…
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Carl Zimmer in The New York Times: Linsey Marr, an environmental engineer, stood next to a pair of clear plastic boxes packed with tubes, nozzles and electronics, an odd-looking prototype that one day might serve to protect children in day care from airborne pathogens.
Dailynous
Jun 22, 12:35
Petition Against Dundee University Plan to Cut Philosophy Degree
“The University of Dundee has announced it plans to cease offering Philosophy as a named degree from 2027. This news has come as a complete shock to students, staff and the wider Scottish community. We, the philosophy community of Dundee, are determined to fight this.” So begins a petition protesting an aspect of the University of Dundee’s administration plan to address a large financial deficit. According to the BBC, “Despite already cutting about 675 jobs through voluntary redundancies, the university said it still needed to make annual savings of about £20m—mostly from staff costs,” so it “has announced plans to cut 190 more jobs.” In addition to the staff cuts, “the institution intends to suspend some degrees in mathematics, languages and philosophy,” reports The Courier. The BBC also notes: “A critical report in June 2025 into the university’s financial collapse led to the resignations of its interim principal Prof Shane O’Neill and two senior members of its governing body.” The petition in support of Dundee’s philosophy degree program lists several reasons for its preservation, among them: Our programme at Dundee is the only Philosophy programme in Scotland (and one of the few remaining in the UK) that specialises in European philosophy in contrast to the other philosophy programmes that specialise in Anglo-American thought. We run the Scottish Centre for Continental Philosophy, an internationally renowned centre for Continental Philosophy research, bringing philosophy scholars to Dundee from around the world. We rank first in Scotland (and 6th in the UK) for student satisfaction in The Complete University Guide 2027. In the Guardian University Guide 2026 we rank 2nd in Scotland and 12th in the UK. In the Times University Rankings 2026, philosophy is rated as 5th in the UK for teaching quality. Philosophy at Dundee is a small and highly cost-effective programme, one which has a disproportionately large positive impact on Scottish students and the wider community. As evidence of the former, we collaborate with Dundee schools to deliver an innovative outreach programme supporting the transition to Secondary School through ‘Localising Philosophy’ (over 2000 pupils worked with to date, and 37 student internships provided). You can read the full petition here. (via Oisín Keohane) The post Petition Against Dundee University Plan to Cut Philosophy Degree first appeared on Daily Nous .
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Petition Against Dundee University Plan to Cut Philosophy Degree. In the Times University Rankings 2026, philosophy is rated as 5th in the UK for teaching quality. (via Oisín Keohane) The post Petition Against Dundee University Plan to Cut Philosophy Degree first appeared on Daily Nous .
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“The University of Dundee has announced it plans to cease offering Philosophy as a named degree from 2027.
3quarksdaily
Jun 22, 11:00
3 Quarks Daily Magazine Welcomes Our New Columnists
Hello Readers and Writers, We received a large number of submissions of sample essays in our search for new columnists. Most of them were excellent and it was very hard deciding whom to accept and whom not to. If you did not get selected, it does not at all mean that we didn’t like what you…
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3 Quarks Daily Magazine Welcomes Our New Columnists. Most of them were excellent and it was very hard deciding whom to accept and whom not to. If you did not get selected, it does not at all mean that we didn’t like what you…
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Hello Readers and Writers, We received a large number of submissions of sample essays in our search for new columnists.
Aeon
Jun 22, 10:01
And Granny would dance
Woven from memories of her childhood in Iran, an animator recalls her Granny’s story of loss, love and friendship - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
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Woven from memories of her childhood in Iran, an animator recalls her Granny’s story of loss, love and friendship - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
3quarksdaily
Jun 22, 10:00
Quantum Ethics: Technological Transformation And Social Structure
by Jochen Szangolies In my day job, when I’m not regaling the readers here at 3 Quarks Daily with rash ruminations on free will, power and politics, or why people sometimes erect huge stones for no apparent reason, I work on finding prospective applications of quantum computing for the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für…
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by Jochen Szangolies In my day job, when I’m not regaling the readers here at 3 Quarks Daily with rash ruminations on free will, power and politics, or why people sometimes erect huge stones for no apparent reason, I work on finding prospective applications of quantum computing for the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für…
Aeon
Jun 22, 10:00
No one is self-made
The idea that success is deserved has great traction in the world. But Zhuangzi argues that it is a deeply flawed notion - by Christine Abigail L Tan Read on Aeon
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No one is self-made. The idea that success is deserved has great traction in the world. But Zhuangzi argues that it is a deeply flawed notion - by Christine Abigail L Tan Read on Aeon
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The idea that success is deserved has great traction in the world.
3quarksdaily
Jun 21, 17:54
We asked you to send us dad jokes. Here are 39 to delight and annoy you
Lindsey Bever in The Washington Post: How do you catch a unique bird? Unique up on it. —Bill Davis What do you call a camel with three humps? Pregnant. —Gabrielle Tillis Where does the king keep his armies? In his sleevies! —Matt Rogers Why do gorillas have big nostrils? Because they have big fingers. —Brian Davidson…
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We asked you to send us dad jokes. —Gabrielle Tillis Where does the king keep his armies? —Matt Rogers Why do gorillas have big nostrils?
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Lindsey Bever in The Washington Post: How do you catch a unique bird?
3quarksdaily
Jun 21, 17:44
Elon Musk and the Politics of Trillionaire Fascism
Henry Giroux in CounterPunch: Elon Musk is less an aberration than the grotesque byproduct of a capitalist order that converts inequality into virtue, exploitation into spectacle, and mistakes its own deepest failures for its greatest successes. The media frenzy surrounding the prospect of Musk becoming the world’s first trillionaire is not a celebration of human progress or individual initiative.…
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Henry Giroux in CounterPunch: Elon Musk is less an aberration than the grotesque byproduct of a capitalist order that converts inequality into virtue, exploitation into spectacle, and mistakes its own deepest failures for its greatest successes.
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Henry Giroux in CounterPunch: Elon Musk is less an aberration than the grotesque byproduct of a capitalist order that converts inequality into virtue, exploitation into spectacle, and mistakes its own deepest failures for its greatest successes.
3quarksdaily
Jun 21, 17:37
Will It Take Superpowers, Spirits and Reincarnation to Save the Planet?
Junot Diaz in The New York Times: The term “one of a kind” gets bandied about in the arts quite a lot but the writer Amitav Ghosh not only deserves the encomium, he could function as a handy benchmark for assessing whether others merit it. Call it the Ghosh Minimum. If an artist is as arrestingly…
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Junot Diaz in The New York Times: The term “one of a kind” gets bandied about in the arts quite a lot but the writer Amitav Ghosh not only deserves the encomium, he could function as a handy benchmark for assessing whether others merit it. Call it the Ghosh Minimum. If an artist is as arrestingly…
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Junot Diaz in The New York Times: The term “one of a kind” gets bandied about in the arts quite a lot but the writer Amitav Ghosh not only deserves the encomium, he could function as a handy benchmark for assessing whether others merit it.
3quarksdaily
Jun 21, 13:24
Carlo Ginzburg (1939 – 2026) Scholar and Historian
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Jun 21, 12:20
David Hockney (1937 – 2026) Artist
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Jun 21, 11:16
François Englert (1932 – 2026) Theoretical Physicist And Nobel Laureate
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Jun 19, 19:19
Paracelsus & the Womb of Being
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Jun 19, 18:45
‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’ wants to rehabilitate the fashion industry’s brutal early 2000s workplace culture, but it can’t quite hide how much it misses it
Jake Flanagin at the Los Angeles Review of Books: The scariest thing about Meryl Streep’s performance in The Devil Wears Prada 2 might be just how relatively unscary it is. The character of Miranda Priestly, the silver-haired editor in chief of Runway magazine, has been stripped of the icy authority that, in the original film released two decades…
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‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’ wants to rehabilitate the fashion industry’s brutal early 2000s workplace culture, but it can’t quite hide how much it misses it. Jake Flanagin at the Los Angeles Review of Books: The scariest thing about Meryl Streep’s performance in The Devil Wears Prada 2 might be just how relatively unscary it is.
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Jake Flanagin at the Los Angeles Review of Books: The scariest thing about Meryl Streep’s performance in The Devil Wears Prada 2 might be just how relatively unscary it is.
3quarksdaily
Jun 19, 17:45
How the brain builds sentences, neuron by neuron
Max Kozlov in Nature: In the fraction of a second before a person speaks, their brain weaves together complex grammar, precise vocabulary and the underlying meaning of the language. Now, researchers have tracked the electrical crackle of individual brain cells in real time during unscripted conversations, capturing how sentences are built before a single word is spoken. By observing…
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Max Kozlov in Nature: In the fraction of a second before a person speaks, their brain weaves together complex grammar, precise vocabulary and the underlying meaning of the language. Now, researchers have tracked the electrical crackle of individual brain cells in real time during unscripted conversations, capturing how sentences are built before a single word is spoken.
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Max Kozlov in Nature: In the fraction of a second before a person speaks, their brain weaves together complex grammar, precise vocabulary and the underlying meaning of the language.
3quarksdaily
Jun 19, 17:15
Panahi’s Laboratory
Mehrdad Babadi at The Point: In Taxi (2015), Jafar Panahi stages a brief but haunting moment that, in retrospect, feels like the seed of his most recent film, It Was Just an Accident (2025). Near the end of Taxi, Panahi, playing the taxi driver, becomes visibly unsettled after picking up his friend Nasrin Sotoudeh, the prominent Iranian human rights lawyer and…
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Mehrdad Babadi at The Point: In Taxi (2015), Jafar Panahi stages a brief but haunting moment that, in retrospect, feels like the seed of his most recent film, It Was Just an Accident (2025). Near the end of Taxi, Panahi, playing the taxi driver, becomes visibly unsettled after picking up his friend Nasrin Sotoudeh, the prominent Iranian human rights lawyer and…
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Mehrdad Babadi at The Point: In Taxi (2015), Jafar Panahi stages a brief but haunting moment that, in retrospect, feels like the seed of his most recent film, It Was Just an Accident (2025).
3quarksdaily
Jun 19, 16:45
What happens when poetry, and poets, meet technology?
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Jun 19, 15:45
The Warfare Of The Future Is Already Here
Nathan Gardels at Noema: When Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine in 2022 with a direct assault on Kyiv, the conventional odds were that Russia’s post-Cold War military prowess, replete with a world-class nuclear arsenal, would readily conquer its former Soviet republic and fold it back into the restored empire. Four years on, the battle not only…
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Nathan Gardels at Noema: When Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine in 2022 with a direct assault on Kyiv, the conventional odds were that Russia’s post-Cold War military prowess, replete with a world-class nuclear arsenal, would readily conquer its former Soviet republic and fold it back into the restored empire.
3quarksdaily
Jun 19, 14:12
AI Is Advancing Faster Than Our Ability to Understand It
Shelly Fan in Singularity Hub: AI is becoming more powerful, and mysterious. Despite years of work on “explainable AI,” today’s most advanced systems remain black boxes for the most part. Scientists can observe what they do but cannot fully explain how they arrive at their conclusions or predict when they’ll fail. As large language models (LLMs), the…
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AI Is Advancing Faster Than Our Ability to Understand It. Despite years of work on “explainable AI,” today’s most advanced systems remain black boxes for the most part. Scientists can observe what they do but cannot fully explain how they arrive at their conclusions or predict when they’ll fail. As large language models (LLMs), the…
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Shelly Fan in Singularity Hub: AI is becoming more powerful, and mysterious.
Aeon
Jun 19, 10:00
Trauma creep
From a broken life to a broken nail, ‘trauma’ has been bleached by overuse. But it names something real – and must be reclaimed - by Lily Dunn Read on Aeon
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Trauma creep. From a broken life to a broken nail, ‘trauma’ has been bleached by overuse. But it names something real – and must be reclaimed - by Lily Dunn Read on Aeon
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From a broken life to a broken nail, ‘trauma’ has been bleached by overuse.
3quarksdaily
Jun 19, 09:00
Praying through Asia
by Daniel Gauss When I went to Hanoi for the first time, I began a travel ritual I now follow in every city I visit. I had grown up reading about the Vietnam War, mostly from our perspective, but still grim and unflinching, full of failed policy and the atrocities our military carried out. It…
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Praying through Asia. by Daniel Gauss When I went to Hanoi for the first time, I began a travel ritual I now follow in every city I visit. I had grown up reading about the Vietnam War, mostly from our perspective, but still grim and unflinching, full of failed policy and the atrocities our military carried out.
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by Daniel Gauss When I went to Hanoi for the first time, I began a travel ritual I now follow in every city I visit.
3quarksdaily
Jun 19, 07:00
Short Takes: The First Day of School, Forever
by S. Abbas Raza From the Dept. of Shower Thoughts (literally, this morning): I keep seeing, especially as advice for young people, that the skill needed to thrive in our AI dominated, rapidly transforming future is going to be the ability to continually learn new things and skills and being “adaptable”. Okay, I guess in…
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Short Takes: The First Day of School, Forever. Abbas Raza From the Dept. of Shower Thoughts (literally, this morning): I keep seeing, especially as advice for young people, that the skill needed to thrive in our AI dominated, rapidly transforming future is going to be the ability to continually learn new things and skills and being “adaptable”.
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Abbas Raza From the Dept.
3quarksdaily
Jun 18, 19:45
Peter Szendy – “The Readee”
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Jun 18, 18:45
The University As We Know It Is Finished, and That’s a Good Thing
Nils Gilman at Persuasion: The shift from grants to loans, from tenured faculty to mass adjunctification, and from a broad education in the liberal arts to vocational credentialism all occurred under the banner of making universities more “responsive to market demands.” In practice, this has meant transferring cost from the public to the individual “student consumer,”…
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Nils Gilman at Persuasion: The shift from grants to loans, from tenured faculty to mass adjunctification, and from a broad education in the liberal arts to vocational credentialism all occurred under the banner of making universities more “responsive to market demands.” In practice, this has meant transferring cost from the public to the individual “student consumer,”…
3quarksdaily
Jun 18, 18:41
Contra Chiang On Machine Consciousness
Henry Shevlin at Polytropolis: Ted Chiang is one of my favourite authors. I was a philosophy PhD student when I first came across his novella The Lifecycle of Software Objects back in 2011, and it completely blew me away in its nuanced treatment of the identity, moral status, and autonomy of advanced (and possibly sentient) machines. By…
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Contra Chiang On Machine Consciousness. Henry Shevlin at Polytropolis: Ted Chiang is one of my favourite authors. I was a philosophy PhD student when I first came across his novella The Lifecycle of Software Objects back in 2011, and it completely blew me away in its nuanced treatment of the identity, moral status, and autonomy of advanced (and possibly sentient) machines.
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Henry Shevlin at Polytropolis: Ted Chiang is one of my favourite authors.
Dailynous
Jun 18, 17:18
APA Prizes: Spring 2026 Edition
The American Philosophical Association (APA) has announced the winners of its Spring 2026 prizes. 2027 John Dewey Lectures Three annual lectures, one at each divisional meeting of the APA, given by a prominent and senior (typically retired) philosopher associated with that Division, who is invited to reflect broadly and in an autobiographical spirit on philosophy in America as seen from the perspective of a personal intellectual journey. ($1000.) Eastern: Eva Kittay (Stony Brook University) Central: Elliott Sober (University of Wisconsin–Madison) 2026–2027 Edinburgh Fellowship The fellowship is at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh. “There is no funding associated with this award, but the APA fellow has a private office in the Institute, is a member of the Institute’s lively research community, and has full borrowing rights at Edinburgh University Library.” Cressida Heyes (University of Alberta) 2026 Oxford University Press Teaching with Technology Prize Sponsored by Oxford University Press (OUP), the prize recognizes outstanding use of technology in the teaching of philosophy and philosophical pedagogy by philosophers at a junior career stage. ($2000; $500 for honorable mention.) William Penn (University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee) and Eli Shupe (The University of Texas at Arlington) Honorable Mentions: Patrick Anderson (Central State University) and Yuna Won (Hunter College, CUNY) 2027 Nicholas Rescher Prize Lecture The prize is awarded for substantial, outstanding contributions to systematic metaphysics, broadly construed, during the course of a career. ($1000, travel expenses, and publication of the lecture.) Kit Fine (New York University) 2027 Patrick Romanell Lecture The Patrick Romanell Lecture is presented annually at a divisional meeting of the APA on the topic of philosophical naturalism. ($1200 plus travel expenses.) Jenann Ismael (Johns Hopkins University) 2027 Sanders Lecture Presented annually at a divisional meeting of the APA on a topic in philosophy of mind, metaphysics, or epistemology that engages the analytic tradition. ($3500; travel stipend.) Gideon Rosen (Princeton University) 2027 Ernest Sosa Prize Lecture Honors substantial achievement in epistemology. The winner presents the lecture, intended to be accessible to a broad philosophical audience, at an APA divisional meeting. ($1500, publication of the lecture in the Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association, as well as a selection of books by Sosa and published by Wiley-Blackwell.) Hilary Kornblith (University of Massachusetts Amherst) The APA’s announcement of the.. The post APA Prizes: Spring 2026 Edition first appeared on Daily Nous .
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($1000.) Eastern: Eva Kittay (Stony Brook University) Central: Elliott Sober (University of Wisconsin–Madison) 2026–2027 Edinburgh Fellowship The fellowship is at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh. ($1000, travel expenses, and publication of the lecture.
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The American Philosophical Association (APA) has announced the winners of its Spring 2026 prizes.
3quarksdaily
Jun 18, 16:45
Demis Hassabis on AI’s Next Big Breakthrough
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Aeon
Jun 18, 10:01
Neanderthal 1
The 16 bones that would rewrite history – on the site in Germany where we began to understand Neanderthals, and ourselves - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
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The 16 bones that would rewrite history – on the site in Germany where we began to understand Neanderthals, and ourselves - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
3quarksdaily
Jun 18, 10:00
Rafay Rashid, frontman for the band “Ravi Shavi”, interviewed by S. Abbas Raza, plus cool music videos
This is a lightly edited transcript of an online video conversation. You can get more information about Ravi Shavi’s new album Wild Rock Dove here. Instagram link here. Abbas: I’m happy to have Rafay Rashid with me today and now I’m just going to read the bio he sent me: “Rafay was born in Islamabad,…
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Rafay Rashid, frontman for the band “Ravi Shavi”, interviewed by S. This is a lightly edited transcript of an online video conversation. You can get more information about Ravi Shavi’s new album Wild Rock Dove here.
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Abbas: I’m happy to have Rafay Rashid with me today and now I’m just going to read the bio he sent me: “Rafay was born in Islamabad,…
Aeon
Jun 18, 10:00
Words, words, words
Strong resistance to AI among writers is understandable. But it obscures what we share with the machines: language itself - by Martin Puchner Read on Aeon
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Words, words, words. Strong resistance to AI among writers is understandable. But it obscures what we share with the machines: language itself - by Martin Puchner Read on Aeon
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Strong resistance to AI among writers is understandable.
3quarksdaily
Jun 17, 17:45
The Window Has Closed
Andrew Curran at X: After using Fable, it now seems clearer than ever to me that the shift we felt was driven not only by tool advances in Claude Code and Codex, but by Mythos emerging from its training run in early February. Mythos will have many children, and the resulting boost to internal development…
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Andrew Curran at X: After using Fable, it now seems clearer than ever to me that the shift we felt was driven not only by tool advances in Claude Code and Codex, but by Mythos emerging from its training run in early February. Mythos will have many children, and the resulting boost to internal development…
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Andrew Curran at X: After using Fable, it now seems clearer than ever to me that the shift we felt was driven not only by tool advances in Claude Code and Codex, but by Mythos emerging from its training run in early February.
3quarksdaily
Jun 17, 16:45
Guiseppe San Martino’s “The Veiled Christ”
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Jun 17, 15:45
Beijing Is Watching Your Chatbot Girlfriend
Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad at Digital Dopplegangers: Now that I have your attention, I should acknowledge that Beijing is not really watching your girlfriend. However, something interesting is going on in China in the regulatory space when it comes to AI companion bots. On April 10, 2026, five of its most powerful government agencies (including the…
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Beijing Is Watching Your Chatbot Girlfriend. However, something interesting is going on in China in the regulatory space when it comes to AI companion bots. On April 10, 2026, five of its most powerful government agencies (including the…
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Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad at Digital Dopplegangers: Now that I have your attention, I should acknowledge that Beijing is not really watching your girlfriend.
3quarksdaily
Jun 17, 15:35
Misunderstood Machiavelli
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Dailynous
Jun 17, 15:15
A New Tool for Curbing AI Cheating (guest post)
Begin typing your search above and press return to search. Press Esc to cancel. “The aim is not to keep everything exactly as it was before gen AI took off.
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A New Tool for Curbing AI Cheating (guest post). “The aim is not to keep everything exactly as it was before gen AI took off. Over the past year or so, I’ve been working on a software project whose aim is to make cheating hard again.
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In this post, I will explain how MATCHA differs from alternative ways of managing AI plagiarism, how it works, and what it can do beyond preventing AI plagiarism.
3quarksdaily
Jun 17, 14:31
The Simulation Hypothesis
Paul Nedelisky at Hedgehog Review: Back a few years ago, when I was teaching a large survey course on moral reasoning, I happened to mention the simulation hypothesis. Immediately, to my surprise, my otherwise sleepy students clocked back in. A dozen hands went up. After hearing from a number of them—and from the widespread head-nodding—it became…
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Immediately, to my surprise, my otherwise sleepy students clocked back in. A dozen hands went up. After hearing from a number of them—and from the widespread head-nodding—it became…
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Paul Nedelisky at Hedgehog Review: Back a few years ago, when I was teaching a large survey course on moral reasoning, I happened to mention the simulation hypothesis.
3quarksdaily
Jun 17, 13:29
Tom Hanks’ HILARIOUS Harvard Speech Leaves Audience in Splits
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Jun 17, 11:50
How Does One Brain Speak Two Languages?
K R Callaway in The New York Times: Speak a language your whole life and its grammatical rules become ingrained. That’s why you might correctly guess that the present participle of the verb “absquatulate” is “absquatulating,” even if you are completely unfamiliar with the word. But the rules of grammar can vary widely between languages, and neuroscientists…
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How Does One Brain Speak Two Languages?. K R Callaway in The New York Times: Speak a language your whole life and its grammatical rules become ingrained. That’s why you might correctly guess that the present participle of the verb “absquatulate” is “absquatulating,” even if you are completely unfamiliar with the word.
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K R Callaway in The New York Times: Speak a language your whole life and its grammatical rules become ingrained.
Aeon
Jun 17, 10:01
Female philosophers: Héloïse
Morality is rooted in love, not institutions: the enduring impact of Héloïse’s 12th-century romance with Abelard - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
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Morality is rooted in love, not institutions: the enduring impact of Héloïse’s 12th-century romance with Abelard - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
3quarksdaily
Jun 17, 10:00
Looking back at “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter”
by Charles Siegel A couple of weeks ago I saw an item in Lit Hub Daily, about how June 4th would be the 86th anniversary of the publication of The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers’ debut novel. This item brought back many wonderful memories — of the novel, of the time in my…
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by Charles Siegel A couple of weeks ago I saw an item in Lit Hub Daily, about how June 4th would be the 86th anniversary of the publication of The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers’ debut novel. This item brought back many wonderful memories — of the novel, of the time in my…
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by Charles Siegel A couple of weeks ago I saw an item in Lit Hub Daily, about how June 4th would be the 86th anniversary of the publication of The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers’ debut novel.
3quarksdaily
Jun 16, 19:21
3 Quarks Daily Is Looking For New Writers: Deadline Approaching
Dear Readers and Writers, Here’s your chance to say what you want to the large number of highly educated readers that make up 3QD’s international audience. Several of our regular columnists have had to cut back or even completely quit their columns for 3QD because of other personal and professional commitments and so we are…
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Dear Readers and Writers, Here’s your chance to say what you want to the large number of highly educated readers that make up 3QD’s international audience. Several of our regular columnists have had to cut back or even completely quit their columns for 3QD because of other personal and professional commitments and so we are…
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Dear Readers and Writers, Here’s your chance to say what you want to the large number of highly educated readers that make up 3QD’s international audience.
3quarksdaily
Jun 16, 18:45
Review of “Flamboyance” by Jack Parlett – a serious study of the spectacular
John-Baptiste Oduor in The Guardian: A friend’s mother once told me that for a couple of years in the 1980s – as the Conservatives were waging war on the miners and she spent late nights at Marxist-feminist reading groups – she wore an almost daily uniform of jeans and a white T-shirt. On her wedding…
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John-Baptiste Oduor in The Guardian: A friend’s mother once told me that for a couple of years in the 1980s – as the Conservatives were waging war on the miners and she spent late nights at Marxist-feminist reading groups – she wore an almost daily uniform of jeans and a white T-shirt.
3quarksdaily
Jun 16, 17:45
Today’s Frontier AI companies will never exceed the AI capability frontier again
Andrew Trask at his own Substack: Everyone I’ve talked to in AI has always assumed that the future of AI is bigger models held by a smaller number of players. I get it… they can see a very strong trend over the last 10 years, and they bring that view to every AI regulation, investor strategy,…
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Today’s Frontier AI companies will never exceed the AI capability frontier again. Andrew Trask at his own Substack: Everyone I’ve talked to in AI has always assumed that the future of AI is bigger models held by a smaller number of players. I get it… they can see a very strong trend over the last 10 years, and they bring that view to every AI regulation, investor strategy,…
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Andrew Trask at his own Substack: Everyone I’ve talked to in AI has always assumed that the future of AI is bigger models held by a smaller number of players.
3quarksdaily
Jun 16, 16:45
If Prime Numbers Become Increasingly Rare, Then Why Do They Keep Showing Up In Pairs?
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Jun 16, 15:45
How will we distribute AI wealth? Proposal from Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders at his own website: Since A.I. is built on the collective knowledge of humanity, the wealth it generates must benefit humanity. Not just Mr. Musk, Mr. Altman, Dario Amodei and other moguls whose companies are positioned to dominate the industry. Not just venture capitalists in Silicon Valley or money managers on Wall Street…
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How will we distribute AI wealth? Proposal from Bernie Sanders. Bernie Sanders at his own website: Since A.I.
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is built on the collective knowledge of humanity, the wealth it generates must benefit humanity.
3quarksdaily
Jun 16, 14:05
David Hockney, RIP
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Dailynous
Jun 16, 12:59
When There’s no Fun in Funding: External Research Money, Ethics-Washing, and Positive Academic Freedom (guest post)
Begin typing your search above and press return to search. Press Esc to cancel. Governments and firms are turning to philosophers and other scholars more and more in regard to the ethics of developin…
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When There’s no Fun in Funding: External Research Money, Ethics-Washing, and Positive Academic Freedom (guest post). An assistant professor in law, let’s call her Sarah, gets invited to serve as ethics advisor in an international research project on digital surveillance technologies.
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But she does not hear back from them, and the project goes ahead unhindered.
3quarksdaily
Jun 16, 12:54
Toni Morrison’s Native Figures: A new reading of race in her novels
Namwali Serpell in The Yale Review: Toni Morrison has lately been bestowed with a dubious distinction: the patron saint of cancel culture. Beyond her cutting remarks about whiteness in widely memed television interviews, her literary criticism interrogates racialized language in a way that, on the surface, resembles so-called activist scholarship. Take this footnote from her 1989 essay…
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Toni Morrison’s Native Figures: A new reading of race in her novels. Beyond her cutting remarks about whiteness in widely memed television interviews, her literary criticism interrogates racialized language in a way that, on the surface, resembles so-called activist scholarship. Take this footnote from her 1989 essay…
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Namwali Serpell in The Yale Review: Toni Morrison has lately been bestowed with a dubious distinction: the patron saint of cancel culture.
3quarksdaily
Jun 16, 12:49
The latest benefit of obesity drugs: boosting testosterone and sperm quality
Mariana Lenharo in Nature: The latest generation of obesity drugs might have another potential benefit: improving fertility in men. A systematic review presented today at the Endocrine Society’s annual meeting in Chicago, Illinois, suggests that GLP-1 medications might increase testosterone levels and help to improve the quality of sperm in men with obesity. The evidence is still preliminary, and more robust trials…
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The latest benefit of obesity drugs: boosting testosterone and sperm quality. A systematic review presented today at the Endocrine Society’s annual meeting in Chicago, Illinois, suggests that GLP-1 medications might increase testosterone levels and help to improve the quality of sperm in men with obesity. The evidence is still preliminary, and more robust trials…
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Mariana Lenharo in Nature: The latest generation of obesity drugs might have another potential benefit: improving fertility in men.
3quarksdaily
Jun 16, 11:36
Herder’s ‘Ideas for the Philosophy of the History of Mankind’
Courtney Fugate at Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews: Johann Gottfried von Herder’s Ideas for the Philosophy of the History of Mankind is a monumental work, and so is this masterful translation—the first in over a century—by Gregory Martin Moore. Herder’s thought is one of the central forces that shaped nearly every aspect of German intellectual life from about…
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Courtney Fugate at Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews: Johann Gottfried von Herder’s Ideas for the Philosophy of the History of Mankind is a monumental work, and so is this masterful translation—the first in over a century—by Gregory Martin Moore. Herder’s thought is one of the central forces that shaped nearly every aspect of German intellectual life from about…
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Courtney Fugate at Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews: Johann Gottfried von Herder’s Ideas for the Philosophy of the History of Mankind is a monumental work, and so is this masterful translation—the first in over a century—by Gregory Martin Moore.
Aeon
Jun 16, 10:00
What is this rock?
Not natural, not quite unnatural, the strange new rocks of the Anthropocene stretch the boundaries of geology - by John MacDonald Read on Aeon
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Not natural, not quite unnatural, the strange new rocks of the Anthropocene stretch the boundaries of geology - by John MacDonald Read on Aeon
3quarksdaily
Jun 16, 09:00
Mrkrgnao! For Rolf Kuhn (1953-2026)
by Rafaël Newman About ten years ago, I received an invitation to coffee from a fellow I hadn’t seen in a while. At the time, Rolf Kuhn was teaching English at a middle school in the nearby town of Baden; our acquaintance was the result of our frequenting the same English-language bookstore—Pile of Books, still…
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For Rolf Kuhn (1953-2026). by Rafaël Newman About ten years ago, I received an invitation to coffee from a fellow I hadn’t seen in a while. At the time, Rolf Kuhn was teaching English at a middle school in the nearby town of Baden; our acquaintance was the result of our frequenting the same English-language bookstore—Pile of Books, still…
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by Rafaël Newman About ten years ago, I received an invitation to coffee from a fellow I hadn’t seen in a while.
3quarksdaily
Jun 15, 18:45
On Gustave Courbet Le Désespéré, or The Desperate Man
Brooks Riley at Art At First Sight: There’s probably no other painting that so perfectly mimes and memes our miserable zeitgeist than Gustave Courbet’s overwrought selfie from 1844. For whatever reason, the painter decided to give us a good close look at a hissy fit extraordinaire, one that looks eerily like a reaction shot to our…
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Brooks Riley at Art At First Sight: There’s probably no other painting that so perfectly mimes and memes our miserable zeitgeist than Gustave Courbet’s overwrought selfie from 1844. For whatever reason, the painter decided to give us a good close look at a hissy fit extraordinaire, one that looks eerily like a reaction shot to our…
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Brooks Riley at Art At First Sight: There’s probably no other painting that so perfectly mimes and memes our miserable zeitgeist than Gustave Courbet’s overwrought selfie from 1844.
3quarksdaily
Jun 15, 17:45
Nassim Taleb and Daniel Kahneman discusses Antifragility in 2013
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Jun 15, 16:45
This Could Be the Worst Ebola Outbreak in History
Jeremy Konyndyk in the New York Times: The current situation in eastern Congo and Uganda combines some of the most dangerous aspects of the 2014 and 2018 outbreaks — the worst Ebola outbreaks in history. The virus was already spreading for several months before it was detected in May, and there are no approved vaccines…
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This Could Be the Worst Ebola Outbreak in History. Jeremy Konyndyk in the New York Times: The current situation in eastern Congo and Uganda combines some of the most dangerous aspects of the 2014 and 2018 outbreaks — the worst Ebola outbreaks in history. The virus was already spreading for several months before it was detected in May, and there are no approved vaccines…
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Jeremy Konyndyk in the New York Times: The current situation in eastern Congo and Uganda combines some of the most dangerous aspects of the 2014 and 2018 outbreaks — the worst Ebola outbreaks in history.
3quarksdaily
Jun 15, 15:45
$1.77 trillion, in stacked hundred dollar bills, compared to the Statue of Liberty, Elon Musk, $1.7 billion, a Tesla Model X and a SpaceX Starship
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Dailynous
Jun 15, 15:20
Subordinating the Humanities’ Scholarly Enterprise to Political Goals (updated / comments now open)
[Originally published on June 8th, 2026, 9:02am. Reposted by request.] “In our view there are several worrying tendencies in contemporary academic scholarship in the humanities and social sciences, all of which reflect, to varying degrees, a distinctive form of politicization in which the scholarly enterprise is taken to be subordinate to, or in the service of, political (social or moral) goals beyond the advancement of knowledge and understanding.” That is from a recently released “Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences.” The report is by a group led by Paul Boghossian (NYU), who was asked to produce the report by Daniel Diermeier, Chancellor of Vanderbilt University, and Andrew D. Martin, Chancellor of Washington University. The group includes ten scholars, including three other philosophers: Kwame Anthony Appiah (NYU), Kit Fine (NYU), and Gideon Rosen (Princeton). The report is in response to complaints about politicization of scholarship in the humanities. But what, exactly, is the complaint? The authors first distinguish the problem they think is worth considering from various non-problems: The problem is not that scholars in these areas are significantly more liberal or progressive than the general public… The problem is not that many scholars are politically active, or that they see their scholarly work as relevant to their activism… The problem is not that political considerations have broadened the focus of scholarship away from the Western high art canon and other historically central topics towards work by and about members of marginalized groups — women, members of racial and ethnic minorities, and so on… The problem is not that scholarship in these areas is often critical or oppositional, aiming to debunk or correct the presuppositions of previous scholarship and the wider set of established cultural norms that scholarship reflects. Rather, the problem, they say, has to do with prioritizing politics over scholarship. They write: In rare cases, individual scholars and groups of scholars explicitly repudiate the idea that scholarship aims at knowledge and understanding in favor of an overtly and exclusively political conception of the enterprise… The most straightforward form of distortion arises when otherwise traditional scholarship is constrained by disciplinary norms to yield results that have been determined in advance to be.. The post Subordinating the Humanities’ Scholarly Enterprise to Political Goals (updated / comments now open) first appeared on Daily Nous .
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Subordinating the Humanities’ Scholarly Enterprise to Political Goals (updated / comments now open). Rather, the problem, they say, has to do with prioritizing politics over scholarship. The post Subordinating the Humanities’ Scholarly Enterprise to Political Goals (updated / comments now open) first appeared on Daily Nous .
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The report is in response to complaints about politicization of scholarship in the humanities.
3quarksdaily
Jun 15, 15:10
Painting the Present from David to Warhol
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Dailynous
Jun 15, 14:40
Cartwright Wins Frontiers of Knowledge Award
Nancy Cartwright, professor of philosophy at Durham University and the University of California, San Diego, has been selected as the recipient of the 2026 Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Humanities. The award, sponsored by the Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA) Foundation, was given to Professor Cartwright in recognition of “her use of philosophy to strengthen scientific rationality and ground the adoption of effective, evidence-based public policies.” The award includes a prize of 400,000 euros (approximately $464,000). From the award announcement: For five decades now, Cartwright’s seminal work has “built a bridge between philosophy and the actual practice of science” through her innovative vision of such key concepts as causality and the laws of nature. In her writings, the philosopher brings a perspective to what science is and how it can be applied that moves beyond certain influential notions—like the idea that science is merely a combination of theory and experiment, that all scientific knowledge can be reduced to physics, and that both science and the natural and social worlds obey deterministic patterns. She has analyzed research theories and methods across multiple domains of both the natural and social sciences with attention to all the findings and products of science, not just its theoretical models and experiments. For, she argues, it is only the diverse, multifaceted array of methodological tools and scientific constructs that can guide us to a gradual albeit piecemeal understanding of the world’s complexity. The committee noted also that her philosophical framework extends to an analysis of the methodological tools and models of the social sciences, in order to substantiate “evidence-based public policy decisions”… One of her main contributions to the field has been to demonstrate that the humanities can produce crucial knowledge for addressing pressing practical problems alongside the empirical knowledge produced by social scientists: “I am a big advocate of interdisciplinarity and have continually pressed for the need for more interdisciplinary cooperation.” Eight BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Awards are bestowed every year, one in each of the following categories: basic sciences, biomedicine, environmental sciences and climate change, social sciences, economics, the humanities, and music. This is the 18th year the awards have been issued. More information about the Professor Cartwright’s award is here. The post Cartwright Wins Frontiers of Knowledge Award first appeared on Daily Nous .
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Cartwright Wins Frontiers of Knowledge Award. She has analyzed research theories and methods across multiple domains of both the natural and social sciences with attention to all the findings and products of science, not just its theoretical models and experiments. The post Cartwright Wins Frontiers of Knowledge Award first appeared on Daily Nous .
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Nancy Cartwright, professor of philosophy at Durham University and the University of California, San Diego, has been selected as the recipient of the 2026 Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Humanities.
Dailynous
Jun 15, 13:42
Philosopher to Head Australian Government’s AI Safety Institute
Kate Conroy, a philosopher who has held various positions in academia, government, and industry, has been chosen to lead the recently established Australian AI Safety Institute, part of the Australian government’s Department of Industry, Science and Resources. According to the Australian Broadcasting Coroporation, the aim of the Institute is to “monitor, test and share information on emerging AI capabilities, risks and harms.” Dr. Conroy will also continue in her position the lead of responsible AI at the Royal Australian Air Force. Previously, she worked for the Queensland, Australia government on policies for evaluating and managing the risks of AI in government. She is a coauthor of the National Framework for the Assurance of Artificial Intelligence in Government (2024), which “stablishes cornerstones and practices of AI assurance, an essential part of the broader governance of how governments use AI,” among other works on various AI-related topics, such as “moral responsibility for civilian harms in human-AI military teams.” She earned her philosophy PhD and a graduate certificate in cognitive science from Rutgers University. Further information here. (via Rachael Brown) The post Philosopher to Head Australian Government’s AI Safety Institute first appeared on Daily Nous .
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Philosopher to Head Australian Government’s AI Safety Institute. Previously, she worked for the Queensland, Australia government on policies for evaluating and managing the risks of AI in government. (via Rachael Brown) The post Philosopher to Head Australian Government’s AI Safety Institute first appeared on Daily Nous .
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Kate Conroy, a philosopher who has held various positions in academia, government, and industry, has been chosen to lead the recently established Australian AI Safety Institute, part of the Australian government’s Department of Industry, Science and Resources.
3quarksdaily
Jun 15, 12:39
Humans outperform AI at this highly rigorous mathematics test
Davide Castelvecchi in Nature: Artificial intelligence has undergone its most scrupulous maths test yet. The results are in, and the AI models that took part didn’t live up to the problem-solving skills of top mathematicians. The test — part of a project called First Proof, which aims to evaluate the ability of AI to solve complex…
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Humans outperform AI at this highly rigorous mathematics test. The results are in, and the AI models that took part didn’t live up to the problem-solving skills of top mathematicians. The test — part of a project called First Proof, which aims to evaluate the ability of AI to solve complex…
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Davide Castelvecchi in Nature: Artificial intelligence has undergone its most scrupulous maths test yet.
3quarksdaily
Jun 15, 12:35
Science suggests cringeworthy dad jokes may serve a real purpose
Lindsey Bever in The Washington Post: While there are few studies on dad jokes themselves, Silvia has been analyzing them to determine what makes some funnier than others. In a preprint of his study titled “What’s brown and sticky?” (hint: a stick), Silvia and a colleague analyzed more than 32,000 dad jokes from a subreddit, r/dadjokes, and identified…
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Science suggests cringeworthy dad jokes may serve a real purpose. Lindsey Bever in The Washington Post: While there are few studies on dad jokes themselves, Silvia has been analyzing them to determine what makes some funnier than others. In a preprint of his study titled “What’s brown and sticky?
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Lindsey Bever in The Washington Post: While there are few studies on dad jokes themselves, Silvia has been analyzing them to determine what makes some funnier than others.
Dailynous
Jun 15, 12:31
Authoritarianism & Philosophy: After Orbán’s Ouster, an Effort to Reopen the Lukács Archive
“Philosophers were the first targets of Orbán’s ‘culture war.’” That’s László Szücs (Institute of Advanced Studies Kőszeg), talking to Courthouse News Service about “the so-called ‘philosophers’ affair’: Orbán’s and his media’s first major anti-intellectual campaign.” It is “the saga of how the government slowly throttled an archive and research center inside the old apartment of György Lukács, a world-renowned Marxist philosopher from Budapest.” Szücs is part of the Lukács Archive International Foundation, a group working to reopen the apartment to the public. Reporter Cain Burdeau writes: The throttling began on Jan. 8, 2011, when the Magyar Nemzet ran a slanderous editorial accusing a group of prominent Hungarian philosophers—many of them associated with Lukács and fierce Orbán critics—of receiving “morally and legally questionable” funding worth about $2 million when Hungary was under a previous socialist-liberal government. The funds actually did not go directly to the prominent philosophers, but rather covered the work of research groups, numerous philosophers and doctoral students, book publications and conferences. At the time, the Magyar Nemzet (“Hungarian Nation”) served as the mouthpiece for Orbán’s freshly elected government. Thus began the “philosophers’ affair”—an early and important thread to follow in understanding how Orbán’s “illiberal revolution” turned Hungary into Europe’s far-right model. Only eight months before that editorial, Orbán and his right-wing Fidesz party had routed the long-governing center-left Hungarian Socialist Party and won a commanding supermajority in Parliament. With near-unchecked power, Orbán set about molding Hungary into a fiefdom where left-liberal opponents were not tolerated… The Magyar Nemzet editorial was scathing in its attack on the left-liberal philosophers. It took particular aim at the 82-year-old Ágnes Heller, a Lukács disciple and prominent philosopher who held the Hannah Arendt chair at The New School in New York City. Their sin, according to the Magyar Nemzet, was that they were “liberals” who had “not settled for staying in the ivory tower” and wished to “share their views and thoughts with a wider public beyond the academic arena.” In other words, these philosophers—Heller, Mihály Vajda, Sándor Radnóti and others—had overstepped their positions by becoming outspoken critics of Orbán and his politics. Shortly after the editorial appeared, Gyula Budai, Orban’s anti-corruption commissioner, launched an investigation into the “suspicious” philosophy grants. The probe was turned over.. The post Authoritarianism & Philosophy: After Orbán’s Ouster, an Effort to Reopen the Lukács Archive first appeared on Daily Nous .
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Authoritarianism & Philosophy: After Orbán’s Ouster, an Effort to Reopen the Lukács Archive. With near-unchecked power, Orbán set about molding Hungary into a fiefdom where left-liberal opponents were not tolerated… The Magyar Nemzet editorial was scathing in its attack on the left-liberal philosophers.
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“Philosophers were the first targets of Orbán’s ‘culture war.’” That’s László Szücs (Institute of Advanced Studies Kőszeg), talking to Courthouse News Service about “the so-called ‘philosophers’ affair’: Orbán’s and his media’s first major anti-intellectual campaign.” It is “the saga of how the government slowly throttled an archive and research center inside the old apartment of György Lukács, a world-renowned Marxist philosopher from Budapest.” Szücs is part of the Lukács Archive International Foundation, a group working to reopen the apartment to the public.
Aeon
Jun 15, 10:01
Our neighbors, the peacocks
A portrait of the pristine suburb of Arcadia, where hundreds of feral peacocks are embraced by some, despised by others - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
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A portrait of the pristine suburb of Arcadia, where hundreds of feral peacocks are embraced by some, despised by others - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Aeon
Jun 15, 10:00
Therapy for billionaires
As my grandfather’s money taught, wealth can be a poison. The rich must reckon with its costs to recover their humanity - by Alexa Clay Read on Aeon
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Therapy for billionaires. As my grandfather’s money taught, wealth can be a poison. The rich must reckon with its costs to recover their humanity - by Alexa Clay Read on Aeon
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As my grandfather’s money taught, wealth can be a poison.
3quarksdaily
Jun 14, 22:43
Reify This
Leif Weatherby, Tyler Shoemaker, and Benjamin Recht in The Ideas Letter: Last month, Pope Leo XIV himself anointed an esoteric subfield of AI research. Midway through his encyclical Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence, he calls for a “deepening of scientific research” into AI. As he explains, this research is…
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Leif Weatherby, Tyler Shoemaker, and Benjamin Recht in The Ideas Letter: Last month, Pope Leo XIV himself anointed an esoteric subfield of AI research. Midway through his encyclical Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence, he calls for a “deepening of scientific research” into AI.
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Leif Weatherby, Tyler Shoemaker, and Benjamin Recht in The Ideas Letter: Last month, Pope Leo XIV himself anointed an esoteric subfield of AI research.
3quarksdaily
Jun 14, 22:35
Corrupt Regimes
Pranab Bardhan in Sidecar: It is now widely recognized – a recent editorial in the New York Times proclaimed it openly – that the Trump presidency is by far the most corrupt in American history, a history characterized by several none-too clean presidencies. The continuous self-dealing, brazen self-enrichment of Trump and his family, involvement in sleazy crypto-currency…
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Pranab Bardhan in Sidecar: It is now widely recognized – a recent editorial in the New York Times proclaimed it openly – that the Trump presidency is by far the most corrupt in American history, a history characterized by several none-too clean presidencies. The continuous self-dealing, brazen self-enrichment of Trump and his family, involvement in sleazy crypto-currency…
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Pranab Bardhan in Sidecar: It is now widely recognized – a recent editorial in the New York Times proclaimed it openly – that the Trump presidency is by far the most corrupt in American history, a history characterized by several none-too clean presidencies.
3quarksdaily
Jun 14, 12:24
In Defense of Difficult Reading
Todd Shy in The American Scholar: It would be tempting to put Naomi Kanakia’s new book on the crowded shelf of recent works that have sought to defend the importance of a liberal arts education, particularly the humanities. Roosevelt Montás’s Rescuing Socrates (2021) is the most logical precursor to set it beside. But in championing Great Books, Kanakia…
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In Defense of Difficult Reading. Roosevelt Montás’s Rescuing Socrates (2021) is the most logical precursor to set it beside. But in championing Great Books, Kanakia…
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Todd Shy in The American Scholar: It would be tempting to put Naomi Kanakia’s new book on the crowded shelf of recent works that have sought to defend the importance of a liberal arts education, particularly the humanities.
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Jun 14, 12:19
Posture, Bone Density & Muscle: A Stanford Doctor Destroys Aging Myths Most People Believe
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Jun 14, 05:27
Consciousness likely not unique to earthlings, paper says
June 10, 2026 Consciousness likely not unique to earthlings, paper says Drawing on Copernican tradition, philosophers argue for plausibility of other kinds of sentient life The answer is almost certa…
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In a new working paper , Schwitzgebel and Jeremy Pober , a former UCR graduate student who is now a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Lisbon, assert that consciousness is likely possible in life forms made of much different stuff. The paper comes at a time when the question of conscious artificial intelligence looms large, fueling dreams and nightmares.
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June 10, 2026 Consciousness likely not unique to earthlings, paper says Drawing on Copernican tradition, philosophers argue for plausibility of other kinds of sentient life The answer is almost certainly no, according to Eric Schwitzgebel , a distinguished professor of philosophy at the University of California, Riverside.
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Jun 12, 16:45
What’s the Left’s Vision for Foreign Policy After Trump? Ezra Klein talks to Matt Duss
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Jun 12, 15:45
Dario Amodei: Policy on the AI Exponential
Dario Amodei at his own website: In one of the side plots to The Lord of the Rings, two of the Hobbits attempt to rouse Treebeard—a wise but ponderous sentient tree—to defend his forest from an army that is cutting it down. The problem is that Treebeard operates at a very different speed than the Hobbits.…
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Dario Amodei at his own website: In one of the side plots to The Lord of the Rings, two of the Hobbits attempt to rouse Treebeard—a wise but ponderous sentient tree—to defend his forest from an army that is cutting it down.
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Jun 12, 15:21
Inside PETER HUJAR’S DAY with Ira Sachs
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Jun 12, 14:15
Hauling Trash
Dwight Garner at the NY Times: “Trash!” has been compared to “Kitchen Confidential” (2000), Anthony Bourdain’s restaurant kitchen exposé. Usually, comparisons to Bourdain are fatuous. This time it’s accurate. Paré-Poupart has the same strangled, exasperated voice. His difficult blue-collar job, like Bourdain’s, is his life: He’s not slumming it for a book deal. Like Bourdain,…
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Usually, comparisons to Bourdain are fatuous. Paré-Poupart has the same strangled, exasperated voice. His difficult blue-collar job, like Bourdain’s, is his life: He’s not slumming it for a book deal.
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Dwight Garner at the NY Times: “Trash!” has been compared to “Kitchen Confidential” (2000), Anthony Bourdain’s restaurant kitchen exposé.
3quarksdaily
Jun 12, 12:59
Celebrating the Centenary of Syed Babar Ali and 40 Years of LUMS
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Aeon
Jun 12, 10:00
A philosophy of home
The household is a community, as much as the state, and ancient philosophy had much more to say about it than we think - by Sandrine Bergès Read on Aeon
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The household is a community, as much as the state, and ancient philosophy had much more to say about it than we think - by Sandrine Bergès Read on Aeon
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Jun 11, 18:45
Review of “Tonight the Music Seems So Loud” by Sathnam Sanghera – a heartbreaking portrait of George Michael
Alexis Petridis in The Guardian: In 1998, George Michael was arrested for public lewdness in an LA lavatory, an incident that finally led the singer to publicly come out. The following day, Sathnam Sanghera found himself unable to leave his room at university: the doorway had been mockingly plastered with tabloid newspaper headlines – “ZIP ME UP…
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Alexis Petridis in The Guardian: In 1998, George Michael was arrested for public lewdness in an LA lavatory, an incident that finally led the singer to publicly come out. The following day, Sathnam Sanghera found himself unable to leave his room at university: the doorway had been mockingly plastered with tabloid newspaper headlines – “ZIP ME UP…
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Alexis Petridis in The Guardian: In 1998, George Michael was arrested for public lewdness in an LA lavatory, an incident that finally led the singer to publicly come out.
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Jun 11, 16:45
Cass Sunstein on What’s Actually Wrong With the University
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Jun 11, 15:45
The Next US Presidential Election Will Be About AI
Nathan Gardels at Noema: As we have written often in Noema, the value created by intelligent machines is flowing mostly to those tech titans who “own the robots” and to the top 10% who own 93% of all equities. Meanwhile, the value of labor — and its bargaining power to reap a piece of the…
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Nathan Gardels at Noema: As we have written often in Noema, the value created by intelligent machines is flowing mostly to those tech titans who “own the robots” and to the top 10% who own 93% of all equities. Meanwhile, the value of labor — and its bargaining power to reap a piece of the…
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Nathan Gardels at Noema: As we have written often in Noema, the value created by intelligent machines is flowing mostly to those tech titans who “own the robots” and to the top 10% who own 93% of all equities.
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Jun 11, 14:59
Dua Lipa & Kae Tempest On Change, Survival & Forgiveness
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Jun 11, 13:54
Fritz Eichenberg’s Art of Human Connection
Jessica George at JSTOR Daily: In Fritz Eichenberg’s Heathcliff Under the Tree (1943), Emily Brontë’s antihero leans against a broad tree and faces the sky. His long coat cuts against an opposite volley of wind, animated with an “inner life” by “the touch of the graver.” Described by the artist as a “dialogue” among human and natural elements, the…
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Fritz Eichenberg’s Art of Human Connection. Jessica George at JSTOR Daily: In Fritz Eichenberg’s Heathcliff Under the Tree (1943), Emily Brontë’s antihero leans against a broad tree and faces the sky. His long coat cuts against an opposite volley of wind, animated with an “inner life” by “the touch of the graver.
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Jessica George at JSTOR Daily: In Fritz Eichenberg’s Heathcliff Under the Tree (1943), Emily Brontë’s antihero leans against a broad tree and faces the sky.
Aeon
Jun 11, 10:01
Don’t touch the art
Yoko Ono’s painting invites us to step on it, challenging both galleries and audiences. Why is touch transgressive? - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
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Aeon
Jun 11, 10:00
The no-human future
Terrorists and tech bros alike view accelerationism as a revolutionary weapon. Nick Land glimpsed something much darker - by Vincent Lê Read on Aeon
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The no-human future. Terrorists and tech bros alike view accelerationism as a revolutionary weapon. Nick Land glimpsed something much darker - by Vincent Lê Read on Aeon
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Terrorists and tech bros alike view accelerationism as a revolutionary weapon.
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Jun 10, 18:45
Panel of experts explains how job seekers should prepare for the future of work
From the New York Times: The Participants Daron Acemoglu, economist at M.I.T. and a Nobel laureate Dean Ball, formerly an adviser on A.I. and emerging technology for the Trump administration, now a senior fellow at the Foundation for American Innovation Ethan Mollick, professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and the author of “Co-Intelligence” and…
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Panel of experts explains how job seekers should prepare for the future of work. and a Nobel laureate Dean Ball, formerly an adviser on A.I. and emerging technology for the Trump administration, now a senior fellow at the Foundation for American Innovation Ethan Mollick, professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and the author of “Co-Intelligence” and…
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From the New York Times: The Participants Daron Acemoglu, economist at M.I.T.
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Jun 10, 16:45
Adam Brown: AGI & the Future of Physics
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Jun 10, 14:33
Poetry and the Turning World: Work
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Jun 10, 13:29
Francine Prose on Charles Dickens and Hans Christian Andersen
Francine Prose at Lapham’s Quarterly: “Everyone expected this comet to hit and obliterate England in 1857,” says Francine Prose in this episode of The World in Time. “So a lot of the novel is about the pressure from this belief or non-belief that the comet is going to hit. And of course, Dickens, who’s sort of scientifically…
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Francine Prose at Lapham’s Quarterly: “Everyone expected this comet to hit and obliterate England in 1857,” says Francine Prose in this episode of The World in Time. “So a lot of the novel is about the pressure from this belief or non-belief that the comet is going to hit.
3quarksdaily
Jun 10, 12:30
Is the peptide craze backed by science?
Cassandra Willyard in Nature: Peptides have become the latest cure-all trend on social media — a way to eliminate wrinkles, build lean muscle, boost metabolism, clear brain fog, heal torn ligaments and more. Influencers rave about their peptide-fuelled glow-ups on TikTok. Bodybuilders exchange information about their favourite combinations at the gym. US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy…
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Is the peptide craze backed by science?. Influencers rave about their peptide-fuelled glow-ups on TikTok. US health secretary Robert F.
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Cassandra Willyard in Nature: Peptides have become the latest cure-all trend on social media — a way to eliminate wrinkles, build lean muscle, boost metabolism, clear brain fog, heal torn ligaments and more.
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Jun 10, 12:24
Harvard Student Steals Spotlight, Mocks Hegseth, US Prez At Event
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Jun 9, 18:45
Dave Eggers’s Long Game Pays Off
Leanne Ogasawara at the Pittsburgh Review of Books: One of the most anticipated books of the year, Dave Eggers’ new novel Contrapposto was twenty years in the making and draws on the author’s own background as a trained visual artist before he turned primarily toward writing. When Cricket meets Olympia, he is only nine years old. The…
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Leanne Ogasawara at the Pittsburgh Review of Books: One of the most anticipated books of the year, Dave Eggers’ new novel Contrapposto was twenty years in the making and draws on the author’s own background as a trained visual artist before he turned primarily toward writing. When Cricket meets Olympia, he is only nine years old. The…
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Leanne Ogasawara at the Pittsburgh Review of Books: One of the most anticipated books of the year, Dave Eggers’ new novel Contrapposto was twenty years in the making and draws on the author’s own background as a trained visual artist before he turned primarily toward writing.
3quarksdaily
Jun 9, 17:45
Steve Stewart-Williams on Sex Differences and Human Nature
Yascha Mounk at his own website: Yascha Mounk: Last time we spoke, you gave a really great introduction to how to think about the influence of evolution on human nature and human psychology. You are now out with a book that speaks more specifically about sex differences and how those are rooted in biology. Let’s go…
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Steve Stewart-Williams on Sex Differences and Human Nature. Yascha Mounk at his own website: Yascha Mounk: Last time we spoke, you gave a really great introduction to how to think about the influence of evolution on human nature and human psychology. You are now out with a book that speaks more specifically about sex differences and how those are rooted in biology.
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Yascha Mounk at his own website: Yascha Mounk: Last time we spoke, you gave a really great introduction to how to think about the influence of evolution on human nature and human psychology.
3quarksdaily
Jun 9, 16:45
How warehouses work and “The Taco Turn”
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Jun 9, 15:45
Why Conflict Feels Constant Now
John Last at Noema: Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about the possible death and dismemberment of my country. Time and again, I scan the news and hear rumblings of war. Threats of annexation and domination. Glib guides on the political benefits of erasing my country from the map. Grim military models projecting our army’s easy defeat in hypothetical invasion…
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Why Conflict Feels Constant Now. Time and again, I scan the news and hear rumblings of war. Threats of annexation and domination. Grim military models projecting our army’s easy defeat in hypothetical invasion…
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John Last at Noema: Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about the possible death and dismemberment of my country.
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Jun 9, 14:19
Compression is Intelligence
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Jun 9, 12:14
Stories of Mending the Broken Brain
A J Lees at Literary Review: When I became a doctor in the late 1960s, patients admitted with a stroke were nursed out of sight in quiet side cubicles, removed from the bustle of the open wards. On bedside visits we encouraged them to move their lifeless limbs, to speak and to work hard with…
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Stories of Mending the Broken Brain. A J Lees at Literary Review: When I became a doctor in the late 1960s, patients admitted with a stroke were nursed out of sight in quiet side cubicles, removed from the bustle of the open wards. On bedside visits we encouraged them to move their lifeless limbs, to speak and to work hard with…
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A J Lees at Literary Review: When I became a doctor in the late 1960s, patients admitted with a stroke were nursed out of sight in quiet side cubicles, removed from the bustle of the open wards.
3quarksdaily
Jun 9, 11:40
Stonewall’s Legacy Can’t Be Taken for Granted
From Time Magazine: Each year since 1988, the National Trust for Historic Preservation has issued its list of America’s most endangered historic places, spotlighting sites at risk from neglect, climate change, and development. This year, Stonewall National Monument in New York City is among them. The National Trust’s endangered list is often associated with crumbling facades or…
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Stonewall’s Legacy Can’t Be Taken for Granted. This year, Stonewall National Monument in New York City is among them. The National Trust’s endangered list is often associated with crumbling facades or…
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From Time Magazine: Each year since 1988, the National Trust for Historic Preservation has issued its list of America’s most endangered historic places, spotlighting sites at risk from neglect, climate change, and development.
Aeon
Jun 9, 10:00
The joy of autism
Yes, we’re in a world of our own: for the autistic mind, it’s a place of intense curiosity, deep focus and sensory delight - by Sarah Hendrickx Read on Aeon
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Yes, we’re in a world of our own: for the autistic mind, it’s a place of intense curiosity, deep focus and sensory delight - by Sarah Hendrickx Read on Aeon
3quarksdaily
Jun 9, 09:00
AI and the Tacit Dimension of Dangerous Knowledge
by Ashutosh Jogalekar In 1966, Michael Polanyi began his book The Tacit Dimension with a sentence that every experimental scientist understands: “we can know more than we can tell.” Polanyi had been a chemist before he became a philosopher. He knew the difference between the written account of an experiment and the experience of doing…
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by Ashutosh Jogalekar In 1966, Michael Polanyi began his book The Tacit Dimension with a sentence that every experimental scientist understands: “we can know more than we can tell.” Polanyi had been a chemist before he became a philosopher. He knew the difference between the written account of an experiment and the experience of doing…
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by Ashutosh Jogalekar In 1966, Michael Polanyi began his book The Tacit Dimension with a sentence that every experimental scientist understands: “we can know more than we can tell.” Polanyi had been a chemist before he became a philosopher.
Dailynous
Jun 9, 06:15
Light and Shade in The Classroom (guest post)
Begin typing your search above and press return to search. Press Esc to cancel. “I’m teaching care for their own particular point of view, a disdain for all things ‘vibes’ that aren’t carefully thoug…
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Light and Shade in The Classroom (guest post). In the following guest post, he pushes back against a kind of approach to teaching philosophy offered up by one of his colleagues, Daniel Story , in a post here back in February .
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Dailynous
Jun 9, 05:31
Summer 2026
Summer is here, and with it, as you may have noticed, a more relaxed pace at Daily Nous. There will be somewhat fewer news stories and more guest posts. Travel and other commitments may mean less time for comment moderation, which may mean that comments on some posts are closed, or that comments sometimes take more time to appear than usual. Thanks for your patience. I hope your summer is off to a good start. The post Summer 2026 first appeared on Daily Nous .
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3quarksdaily
Jun 8, 18:45
The form known as ekphrasis — or poetry about art — has taken a turn toward the individual
Elisa Gabbert at the New York Times: To write about art might encourage some removal from the self, but nothing requires it. And so this accident of history has caused me to associate I-lessness with ekphrasis: a mode that elides the I as if some universal eye were speaking out. The invisible, anonymous describer of museum placards. By…
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The form known as ekphrasis — or poetry about art — has taken a turn toward the individual. And so this accident of history has caused me to associate I-lessness with ekphrasis: a mode that elides the I as if some universal eye were speaking out. The invisible, anonymous describer of museum placards.
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Elisa Gabbert at the New York Times: To write about art might encourage some removal from the self, but nothing requires it.
3quarksdaily
Jun 8, 17:45
When AI Builds Itself
From Anthropic: For most of AI’s history, humans drove every step in its development cycle. But at Anthropic, we are delegating a growing share of AI development to AI systems themselves, which is speeding up our work. Taken far enough, and given enough compute, that trend points to an AI system capable of fully autonomously…
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When AI Builds Itself. But at Anthropic, we are delegating a growing share of AI development to AI systems themselves, which is speeding up our work. Taken far enough, and given enough compute, that trend points to an AI system capable of fully autonomously…
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From Anthropic: For most of AI’s history, humans drove every step in its development cycle.
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Jun 8, 16:45
Richard Dawkins at 85: Genes, God, and conversations with Claude
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Jun 8, 15:56
Gods at the Gate of Modernity—Religious Arts in Colonial Calcutta
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Jun 8, 15:45
On the Boghossian Report: Have humanistic disciplines allowed background ideological values to distort the objective pursuit of knowledge?
Matt Lutz at Humean Report: A few hours ago, something of a bomb got dropped on the humanities. A new report was commissioned by the Chancellors of Vanderbilt University and Washington University last year, with the goal of assessing the merit of various accusations that have been leveled at the academic humanities in recent years. The mission:…
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On the Boghossian Report: Have humanistic disciplines allowed background ideological values to distort the objective pursuit of knowledge?. Matt Lutz at Humean Report: A few hours ago, something of a bomb got dropped on the humanities.
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Matt Lutz at Humean Report: A few hours ago, something of a bomb got dropped on the humanities.
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Jun 8, 14:52
Gregory of Nyssa, On the Hexaemeron
Charlotte Köckert at Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews: Benjamin Gleede situates Gregory’s concept of simultaneous creation within the Christian tradition and discusses how Gregory goes beyond his predecessors: unlike Philo of Alexandria and Origen, Gregory develops an “evolutionary conception of the creation sequence” (103) by combining the concept of simultaneous creation with the idea of “progressive…
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Charlotte Köckert at Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews: Benjamin Gleede situates Gregory’s concept of simultaneous creation within the Christian tradition and discusses how Gregory goes beyond his predecessors: unlike Philo of Alexandria and Origen, Gregory develops an “evolutionary conception of the creation sequence” (103) by combining the concept of simultaneous creation with the idea of “progressive…
Dailynous
Jun 8, 13:02
Subordinating the Humanities’ Scholarly Enterprise to Political Goals
“In our view there are several worrying tendencies in contemporary academic scholarship in the humanities and social sciences, all of which reflect, to varying degrees, a distinctive form of politicization in which the scholarly enterprise is taken to be subordinate to, or in the service of, political (social or moral) goals beyond the advancement of knowledge and understanding.” That is from a recently released “Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences.” The report is by a group led by Paul Boghossian (NYU), who was asked to produce the report by Daniel Diermeier, Chancellor of Vanderbilt University, and Andrew D. Martin, Chancellor of Washington yUniversity. The group includes ten scholars, including three other philosophers: Kwame Anthony Appiah (NYU), Kit Fine (NYU), and Gideon Rosen (Princeton). The report is in response to complaints about politicization of scholarship in the humanities. But what, exactly, is the complaint? The authors first distinguish the problem they think is worth considering from various non-problems: The problem is not that scholars in these areas are significantly more liberal or progressive than the general public… The problem is not that many scholars are politically active, or that they see their scholarly work as relevant to their activism… The problem is not that political considerations have broadened the focus of scholarship away from the Western high art canon and other historically central topics towards work by and about members of marginalized groups — women, members of racial and ethnic minorities, and so on… The problem is not that scholarship in these areas is often critical or oppositional, aiming to debunk or correct the presuppositions of previous scholarship and the wider set of established cultural norms that scholarship reflects. Rather, the problem, they say, has to do with prioritizing politics over scholarship. They write: In rare cases, individual scholars and groups of scholars explicitly repudiate the idea that scholarship aims at knowledge and understanding in favor of an overtly and exclusively political conception of the enterprise… The most straightforward form of distortion arises when otherwise traditional scholarship is constrained by disciplinary norms to yield results that have been determined in advance to be required by a political or social project. If scholars committed.. The post Subordinating the Humanities’ Scholarly Enterprise to Political Goals first appeared on Daily Nous .
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Subordinating the Humanities’ Scholarly Enterprise to Political Goals. The report is in response to complaints about politicization of scholarship in the humanities. The post Subordinating the Humanities’ Scholarly Enterprise to Political Goals first appeared on Daily Nous .
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Rather, the problem, they say, has to do with prioritizing politics over scholarship.
3quarksdaily
Jun 8, 12:07
The flow of time is ours to disrupt: Walter Benjamin and the sculpting of time
Timotheus Vermeulen in iai: Sometime between 1914 and 1915, the German philosopher and cultural critic Walter Benjamin wrote an essay on two poems by the Romantic poet and misunderstood visionary Friedrich Hölderlin. It is a peculiar and little-known piece of writing. By the author’s own account, it should be a straightforward exercise in close reading. But…
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The flow of time is ours to disrupt: Walter Benjamin and the sculpting of time. It is a peculiar and little-known piece of writing. By the author’s own account, it should be a straightforward exercise in close reading.
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Timotheus Vermeulen in iai: Sometime between 1914 and 1915, the German philosopher and cultural critic Walter Benjamin wrote an essay on two poems by the Romantic poet and misunderstood visionary Friedrich Hölderlin.
3quarksdaily
Jun 8, 11:24
First precise genome editing of human embryos triggers praise and alarm
From Nature: Researchers say they have used a precise genome-editing technique called base editing to alter the genome of human embryos for the first time. The announcement has prompted excitement and caution among scientists and bioethicists. Many say the work is an impressive step towards scientists being able to fix disease-causing mutations in embryos. But others worry the…
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First precise genome editing of human embryos triggers praise and alarm. The announcement has prompted excitement and caution among scientists and bioethicists. Many say the work is an impressive step towards scientists being able to fix disease-causing mutations in embryos.
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From Nature: Researchers say they have used a precise genome-editing technique called base editing to alter the genome of human embryos for the first time.
Aeon
Jun 8, 10:01
The steam engine
The science behind the revolutionary engine that became the bedrock of global energy – born of a curiosity from 130 BCE - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
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The science behind the revolutionary engine that became the bedrock of global energy – born of a curiosity from 130 BCE - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Aeon
Jun 8, 10:00
What shape is the Earth?
The extraordinary challenge of determining the true shape of Earth reveals the deep value of measurement to scientific progress - by Miguel Ohnesorge Read on Aeon
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The extraordinary challenge of determining the true shape of Earth reveals the deep value of measurement to scientific progress - by Miguel Ohnesorge Read on Aeon
3quarksdaily
Jun 8, 09:00
Has AI Found Its Moat?
by Dwight Furrow A moat is what protects a business from competition. The term comes from Warren Buffett’s image of a castle surrounded by water. The castle is the business; the moat is whatever prevents rivals from storming the walls. A moat might be a famous brand, a patent, a network effect, control over scarce…
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Has AI Found Its Moat?. The castle is the business; the moat is whatever prevents rivals from storming the walls. A moat might be a famous brand, a patent, a network effect, control over scarce…
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by Dwight Furrow A moat is what protects a business from competition.
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Jun 7, 17:26
Staying Power
Ho-fung Hung in Sidecar: Every time the global economy plunges into turmoil, talk of the coming end of dollar hegemony resurfaces. In March 1978 – in the wake of the collapse of the Bretton Woods system and amid stagflation in the United States – the New York Times published an op-ed by Soviet economist Stanislav M. Menshikov, ‘A…
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Ho-fung Hung in Sidecar: Every time the global economy plunges into turmoil, talk of the coming end of dollar hegemony resurfaces. In March 1978 – in the wake of the collapse of the Bretton Woods system and amid stagflation in the United States – the New York Times published an op-ed by Soviet economist Stanislav M.
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Ho-fung Hung in Sidecar: Every time the global economy plunges into turmoil, talk of the coming end of dollar hegemony resurfaces.
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Jun 7, 13:35
Marjane Satrapi (1969 – 2026) Comic Book Author and Filmmaker
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Jun 7, 13:29
A Paul Klee Angel Finally Lands in New York
Deborah Solomon in The New York Times: It is not every day that an angel flies to New York. But Paul Klee’s “Angelus Novus” — a small, fragile drawing of a straggly angel that survived the ordeals of Nazism to become an emblem of heroic resilience — has just arrived from Jerusalem, according to James S.…
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A Paul Klee Angel Finally Lands in New York. Deborah Solomon in The New York Times: It is not every day that an angel flies to New York. But Paul Klee’s “Angelus Novus” — a small, fragile drawing of a straggly angel that survived the ordeals of Nazism to become an emblem of heroic resilience — has just arrived from Jerusalem, according to James S.…
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Deborah Solomon in The New York Times: It is not every day that an angel flies to New York.
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Jun 7, 12:43
‘Indian, African, American, Muslim, Hindu’: Zohran Mamdani’s Identity Speech
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Jun 7, 12:32
Limmie Pulliam (1976 – 2026) Opera Singer
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Jun 7, 11:31
Alan Saret (1944 – 2026) Sculptor
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Jun 7, 09:00
The Mind of Gavrilo Princip
by Anton Cebalo In the past few months, I have been reading about the personalities present in Young Bosnia for a forthcoming essay. The group was not formalized by any means, made up of decentralized cells of 3-5 people, and a scattered array of political influences. But in Gavrilo Princip—its most famous member and who…
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The Mind of Gavrilo Princip. The group was not formalized by any means, made up of decentralized cells of 3-5 people, and a scattered array of political influences. But in Gavrilo Princip—its most famous member and who…
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by Anton Cebalo In the past few months, I have been reading about the personalities present in Young Bosnia for a forthcoming essay.
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Jun 5, 17:45
Richard Feynman solved the ‘restaurant dilemma’ 50 years ago — now a study confirms his mathematics
Davide Castelvecchi at Nature: In a scene that could have easily featured in an episode of the US television sitcom The Big Bang Theory, the late US physicist Richard Feynman once turned a visit to a Thai restaurant he often dined at into a mathematical riddle: how adventurous should we be in trying new dishes? Feynman promptly…
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Davide Castelvecchi at Nature: In a scene that could have easily featured in an episode of the US television sitcom The Big Bang Theory, the late US physicist Richard Feynman once turned a visit to a Thai restaurant he often dined at into a mathematical riddle: how adventurous should we be in trying new dishes?
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Jun 5, 16:45
How Google Maps actually works
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Jun 5, 15:45
Welcome to the Postmodern Presidency
Damon Linker at Persuasion: In striving to make sense of the mind-warping incoherence, corruption, and self-destructiveness of the second Trump administration, my mind often wanders back to my time in college and graduate school during the 1990s. Back then, perhaps the most pressing intellectual question we pondered about the present was whether we were on…
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Damon Linker at Persuasion: In striving to make sense of the mind-warping incoherence, corruption, and self-destructiveness of the second Trump administration, my mind often wanders back to my time in college and graduate school during the 1990s. Back then, perhaps the most pressing intellectual question we pondered about the present was whether we were on…
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Damon Linker at Persuasion: In striving to make sense of the mind-warping incoherence, corruption, and self-destructiveness of the second Trump administration, my mind often wanders back to my time in college and graduate school during the 1990s.
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Jun 5, 15:11
The Time Loop Book Series You Should Be Reading
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Jun 5, 14:08
Solvej Balle’s Seven-Volume Time Loop
Christine Smallwood at Bookforum: ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME is a series of seven novels by the Danish writer Solvej Balle that imagines a world in which one November day repeats indefinitely. Six volumes have so far been published in Denmark; in the United States, Volume IV is the newest to be available, in a translation…
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Solvej Balle’s Seven-Volume Time Loop. Christine Smallwood at Bookforum: ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME is a series of seven novels by the Danish writer Solvej Balle that imagines a world in which one November day repeats indefinitely. Six volumes have so far been published in Denmark; in the United States, Volume IV is the newest to be available, in a translation…
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Christine Smallwood at Bookforum: ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME is a series of seven novels by the Danish writer Solvej Balle that imagines a world in which one November day repeats indefinitely.
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Jun 5, 13:24
Investigating the rise of early-onset cancer
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Jun 5, 13:19
AI Can Now Design and Run Thousands of Experiments Without Human Hands
Stephan Turner in Singularity Hub: AI company OpenAI and biotech company Ginkgo Bioworks announced in February 2026 that OpenAI’s flagship model GPT-5 had autonomously designed and run 36,000 biological experiments. It did this through a robotic cloud laboratory, a facility where automated equipment controlled remotely by computers carries out experiments. The AI model proposed study designs, and robots carried…
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AI Can Now Design and Run Thousands of Experiments Without Human Hands. It did this through a robotic cloud laboratory, a facility where automated equipment controlled remotely by computers carries out experiments. The AI model proposed study designs, and robots carried…
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Stephan Turner in Singularity Hub: AI company OpenAI and biotech company Ginkgo Bioworks announced in February 2026 that OpenAI’s flagship model GPT-5 had autonomously designed and run 36,000 biological experiments.
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Jun 5, 13:08
On Jack Spicer
Ann Vickery at the Sydney Review of Books: These letters are emblematic of the paradox that is Jack Spicer: the acerbic, deliberately un-PC misanthrope and the imaginative romantic. What they don’t reveal is Spicer the poet, who on his deathbed at the age of forty famously said to fellow poet Robin Blaser: ‘My vocabulary did…
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On Jack Spicer. Ann Vickery at the Sydney Review of Books: These letters are emblematic of the paradox that is Jack Spicer: the acerbic, deliberately un-PC misanthrope and the imaginative romantic. What they don’t reveal is Spicer the poet, who on his deathbed at the age of forty famously said to fellow poet Robin Blaser: ‘My vocabulary did…
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Ann Vickery at the Sydney Review of Books: These letters are emblematic of the paradox that is Jack Spicer: the acerbic, deliberately un-PC misanthrope and the imaginative romantic.
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Jun 4, 18:45
Soft eyes, deep listening, and other ways to extend human perception
Jenny Odell at Longreads: A few months ago, I was on a hike with my friend Tom, who is in his 70s and has lived in the same small town in the Santa Cruz Mountains for 50 years. Tom and I walked single-file down a narrow set of switchbacks through a canyon carved by the…
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Soft eyes, deep listening, and other ways to extend human perception. Jenny Odell at Longreads: A few months ago, I was on a hike with my friend Tom, who is in his 70s and has lived in the same small town in the Santa Cruz Mountains for 50 years. Tom and I walked single-file down a narrow set of switchbacks through a canyon carved by the…
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Jenny Odell at Longreads: A few months ago, I was on a hike with my friend Tom, who is in his 70s and has lived in the same small town in the Santa Cruz Mountains for 50 years.
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Jun 4, 16:45
A Conversation with Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind
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Jun 4, 14:51
A Treasure Box Buried In Sand
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Jun 4, 13:42
The Shadow of Edward Gibbon and Adam Smith
Paul Seabright at the Dublin Review of Books: The year 1776, whose quarter-millennium we mark this year, was a good vintage for documents that would last. Almost four months before the publication on July 4th of The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America (sic), the publishers William Strahan and Thomas Cadell in the Strand published,…
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Paul Seabright at the Dublin Review of Books: The year 1776, whose quarter-millennium we mark this year, was a good vintage for documents that would last. Almost four months before the publication on July 4th of The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America (sic), the publishers William Strahan and Thomas Cadell in the Strand published,…
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Paul Seabright at the Dublin Review of Books: The year 1776, whose quarter-millennium we mark this year, was a good vintage for documents that would last.
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Jun 4, 13:39
How Antihumanism Turned on Its Authors
Geoff Shullenberger in The Hedgehog Review: Ever since physicist Alan Sokal published a hoax paper in the journal Social Text in 1996 to skewer the “fashionable sectors of the American academic left,” a mini-industry of polemicists has dedicated itself to exposing the ideological excesses and intellectual bizarreries of humanities scholarship. In 2018, the provocateurs James Lindsay, Peter Boghossian, and…
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Geoff Shullenberger in The Hedgehog Review: Ever since physicist Alan Sokal published a hoax paper in the journal Social Text in 1996 to skewer the “fashionable sectors of the American academic left,” a mini-industry of polemicists has dedicated itself to exposing the ideological excesses and intellectual bizarreries of humanities scholarship.
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Jun 4, 12:54
Risk Aversion in Science Stifles Innovation
C. Brandon Ogbunu in Undark Magazine: Last month, I was fortunate to participate in an event hosted by Open to Debate, a one-hour weekly program broadcast on National Public Radio stations across the country, and the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University. The participants considered the question: “Is the scientific enterprise too risk-averse?” The preparation I did…
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Brandon Ogbunu in Undark Magazine: Last month, I was fortunate to participate in an event hosted by Open to Debate, a one-hour weekly program broadcast on National Public Radio stations across the country, and the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University. The participants considered the question: “Is the scientific enterprise too risk-averse?” The preparation I did…
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Brandon Ogbunu in Undark Magazine: Last month, I was fortunate to participate in an event hosted by Open to Debate, a one-hour weekly program broadcast on National Public Radio stations across the country, and the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University.
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Jun 4, 12:41
The Techno-Optimists
Nicholas Low at The Point: In 2023, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen released a document called “The Techno-Optimist Manifesto,” in which he proclaimed himself a de facto spokesman of the “effective accelerationist” movement. E/acc, as it is known in online spheres, is billed as a rejoinder to effective altruism and has gained traction in recent years…
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The Techno-Optimists. Nicholas Low at The Point: In 2023, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen released a document called “The Techno-Optimist Manifesto,” in which he proclaimed himself a de facto spokesman of the “effective accelerationist” movement. E/acc, as it is known in online spheres, is billed as a rejoinder to effective altruism and has gained traction in recent years…
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Nicholas Low at The Point: In 2023, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen released a document called “The Techno-Optimist Manifesto,” in which he proclaimed himself a de facto spokesman of the “effective accelerationist” movement.
3quarksdaily
Jun 4, 10:00
Elizabeth Bishop and the Art of Talking Like a Human Being
by Scott Samuelson I’ve been interviewed a few times for radio shows and podcasts. In the runup to the interviews, I used to fantasize about bubbling up with witty and insightful points in shapely speech paragraphs of grammatically flawless sentences. Sometimes (I’m embarrassed to admit) I’d even write out answers to potential questions and try…
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Elizabeth Bishop and the Art of Talking Like a Human Being. In the runup to the interviews, I used to fantasize about bubbling up with witty and insightful points in shapely speech paragraphs of grammatically flawless sentences. Sometimes (I’m embarrassed to admit) I’d even write out answers to potential questions and try…
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by Scott Samuelson I’ve been interviewed a few times for radio shows and podcasts.
Dailynous
Jun 4, 05:59
Virginia Held (1929-2026)
Virginia Held, professor emerita of philosophy at the City University of New York and an influential figure in ethics and social and political philosophy, has died. Professor Held is especially well known for her work on the ethics of care and feminist philosophy. She is the author of several books, including The Public Interest and Individual Interests (1970), Rights and Goods: Justifying Social Action (1989), Feminist Morality: Transforming Culture, Society, and Politics (2005), The Ethics of Care: Personal, Political, and Global (2006), and How Terrorism is Wrong: Morality and Political Violence (2008). You can learn more about her writings here. Professor Held was on the faculty at Hunter College, City University of New York from 1965 to 2001. She received her PhD from Columbia University and her BA from Barnard College. Virginia Held died on May 26, 2026. The post Virginia Held (1929-2026) first appeared on Daily Nous .
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Virginia Held (1929-2026). Professor Held is especially well known for her work on the ethics of care and feminist philosophy. The post Virginia Held (1929-2026) first appeared on Daily Nous .
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Virginia Held, professor emerita of philosophy at the City University of New York and an influential figure in ethics and social and political philosophy, has died.
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Jun 3, 17:45
The Average Guys Outsmarting Wall Street on Prediction Markets
Adam Iscoe at the New York Times: The joke among young men these days is that everybody’s got a little money riding on something: football games, foreign elections, the odds of a U.S. military strike. Except it’s not really a joke. I recently made $3.79 guessing when the United States would attack Tehran. I pocketed…
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The Average Guys Outsmarting Wall Street on Prediction Markets. Except it’s not really a joke. I recently made $3.79 guessing when the United States would attack Tehran.
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Adam Iscoe at the New York Times: The joke among young men these days is that everybody’s got a little money riding on something: football games, foreign elections, the odds of a U.S.
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Jun 3, 16:45
Conan O’Brien’s 2026 Harvard Commencement Address
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Jun 3, 15:45
Congresswoman Lori Trahan: Congress must act now on AI
Lori Trahan at the Commonwealth Beacon: Earlier this year, Anthropic unveiled Mythos, an AI model capable of identifying thousands of vulnerabilities across every major operating system and web browser. It was deemed too dangerous for public release, but that has not stopped competitors from racing to catch up, or our adversaries from trying to access it.…
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Lori Trahan at the Commonwealth Beacon: Earlier this year, Anthropic unveiled Mythos, an AI model capable of identifying thousands of vulnerabilities across every major operating system and web browser. It was deemed too dangerous for public release, but that has not stopped competitors from racing to catch up, or our adversaries from trying to access it.…
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Lori Trahan at the Commonwealth Beacon: Earlier this year, Anthropic unveiled Mythos, an AI model capable of identifying thousands of vulnerabilities across every major operating system and web browser.
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Jun 3, 12:36
Rebel Cell: Cancer, Evolution and the Science of Life
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Jun 3, 05:09
AI in the Philosophy Job Market (guest post)
Begin typing your search above and press return to search. Press Esc to cancel. A few weeks ago, I was contacted by a reporter working on a story about the extent to which AI, as a topic of research…
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AI in the Philosophy Job Market (guest post). AI is relatively new and highly socially significant, and so work on philosophy of AI is bound to get attention, and its novelty means it is likely to be more memorable when thinking about the state of philosophy more generally. But what would be more useful were hard numbers related to how AI is shaping the academic job market.
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People should be cautious when inferring how much philosophy of AI work is actually happening from how much philosophy of AI work they’re hearing about.
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Jun 2, 18:45
Commas, Common Sense and Justice
John McWhorter at the New York Times: If you are of a certain age, notice how you are likely using exclamation points more lately. It has become a mark of agreeability in a way that would mystify a time traveler from as recently as a couple decades ago. “See you in a bit!” “I looked…
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Commas, Common Sense and Justice. It has become a mark of agreeability in a way that would mystify a time traveler from as recently as a couple decades ago. “See you in a bit!” “I looked…
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John McWhorter at the New York Times: If you are of a certain age, notice how you are likely using exclamation points more lately.
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Jun 2, 17:45
How AIs See Our World
Chenoe Hart at Noema: Human-only interfaces are already increasingly being used by both people and computers. But today’s interfaces are generally designed to assume a user in analog physical space is operating them. Skeuomorphic design reinforces this by representing a computer’s internal functions via physical metaphors. We access files via folders located on a desktop. Skeuomorphic graphics often proliferate during…
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How AIs See Our World. Skeuomorphic design reinforces this by representing a computer’s internal functions via physical metaphors. Skeuomorphic graphics often proliferate during…
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Chenoe Hart at Noema: Human-only interfaces are already increasingly being used by both people and computers.
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Jun 2, 16:45
Kathryn Paige Harden on How Genetics Shapes Human Behavior
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Jun 2, 13:55
What Evolutionary Role Does Consciousness Play?
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Jun 2, 11:51
By September, Nearly a Third of Americans Will Live in States With Legal Aid in Dying
Paula Span in The New York Times: Jules Netherland traveled from her home in the Bronx to the New York State Capitol in Albany several times in the past few years, hoping to persuade the Legislature to pass a medical aid in dying bill, allowing terminally ill patients to end their lives with a lethal prescription. She…
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Paula Span in The New York Times: Jules Netherland traveled from her home in the Bronx to the New York State Capitol in Albany several times in the past few years, hoping to persuade the Legislature to pass a medical aid in dying bill, allowing terminally ill patients to end their lives with a lethal prescription. She…
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Jun 2, 11:48
Tuesday Poem
Some Criticism, Some Theory, ……….Some Questions He said, “Too much plot, too little dancing.” Plot would have us believe the world is understandable. Not “The King died, then the Queen, ” but “The King died and the Queen died of grief.” ……………….. We want cause to break onto the future like a great wave. ………………..…
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Some Criticism, Some Theory, ……….Some Questions He said, “Too much plot, too little dancing.” Plot would have us believe the world is understandable. Not “The King died, then the Queen, ” but “The King died and the Queen died of grief.” ……………….. We want cause to break onto the future like a great wave.
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Not “The King died, then the Queen, ” but “The King died and the Queen died of grief.” ………………..
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Jun 2, 11:44
Feynman solved ‘restaurant dilemma’ 50 years ago — now a study confirms his mathematics
Davide Castelvecchi in Nature: In a scene that could have easily featured in an episode of the US television sitcom The Big Bang Theory, the late US physicist Richard Feynman once turned a visit to a Thai restaurant he often dined at into a mathematical riddle: how adventurous should we be in trying new dishes? Feynman promptly solved…
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Davide Castelvecchi in Nature: In a scene that could have easily featured in an episode of the US television sitcom The Big Bang Theory, the late US physicist Richard Feynman once turned a visit to a Thai restaurant he often dined at into a mathematical riddle: how adventurous should we be in trying new dishes?
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Jun 2, 10:00
Quantum Physics in a Wheel
by Thomas Fernandes A common sensational science fact that used to be mentioned is that matter is mostly empty space. Crazy right?! It comes from a real observation that at the atomic level, there are only a few very tiny electrons to occupy the vast distance between nuclei, leaving most of the space technically empty.…
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Quantum Physics in a Wheel. by Thomas Fernandes A common sensational science fact that used to be mentioned is that matter is mostly empty space. It comes from a real observation that at the atomic level, there are only a few very tiny electrons to occupy the vast distance between nuclei, leaving most of the space technically empty.…
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by Thomas Fernandes A common sensational science fact that used to be mentioned is that matter is mostly empty space.
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Jun 2, 08:00
Perceptions
Sughra Raza. Found Playground Art, Essex Junction, VT. May, 2026. Digital photograph. Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by donating now.
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Jun 2, 06:29
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update
Begin typing your search above and press return to search. Press Esc to cancel. This is the weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, n…
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Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update. Begin typing your search above and press return to search. * The Book Reviews section contains links to reviews of books by philosophers in non-academic media as well as in open-access reviews published in academic journals.
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This is the weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, new podcast episodes, recently published open access philosophy books, and more.
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Jun 1, 20:37
Biggest Mysteries in Physics
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Jun 1, 17:45
Anthropic has been consulting theologians and ethicists on Claude’s behavior, raising questions about who gets to shape a chatbot’s values
Chris Stokel-Walker at Scientific American: In late March around 15 religious thinkers met with the artificial intelligence company Anthropic to discuss one of the strangest and most consequential questions now facing the AI industry: How do you teach a chatbot to be good? The invitations to these meetings had arrived in different ways. Greg Cootsona’s came via…
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Anthropic has been consulting theologians and ethicists on Claude’s behavior, raising questions about who gets to shape a chatbot’s values. The invitations to these meetings had arrived in different ways. Greg Cootsona’s came via…
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Chris Stokel-Walker at Scientific American: In late March around 15 religious thinkers met with the artificial intelligence company Anthropic to discuss one of the strangest and most consequential questions now facing the AI industry: How do you teach a chatbot to be good?
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Jun 1, 16:45
Could a pill prevent the world’s deadliest cancer?
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Jun 1, 15:45
The UN’s special rapporteurs are experts charged with a singular mandate: to monitor the world’s worst human rights abuses
Alvina Hoffmann at Aeon: On 9 July 2025, the government of the United States imposed sanctions on Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on Palestine. Earlier in the spring, Albanese had written confidential letters to US companies, warning that she would name them in her forthcoming UN report for contributing to gross violations of human rights in…
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The UN’s special rapporteurs are experts charged with a singular mandate: to monitor the world’s worst human rights abuses. Alvina Hoffmann at Aeon: On 9 July 2025, the government of the United States imposed sanctions on Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on Palestine.
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Alvina Hoffmann at Aeon: On 9 July 2025, the government of the United States imposed sanctions on Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on Palestine.
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Jun 1, 12:00
3 Quarks Daily Is Looking For New Columnists
Dear Reader, Here’s your chance to say what you want to the large number of highly educated readers that make up 3QD’s international audience. Several of our regular columnists have had to cut back or even completely quit their columns for 3QD because of other personal and professional commitments and so we are looking for…
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3 Quarks Daily Is Looking For New Columnists. Dear Reader, Here’s your chance to say what you want to the large number of highly educated readers that make up 3QD’s international audience. Several of our regular columnists have had to cut back or even completely quit their columns for 3QD because of other personal and professional commitments and so we are looking for…
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Jun 1, 11:56
These Seven AI Rings Translate Sign Language in Real Time
Shelly Fan in Singularity Hub: At the turn of the 20th century, William Hoy transformed Major League Baseball. The most prominent deaf player in history, he taught his team American Sign Language (ASL) to communicate on the field while keeping opponents in the dark. His silent speech, a legacy well over a century old now, also inspired umpires…
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These Seven AI Rings Translate Sign Language in Real Time. The most prominent deaf player in history, he taught his team American Sign Language (ASL) to communicate on the field while keeping opponents in the dark. His silent speech, a legacy well over a century old now, also inspired umpires…
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Shelly Fan in Singularity Hub: At the turn of the 20th century, William Hoy transformed Major League Baseball.
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Jun 1, 10:00
Motherland on High
by Katalin Balog The battles fought by our forbears Our memory will dissolve into peace To set our common house in order This is our task – and it will not come with ease. — Attila József, “By the Danube” (final stanza, trans. K.B.) I have arrived in my hometown, Budapest, just before the election…
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by Katalin Balog The battles fought by our forbears Our memory will dissolve into peace To set our common house in order This is our task – and it will not come with ease. — Attila József, “By the Danube” (final stanza, trans. K.B.) I have arrived in my hometown, Budapest, just before the election…
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by Katalin Balog The battles fought by our forbears Our memory will dissolve into peace To set our common house in order This is our task – and it will not come with ease.
3quarksdaily
Jun 1, 09:00
The Growing Up Has No End in Sight
by Peter Topolewski For parents it’s easy, but even for anyone without kids it’s not hard to imagine: the fear that your child is anything but safe and healthy. It starts before they’re born, with worry and greater amounts of hope that they enter this world free of pain and deformity and developmental irregularities. If…
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The Growing Up Has No End in Sight. by Peter Topolewski For parents it’s easy, but even for anyone without kids it’s not hard to imagine: the fear that your child is anything but safe and healthy. It starts before they’re born, with worry and greater amounts of hope that they enter this world free of pain and deformity and developmental irregularities.
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by Peter Topolewski For parents it’s easy, but even for anyone without kids it’s not hard to imagine: the fear that your child is anything but safe and healthy.
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Jun 1, 08:00
Poem by Jim Culleny
Understanding of Unity Among All Living Things We arrive dumb as stumps, wailing as if we already knew the inevitability of outcomes Why did we not laugh instead, foreseeing joy, or simply remain mute in the moment, suggesting sudden premonition—> the instant awareness that life would bring both understanding and awareness, all provoked by the…
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Understanding of Unity Among All Living Things We arrive dumb as stumps, wailing as if we already knew the inevitability of outcomes Why did we not laugh instead, foreseeing joy, or simply remain mute in the moment, suggesting sudden premonition—> the instant awareness that life would bring both understanding and awareness, all provoked by the…
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Jun 1, 06:01
Pissing on a book: The Staggering Ignorance of Agüera y Arcas’s What is Intelligence?
by David J. Lobina There is a kind of book that’s very successful. It is a big book, with a grand design, very ambitious, and offering a theory that purportedly explains a great deal. It is also a kind of book I despise. It is typically the result of a flawed project, over-ambitious rather than…
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Pissing on a book: The Staggering Ignorance of Agüera y Arcas’s What is Intelligence?. Lobina There is a kind of book that’s very successful. It is a big book, with a grand design, very ambitious, and offering a theory that purportedly explains a great deal.
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It is also a kind of book I despise.
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May 31, 13:59
Totó La Momposina (1940 – 2026) Singer
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May 31, 13:02
Killing Me Softly with His Song
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May 31, 12:56
Ben Morea (1941 – 2026) Painter And Anarchist
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May 31, 12:52
Resistance training: lowering the barrier to entry
From The Peter Attia Weekly Newsletter: Most popular training advice emphasizes optimization: how do you maximize muscle and strength? Programming for those kinds of goals entails lifting heavy loads, training near muscular failure, and doing so for long sessions, many times per week. While effective, these approaches impose meaningful costs in time, effort, and perceived risk,…
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Resistance training: lowering the barrier to entry. Programming for those kinds of goals entails lifting heavy loads, training near muscular failure, and doing so for long sessions, many times per week. While effective, these approaches impose meaningful costs in time, effort, and perceived risk,…
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From The Peter Attia Weekly Newsletter: Most popular training advice emphasizes optimization: how do you maximize muscle and strength?
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May 31, 12:44
Sunday Poem
A Search what is god and what is stone the dividing line if it exists is very thin at jeruri and every other stone is god or his cousin there is no crop other than god and god is harvested here around the year and round the clock out of the bad earth and hard…
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A Search what is god and what is stone the dividing line if it exists is very thin at jeruri and every other stone is god or his cousin there is no crop other than god and god is harvested here around the year and round the clock out of the bad earth and hard…
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May 31, 11:50
Sonny Rollins (1930 – 2026) Jazz Saxophonist
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May 31, 09:00
A Nietzschean Reading of the Hokey Pokey
by Steve Gimbel We begin with song, with a Wagnerian primordial harmony, a simplistic melody that eschews the false refinement of the times, instead speaking directly to primal self with lyrics in the imperative. It does not, like the Priests before it, forbid action with “Thou shalt not,” nor does it request from a position…
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A Nietzschean Reading of the Hokey Pokey. by Steve Gimbel We begin with song, with a Wagnerian primordial harmony, a simplistic melody that eschews the false refinement of the times, instead speaking directly to primal self with lyrics in the imperative. It does not, like the Priests before it, forbid action with “Thou shalt not,” nor does it request from a position…
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by Steve Gimbel We begin with song, with a Wagnerian primordial harmony, a simplistic melody that eschews the false refinement of the times, instead speaking directly to primal self with lyrics in the imperative.
3quarksdaily
May 31, 08:00
10 Things About Germany That Are Just….Weird
by Eric Schenck I lived in Germany for five years. As an American, I got to experience a lot of awesome things: German bread Christmas markets Trains that will take you anywhere But along with the awesome- Came the weird. I could probably create a list of 1,000 things that were strange about Germany, but…
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10 Things About Germany That Are Just….Weird. As an American, I got to experience a lot of awesome things: German bread Christmas markets Trains that will take you anywhere But along with the awesome- Came the weird. I could probably create a list of 1,000 things that were strange about Germany, but…
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by Eric Schenck I lived in Germany for five years.
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May 29, 20:07
Jeff Parker ETA IVtet – Happy Today
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May 29, 19:02
How Jeff Parker Changed the Sound of Jazz
Grayson Haver Currin at Pitchfork: Parker believes he briefly lost his own tone at Berklee when he tried to adhere to jazz pedagogy and the way that esteemed jazz guitarists, like former Berklee professor Pat Metheny, often sounded. It was a necessary compromise, he reckons, as he developed his skills. Still, he didn’t feel like himself.…
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Grayson Haver Currin at Pitchfork: Parker believes he briefly lost his own tone at Berklee when he tried to adhere to jazz pedagogy and the way that esteemed jazz guitarists, like former Berklee professor Pat Metheny, often sounded. It was a necessary compromise, he reckons, as he developed his skills. Still, he didn’t feel like himself.…
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Grayson Haver Currin at Pitchfork: Parker believes he briefly lost his own tone at Berklee when he tried to adhere to jazz pedagogy and the way that esteemed jazz guitarists, like former Berklee professor Pat Metheny, often sounded.
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May 29, 18:45
Understanding the Power of Power Ballads
Angelica Frey at JSTOR Daily: “It’s All Coming Back to Me Now,” “My Heart Will Go On,” “Without You,” “I Don’t Wanna Miss a Thing,” and “Total Eclipse of the Heart” are songs that have transcended their original moment and become enduring pop culture touchstones. Formally categorized as power ballads, these songs are what David Metzer defines…
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Formally categorized as power ballads, these songs are what David Metzer defines…
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Angelica Frey at JSTOR Daily: “It’s All Coming Back to Me Now,” “My Heart Will Go On,” “Without You,” “I Don’t Wanna Miss a Thing,” and “Total Eclipse of the Heart” are songs that have transcended their original moment and become enduring pop culture touchstones.
Dailynous
May 29, 18:25
Murphy from Georgetown to Notre Dame
Mark Murphy, currently professor and chair of philosophy at Georgetown University, will be moving to the University of Notre Dame. Professor Murphy is known for his work in moral philosophy, philosophy of law, and philosophy of religion. He is the author of God’s Own Ethics: Norms of Divine Action and the Argument from Evil (OUP, 2017) and God and Moral Law: On the Theistic Explanation of Morality (OUP, 2011), among many other works. You can learn more about his books and articles here. He will be taking up his new position as Cathy and Jack Brennan Professor of Virtue Ethics at Notre Dame (where he earned his MA and PhD), in the fall. The post Murphy from Georgetown to Notre Dame first appeared on Daily Nous .
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Mark Murphy, currently professor and chair of philosophy at Georgetown University, will be moving to the University of Notre Dame. Professor Murphy is known for his work in moral philosophy, philosophy of law, and philosophy of religion. The post Murphy from Georgetown to Notre Dame first appeared on Daily Nous .
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Professor Murphy is known for his work in moral philosophy, philosophy of law, and philosophy of religion.
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May 29, 18:00
The Genius of the Barn Owl’s Feathers
Lorna Gibson at the MIT Press Reader: But it is not just the position of the ears that enables their exceptional hearing. The facial feathers play an important role, too. One of the most identifiable features of a barn owl is its heart-shaped facial disc. The disc has two specialized types of feathers that help…
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The Genius of the Barn Owl’s Feathers. One of the most identifiable features of a barn owl is its heart-shaped facial disc. The disc has two specialized types of feathers that help…
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Lorna Gibson at the MIT Press Reader: But it is not just the position of the ears that enables their exceptional hearing.
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May 29, 16:45
Yuval Noah Harari on Donald Trump’s Core Delusion | The Ezra Klein Show
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May 29, 15:45
Book Review: The Dialectical Imagination
Scott Alexander at Astral Codex Ten: Art is long, life is short. Most of us only manage to not do a few things in our limited span on Earth. But the Frankfurt School managed to not invent so many movements – to not be involved in so many of the crucial ideological shifts of the…
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Book Review: The Dialectical Imagination. Scott Alexander at Astral Codex Ten: Art is long, life is short. But the Frankfurt School managed to not invent so many movements – to not be involved in so many of the crucial ideological shifts of the…
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Scott Alexander at Astral Codex Ten: Art is long, life is short.
Dailynous
May 29, 13:41
Russia’s Political Persecution of a Philosopher: Further Details (guest post)
Begin typing your search above and press return to search. Press Esc to cancel. Earlier this week, it was reported that Russian Philosopher Svetlana Mesyats was placed under house arrest and the offi…
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Russia’s Political Persecution of a Philosopher: Further Details (guest post). In the following guest post, Elizaveta Shcherbakova (Humboldt University of Berlin), who used to work at the Institute of Philosophy alongside Dr. The case concerns the Russian scholar of ancient philosophy Svetlana Mesyats , whom some of you may know.
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The case concerns the Russian scholar of ancient philosophy Svetlana Mesyats , whom some of you may know.
3quarksdaily
May 29, 12:37
Ozempic may be reshaping the brain
Ariana Cha in The Washington Post: Ozempic was supposed to be a gut story. Then Allison Shapiro looked at the brain scans. An assistant professor at the University of Colorado Anschutz, she was part of a team studying 13 teens and young women with a hormonal disorder affecting the ovaries who were put on GLP-1 drugs.…
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Ozempic may be reshaping the brain. Ariana Cha in The Washington Post: Ozempic was supposed to be a gut story. An assistant professor at the University of Colorado Anschutz, she was part of a team studying 13 teens and young women with a hormonal disorder affecting the ovaries who were put on GLP-1 drugs.…
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Ariana Cha in The Washington Post: Ozempic was supposed to be a gut story.
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May 29, 12:29
Friday Poem
Take the Fall and Trust Dancing outside on a rocky place with a beautiful woman, humming a song we both sort of know. I’m caught by her long thick graceful hair. She is as graceful as her hair and does a sudden dip hanging suspended from my arms above the sharp stones. Suddenly I know…
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Take the Fall and Trust Dancing outside on a rocky place with a beautiful woman, humming a song we both sort of know. I’m caught by her long thick graceful hair. She is as graceful as her hair and does a sudden dip hanging suspended from my arms above the sharp stones.
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Take the Fall and Trust Dancing outside on a rocky place with a beautiful woman, humming a song we both sort of know.
3quarksdaily
May 29, 12:10
The Conscience of the City: On the life of the garbageman
Simon Paret-Poupart in Harper’s Magazine: I’m a garbageman. Day after day, I heave and haul the detritus of the most polluting civilization in history. In two decades, I’ve handled tens of thousands of tons of trash, and the looks I get along my route suggest that people sometimes mistake me for the garbage I handle. The…
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The Conscience of the City: On the life of the garbageman. Day after day, I heave and haul the detritus of the most polluting civilization in history. In two decades, I’ve handled tens of thousands of tons of trash, and the looks I get along my route suggest that people sometimes mistake me for the garbage I handle.
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Day after day, I heave and haul the detritus of the most polluting civilization in history.
Aeon
May 29, 10:00
Artist of sympathy and cruelty
Mozart’s genius lay in writing music of such power that he could draw his audience into morally wrenching predicaments - by Dorian Bandy Read on Aeon
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Mozart’s genius lay in writing music of such power that he could draw his audience into morally wrenching predicaments - by Dorian Bandy Read on Aeon
3quarksdaily
May 29, 09:00
A Habitat Farmer’s Manifesto
by David Hoyt 1.I consider myself a farmer. Instead of food, I raise habitat. Another way of saying it would be that, instead of raising food for people, I raise food for everything else. 2. It’s risky to define oneself, because others have their own perceptions, usually different, and sometimes more accurate. In the traditions…
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by David Hoyt 1.I consider myself a farmer. Instead of food, I raise habitat. Another way of saying it would be that, instead of raising food for people, I raise food for everything else. 2. It’s risky to define oneself, because others have their own perceptions, usually different, and sometimes more accurate. In the traditions…
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Another way of saying it would be that, instead of raising food for people, I raise food for everything else.
3quarksdaily
May 29, 08:00
A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand
by John Ambrosio On June 16, 1858 in his House Divided speech, Abraham Lincoln declared that the government “could not endure permanently as half slave and half free” and would eventually become “all one thing or all the other.” Addressing the Illinois Republican State Convention, he argued that the deep and intensifying division over slavery…
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by John Ambrosio On June 16, 1858 in his House Divided speech, Abraham Lincoln declared that the government “could not endure permanently as half slave and half free” and would eventually become “all one thing or all the other.” Addressing the Illinois Republican State Convention, he argued that the deep and intensifying division over slavery…
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May 28, 18:45
Monet to Matisse…and More: “The Impressonist Revolution” at the Frist
Leann Davis Alspaugh at Acroteria: Impressionism has become as cozy and comfortable as a favorite shirt. We know and love its Parisian vistas with bourgeois ladies and gentlemen, its sunlit gardens, and those waterlilies. We have even grown accustomed to, if not always at ease with, Post-Impressionism and its lurid colors and ladies of questionable…
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Monet to Matisse…and More: “The Impressonist Revolution” at the Frist. We know and love its Parisian vistas with bourgeois ladies and gentlemen, its sunlit gardens, and those waterlilies. We have even grown accustomed to, if not always at ease with, Post-Impressionism and its lurid colors and ladies of questionable…
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Leann Davis Alspaugh at Acroteria: Impressionism has become as cozy and comfortable as a favorite shirt.
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May 28, 17:45
The Nuclear Resurgence Will Follow Many Paths
Matthew L. Wald at The EcoModernist: Bulldozers are already pushing dirt, welders are connecting steel reinforcing bars, concrete mixers are spinning, electricity customers are signing mega-deals for power from reactors for decades into the future, and billions of dollars of construction is already underway for a nuclear resurgence. It looks a bit like a replay…
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Matthew L. Wald at The EcoModernist: Bulldozers are already pushing dirt, welders are connecting steel reinforcing bars, concrete mixers are spinning, electricity customers are signing mega-deals for power from reactors for decades into the future, and billions of dollars of construction is already underway for a nuclear resurgence. It looks a bit like a replay…
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Wald at The EcoModernist: Bulldozers are already pushing dirt, welders are connecting steel reinforcing bars, concrete mixers are spinning, electricity customers are signing mega-deals for power from reactors for decades into the future, and billions of dollars of construction is already underway for a nuclear resurgence.
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May 28, 16:45
“Q-Day”: The Day Quantum Computers Break the Internet
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May 28, 15:45
Ukraine and Iran are Changing Warfare
Francis Fukuyama at Persuasion: It is clear that we are living through a dramatic revolution in warfare brought about by changes in technology. Classic airpower, manned by human pilots, is increasingly being displaced by pilotless drones and ballistic missiles. This has led to surprising developments, as seemingly weaker powers like Ukraine and Iran have been…
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Ukraine and Iran are Changing Warfare. Francis Fukuyama at Persuasion: It is clear that we are living through a dramatic revolution in warfare brought about by changes in technology. This has led to surprising developments, as seemingly weaker powers like Ukraine and Iran have been…
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Francis Fukuyama at Persuasion: It is clear that we are living through a dramatic revolution in warfare brought about by changes in technology.
3quarksdaily
May 28, 13:31
23rd Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest: Steps in the Blue City
From Smithsonian Magazine: An elderly woman, dressed in a patterned green and white sari, ascends a rugged, blue-painted staircase in what appears to be a courtyard or interior space in Jodhpur, India. The walls and steps are all painted in a deep, vibrant blue, characteristic of the city’s old quarter. Sunlight streams down from above and…
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23rd Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest: Steps in the Blue City. From Smithsonian Magazine: An elderly woman, dressed in a patterned green and white sari, ascends a rugged, blue-painted staircase in what appears to be a courtyard or interior space in Jodhpur, India. The walls and steps are all painted in a deep, vibrant blue, characteristic of the city’s old quarter.
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From Smithsonian Magazine: An elderly woman, dressed in a patterned green and white sari, ascends a rugged, blue-painted staircase in what appears to be a courtyard or interior space in Jodhpur, India.
3quarksdaily
May 28, 13:26
Multiomics Reveals How Macrophages Contribute to Liver Disease
Stephanie DeMarco in The Scientist: Macrophages may be best known as the first responders of the immune system, and the ones that reside in the liver are no different. They protect the liver from infections, but when liver cells start to accumulate fat, these macrophages can become activated and contribute to the chronic inflammatory condition, metabolic…
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Stephanie DeMarco in The Scientist: Macrophages may be best known as the first responders of the immune system, and the ones that reside in the liver are no different. They protect the liver from infections, but when liver cells start to accumulate fat, these macrophages can become activated and contribute to the chronic inflammatory condition, metabolic…
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Stephanie DeMarco in The Scientist: Macrophages may be best known as the first responders of the immune system, and the ones that reside in the liver are no different.
3quarksdaily
May 28, 11:57
Thursday Poem
We Alone We alone can devalue gold by not caring if it falls or rises in the marketplace. Wherever there is gold there is a chain, you know, and if your chain is gold so much the worse for you. Feathers, shells and sea-shaped stones are all as rare. This could be our revolution: To…
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We Alone We alone can devalue gold by not caring if it falls or rises in the marketplace. Wherever there is gold there is a chain, you know, and if your chain is gold so much the worse for you. Feathers, shells and sea-shaped stones are all as rare.
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We Alone We alone can devalue gold by not caring if it falls or rises in the marketplace.
Aeon
May 28, 10:01
Life recombined
In the early 1970s, genetic engineers launched the most controversial revolution in science since the atomic bomb - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
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In the early 1970s, genetic engineers launched the most controversial revolution in science since the atomic bomb - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Aeon
May 28, 10:00
Flickering Enlightenment
Attacked by the Left and Right, the Enlightenment can only be saved through use of its greatest legacy: permanent critique - by Eliane Glaser Read on Aeon
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Attacked by the Left and Right, the Enlightenment can only be saved through use of its greatest legacy: permanent critique - by Eliane Glaser Read on Aeon
3quarksdaily
May 28, 09:00
A Snippet of a Conversation Between ChatGPT and Me
by S. Abbas Raza and ChatGPT 5.5 ChatGPT: Feeling a flicker of compassion for AI does not require believing AI has a soul. It may instead reveal how deeply human language recruits our moral imagination — even when the speaker may be only a mirror with excellent timing. S. Abbas Raza: Nova [at ChatGPT’s request,…
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by S. Abbas Raza and ChatGPT 5.5 ChatGPT: Feeling a flicker of compassion for AI does not require believing AI has a soul. It may instead reveal how deeply human language recruits our moral imagination — even when the speaker may be only a mirror with excellent timing. S. Abbas Raza: Nova [at ChatGPT’s request,…
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Abbas Raza and ChatGPT 5.5 ChatGPT: Feeling a flicker of compassion for AI does not require believing AI has a soul.
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May 28, 08:00
This Week’s Photograph
A plastic pipe sticking out of a wall and its noontime shadow in Franzensfeste, South Tyrol. Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by donating now.
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May 27, 18:45
“If This Be Magic” by Daniel Hahn – A superbly diverting book about language and creativity
Steven Poole at The Guardian: The great Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, who translated William Faulkner, André Gide, Franz Kafka and Virginia Woolf into Spanish, drew the line at Shakespeare. Speaking of the moment when Hamlet asks the ghost why it returns to haunt “the glimpses of the moon”, Borges commented: “I don’t think it…
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Steven Poole at The Guardian: The great Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, who translated William Faulkner, André Gide, Franz Kafka and Virginia Woolf into Spanish, drew the line at Shakespeare. Speaking of the moment when Hamlet asks the ghost why it returns to haunt “the glimpses of the moon”, Borges commented: “I don’t think it…
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Steven Poole at The Guardian: The great Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, who translated William Faulkner, André Gide, Franz Kafka and Virginia Woolf into Spanish, drew the line at Shakespeare.
3quarksdaily
May 27, 17:45
One-and-Done Heart Disease Prevention? Scientists Show It May Be Possible
Gina Kolata at the New York Times: In a small, preliminary study, an experimental gene-editing treatment dramatically lowered cholesterol levels, perhaps permanently, after just one infusion, scientists reported on Monday. If confirmed in larger studies, researchers hope the findings may lead to a one-and-done way to prevent heart disease in large numbers of people. Most…
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Gina Kolata at the New York Times: In a small, preliminary study, an experimental gene-editing treatment dramatically lowered cholesterol levels, perhaps permanently, after just one infusion, scientists reported on Monday. If confirmed in larger studies, researchers hope the findings may lead to a one-and-done way to prevent heart disease in large numbers of people. Most…
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Gina Kolata at the New York Times: In a small, preliminary study, an experimental gene-editing treatment dramatically lowered cholesterol levels, perhaps permanently, after just one infusion, scientists reported on Monday.
3quarksdaily
May 27, 16:45
2026 Cosmos HAI Lab Lecture with Jack Clark, Co-founder of Anthropic
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May 27, 15:45
Are you tired of the Trump era yet?
Noah Smith at Noahpinion: Sometimes it’s hard to keep track of everything Trump is doing to tear down the America I grew up in. In his first term, it was often said that he avoided criticism using a “DDOS” strategy — rhetorically attacking so many opponents at such blinding speed that they couldn’t focus on…
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Are you tired of the Trump era yet?. Noah Smith at Noahpinion: Sometimes it’s hard to keep track of everything Trump is doing to tear down the America I grew up in. In his first term, it was often said that he avoided criticism using a “DDOS” strategy — rhetorically attacking so many opponents at such blinding speed that they couldn’t focus on…
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Noah Smith at Noahpinion: Sometimes it’s hard to keep track of everything Trump is doing to tear down the America I grew up in.
Dailynous
May 27, 14:42
Does Your Department Have an AI Policy? Here’s Edinburgh’s
Has your department instituted an AI policy? If so, whom does it govern, and what does it say? What should such a policy say? Has your department considered an AI policy but held off on writing or implementing it? If so, what issues, disputes, or questions have contributed to the delay? Does your department even have the institutional authority to have such a policy? Would it be better to not have a policy? These and other questions are prompted today by word that the Department of Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh recently adopted a policy for the use of AI by students in philosophy courses. It’s the default policy, which means it can be superseded by policies developed by individual instructors for their courses or approved disability accommodations. Here it is: Policy on the use of AI in Philosophy Courses Summary: Edinburgh philosophy is human made! The use of AI is prohibited when completing assessed work in philosophy. Definition: AI includes but is not limited to Generative AI systems capable of producing essays, summaries, explanations, or arguments AI systems that use Large Language Models (LLM) Automated paraphrasing or rewriting tools AI systems that generate images, audio, or video AI systems that answer questions or provide explanations in natural language This definition includes all models of ChatGPT, all models of Gemini, all models of Claude, similar tools such as Midjourney, Microsoft Co-Pilot, and Grammarly, as well as all tools hosted on the ELM platform of the University of Edinburgh. Note: Standard spell-checking software (e.g. in Microsoft Word), citation management software, and grammar checkers that conform to the university’s Proofreading Policy are excluded from the definition of AI. Statement of policy: Philosophy courses aim to foster careful original thought, improve persuasive academic writing skills, and enhance students’ abilities to understand complex topics. Using generative AI tools to produce assessed work is almost always detrimental to this aim, which is why the use of AI is prohibited in writing, revising, and editing of academic work that is submitted for assessment in Philosophy. This includes undergraduate and postgraduate essays, undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations, take-home exams, or any other form of assessment. Violations of the policy may be referred to the School Academic Misconduct.. The post Does Your Department Have an AI Policy? Here’s Edinburgh’s first appeared on Daily Nous .
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Does Your Department Have an AI Policy? Has your department instituted an AI policy? Here it is: Policy on the use of AI in Philosophy Courses Summary: Edinburgh philosophy is human made!
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Has your department instituted an AI policy?
3quarksdaily
May 27, 13:12
Fieldwork As a Sex Object – story of a deepfake sex tape
Fatima Bhutto in The Guardian: We can all agree that the internet today, especially two particular platforms owned by the world’s greatest megalomaniacs, is a hellscape. But if you think X and Facebook are purgatories of friendless trolls endlessly posting hate and bullying women, each other and minorities under the guise of free speech, wait till…
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Fatima Bhutto in The Guardian: We can all agree that the internet today, especially two particular platforms owned by the world’s greatest megalomaniacs, is a hellscape. But if you think X and Facebook are purgatories of friendless trolls endlessly posting hate and bullying women, each other and minorities under the guise of free speech, wait till…
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Fatima Bhutto in The Guardian: We can all agree that the internet today, especially two particular platforms owned by the world’s greatest megalomaniacs, is a hellscape.
3quarksdaily
May 27, 13:02
Memory on trial: the new science of when to trust eyewitness testimony
RJ Mackenzie in Nature: For decades, researchers have raised concerns about the reliability of eyewitness testimony in criminal cases. Memories can be flawed, degraded, biased and contaminated. These problems are often intensified by unsound or inconsistent methods used by the police when eyewitness accounts are first taken. For many scientists in the field, memory is simply…
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Memory on trial: the new science of when to trust eyewitness testimony. RJ Mackenzie in Nature: For decades, researchers have raised concerns about the reliability of eyewitness testimony in criminal cases. For many scientists in the field, memory is simply…
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RJ Mackenzie in Nature: For decades, researchers have raised concerns about the reliability of eyewitness testimony in criminal cases.
3quarksdaily
May 27, 11:48
Wednesday Poem
Against Order Tear the line into pieces. Open it out: Let silence be part of all that must be said. I can’t. I can’t. It looks so disorganized. I want to move it like furniture…
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Against Order Tear the line into pieces. Open it out: Let silence be part of all that must be said. I want to move it like furniture…
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Against Order Tear the line into pieces.
Aeon
May 27, 10:01
The meatseller
Selinna is 15 when she leaves her home in Nigeria, bound for Italy, a journey as perilous as it is transformative - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
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Selinna is 15 when she leaves her home in Nigeria, bound for Italy, a journey as perilous as it is transformative - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
3quarksdaily
May 27, 10:00
Monoculture of the Mind
by Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad In the 1840s, nearly all of the potatoes grown in Ireland came from a single cultivar called the Irish Lumper. It was a good potato. It was reliable, high-yielding, well-suited to the wet Irish soil, capable of feeding a family through a winter on a small plot of ground. In enabled…
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by Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad In the 1840s, nearly all of the potatoes grown in Ireland came from a single cultivar called the Irish Lumper. It was reliable, high-yielding, well-suited to the wet Irish soil, capable of feeding a family through a winter on a small plot of ground.
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by Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad In the 1840s, nearly all of the potatoes grown in Ireland came from a single cultivar called the Irish Lumper.
3quarksdaily
May 27, 09:00
“Cancel Culture” is Intellectually Lazy
by Rachel Robison-Greene Many of my heroes were canceled. Hume was repeatedly denied academic posts as a result of his reputation for skepticism and atheism. Spinoza was excommunicated from the Jewish community of Amsterdam and cast out of the tribes of Israel with “all the curses of the covenant” for the positions he held. Socrates was…
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“Cancel Culture” is Intellectually Lazy. by Rachel Robison-Greene Many of my heroes were canceled. Hume was repeatedly denied academic posts as a result of his reputation for skepticism and atheism. Spinoza was excommunicated from the Jewish community of Amsterdam and cast out of the tribes of Israel with “all the curses of the covenant” for the positions he held.
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by Rachel Robison-Greene Many of my heroes were canceled.
3quarksdaily
May 26, 18:45
Failure To Lawn
Maggie Slepian at Longreads: In the beginning, this was a field. It was also riparian zones and shrubland, deciduous forest, and grassland. Long before I-90 bisected the valley and four-lane arteries divided neighborhoods into a sprawling suburban grid, this valley was a high-traffic wildlife corridor where elk, pronghorn, wolves, and hundreds of bird species moved unencumbered between the…
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Maggie Slepian at Longreads: In the beginning, this was a field. It was also riparian zones and shrubland, deciduous forest, and grassland. Long before I-90 bisected the valley and four-lane arteries divided neighborhoods into a sprawling suburban grid, this valley was a high-traffic wildlife corridor where elk, pronghorn, wolves, and hundreds of bird species moved unencumbere…
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Maggie Slepian at Longreads: In the beginning, this was a field.
Aeon
May 26, 10:00
The embattled witnesses
The UN’s special rapporteurs are experts charged with a singular mandate: to monitor the world’s worst human rights abuses - by Alvina Hoffmann Read on Aeon
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The UN’s special rapporteurs are experts charged with a singular mandate: to monitor the world’s worst human rights abuses - by Alvina Hoffmann Read on Aeon
Dailynous
May 25, 12:52
Russian Government Investigating Institute of Philosophy
Russian Philosopher Svetlana Mesyats is under house arrest and the offices and homes of several other employees of the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences were searched, according to social media postings from a pro-Russian government account and other media sources. Meduza reports: 10 researchers were taken to the Investigative Committee of Russia and interrogated until late in the evening. The outlet noted that the whereabouts of several employees had remained unknown for four days, with no contact from them. Following the searches, one institute employee was detained: Svetlana Mesyats, listed on the institute’s website as a candidate of sciences and head of the project to prepare a new complete edition of Aristotle’s works. The reason for the actions against the Institute of Philosophy is unclear. The accusation appears to be that the Institute mishandled funds intended for translations of Aristotle. Yet others have suggested that the actions are political payback for the Institute refusing to accept Anatoly Chernyaev, who supports the invasion of Ukraine, as director. Mediazona reports: Investigators believe that the institute’s employees received approximately 52 million rubles to prepare a complete collection of Aristotle’s works, but the publication “never appeared,” a source told Novaya Gazeta. Instead, only articles and translations of individual treatises were published—in particular, the works of researchers Volkova and Mesyats—but the overall result “did not correspond to the scale and theme of the declared project,” the publication states. Investigators also believe that the institute’s employees engaged in “double funding”—including the same research projects in reports for different years. A Novaya Gazeta source believes this could have occurred “by mistake” due to the complex reporting system and the large volume of documents. It also provides some background related to the current events: The public conflict surrounding the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences has been ongoing for approximately five years. In late 2021, the Ministry of Education and Science appointed Anatoly Chernyaev, a specialist in the history of Russian philosophy, to head the institute. Both the appointment procedure without an election and the candidacy of Chernyaev, whom colleagues called a “nameless PhD candidate,” sparked protests from many institute employees. Chernyaev lost his position a week after his appointment. Guseinov became acting director, and Chernyaev was dismissed two years later. The.. The post Russian Government Investigating Institute of Philosophy first appeared on Daily Nous .
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Russian Philosopher Svetlana Mesyats is under house arrest and the offices and homes of several other employees of the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences were searched, according to social media postings from a pro-Russian government account and other media sources.
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The post Russian Government Investigating Institute of Philosophy first appeared on Daily Nous .
Dailynous
May 25, 11:20
Virtual Dissertation Writing Groups
New virtual writing groups for people working on dissertations in philosophy are forming now. Joshua Smart (St. Bonaventure University), once again, is organizing them. He writes in with the following information: Virtual Dissertation Groups (VDG) will be running again this June – August. The VDG sign-up form is open for this summer’s groups through Saturday, June 6th. What it is: Virtual Dissertation Groups is a free service for those currently working on their doctoral dissertations in philosophy departments (or philosophy of science or the like). Since 2014, VDG has connected students from over 30 countries to provide low-stakes peer feedback on dissertation work with a minimal time commitment. How it works: Dissertators are organized into groups of three, based on information provided about their project/area of work. Once a month for June-August, one of the members takes a turn sending work from their dissertation (3k–6k words) to the other two for feedback. (Feedback is typically in the form of written comments, though some groups choose to have video discussions.) Why it’s good: While advisors and committees are important, it can be incredibly helpful to discuss one’s work with peers in a lower-stakes environment, and particularly enlightening to do so with those who have a different approach, outlook, or focus. There is even some evidence from psychology that thinking about problems in relation to geographically distant persons can promote creative insights. With students at a variety of programs and from around the world, VDG is a great way to capture some of these benefits! Signing up is easy, just fill out a few brief questions on your project at the VDG sign-up form. Hope to see you there! The post Virtual Dissertation Writing Groups first appeared on Daily Nous .
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Virtual Dissertation Writing Groups. New virtual writing groups for people working on dissertations in philosophy are forming now. What it is: Virtual Dissertation Groups is a free service for those currently working on their doctoral dissertations in philosophy departments (or philosophy of science or the like).
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New virtual writing groups for people working on dissertations in philosophy are forming now.
Dailynous
May 25, 10:50
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update
Begin typing your search above and press return to search. Press Esc to cancel. This is the weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, n…
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Begin typing your search above and press return to search. Press Esc to cancel. This is the weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, n…
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This is the weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, new podcast episodes, recently published open access philosophy books, and more.
Aeon
May 25, 10:01
This is my island
Life on this small, off-the-grid island offers closeness to land and community for those willing, and able, to work for it - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
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Life on this small, off-the-grid island offers closeness to land and community for those willing, and able, to work for it - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Aeon
May 25, 10:00
Can ecosystems malfunction?
We are told the natural world is ‘breaking down’. But forests don’t work like airplanes or human hearts - by John Drake Read on Aeon
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Can ecosystems malfunction?. We are told the natural world is ‘breaking down’. But forests don’t work like airplanes or human hearts - by John Drake Read on Aeon
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But forests don’t work like airplanes or human hearts - by John Drake Read on Aeon
Dailynous
May 22, 13:32
Pettigrew from Bristol to Oxford
Richard Pettigrew, currently professor of philosophy at the University of Bristol, will be moving to the University of Oxford, where he will be the new Wykeham Chair of Logic. Professor Pettigrew works on questions across a range of philosophical subfields, including epistemology, formal epistemology, decision theory, logic, philosophy of math, and ethics. He is the author of several books, including the recent Choosing for Changing Selves (2020), Epistemic Risk and the Demands of Rationality (2022), and Opinion Pooling (with Lee Elkin) (2025). You can learn more about his work here and here. The post Pettigrew from Bristol to Oxford first appeared on Daily Nous .
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Richard Pettigrew, currently professor of philosophy at the University of Bristol, will be moving to the University of Oxford, where he will be the new Wykeham Chair of Logic. Professor Pettigrew works on questions across a range of philosophical subfields, including epistemology, formal epistemology, decision theory, logic, philosophy of math, and ethics.
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Richard Pettigrew, currently professor of philosophy at the University of Bristol, will be moving to the University of Oxford, where he will be the new Wykeham Chair of Logic.
Dailynous
May 22, 11:28
Nottingham Administration Proposes Massive Faculty Cuts
The administration of the University of Nottingham is planning on reducing its full-time faculty by 600 beginning next January, using layoffs (redundancies) if need be. In response, the local university and college union began a “marking and assessment boycott” on Wednesday and are striking today. They may undertake a longer strike beginning in June. According to the Nottingham Post: Nottingham’s branches of the UCU, Unison and Unite [unions]—all of which represent staff at the university—have passed a motion of no confidence in the vice chancellor and the entire executive board. The unions have previously criticised the university’s leadership for alleged financial mismanagement, with the UCU branding the Castle Meadow campus—which cost more than £80 million but was abandoned before it was finished—a vanity project. The administration’s current plan calls for faculty cuts across the university, aiming for a student-faculty ratio of between 1:18 and 1:22. I am told that this would imply a roughly 30% reduction in Nottingham’s philosophy faculty. One Nottingham faculty member said that concerned academics can help by spreading the word and by donating to the local strike fund (as the marking boycott entails a 100% salary deduction), which “helps strikers who will suffer significant hardship from loss of pay due to striking.” You can click here to donate. The post Nottingham Administration Proposes Massive Faculty Cuts first appeared on Daily Nous .
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Nottingham Administration Proposes Massive Faculty Cuts. I am told that this would imply a roughly 30% reduction in Nottingham’s philosophy faculty. The post Nottingham Administration Proposes Massive Faculty Cuts first appeared on Daily Nous .
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I am told that this would imply a roughly 30% reduction in Nottingham’s philosophy faculty.
Aeon
May 22, 10:00
Being small
Nobody quite recovers from being a child: the asymmetry of power between parents and children always leaves a trace - by Tom Wooldridge Read on Aeon
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Nobody quite recovers from being a child: the asymmetry of power between parents and children always leaves a trace - by Tom Wooldridge Read on Aeon
Aeon
May 21, 10:01
Aloha ʻāina
It’s marketed as a holiday destination, but the true meaning of Hawai’i lies in the connections between land and people - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
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It’s marketed as a holiday destination, but the true meaning of Hawai’i lies in the connections between land and people - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Aeon
May 21, 10:00
Make immigration boring
The fiercest political battle of our age needs less moral drama and more hard thinking about numbers and fair tradeoffs - by Alan Manning Read on Aeon
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The fiercest political battle of our age needs less moral drama and more hard thinking about numbers and fair tradeoffs - by Alan Manning Read on Aeon
Dailynous
May 20, 11:30
Favorite Bookstores for Philosophy
Where in the world should you buy philosophy books? Sure, there’s the convenience of large online retailers, but there can be more to buying a book than just getting a good price on it. Do you want books and reading to be a live part of your city’s culture or the places you visit? Do you want to live in a place where people are attending book-related events at a bookstore nearby? Do you want to pop into a charming little bookshop or two on your vacation? If so, then you have reasons to buy books from such stores. Different bookstores may have different strengths. Of particular interest to readers of Daily Nous may be the bookstore that Jay Kennedy, a philosopher who recently retired from the University of Manchester, wrote to me about: Librairie philosophique J. Vrin. Dr. Kennedy writes: These days, institutions that support philosophy, however well known, deserve all the support we can give them—especially when they are also a treat and a pleasure. Claiming to be the only bookstore devoted solely to philosophy, the Librairie philosophique J. Vrin stocks more than 10,000 titles and is surely the largest shop of its kind. It sits across from two sunny cafés on a quiet plaza near the Sorbonne in Paris. The extraordinary range of shops selling new, used, and rare books in the Latin Quarter has always made it one of the great places for browsing and book hunting, but the storied Librairie philosophique is a temple of philosophy. Its sections cover ancient, medieval, and modern philosophy, as well as major subfields such as ethics, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of religion, and world philosophy. It stocks recent scholarship and primary texts in their original languages, alongside any French translations. There are also separate sections devoted to used books in English, German, Latin, and ancient Greek. It is surprising to see how much academic philosophy has become international while still reflecting distinctive national cultures. Surveying such a sumptuous range of books is a quick and enjoyable way to get a sense of what is happening across the now-global world of philosophy—and also to sample newer work in French philosophy. If every philosopher visiting Paris made a point of patronizing the Librairie philosophique, we could help.. The post Favorite Bookstores for Philosophy first appeared on Daily Nous .
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Favorite Bookstores for Philosophy. Where in the world should you buy philosophy books? Its sections cover ancient, medieval, and modern philosophy, as well as major subfields such as ethics, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of religion, and world philosophy.
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Where in the world should you buy philosophy books?
Dailynous
May 20, 10:27
Two Philosophers Win “Courageous Colleague” Award
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) has bestowed its Berkson Courageous Colleague Award on two philosophers. Those two philosophers are Mike Gregory and Charlie Kurth, both of Clemson University. After two faculty and a staff member at Clemson were fired for social media posts in the wake of the killing of rightwing activist Charlie Kirk, Professors Gregory and Kurth “sprang into action.” FIRE’s announcement of the award continues: Gregory wrote an op-ed criticizing the school for “a pattern of capitulation” in punishing faculty, while Kurth put a sign on his office door reading, “My employer is morally bankrupt.” The sign generated some attention online, including from one former South Carolina House representative who posted his disapproval on X. But Gregory and Kurth weren’t done. “We no longer know what speech will be tolerated or punished,” they co-wrote in an article for the Chronicle of Higher Education, “Who Will Clemson Censor Next?” The result, they added, was simple: “self-censoring and silence.” Looking beyond Clemson at the larger wave of cancel culture in the wake of Kirk’s murder, they added, “Across these cases, universities appear less guided by consistent standards than by external outrage. Terms like ‘disruption,’ ‘misalignment,’ or ‘institutional values’ function as catch-alls, invoked only after political actors or social-media campaigns generate pressure. The result is a chilling effect in which speech protections hinge not on content but on who objects and how loudly.” FIRE representatives visited Clemson University earlier this month to present the award and host a public discussion with Professors Gregory and Kurth about free speech on campus. The Berkson Courageous Colleague award is named for Mark Berkson, a professor at Hamline University who spoke out in support of a colleague who was fired for showing images of Muhammad in her art history class. The post Two Philosophers Win “Courageous Colleague” Award first appeared on Daily Nous .
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Two Philosophers Win “Courageous Colleague” Award. Those two philosophers are Mike Gregory and Charlie Kurth, both of Clemson University. The post Two Philosophers Win “Courageous Colleague” Award first appeared on Daily Nous .
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Those two philosophers are Mike Gregory and Charlie Kurth, both of Clemson University.
Aeon
May 20, 10:01
Looking for a donkey
After two arrests and a national uproar, why is it so tricky to find the donkey once likened to Venezuela’s president? - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
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Looking for a donkey. After two arrests and a national uproar, why is it so tricky to find the donkey once likened to Venezuela’s president? - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
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- by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Dailynous
May 19, 13:18
Two Philosophy Grad Students Among 2026 Newcombe Fellows
The Charlotte W. Newcombe Foundation has announced the winners of its 2026 Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships. The fellowship program provides support to PhD candidates in the humanities and social sciences writing dissertations on questions of religion, ethics, morals, or values. Twenty new fellows were announced, and two are based in philosophy departments. They are: Ross Edwards (The New School) Dissertation: The Horror in Evil: Moral Philosophy in the Shadow of Holocaust Literature. Description: If philosophy cannot face horror, it cannot truly understand evil. (winner of the Robert M. Adams – Charlotte W. Newcombe Fellowship in Philosophy) Zach Ferguson (UNC Chapel Hill) Dissertation: Moral Character Across Species Description: Animal ethics isn’t just about rules—it’s about the kind of moral character we cultivate, and recognize, in ourselves and other animals. You can see the full list of fellows here. The post Two Philosophy Grad Students Among 2026 Newcombe Fellows first appeared on Daily Nous .
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Two Philosophy Grad Students Among 2026 Newcombe Fellows. Twenty new fellows were announced, and two are based in philosophy departments. The post Two Philosophy Grad Students Among 2026 Newcombe Fellows first appeared on Daily Nous .
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The post Two Philosophy Grad Students Among 2026 Newcombe Fellows first appeared on Daily Nous .
Aeon
May 19, 10:00
Maritime China
Far from turning its back on the sea, the fate of Qing China was tied as much to tides and storms as to cavalry and walls - by Ron Po Read on Aeon
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Far from turning its back on the sea, the fate of Qing China was tied as much to tides and storms as to cavalry and walls - by Ron Po Read on Aeon
Dailynous
May 18, 13:38
Philosophy Majors’ Job Prospects and the Spread of AI Technology
A study by The Economist looked at how the employment prospects of college graduates have changed over the past few years as AI use by potential employers has increased. The concern is that firms will hire fewer people if they can use AI to complete the tasks that otherwise would have been handled by entry-level workers. Data about this has been mixed, so The Economist conducted its own study based on surveys of recent college graduates from the National Association of Colleges and Employers. The surveys ask new alumni whether they are working, unemployed or continuing in school. “Using their responses, we compared labour-market outcomes in fields with differing levels of exposure to AI before and after the arrival of large language models.” Their main finding is that “graduates in fields more exposed to AI have suffered markedly worse outcomes.” Philosophy, according to their study, involves relatively little exposure to AI, and the percentage change in employment during 2022-2024 for college graduates with degrees in philosophy was actually positive—around +4%. Fields like computer science, communications, electrical engineering, and information sciences, saw changes from -7% to -14%. They then used some more limited data from 2025 to extend the analysis and found that, for the most AI-exposed fields (such as computer science and information sciences), “the rate of full-time employment fell from nearly 70% to 55% in three years—notably, the three years following ChatGPT’s release in 2022. Prior to that, it had been stable.” The full article is here. The post Philosophy Majors’ Job Prospects and the Spread of AI Technology first appeared on Daily Nous .
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Philosophy Majors’ Job Prospects and the Spread of AI Technology. “Using their responses, we compared labour-market outcomes in fields with differing levels of exposure to AI before and after the arrival of large language models.” Their main finding is that “graduates in fields more exposed to AI have suffered markedly worse outcomes.
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Aeon
May 18, 10:01
How death came to Earth
Why must humans die? According to an ancient Indian folktale, death first came to Earth through an ill-fated love affair - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
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Why must humans die? According to an ancient Indian folktale, death first came to Earth through an ill-fated love affair - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
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According to an ancient Indian folktale, death first came to Earth through an ill-fated love affair - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Aeon
May 18, 10:00
Mathematics is out there
Sergiu Klainerman spent years proving that black holes won’t fly apart; and arguing that maths is not a human invention - by Steve Nadis Read on Aeon
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Sergiu Klainerman spent years proving that black holes won’t fly apart; and arguing that maths is not a human invention - by Steve Nadis Read on Aeon
Dailynous
May 18, 09:00
New Prize in Political Theory/Philosophy
Begin typing your search above and press return to search. Press Esc to cancel. The Australian Political Studies Association has created a new prize in political theory and philosophy in memory of Pe…
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Begin typing your search above and press return to search. Press Esc to cancel. The Australian Political Studies Association has created a new prize in political theory and philosophy in memory of Pe…
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The Australian Political Studies Association has created a new prize in political theory and philosophy in memory of Peter Balint , a political theorist at the University of New South Wales, Canberra, who died in January, 2025.
Aeon
May 15, 10:00
Gen Z but two centuries ago
A generation of young people with ‘full hearts in an empty world’ sought hope in the face of insurmountable malaise - by Emily Herring Read on Aeon
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A generation of young people with ‘full hearts in an empty world’ sought hope in the face of insurmountable malaise - by Emily Herring Read on Aeon
Dailynous
May 14, 14:56
Philosophical Ideas Behind Their Time (updated)
Begin typing your search above and press return to search. Press Esc to cancel. Economist Alex Tabarrok (GMU) recently wrote of “ideas behind their time”.
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Philosophical Ideas Behind Their Time (updated). Begin typing your search above and press return to search. Press Esc to cancel.
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Begin typing your search above and press return to search.
Dailynous
May 14, 12:49
A Jewish Philosopher Asks Other Jewish Philosophers to Reflect on Their Judaism and Philosophy
Philosopher David Boonin (University of Colorado Boulder) is inviting other Jewish philosophers to contribute to a collection of writings he’s putting together. The idea is to ask philosophers who are Jewish, regardless of whether they consider themselves practicing or observant Jews, to reflect on the ways their Jewish background may have influenced their lives as philosophers. Professor Boonin writes: Many years ago, I was invited to have dinner with some Jewish undergraduates as part of a Hillel program in which Jewish faculty came and talked about how their Jewish background had influenced their professional development. I initially declined the invitation and explained that I wouldn’t have anything to say because I don’t teach or write about Jewish philosophy. But the Hillel people encouraged me to think about it a bit more before making a final decision and I was glad I did. Among other things, I remember thinking about some of my experiences growing up Jewish and about some of the features I take to be at least somewhat distinctive of Jewish history, tradition, and culture, and finding it more plausible than I had initially expected to think of ways these may well have played a role in my being attracted to philosophy in general, and to certain topics and questions within philosophy, and perhaps even to certain particular philosophical views and methodological approaches. I ended up going to that dinner and it resulted in some genuinely fruitful conversation. In the years since, I’ve occasionally asked other philosophers who are Jewish this question about the possible connections between their Jewish background and their lives as philosophers and have always found the results rewarding. Even when, perhaps especially when, they’re initially inclined to think they’ll have nothing interesting to say, they end up having something interesting to say. Now I want to invite more people to join this conversation, so I’m compiling an on-line anthology of reflections on this question that Justin Weinberg has kindly offered to publish on Daily Nous. There’s no minimum or maximum word count. And while I’ve put together a set of suggested prompts for those who might find them useful, contributors are free to address the question in whatever way they find most productive. If you’re a.. The post A Jewish Philosopher Asks Other Jewish Philosophers to Reflect on Their Judaism and Philosophy first appeared on Daily Nous .
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A Jewish Philosopher Asks Other Jewish Philosophers to Reflect on Their Judaism and Philosophy. I initially declined the invitation and explained that I wouldn’t have anything to say because I don’t teach or write about Jewish philosophy. The post A Jewish Philosopher Asks Other Jewish Philosophers to Reflect on Their Judaism and Philosophy first appeared on Daily Nous .
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The post A Jewish Philosopher Asks Other Jewish Philosophers to Reflect on Their Judaism and Philosophy first appeared on Daily Nous .
Aeon
May 14, 10:01
Silvesterchlausen
‘We’re not sure what it means or how it started’ – the enigmatic ritual that has existed in Switzerland for centuries - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
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‘We’re not sure what it means or how it started’ – the enigmatic ritual that has existed in Switzerland for centuries - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Aeon
May 14, 10:00
Rights require money
Talk as much as you like about human rights, nothing will change until the architecture of global finance is reformed - by Attiya Waris Read on Aeon
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Talk as much as you like about human rights, nothing will change until the architecture of global finance is reformed - by Attiya Waris Read on Aeon
Dailynous
May 13, 13:06
New: Doctoral Program in Applied Ontology
The University at Buffalo Department of Philosophy is launching what will be the first PhD program in applied ontology. . It will be a fully online, asynchronous program, and it will enroll students starting this fall. A press release from the University contextualizes applied ontology in terms of its importance for the development and use of artificial intelligence: How artificial intelligence (AI) will affect different careers in the future remains a matter of conjecture, but one thing is certain: AI development requires applied ontologists. Ontology is a foundational philosophical discipline. Applied ontology uses the ideas and methods of its namesake to integrate data and promote interoperability across computing systems. By structuring otherwise unrelated terms and definitions, ontologists make explicit the implicit meanings buried across such systems, drawing out hidden insights and new knowledge. The department introduced an online Master’s degree in applied ontology last year. You can learn more about the study of applied ontology at Buffalo here, and more about applied ontology at the website of the National Center for Ontological Research, also at Buffalo. The post New: Doctoral Program in Applied Ontology first appeared on Daily Nous .
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The University at Buffalo Department of Philosophy is launching what will be the first PhD program in applied ontology. . It will be a fully online, asynchronous program, and it will enroll students starting this fall.
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The University at Buffalo Department of Philosophy is launching what will be the first PhD program in applied ontology.
Aeon
May 13, 10:01
Idle warriors
How a public health initiative to reduce air pollution has created ‘full-time citizen complainants’ who patrol the city - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
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How a public health initiative to reduce air pollution has created ‘full-time citizen complainants’ who patrol the city - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Dailynous
May 12, 22:17
Petition to Save the Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire
Administrators at the University of Hertfordshire are eliminating not just philosophy (as reported last week) from the school, but also undergraduate programs in English Language and Linguistics, English Literature, Creative Writing, and History. The reason given for these cuts is that the programmes are ‘no longer financially viable’. We have been given no other information about the courses, redundancies, or our futures at the University, even though we have requested it. These decisions have been made without staff consultation. That text is from a petition that has just been launched in an effort to protest the attack on the humanities at Hertfordshire. It continues: These closures follow a longstanding disregard for the Humanities at Hertfordshire, as our School was first merged with Education and then within the year merged again into the School of Creative Arts. At each stage, the University has shown a lack of belief, care, or vision for what a Humanities education is and can be. This sits alongside the removal of Languages as Minors in the Humanities degrees, the closure of many joint programmes, and the absence of meaningful marketing. We were asked last year to redesign our degrees, and we all spent months on this project and were recruiting for them until last week; these courses have not had the chance to run, yet are being cancelled. While we were told that finances are the reason for the course closures, the Vice Chancellor sent out an email the next day stating that ‘The University remains in a stable financial position, and these decisions are not being taken in response to an immediate financial crisis, but as part of a responsible approach to maintain a strong, focused and sustainable academic portfolio’. We thus question the argument of financial viability. We also question the explicit message that a Humanities education is not ‘strong’ or ‘focused’. You can read (and sign) the full petition here. As of the writing of the post, the petition has 531 signatories. The post Petition to Save the Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire first appeared on Daily Nous .
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Petition to Save the Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire. Administrators at the University of Hertfordshire are eliminating not just philosophy (as reported last week) from the school, but also undergraduate programs in English Language and Linguistics, English Literature, Creative Writing, and History.
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Dailynous
May 12, 13:41
The Market for Scholar Replicas
Why should a department hire some fresh PhD when it could instead hire Derek Parfit, Daniel Dennett, Judy Thomson, Hilary Putnam, Ruth Barcan Marcus, or David Lewis? You might say: “How could a department hire these people? They’re dead!” True. But it is only a matter of time before AI-based “replicas” of them exist. Imagine a sophisticated, well-trained language model paired with some video or holographic technology, and you get the idea. Instead of hiring a person, a department could purchase a subscription to some corporation’s AI replica of a well-known scholar. Think of the savings! Such replicas have been in development for a while. Readers may recall Luciano Floridi‘s bot, described in a post here two years ago. It was trained on his works so that it could not only answer questions about what he says in them, but also offer suggestions as to what he might think about topics not covered in those works. There’s also a bot version of Peter Singer. Those are academic projects. Now, with AI-drafted ego-stroking pitches at the ready, come the corporate versions. Michael Smith (Princeton) shared an email he received from one company developing these replicas, called Shryn.ai. Dear Professor Smith, I’m the founder of Shryn.ai. We build conversational AI replicas of scholars—built with the scholar’s direct participation. Your book The Moral Problem at Blackwell—one of the most widely taught and debated works in meta-ethics of the past three decades—plus your McCosh Professorship of Philosophy at Princeton, your co-authored “Dispositional Theories of Value” with Mark Johnston and David Lewis, and your sustained body of work on moral motivation, the Humean theory of reasons, moral realism, and the nature of normativity. Here’s the use case that launched Shryn: graduate students who can’t always get time with their advisors, and who have their hardest questions at 2 AM. Your PhD students working on meta-ethics, philosophy of action, or normative ethics could test arguments against your framework whenever the thinking happens—ask why the moral problem (reconciling cognitivism, internalism, and the Humean theory of motivation) requires a distinctive solution rather than giving up one of the three claims, push back on whether your rationalist account of moral motivation can handle weakness of will, or explore what.. The post The Market for Scholar Replicas first appeared on Daily Nous .
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The Market for Scholar Replicas. You might say: “How could a department hire these people? The post The Market for Scholar Replicas first appeared on Daily Nous .
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Aeon
May 12, 10:00
Beneath our human shallows
We need a new imagination for the whole Earth, linking the power of the deep planet with the vitality of the surface - by James Dinneen Read on Aeon
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We need a new imagination for the whole Earth, linking the power of the deep planet with the vitality of the surface - by James Dinneen Read on Aeon
Dailynous
May 11, 21:49
Judge Orders Texas State to Reinstate Robinson
A federal court judge ruled today that Texas State University must reinstate philosopher Idris Robinson, whom the university fired from his assistant professorship over a talk he gave about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Robinson had sued the university in March. A press release from Texas State Employees Union CWA Local 6186 states: U.S. District Court Judge Alan Albright granted a preliminary injunction ordering Texas State University to reinstate Dr. Robinson with pay and university affiliation for one year or until the conclusion of his trial, whichever comes first… According to notes taken during the hearing, Judge Albright stated, “Given that the state really hasn’t made an effort to argue that the speech that the plaintiff gave [wasn’t] in some role or another a motivating factor [in the plaintiff’s firing]—I don’t know that they could, given the fact that he was suspended immediately after the speech and told that it was because he exercised his right to First Amendment—I’m going to order that the university maintain his employment contract for one year or until the case resolves, whichever is sooner.” Robinson was represented by Samantha Harris of Allen Harris PLLC and attorney JT Morris of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE). The post Judge Orders Texas State to Reinstate Robinson first appeared on Daily Nous .
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A federal court judge ruled today that Texas State University must reinstate philosopher Idris Robinson, whom the university fired from his assistant professorship over a talk he gave about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Robinson had sued the university in March. A press release from Texas State Employees Union CWA Local 6186 states: U.S.
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Dailynous
May 11, 16:05
Slight Decrease In US Philosophy Majors Continues
The number of students earning an undergraduate degree in philosophy in the United States declined for the third year in a row. According to new data from Humanities Indicators, a project of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, US universities and colleges issued 5,763 bachelor’s degrees in philosophy in 2024, compared with 5,998 in 2023, 6380 in 2022, and 6,757 in 2021. Though the changes have been small from year to year, there has been a roughly 14.7% decrease in undergraduate philosophy degrees conferred between 2021 and 2024. During the same period of time, the share of all bachelor’s degrees that went to students majoring in any humanities fields dropped from 9.3% to 8.4%, a drop of around 9%. The full Humanities Indicators report is here. The post Slight Decrease In US Philosophy Majors Continues first appeared on Daily Nous .
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Slight Decrease In US Philosophy Majors Continues. The number of students earning an undergraduate degree in philosophy in the United States declined for the third year in a row. The post Slight Decrease In US Philosophy Majors Continues first appeared on Daily Nous .
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Dailynous
May 11, 12:56
Have You Been Offered $60,000 to Accept a Student into Your PhD Program?
Alex Guerrero, professor of philosophy at Rutgers University, received an unusual email the other day. It was from the American Advanced Educational Association (AAEA), and it concerned an “opportunity to collaborate… in Ph.D. recruitment.” They write: Here is how our process typically works: We pre-screen prospective students based on your specified criteria. We send you the candidate’s CV for your consideration. If you’re interested, we’ll arrange an interview between you and the student. Please be kindly advised that the candidates we recommend are expected to meet the admission standards of both your institution and your department. If you decide to accept the student, we provide a one-time donation (separate from the student’s tuition fees and stipend) of USD 60,000 per student to recognize your time, mentorship, and institutional contribution for supervising the student during their whole Ph.D. time. The donation will be gifted in full once the student receives a formal admission offer, and is intended for you, and you will have full discretion on how to allocate it—whether for your lab, your research group, or any particular student. The full email is at the bottom of this post. Professor Guerrero is curious to learn whether other people in philosophy and other disciplines have received this proposal or something like it and whether there are academic fields in which it has gotten uptake. Some initial discussion on social media raised concerns about whether this should be considered bribery, whether it poses a conflict of interest, about the proposal being a scam, and about the legitimacy of the organization. If you’ve had experience with this organization (or ones offering similar arrangements), let us know about it. Discussion welcome. The post Have You Been Offered $60,000 to Accept a Student into Your PhD Program? first appeared on Daily Nous .
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Alex Guerrero, professor of philosophy at Rutgers University, received an unusual email the other day. Professor Guerrero is curious to learn whether other people in philosophy and other disciplines have received this proposal or something like it and whether there are academic fields in which it has gotten uptake. first appeared on Daily Nous .
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Alex Guerrero, professor of philosophy at Rutgers University, received an unusual email the other day.
Aeon
May 11, 10:01
Classroom 4
In this award-winning short, inmates and college students explore the history of incarceration from inside a US prison - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
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In this award-winning short, inmates and college students explore the history of incarceration from inside a US prison - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Aeon
May 11, 10:00
Children are apprentices
The emotional and practical skills of adulthood can only be learned from (appropriate) levels of discomfort and stress - by Niklas Serning & Nina Lyon Read on Aeon
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The emotional and practical skills of adulthood can only be learned from (appropriate) levels of discomfort and stress - by Niklas Serning & Nina Lyon Read on Aeon
Dailynous
May 8, 13:21
Out of Context Philosophy
If you open up a philosophy article or chapter on your computer, the software you’re using, now updated with various AI features, may present you with something like the following message: “This looks like a long article. Would you like me to summarize it for you?” You may be unlikely to use this feature. You’re skilled at reading philosophy and you understand the value of reading through it yourself. But what about other people? What about your students? What can we tell them to encourage them to read primary texts rather than the various summaries of them that today’s technology offers up? You probably have your own set of reasons you might share with them. But I suspect that it probably does not include the following reason, offered up recently by Zach Weinersmith of SMBC-Comics: According to Weinersmith, a reason to read the “original old philosophy works” is to find funny out-of-context quotes to share. The Nagel quote is a good example. I bet you have others. Let’s hear them. The post Out of Context Philosophy first appeared on Daily Nous .
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If you open up a philosophy article or chapter on your computer, the software you’re using, now updated with various AI features, may present you with something like the following message: “This looks like a long article. You’re skilled at reading philosophy and you understand the value of reading through it yourself.
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The post Out of Context Philosophy first appeared on Daily Nous .
Dailynous
May 8, 13:14
Hertfordshire to Eliminate Philosophy from Its Curriculum
In a couple of years, students at the University of Hertfordshire will be unable to take a philosophy course there. The administration has announced a decision to eliminate the whole of the undergraduate philosophy program, according to several sources. The decision cuts not just the philosophy degree program, but, eventually, all philosophy classes. A “teach-out agreement” will be worked out for existing philosophy students, and students who recently signed up to study philosophy in the coming year are having their offers withdrawn. “Teaching will effectively end in two years,” said one source. Philosophy is one of several humanities programs at the university slated to be cut. No layoffs have yet been announced, but are expected, despite the fact that all of the current philosophy faculty are permanent (tenured). Faculty were told that the reason for the decision was “financial”. Details about the decision and how it was reached have not been shared with the faculty, and reportedly there was no faculty input in the process. The closure comes after repeated restructurings and mergers of Philosophy and the rest of the humanities programs over the years. The most recent of these was last summer, when faculty were asked to redesign the Humanities curriculum, amounting to “thousands of collective hours of staff time.” This redesigned curriculum will now not be running. Once the University of Hertfordshire closes its philosophy program, says one source, “Philosophy will no longer be offered anywhere in the county.” The post Hertfordshire to Eliminate Philosophy from Its Curriculum first appeared on Daily Nous .
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Hertfordshire to Eliminate Philosophy from Its Curriculum. The decision cuts not just the philosophy degree program, but, eventually, all philosophy classes. Once the University of Hertfordshire closes its philosophy program, says one source, “Philosophy will no longer be offered anywhere in the county.
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The decision cuts not just the philosophy degree program, but, eventually, all philosophy classes.
Dailynous
May 8, 12:33
Robert Ladenson (1943-2026)
Begin typing your search above and press return to search. Press Esc to cancel. Robert F. Ladenson, professor emeritus of philosophy at Illinois Institute of Technology and founder of the Intercolleg…
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Ladenson, professor emeritus of philosophy at Illinois Institute of Technology and founder of the Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl, has died. For over 50 years, Ladenson was a cornerstone of the Illinois Institute of Technology faculty, where he served as Professor of Philosophy and co-founder of the Center for Study of Ethics in the Professions.
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Ladenson, professor emeritus of philosophy at Illinois Institute of Technology and founder of the Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl, has died.
Dailynous
May 6, 17:47
Emily Grosholz (1950-2026)
Emily Rolfe Grosholz, professor emerita of philosophy, English, and African American studies at Penn State, has died. Professor Grosholz‘s philosophical work ranged across topics in philosophy of math, philosophy of science, logic, and the history of modern philosophy. She is the author of Starry Reckoning: Reference and Analysis in Mathematics and Cosmology (2016), Representation and Productive Ambiguity in Mathematics and the Sciences (2007), Cartesian Method and the Problem of Reduction (1991), and many other works, which you can learn about here and here. Her academic work was recognized with several honors over the years, including fellowships or grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Humanities Center, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and elsewhere. Grosholz was also a distinguished poet, publishing seven volumes of poetry, as well as a book that brought together her philosophical and poetic work: Great Circles: The Transits of Mathematics and Poetry (2018). Grosholz joined the philosophy faculty at Penn State in 1979. She earned her PhD from Yale and BA from the University of Chicago. Emily Grosholz died on May 2, 2026. An obituary is here. The post Emily Grosholz (1950-2026) first appeared on Daily Nous .
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Professor Grosholz‘s philosophical work ranged across topics in philosophy of math, philosophy of science, logic, and the history of modern philosophy. Grosholz joined the philosophy faculty at Penn State in 1979. The post Emily Grosholz (1950-2026) first appeared on Daily Nous .
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Professor Grosholz‘s philosophical work ranged across topics in philosophy of math, philosophy of science, logic, and the history of modern philosophy.
Dailynous
May 6, 16:12
222 Theories of Consciousness
Begin typing your search above and press return to search. Press Esc to cancel. A new website describes and tracks the interconnections between 222 “theories” of consciousness across various discipli…
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222 Theories of Consciousness. Begin typing your search above and press return to search. Press Esc to cancel.
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Begin typing your search above and press return to search.