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News for & about the philosophy profession, ed. by Justin Weinberg, philosopher at the U. of South Carolina. You can also find me on bsky.

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"It is morally permissible to have an AI perform a writing-related task if and only if it is permissible to have a human perform that task." Is that a good approach to ethics of authorship in the era of AI? https://t.co/yXmps8DYXZ

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Philosophical disagreement & skepticism. The death of the caveat. Collective beliefs. The history of the concept of equality. The apostle of ignorance. A philosopher writes to JK Rowling. The metaphysics of law... https://t.co/8vIOSakCmZ

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New, freely accessible digital editions of the works of Hegel and Schelling. https://t.co/aalhf2pgeu

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John Heil, an influential philosopher who specialized in metaphysics and philosophy of mind, has died. https://t.co/TzVln7giSZ

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"We are frankly stunned to find a focus… on intemperate social media posts, papers that didn’t after all get retracted, and books being published by second-choice publishers." Talia Bettcher and Jenny Saul respond to Kit Fine and Gideon Rosen. https://t.co/y1SKqNKUhZ

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Philosopher David Lyons, well-known for his work in moral, political, and legal philosophy, has died. https://t.co/Cqka6QA7o0

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Updates to online philosophy resources, new philosophy book reviews, new philosophy podcast episodes, etc... https://t.co/oa6TlxPi7P

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A university is trying to get rid of one of its council members -- a host of a well-known, long-running philosophy podcast -- because of what he said during an interview. https://t.co/kr8hL9gpCu

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This is awesome -- and not just for the hover previews for footnotes and bibliography citations. Thanks, @andrewaashen. https://t.co/0kPJdl1POA

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Big funding for a team of philosophers and political scientists to study typically extra-governmental "safeguards of liberalism". https://t.co/feoyTsS3So

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Failures to disclose. The wickedest man in Europe. Technology & bodily intelligence. The need to be needed. AIs as bad Bayesians. Politics & universities. From first-gen college student to philosophy prof... https://t.co/Ld59Iwt8u0

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A philosopher has created a new ranking of philosophy journals based on how often their articles are cited in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. https://t.co/2MPQOcTXxm

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Students at Wichita State University will no longer be able to major in philosophy... https://t.co/Gkx6tUST9v

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"We have built the prototype." A pair of philosophers have been working on an AI to provide "philosophy on demand: philosophical judgment of exceptional depth and quality, available quickly enough to inform consequential decisions.” https://t.co/KtaQCblZG4

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New and revised entries at online philosophy resources. New reviews of philosophy books. New episodes of philosophy podcasts... https://t.co/TQf6oQV1v4

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I hate philosophy Halloween, what do you mean you’re going as Johann Christian von Mannlich’s portrait of Jacobi, often mistaken for Immanuel Kant?

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Explaining explanation. The topology of a paradox. Insights about loneliness. Debating metaphysics. AI friendships. Interpreting Kant's racism. Delightful error. https://t.co/KobqqFCMtI

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A research administrator at the University of Kentucky objected on religious grounds to the pressure the university was putting on him to rely on AI in his work, and was able to secure a Title VII exemption from using the technology. https://t.co/3jg8bX4x0r

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"It reminds me of the time I spent an hour fighting my way up an English hill through thick, knee-high heather, only to discover at the top that there had been an unmarked path 20 meters to my right the whole time." https://t.co/PWZdXXtNiO

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"As [the philosophers] became more familiar with generative AI and increasingly recognized its formal competence, they simultaneously sharpened the boundaries they drew around what they regarded as genuinely philosophical thinking." https://t.co/ou7AvePOor