Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World is a very good movie. Romanian, bizarre, funny
WaPo Op-Ed: Do Not Mess With The Very
The 378 Most-Cited Contemporary Authors in the SEP (guest post)
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP) is one of the most widely respected online reference works. Many philosophers and students have found it to be invaluable, and even non-philosophers have marveled at it. (more…)
- “If you are beset by philosophical questions and have the great luxury of being paid to spend a chunk of your time trying to answer them, then go for it. If you want to change the world in a big way… best to either reduce your ambitions or leave academia” — Russ Shafer-Landau (Wisconsin) at “What Is It Like To Be A Philosopher?”
- “The challenge for plant philosophy… is to try to achieve some clarity concerning the legitimate use of concepts such as agency and intelligence in the plant sciences” — but not just that, argues Stella Sandford (Kingston)
- “We purposefully drew up a malicious playbook for undermining democracy, and it mirrored business-as-usual” — Steven Fesmire (Radford) on teaching students about the risks of “moral fundamentalism”
- “Does AI marvel and change its output because it just read or saw something marvelous?… How do you teach it to marvel when it has already absorbed so much and hasn’t yet marveled?” — five perspectives on the humanities and AI (via MR)
- When philosophers of mind claim their works are informed by empirical evidence, what does that mean? — Karen Yan (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University) categorizes and analyzes different types of cross-disciplinarity in philosophy of mind
- “To ensure that it’s consciousness we’re studying we need to start with consciousness as it occurs within ourselves. But that approach threatens to be unacceptably anthropocentric” — one of many challenges to the study of animal consciousness discussed by Tim Bayne (Monash) in Noema Magazine
- “What matters most is the manner in which the animal is able to live and then how it is killed, not the fact that it is killed” — The Guardian talks with Peter Godfrey-Smith (Sydney) about humans and our relationship with earth and its other inhabitants