• Joe Cruz, Williams College In the near term, I’m not much worried about the effect on the work students do. Yes, ChatGPT is impressive. If I were teaching an 11th grade US history class, I would probably have to… Read More ›
Month: March 2023
24 Philosophy Professors React to ChatGPT’s Arrival, Part I, Ahmed Bouzid
For someone like myself who makes their living in the field of Human Language Technology, two dates from the past decade or so have stood as watershed moments in that field: October 4, 2011 when Apple’s Siri was launched with… Read More ›
Humanity 8.0 Podcast: Season Two, Episodes 3 and 4
Humanity 8.0 has just published two new episodes! ❧ Season 2, Episode 3: https://youtu.be/mNTKq0CybxE. Listen to Professor Salman Hameed—interviewed by Ahmed Bouzid—astrophysicist and Charles Taylor Chair and Professor of Integrated Science and Humanities at Hampshire College in Massachusetts. He also… Read More ›
The Le Monde Declaration: Can Suppression of Conspiracy Theory be Conspiratorial? Lee Basham
Remarkably, with a dash of amusement, the answer to the question posed in the title is “yes”. The irony of the Le Monde declaration lives on. Let’s turn our thoughts to plagiarism. Of course, we need to take plagiarism and… Read More ›
Being at the Crossroads: On the Mission of the Social Philosopher of Science | Review of Kasavin’s A Social Philosophy of Science, Lada V. Shipovalova and Yulia V. Shaposhnikova
The work of a philosopher of science, just as any other cognitive and social activity, can and should be accompanied by reflexivity. This accompaniment provides an opportunity to think oneself in the place of the Other, to step constructively beyond… Read More ›
The Beauty of Understanding: Scientific Understanding as Aesthetic Experience, Bridget Ritz and Brandon Vaidyanathan
Our standard images of science and scientists fail to portray the way in which scientists themselves experience science—as an aesthetic quest. They ignore the way in which scientists are driven by a passion for beauty and a childlike thirst to… Read More ›
Postmaterialism, Anyone? Brian Martin
Conventional scientific theories can’t explain telepathy and precognition. Nor can they provide a convincing explanation for consciousness. The usual scientific assumption is that the material world is all there is. To explain anomalous evidence, should this assumption be superseded by… Read More ›
Knowledge for Breakfast, Episode 4: “‘Realizing Knowledge Together’ and Reimagining Academic Futures”
In this episode of “Knowledge for Breakfast”, we are joined by SERRC founder, Jim Collier, to discuss the what he means by ‘realizing knowledge together’, and, as academics, what we take our role to be in this knowledge making enterprise…. Read More ›
Regarding Dispositional Belief: A Further Reply to Hiller and Randall, Jesper Kallestrup
In my reply (2023) to Hiller and Randall (2023a), I suggested that since dispositional belief is arguably what knowledge in general requires, their (NSNS) view of group knowledge should account for how groups dispositionally believe p, as opposed to having… Read More ›
The Next Step after Three Decades: A Reply to Basu, Tsung-Yen Tsou
Sumitran Basu’s “Three Decades of Social Construction of Technology: Dynamic Yet Fuzzy? The Methodological Conundrum” (2022) provides insightful comments and builds a solid cornerstone for us to review and reflect on the Social Construction of Technology (SCOT). It is an… Read More ›