Gregor E. Bös

Anthropic accuses Chinese AI labs of ‘distillation attacks’ on its models US company says it identified actions by rivals DeepSeek, Moonshot and MiniMax

Anthropic shocked, shocked at disrespect for intellectual property

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Schöne Metaphernbildung, vielen Dank!

Acrylic is a safe bet. Having a retarding medium, which makes them dry more slowly like oil paints, is really helpful to avoid frustration with smooth transitions. But in my experience, the best predictor for fun vs frustration with painting is how experienced you are with drawing (=seeing).

Please do write about this! And I'd love to know if this has corollaries for the value of philosophy. When I defended writing without llms along these lines, I was accused of a genetic fallacy...

How a University is “Transforming” its Humanities and Social Sciences Program How a University is “Transforming” its Humanities and Social Sciences Program Note: These are Jeffrey Ding’s informal and unofficial translations -- all credit for the original goes to the authors and...

AI in humanities and social sciences education in China.

Jeffrey Ding offers these annotated translations from Mandarin. Normally they are more technical, but this one is about the impact of AI on Social Sciences teaching. Much first-personal from a professor.

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Tomorrow we will have a keynote from Charles Pence (UC Louvain).

Thanks to the Dutch Philosophy Research School (OZSW) for supporting this event, and @mnoichl.bsky.social for organizing this with me!

academic presentation in a baroque university environment. A group of researchers are gathered around a conference table

Gregor Betz (KIT) kicking off our "Data Driven Philosophy" Hackathon in Utrecht with his talk: "Doing Philosophy with and for LLMs". Besides input about the state of research and new directions, we're spending three days kicking off new projects.

Today I discovered a great set of BPA resources for early-career philosophers on publishing, grants/fellowships, and job apps, with loads of sample materials like cover letters, research statements, etc.

Do share with those who might find these useful!

bpa.ac.uk/resources-fo...

#philjobs #philsky

There is a moral purity in the dilettante who chases neither perfection nor the thrill of competition. But I think career choices are not quite like picking a hobby.

The AfD continued its losing streak today in Germany's most populous states. In all three cities where the party had reached the runoff for mayor, it lost in a big way. In Gelsenkirchen 67-31, in Duisburg 79-21, and in Hagen 72-28.

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Aber ich sehe ihre Irritation jetzt eher darin, dass Sie 'Minderheit' in 'Minderheitssprache' nicht als statistische, sondern soziale Kategorie verstehen, die bestimmte Machtverhältnisse voraussetzt.

Da Sie nur diese Stelle zitiert hatten, schien es als ob sie schon in der Auflistung zweier Beispiele eine umfassendere Analogie sehen.

Danke für die Erläuterung. Mich hatte interessiert inwiefern die Aussage "es gibt verschiedene Fs, so wie a oder b" impliziert dass a und b sich über die F-heit hinaus ähneln. Ich bin eher gewohnt, dass man damit nur Fa und Fb äußert, aber das ist vielleicht eine déformation professionelle.

Since this may be of interest to you, here is the letter by Brentano to Hugo Bergmann, 1 June 1909, cited and translated in Rollinger2010:

Ist diese Dynamik schon Teil des Begriffs 'Minderheitensprache'? D.h. würden Sie FR in DE nicht als Minderheitensprache bezeichnen? Oder geht es darum, dass die Nennung im selben Satz eine Ähnlichkeit suggerieren könnte (vielleicht auch außerhalb des Zitats).

Viele unähnliche Dinge können unter denselben Begriff fallen - deshalb heißt das ja noch nicht, dass man sie vergleicht. Für andere Nicht-Linguisten, könnten Sie kurz sagen was genau Sie schräg finden? Darf eine Minderheitensprache in keinem anderen Kontext eine Mehrheitssprache sein?

Bolzano was remembered as a mathematician, but forgotten as a philosopher. As far as I know, it was Brentano who introduced Bolzano's work as a negative example, with the unintended consequence that his students (Husserl, Twardowski, Meinong) got very excited and rediscovered Bolzano as a logician.

For the OZSW-Summer School with Hackathon in Utrecht:
www.ozsw.nl/activity/dat...

Max Noichl | GAP-Workshop – Data-Driven Methods for Philosophy GAP-Satellite workshop

For the GAP Satellite Workshop in Utrecht:
maxnoichl.eu/blog/2025/ga...

Max Noichl | GAP-Workshop – Data-Driven Methods for Philosophy GAP-Satellite workshop

@mnoichl.bsky.social and I are organizing two workshops where you can learn about and try out digital methods for philosophy:

12th-13th September in Düsseldorf, Keynotes @cherfeld.bsky.social & Adrian Wüthrich

16-18th October in Utrecht, Keynotes Gregor Betz & Charles Pence. Register until 31.8.

Why worry about which novels already exist if they can be generated as you read?

Phenomenology also on the up...

The rise and rise of metaphysics...

Love that this includes very recent data!

G. E. Bös, Real Possibilities for Husserl's Correlation between Truth and Evidence - PhilPapers Already before endorsing transcendental idealism, Husserl pairs truths and possibilities of evidence. This ‘correlationism’ is central for phenomenological metaphysics, but it remains disputed how it ...

"Real Possibilities" - what Husserl means by those and what he should have said instead*. Forthcoming in ergo, preprint now here:
philpapers.org/rec/BSRPFX

*Insofar as they're supposed to link contingent truth and evidence

turns out, edhiphy.org has been nominated for a Digital Humanities Award! There are also lots of other interesting projects to discover, I enjoyed for example Thomas Weibel's 3D visualization of the Antikythera mechanism.

Voting is very easy and open until 4th April:
dhawards.org/dhawards2024...

We are very excited to start the new series De Gruyter History of #Philosophy and #Science with this #OpenAccess volume - and find the hauting relevance of the topic these days not necessarily a pleasant surprise. www.degruyter.com/do...

CfA Philosophy of Medicine Roundtable — Philosophy & Medicine

The Philosophy and Medicine Project at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social welcomes abstracts for the 2025 Philosophy of Medicine Roundtable - deadline 1st of February! ✍️ 🎓 www.philosophyandmedicine.org/cfa-philosop...

Lisa Kampen at Radboud university is preparing a philosophy PhD on Calkins.
In the edhiphy database we found that Calkins was the most discussed female philosopher pre-WW1.

Interesting! I did not think of Husserl's objection to mathematization in the _Crisis_ in terms of Putnam on the fact-value distinction. But I think that in Husserl's case, non-mathematizable properties need not be evaluative. There just may be no 'mathematically exact' concepts for e.g. colour.

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