N. G. Laskowski

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Nicholas Laskowski, Epistemic modesty in ethics - PhilPapers Many prominent ethicists, including Shelly Kagan, John Rawls, and Thomas Scanlon, accept a kind of epistemic modesty thesis concerning our capacity to carry out the project of ethical theorizing. But ...

Seems like this topic is well suited to them

philpapers.org/rec/LASEMI

Nathan Howard & N. G. Laskowski, The Moral Mosaic - PhilPapers A central metaphysical debate about laws concerns whether they govern or merely summarize. This debate has recently been extended to moral laws, with fresh criticism directed at the Humean position by...

Ever wonder what the principle of utility is or how it can or can't relate to run-of-the-mill non-moral facts? Ever wonder what moral laws are for? You can read all about what Nathan Howard and I think about these and other questions in our new paper draft. 

philpapers.org/rec/HOWTMM-4

Included on page 1 of my new syllabi

Please stop "correcting" my use of 'iff' to 'if' copy-editor challenge.

FARM 2025 FARM is a new conference that aims at bringing together researchers working on meaning (including, but not limited to, semantics of natural language) and researchers working on reasoning and rational ...

Last call for submissions to FARM! FARM (Formal Approached to Rationality and Meaning) is a new conference for work on meaning and rationality. The first installment will happen this Fall at the University of Maryland.

sites.google.com/view/farm202...

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Updated my website in preparation for a big 'ol review.

www.nglaskowski.com

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Maybe? I think it would be reasonable for those cited in the context of the general discussion to feel "called out".

Like you, I think it's good to hold academics to higher standards of intellectual honesty. But I also think it's good to hold academics to higher standards of civility.

Oh sure but isn't it pretty tough to be justified in thinking that an academic isn't honestly grappling with ideas due to ideological convenience? And isn't the bar on such justification pretty high given the severity of the accusation?

"low-decoupling academics who refuse to acknowledge basic evaluative facts"

"If they’d just stop and think clearly for a minute"

Yeesh!

The Politics of Apoliticism | Los Angeles Review of Books Kieran Setiya reviews Christoph Schuringa’s “A Social History of Analytic Philosophy.”

I really enjoyed this review/defense of analytic philosophy! I especially liked Setiya's point that what can superficially look like a reliance on intuitions is in fact the practice of making one's assumptions clear - which strikes me as profoundly fitting with democratic values. #philsky

I should have been clearer. I meant the second thing . I’m looking for best practices for designing classes to ensure that students prep for classes appropriately

Circumventing problems raised by AI for assessing students is easy, IMO (in class assignments).

But how are you addressing problems that AI raises for getting students to think for themselves by reading texts and thinking about them at home? How do you get them to not _only_ rely on AI summaries?

Come work with Kenneth and I! The required specialisation is actually super broad: if you want to do interesting and fun work on the nature of corporations please apply. Bonus points if you can do empirical work: we’ll stand by in awe and clap every time you use a number philjobs.org/job/show/291...

Dad day swag

N. G. Laskowski, Honest AI - PhilPapers How would OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, Anthropic’s Claude, and other “Conversational” artificially intelligent systems interact with humans if they safely benefited humanity? “Truthfully” is one...

New paper forthcoming.

I wrote an ancestor of this paper a couple years ago while being brought up to speed on AI, as a fellow at the Center for AI Safety. It brings together some thoughts from different areas of philosophy, which I think is neat. Maybe you will, too?

philpapers.org/rec/LASHAH-2

Update: DOGE cuts resulted in only 1 winner in my NEH category and it wasn't my team. DOGE also made the NEH so "efficient" that they didn't notify us - I had to email my own uni admin to learn that our project wasn't funded, two months after the NEH was supposed to email everyone.

Thanks!

Where can more information about this be found? Some students I know might be interested.

No prob. They have the methodology bk, TMU, and then another at some point on moral epistemology. But maybe the 3rd one will cover more?

We are bad at promotion. Just look at our reputation!

Your impermanence observation resonates deeply.

Wasn’t aware of Ichikawa’s book. Super interesting and fun looking topic!

(Fwiw, more convinced by your social change critique than the belief-action stuff)

Teresa Bruno-Niño & Preston J. Werner, You Oughta Know: A Defence of Obligations to Learn - PhilPapers Most of us spend a significant portion of our lives learning, practising, and performing a wide range of skills. Many of us also have a great amount of control over which ...

Are there other papers with titles that you can't read without singing the relevant song being referenced in your head?

philpapers.org/rec/BRUYOK

Inquiry moves fast! Here's 50 free e-prints.

www.tandfonline.com/eprint/YDGVX...

Inaugural Moral Metaphysics at Maryland workshop ("MMaM") program set. Check it out.

harjitbhogal.com/MMaM

Good to know!

Turns out though that the beat place to ens up woth views on your work is the phil cocoon comments section. I posted a link there for the first time this week and my phone melted when i loaded my philpeople acct!

More good-faith substantive engagement?

This isn’t fake??