Constantine Sandis

This a great example of the cost of "botshit" ie when AI makes stuff up and humans uncritically use it

See:

doi.org/10.1016/j.bu...

An open access version: dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

Announcing the Nayef Al-Rodhan Book Prize shortlist for 2025. The Royal Institute of Philosophy royalinstitutephilosophy.org

"Every book on this list is a first class piece of transdisciplinary philosophical research." Today we announce the shortlist for the Nayef Al-Rodhan International Prize in Transdisciplinary #Philosophy

Read more: royalinstitutephilosophy.org/news/shortli...

Scholarships for dyslexic postgraduate students working in #Classics, #Philosophy, and #ArtHistory. Please share widely!

#dyslexiaawareness #researchgrants

Deloitte to refund government, admits using AI in $440k report Deloitte will issue a partial refund to the government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a report littered with errors.

Deloitte Australia to issue a partial refund to federal government after admitting AI use in the creation of a $440,000 report littered with errors including three nonexistent academic references and a made-up quote from a Federal Court judgement.

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Editor of Ethics Floats AI-Use Guidelines - Daily Nous In a recent editorial, Douglas Portmore (Notre Dame), the editor-in-chief of Ethics, sets forth some "initial guidelines" about AI use for the journal. He says his remarks "represent only my own opini...

Pretty epic and concise stuff from Douglas Portmore (
@ethicsjournal.bsky.social) via @dailynous.com

dailynous.com/2025/09/29/e...

I'm thrilled to announce that @lexacademic.bsky.social are now able to assist academic authors and independent researchers and their families and/or literary executors with a range of legacy initiatives, including Nachlässe, research centres, online archives, book publications, and more.

We don’t want AI that can understand us – we’d only end up arguing Asking whether machines can really understand us is meaningless.

On the 75th anniversary of the Turing Test, I thought I'd re-share this @uk.theconversation.com piece I co-wrote with Richard Harper when I was a Visiting Professor at Microsoft Research, Cambridge. Lots has changed since then, but the main point still stands.

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Bit mean

“[M]ourning is itself kalon. It is not only good but wondrous that there should be mourning…a distinctively human way of responding to loss. It is a special manner of expressing grief—an insistence that what happened was not a mere change.“

Rest in peace, Jonathan Lear.

A nice box of @bloomsburyphilo.bsky.social paperbacks of ‘From Action to Ethics’ has just arrived. I’m not sure my surname is big enough on the front cover, but I’m otherwise very pleased with the results.Order direct from @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social for 30% off

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A major problem with the implementation of most AI technology is that it fails the Domino's Pizza Tracker® test: unless a technology is at least as reliable as the Domino's Pizza Tracker®, it should not be used for any task more important than ordering a pizza.

Will do! Nice to see you on here, Malik!

Perhaps they are 70% plainsong proper?

Overheard on train: ‘lentils are still carbs, though’.

Keto is going to mess up your health kids, don’t do it.

Masters of Cinema according to AI Masters of Cinema

Struggling to understand who on earth would wish to read (let alone purchase) something like this

cinemastersai.com

I just finished reading my advance copy of Malik Al Nasir's Searching for My Slave Roots: From Guyana’s Sugar Plantations to Cambridge (out next week with @wmcollinsbooks.bsky.social).

I cannot recommend this book highly enough. I you're in the UK, try to catch him on his book tour!

From Action to Ethics Over the course of the last 15 years, Constantine Sandis has advanced our understanding of the role that action plays in shaping our moral thought. In this coll…

I enjoyed discussing 'From Action to Ethics' on @goodisinthedetails.bsky.social:

goodisinthedetails.libsyn.com/ethics-actio...

The book is out today in pbk from @bloomsburyphilo.bsky.social. Yours for just £20.29 when ordering from @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social 👇
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Ryan Lake (1976-2025) - Daily Nous Ryan Lake, assistant professor of philosophy at Perimeter College at Georgia State University, has died. Ryan's philosophical interests were mainly on questions related to freedom and determinism. In ...

Ryan Lake (1976-2025). Such sad news. Ryan was truly the best. RIP my friend. dailynous.com/2025/08/21/r...

The best books on human action Constantine Sandis shares the 5 best books on human action. Have you read The Bhagavad Gita?

It's publication day for the paperback of my @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social book 'From Action to Ethics' (@bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social)

I introduce the book, along with my favourite non-academic books on human action in this piece I wrote for @shepherdbooks.bsky.social

shepherd.com/best-books/h...

Thank you! There is an interested French publisher, but they are looking for a translator with the relevant expertise. Let me know if you know of (or are) one.

Journal for New Narratives in the History of Philosophy (JNNHP) – First issue and CFP

The inaugural volume of Journal for New Narratives in the History of Philosophy (JNNHP) is scheduled to publish this Fall. The contents are listed on the website:  Here is a call for papers for the second volume:…

Bob Dylan circa 1997

From Action to Ethics Over the course of the last 15 years, Constantine Sandis has advanced our understanding of the role that action plays in shaping our moral thought. In this coll

My book, 'From Action to Ethics' is out in paperback tomorrow! @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social @bloomsburyphilo.bsky.social

Pre-order from all good bookshops (RRP £28.99). Copies are also already available at @blackwells.bsky.social in Oxford & Heffers in Cambridge.

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Jordan Peterson ‘taking time off everything’ after mold exposure, daughter says Mikhaila Peterson claims her father is experiencing a ‘severe’ flare-up of symptoms linked with chronic inflammatory response syndrome

Some writers stale. Others...go mouldy

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Cover of Why Delusions Matter

Logo of Choice

Happy to hear that Why Delusions Matter (Bloomsbury 2023) is a 2024 Choice Outstanding Academic Title! www.choice360.org/ch... #philsky #philpsy #booksky

Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia

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Transdisciplinary Philosophy Book Prize Long List Released - Daily Nous The Royal Institute of Philosophy recently announced the longlist of books being considered for the 2025 Nayef Al-Rodhan International Prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy. The £20,000 prize recogniz...

The list of finalists being considered for a £20,000 "transdisciplinary" book prize has been announced...

Longlist announced for the Nayef Al-Rodhan Book Prize 2025 - Royal Institute of Philosophy The Royal Institute of Philosophy unveils the longlist for the 2025 Nayef Al-Rodhan International Prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy. Learn more.

Happy to see The Edge of Sentience longlisted for the Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy. royalinstitutephilosophy.org/news/longlis...

Really honoured to see Alan, my and Bart's book longlisted for this alongside some really excellent books #philsky

Transdisciplinary Philosophy for All A long time ago, in the age before the Internet, my teenage self spent weeks browsing the physical prospectuses of various undergraduate…

I wrote a piece on the value of Transdisciplinary Philosophy, to accompany the announcement of this year's longlist for @triphilosophy.bsky.social's Nayef Al-Rodhan International Prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy.

constantinesandis.medium.com/transdiscipl...