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Postdoc at the RWTH Aachen's chair of applied ethics I know about Virtues, Wittgenstein, Extremism, Philosophy of Psychology & Conceptual Engineering

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- So you wanted to get back to your wife?

- Yes, I missed her dearly.

- So, how long were you on Ogygia?

- Seven years.

- And you liked Calypso?

- Well look, sheโ€™s a supernatural nymph with magic powers!

- Right.

05.03.2026 06:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Nice, das ist bestimmt komplett KI-generiert

05.03.2026 11:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Now do it again, but send a guy in a lab coat to everybody while they fill out the questionnaire! (Heโ€™ll just hover, and not make any demands himself)

05.03.2026 11:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

- So you wanted to get back to your wife?

- Yes, I missed her dearly.

- So, how long were you on Ogygia?

- Seven years.

- And you liked Calypso?

- Well look, sheโ€™s a supernatural nymph with magic powers!

- Right.

05.03.2026 06:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The governing coalition would dissolve instantly, the SPD would not abide any involvement

04.03.2026 17:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

While these cases may feel different, I would strongly emphasise that they usually will be very similar. In most cases, LLM interaction is and will be gasoline poured on an already burning fire.
So it's not really b e c a u s e the computer told him. But I agree that is little consolation

04.03.2026 16:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Deutscher Buchhandlungspreis: Weimer schlieรŸt Buchhandlungen nach Prรผfung durch Verfassungsschutz aus Der Kulturstaatsminister kann Kรผnstler, die sich um eine Fรถrderung bewerben, vom Verfassungsschutz รผberprรผfen lassen. Ein Erlass des Innenministeriums macht es mรถglich.

"Kulturstaatsminister Weimer kann Kรผnstler, die sich um eine Fรถrderung bewerben, vom Verfassungsschutz รผberprรผfen lassen. Ein wenig bekannter Erlass des Innenministeriums macht es mรถglich. Beim Deutschen Buchhandlungspreis gab es jetzt die ersten Ausschlรผsse." www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/wolfr...

03.03.2026 20:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 163    ๐Ÿ” 71    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 16    ๐Ÿ“Œ 24
Book cover of โ€œTemporal Cognition in Animalsโ€ by Angelica Kaufmann in the Cambridge Elements: The Philosophy of Biology series. Against a black background, the title is surrounded by Ernst Haeckelโ€™s illustrations of marine organismsโ€”radial, symmetrical forms in vivid blues, oranges, reds, and greens.

Book cover of โ€œTemporal Cognition in Animalsโ€ by Angelica Kaufmann in the Cambridge Elements: The Philosophy of Biology series. Against a black background, the title is surrounded by Ernst Haeckelโ€™s illustrations of marine organismsโ€”radial, symmetrical forms in vivid blues, oranges, reds, and greens.

Do non-human animals represent time? New Element in the #PhilBio series by Angelica Kaufmannโ€”free to download until March 16! Kaufmann argues that temporal cognition is widespread across many animal species & advances comparative analyses ๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ“• www.cambridge.org/core/element... #evosky #HPS #cogsci

03.03.2026 10:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 99    ๐Ÿ” 40    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The implicit weight of this argument hangs on the banal fact that academic publishing consisted of substantial sectors of rubbish for years now.
Iโ€™d note, the laziness of having used Claude for this also shows in that there would have been a more interesting post in examining what it does to those.

03.03.2026 06:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 24    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Stattdessen: "What intelligence tests miss" von Stanovich

26.02.2026 11:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

you might try to glean the valuable insight/what the criticism should have been from the paper?
In the sense: this was a misunderstanding but it points to that issue, which you can then address

24.02.2026 12:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I saw a talk version of this paper and came away having learned so much about how distortions in medical data are produced from the top down through the categories we use. So glad itโ€™s out now!

20.02.2026 15:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 19    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Sogar da ist es ein deutscher Fimmel, in der Schweiz wird nicht mit "reiner" Wรคsche geworben, die braucht da keinen Arielschein

20.02.2026 11:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
AI Survival Stories - Responses to Critics | Philosophy of AI

journals.ub.uni-koeln.de/index.php/ph...
We have just published Herman Cappelen's replies to his critics on our website.

26.12.2025 08:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Babbling stochastic parrots? A Kripkean argument for reference in large language models | Philosophy of AI

Does ChatGPT refer? To find out, read our paper by Steffen Koch! Part of our first special issue on Language and AI journals.ub.uni-koeln.de/index.php/ph...

30.06.2025 07:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Den SEP Artikel zu connectionism ;)

19.02.2026 20:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Paul M. Churchland, To transform the phenomena: Feyerabend, proliferation, and recurrent neural networks - PhilPapers Paul Feyerabend recommended the methodological policy of proliferating competing theories as a means to uncovering new empirical data, and thus as a means to increase the empirical constraints that al...

Das sind eher Bรผcher, sonst das hier?
philpapers.org/rec/CHUTTT

19.02.2026 20:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Churchland on Neuronal Networks; and Osler's "Hallucinating with AI"
Something about whether LLM-outputs are meaningful

19.02.2026 17:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Nice , I like the liability questions around air pollution (also a collectivisation). Though it doesn't give us directly what insurances think monetarily. That the carbon industry would go bankrupt if they had to bear their externalities doesn't surprise me.

18.02.2026 10:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

So my understanding is that nuclear power wouldnโ€™t be economical if it had to be insured privately; so states subsidise it indirectly by collectivising the risks.
You seem to be able/interested enough in the thing to tell me whether thatโ€™s a mistaken impression on my part!

18.02.2026 08:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The table on the title page

17.02.2026 18:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I feel tempted to start an argument that itโ€™s canals.
I guess goods vs people.

17.02.2026 06:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

To my understanding we should expect talk of zeliefs in about 250 years.
Early modern philosophers started out with beliefs in the 18th century, then we got aliefs a few years ago, so either itโ€™s zeliefs next, or omegaliefs

14.02.2026 22:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

put it in the paper

13.02.2026 14:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿšจ Die Vereinigung franzรถsischer Jurist*innen hat Anzeige erstattet wegen der Verbreitung von Falschnachrichten in Bezug auf das manipulierte Video von Francesca Albanese.

Hier die englischsprachige Aussendung๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿผ

13.02.2026 10:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 50    ๐Ÿ” 24    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 6

Gratuliere!

10.02.2026 21:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Iโ€™m editing a SI for Synthese at the moment: the rules are quite strict editor submissions are handled by the chief editor, so Aidanโ€™s on the money.

10.02.2026 21:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The whole cognitive stuff looks very interesting anyways, the term just got my epistemologist hopes up

07.02.2026 09:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Free book alert!
About very cool stuff at that

07.02.2026 08:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This looks very interesting! Do you also link it to traditional accounts of โ€žself-evidentโ€œ?

07.02.2026 08:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0