Inkeri Koskinen

AI slop and the destruction of knowledge This week I was looking for info on what cognitive scientists mean when they speak of ‘domain-general’ cognition. I was curious, because the nuances are relevant for something I am researching at t…

AI slop and the destruction of knowledge irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...

Many of us who live elsewhere have no confusion about what is currently happening in the US.

Uwe Peters, Yener Cagla Cimendereli, Alex Davies, Charlotte Gauvry, Kiichi Inarimori, Anna Klieber, Sitian Liu, Nikolaj Nottelmann, Federica Russo & Juan Samuel Santos Castro, Epistemic Challenges of ... The widespread use of English in the field of philosophy facilitates international collaboration but may also pose significant challenges in understanding, analyzing, or producing information for both...

Epistemic Challenges of Non-native English Speakers in Philosophy: Evidence from an International Survey
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How many times did Israel deny doing this? And how many times did politicians, journalists and pundits online suggest that saying that Israel was doing anything other than the most "moral warfare" was rank antisemitism?

I just reviewed an obviously AI-generated manuscript. Dear editors, these are not difficult to identify. Please spare your reviewers. We are already overworked, and if you send us AI-bullshit, we are forced to spend time explaining why the paper should be rejected. You could simply desk reject it.

Dear all,

Helen passed away at 13:21 local time. Helen would not have wanted us to be sad for a long time. All they wanted was to be remembered. They looked forward to being rid of pain and to being at rest. Helen took great comfort in you, their friends and readers.

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Etenkin tuo jälkimmäinen kuulostaa todella kiinnostavalta! Ja hämmästyttävää, ettei ole tutkittu.

Miksei tätä ole tutkittu? Tieteessä tapahtuu -lehti kokoaa yhteen eri tieteenalat. Se on foorumi ajankohtaisille ja yleistajuisille tiedeartikkeleille sekä keskustelulle tieteestä ja tiedepolitiikasta.

Kirjoitin taas kolumnin. Toimittaja Taina Vuokko keksi, että tässähän pitää luoda aihetunniste #mikseitätäoletutkittu .(Oikeasti vain edelleen haluan, että joku osaava yhteiskuntatieteilijä kiinnostuu noista aiheista.) www.tieteessatapahtuu.fi/numerot/3-20...

History and motivations How It All Started In the spring of 2015, the Steering Committee (SC) of the European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA) announced for the first time 13 fellowships for junior scholars from...

I am currently chairing a network very close to my heart, namely the Eastern European Network for Philosophy of Science. It finally has an account here @eenphilsci.bsky.social. To start here's a moving piece by a Bulgarian philosopher and a founding member Lilia Gurova on how it all began.

Pseudoscience in Working Life Keynote speakers: Sven Ove Hansson, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm Mona Mannevuo, University of Helsinki Programme committee: Inkeri Koskinen, University of Helsinki Ilmari Hirvonen, Uni...

We are organising a multidisciplinary workshop on pseudoscience in working life (in Helsinki, in September). If the topic interests you, please consider submitting an abstract! philevents.org/event/show/1...

Tutkijoiden vetoomus Suomen ulkopoliittiselle johdolle ja eduskunnalle kansanmurhan ehkäisemiseksi Gazassa ja Palestiinan tunnustamiseksi Allekirjoita vetoomus lähettämällä sähköpostiviesti lenanare@gmail.com tai markus.jantti@gmail.com 21.5. klo 18 mennessä. Toimitamme vetoomuksen kansanedustajille ja hallitukselle illalla 21.5.2025 T...

Tutkija allekirjoita vetoomus Suomen ulkopoliittiselle johdolle ja eduskunnalle kansanmurhan lopettamiseksi Gazassa ja Palestiinan tunnustamiseksi
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"We'll just terraform Mars," they insist, unable to terraform Earth, a planet that is already perfect except it's like 2° too warm.

End unfolding genocide or watch it end life in Gaza: UN experts say States face defining choice GENEVA – Escalating atrocities in Gaza present an urgent moral crossroads and States must act now to end the violence or bear witness to the annihilation of the Palestinian population in Gaza – an out...

This is the moment. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Holy moly. Read the full thread, it is worth it (and try to keep up the faith that science is self-correcting, even it does not seem to be the case here (yet)) #MetaScience

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(...) Given how strict they were, I'd say I'll have no trouble awarding them the grades they suggest at the end of the course.

Halfway through the course, the students had to hand in their mid-course evaluations, providing justifications for the grade they thought they should receive, based on their performance thus far, and explaining what they should do in order to achieve a better final grade. (...)

I'm currently teaching a course with lots of assignments, but all of them are assessed on a pass/fail basis, and the students suggest their own grades. I've written fairly detailed descriptions of what is required for each grade. (...)

Metsät | Tutkijat tyrmäävät Tero Pitkämäen ja Antti Ruuskasen metsäpuheet: ”Valheellisia väittämiä” Entiset keihäänheittäjät ovat perustaneet metsäalan yrityksen. Nyt he esittävät kyseenalaisia väitteitä Suomen metsistä, sanovat asiantuntijat.

Valheiden ja virheväittämien oikomisen sijaan haluaisin käyttää aikani rakentavaan keskusteluun. Nykyrooli on pakotettu, ei valinta.

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LLM:s can write quite well, but persuading them to do that requires some prompting skills. However, they are quite useful for those of us whose first language is not English.

We are organising a multidisciplinary workshop on pseudoscience in working life. If the topic interests you, please consider submitting an abstract!
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In English it's a bit difficult to convey the difference between knowing how something is done and knowing how to do it. In Finnish it's obvious, as we use two different verbs to say that. And while Ryle agrees with the Finnish language, he needs quite a few words to convey the idea.

In Finnish too: tietää (to know) vs. tuntea (to know by aquaintance, to feel). We also distinguish knowing that from knowing how: tietää/osata. I just this week had my students translating a passage about knowing how and knowing that from Ryle's The Concept of Mind. It's quite hilarious in Finnish.

Sandra Harding (1935-2025) - Daily Nous Sandra Harding, a philosopher well-known for her work in feminist theory, postcolonial theory, and philosophy of science, has died. Professor Harding was recognized for her development of standpoint t...

Sandra Harding, a philosopher well-known for her work in feminist theory, postcolonial theory, and philosophy of science, has died.

Tutkijayhteisö on laajalla konsensuksella varoittanut metsähakkuiden negatiivisesta vaikutuksesta nieluihin jo yli kymmenen vuotta. Suomen ilmastotavoite olisi täysin mahdollista saavuttaa, jos metsäsektori olisi muiden alojen tapaan kantanut oman vastuunsa ilmastotoimista. 1/3

A rare and wonderful sight of a great UK philosophy job. Please spread widely to colleagues worldwide.

Area of Specialization: Ethics and/or Political Philosophy
Would be an advantage to be able to teach Ethics of AI
Tenure-track
Application deadline: 10th March 2025

#philsky

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Villi Suomen historia [The Wild history of Finland] (2015). It's a popular book on pseudohumanities and demarcation – pseudohistory, pseudoetymologies, pseudoarchaelogy etc.