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Intellectual Virtues Online – Part 2 Exploring the changing nature of public debate

Here is part 2 of Lukas Schwengerer' series of posts on intellectual virtues on line for Open for Debate #philosophy #philsky
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I wrote two posts for the Open for Debate blog about intellectual virtues and the Internet. The first one is out today!

Thank you to @ale1808.bsky.social for giving me this opportunity.

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Intellectual Virtues Online – Part 1 Exploring the changing nature of public debate

Lukas Schwengerer "Intellectual Virtues Online" for Open for Debate #philosophy #philsky
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Digital Technology and Cognitive Scaffolding Exploring the changing nature of public debate

Spencer Paulson "Digital Techonology and Cognitive Scaffolding" on Open for Debate #philsky #philosophy blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/openfordebat...

A Careful Call for Humility Exploring the changing nature of public debate

Some of you may be interested in this post about humility and oppression by Laura Callahan on Open for Debate. #philosophy #philsky
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Being pluralistic about philosophical pessimism (Part 2) Exploring the changing nature of public debate

Part 2 of Ian James Kidd on pessimism for Open for Debate #philsky #philosophy
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Being pluralistic about philosophical pessimism (Part 1) Exploring the changing nature of public debate

A great post by Ian James Kidd on Pessimism for Open for Debate #philosophy #philsky blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/openfordebat...

Samuel Alito and the Ethics of Suspicion Exploring the changing nature of public debate

Alex Worsnip on psychologising explanations for Open for Debate #philosophy #philsky
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An Existentialist Challenge to the Babel Fish Could advanced translation technologies solve linguistic injustice in the world? Activists and scholars hear this question being asked quite often, and sometimes with a slight skeptical tone sugges…

Çağla Çimendereli on translation techonologies and linguistic injustice for Open for Debate #philosophy #philsky
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Data Figleaves: Statistics and their Power to Conceal Racism If you have followed the 2024 US election coverage, you have likely come across the term “migrant crime”. A term coined by Donald Trump to refer to an alleged crime wave spurred by Joe Biden’s bord…

Felix Bräuer "Data Figleaves: Statistics and their Power to Conceal Racism" on Open for Debate #philosophy #philsky
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Terrorism and Evil On 1 January of this year, an American man drove his pickup truck into a crowd on Bourbon Street in New Orleans (Louisiana, US). Fifteen people were killed and dozens of others injured. The perpetr…

Rik Peels "Terrorism and Evil" on Open for Debate #philosophy #philsky
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Oppressive Praise Think about the last time you expressed praise. For me this is easy. As a parent of young children, I do it multiple times a day. ‘How kind you are, sharing your teddy!’ ‘Aw, it sounds like you wer…

Jules Holroyd "Oppressive Praise" on Open for Debate #philosophy #philsky
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The “affective” in affective polarization Public opinion in many contemporary democracies shows increasing signs of polarization. In particular, animosity and dislike across political lines have become increasingly characteristic of Wester…

Some of you may be interested in this excellent post by
@almagro.bsky.social for Open for Debate #philosophy #philsky

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Some amazing talks coming up this Friday 13 Dec thanks to @cardiffphilosophy.bsky.social, @uconn.bsky.social, @lucyosler.bsky.social, Tracy Llanera & yours truly!

"Cultural Imperialism: A Face of Trans Oppression"

"Transness, Social Media, and Emotion: How Online Spaces Sculpt Trans Affect"

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Philosophical Foundations for Chatbot Regulation In an age where we increasingly converse with artifacts – whose interfaces include AI, a pressing question emerges: Who, or what, are we really talking with? As AI-based chatbots, often terme…

Some of you may be interested in this post by Ori Freiman on chatbot regulation for Open for Debate #philosophy
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We’ll be travelling across trans communities, tradwives, endometriosis support groups, metal and baddiecore!

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I’ve made a starter pack for feminist philosophy adjacent people — please tell me who else to include! #philsky go.bsky.app/Fy5Z6kk

AI regulation and the right to meaningful explanation. Pt 2: How (if at all)? Earlier, I argued that we should safeguard the right to a meaningful explanation of life-changing decisions, even when such decisions are made by complex AI algorithms. Here, I argue that the compl…

Part 2 of Bram Vaassen's post on AI regulation for Open for Debate #philosophy #philsky
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@zaranosaur.bsky.social thought you would be interested

AI regulation and the right to meaningful explanation. Pt 1. Why (not)? Ask anyone except a gun rights activist, and they will agree that the rise of new technologies requires the implementation of new regulations. Not too long ago, a law against human cloning would ha…

Some of you may be interested in this post by Bram Vaassen on AI and the right to an explanation for Open for Debate. #philosophy #philsky
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True Believers? Introduction One popular image of the ‘brainwashed’ person is someone who repeats what their leader says and who professes conviction in what they repeat.[1] But do brainwashed people really believ…

When can someone be said to truly believe something? A great post by Chris Ranalli on Open for Debate #philsky #philosophy
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How should we lead our intellectual lives? This question has long preoccupied philosophers, but has recently taken on greater public urgency in response to fears about misinformation, disinformation, bullshit, tribalism, and other perceived…

A great post on collective virtues by Steven Bland on Open for Debate #philosophy #philsky
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Values and Virtues in Philosophy and Psychology During the recent general election campaign in the UK, I received a flyer through my door from a local independent candidate who claimed to value, among other things, humanitarianism. He also wante…

How do virtues relate to values? An excellent post by Henry Roe on Open for Debate #philosophy #philsky #psychology
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Gatekeeping in Science It’s common in public discourse to see worries about pseudoscience. This is understandable, for the stakes are high. Although science surely can’t tell us about everything, it is our best way to le…

"Gatekeeping in Science" by Katherine Dormandy for Open for Debate #philosophy #philsky
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AI voices should sound weird There has been a lot of discussion recently – both among academics and in the popular press –  about what kinds of limits should be placed on content generated by AI. Although questions about how t…

Ethan Nowak "AI voices should sound weird" on Open for Debate #philosophy #philsky

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Volume 133 Issue 531 | Mind | Oxford Academic The official journal of the Mind Association. Publishes high-quality original contributions on philosophy, in which no area of philosophy, no style of philosophy, and no school of philosophy is exclud...

July 2024 issue of Mind is out, with my review of @ale1808.bsky.social's 'The Mismeasure of the Self':

Extreme belief systems In Kirill Srebrennikov’s 2016 film, The Student, Venia, a lonely high school student begins to intensely read the bible and appeal to it for everything he says and does. Through this, he becomes a …

Jakob Ohlhurst "Extreme belief systems" on Open for Debate #philosophy #philsky
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SUBJECTIVE JUSTICE Can bad people be good judges?[1] This question would have been unintelligible before the rise of the modern state, when moral character and expertise were deemed as inextricably linked.[2]  Person…

A lovely post by Amalia Navarro in Open for Debate on virtue epistemology and the judiciary #philosophy #philsky
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