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I use a paid version of a frontier LLM, typically maximizing the thinking time. My impression is that it’s strong…
[…] Chronicle summary; click to read. Brian Leiter at our Law School has also written his comments on the report,…
Having read the whole article, I will just say that my impression of LLMs’ ability to do philosophy is very…
Over the years I have found Virginia Held’s work especially valuable for thinking about Martin Luther King Jr.’s philosophy of…
June 1, 2026. To: Dr. Leiter. Open access unlimited and unending. Today Date: 2026 June 1. Unending until 2715. Free…
Andrei Rodin is circulating a letter demanding the liberation of Svetlana Mesyats: https://philomatica.org/2026/05/open-letter-in-support-of-svetlana-messiats/. The prosecution has demanded a sentence of…
Carlos Alberto Sánchez’s A Sense of Brutality: Philosophy after Narco-Culture (Amherst College Press, 2020) is a finalist for the 2026…
Pathetic. If his jokes aren't funny, don't clap and move on. But this is what happens when "inclusivity," which is profoundly subjective, is treated as an institutional objective.
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