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I respond to this report here https://jasonstanleyantifascist.substack.com/p/on-the-philosophical-muddle-that
For what it’s worth, I agree. I have, with some trepidation, given it a bunch of my papers and asked…
Looking at some of the AI-amplified cranks on philpeople, it is hard to agree with the assessment of this article.…
Perhaps a useful distinction here is between replacing philosophers and changing the conditions under which philosophical work gets done. LLMs…
Conditional on the hypothesis that journal editors sometimes desk reject high-quality papers written and commended by world experts on a…
Some users seem to have conflicting impressions about the (absolute level of) abilities of current iterations of the LLMs. But…
One thing I appreciate about Greco’s piece is the very helpful distinction between instrumental and intrinsic value, which he lays…
Professor Cheng, who spent most of his career in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Hawaii, was well-known for his many contributions to the study of Confucian and Neo-Confucian philosophy. Comments are open for remembrances from those who knew Professor Cheng or from those who wish to comment on the significance of his work.
(Thanks to Michael Forster for alerting me to his death.)
His department has posted a remembrance:
https://hawaii.edu/phil/chung-ying-cheng-1935-2024-a-life-dedicated-to-east-west-scholarship/
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