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We are hiring two postdoctoral researchers, to work on questions about the impact of AI on science! See details here, and direct questions to [email protected]!
Please share broadly!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRN637/r...
Here are three photos from Shanghai Jiao Tong on 18 May, where Tom Stoneham gave a lecture on 'Existential Risk as an Ethical Problem' and engaged in a roundtable on differences between UK and Chinese approaches to AI regulation and governance. @tomstoneham.dair-community.social.ap.brid.gy
From the report: Tom "noted that Berkeley's works can appear accessible while also being easily misunderstood, and that recent scholarship has moved beyond a narrow focus on Berkeley's critique of materialism toward broader studies of his social, political, economic, and religious thought."
@tomstoneham.dair-community.social.ap.brid.gy
Congrats to Dave Ingram, the new President of the Philosophy of Time Society! www.philtimesociety.com
Tom Stoneham recently took part in launching the inaugural issue of Modern Philosophy, titled "George Berkeley’s Works and Legacy." The event at Yangzhou University was sponsored by the Center of Modern Thought at the School of Social Development and Yangzhou University.
Daniel Morgan on how far neurophysiology can take us in resolving the controversy about whether addiction is a moral excuse:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
In a new paper just published in Mind, Rob Trueman helps us navigate the "higher order" turn in metaphysics, presenting a new deflationary view that justifies a standard but metaphysically controversial assumption. Read the paper here: philpapers.org/rec/TRUFPP
What is it like to feel haunted by something? To find out, read Matthew Ratcliffe's new paper "From hauntology (back) to phenomenology," published yesterday in Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Is this Brandolini's Law finally overturned?
(Brandolini's Law: The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it)
