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LE NEPVOU, Alexandre (2026) Residual Empiricism and the Bearer of Scientific Acceptance From Empirical Adequacy to Objectivating Adequacy. [Preprint]
Otsuka, Jun (2026) What Machine Learning Tells Us About the Mathematical Structure of Concepts. [Preprint]
Bedetti, Matteo and Meneganzin, Andra (2026) Buried, or Maybe Not: Adherence to Evidential Standards in Paleoanthropology. [Preprint]
Wu, Jingyi and Heesen, Remco and Lee, Jun Kyu (2026) {Why Scientists Should Not Show and Tell. [Preprint]
Rama, Tiago (2026) The problem of models. Can quantitative evolutionary biology also call for an EES? [Preprint]
Where in the world should you buy philosophy books? Sure, there’s the convenience of large online retailers, but there can be more to buying a book than just getting a good price o…
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) has bestowed its Berkson Courageous Colleague Award on two philosophers. Those two philosophers are Mike Gregory and Char…
Molinari, Daniele (2026) Participation and Immersive Imagination in Thought Experiments. European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 16 (43). ISSN 1879-4912
Colomina-Alminana, Juan (2025) Alice Ambrose on Logic, A Priori Concepts, and the Epistemology of Convention. [Preprint]
Dellsén, Finnur (2026) Collectivizing Public Scientific Testimony. [Preprint]
Jones, Elis and Bertrand, Erin (2026) The concept of metabolism in ocean biogeochemistry: departures, consistencies, and implications. [Preprint]
Nguyen, Timothy (2026) The Role of Rigor in Artificial Intelligence. [Preprint]
The Charlotte W. Newcombe Foundation has announced the winners of its 2026 Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships. The fellowship program provides support to PhD candidates in the human…
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Buddhist philosophy rejects the idea of the self. How then can there be any moral responsibility? Monima Chadha, Professor of Indian Philosophy at Oxford University, explains. This…
A study by The Economist looked at how the employment prospects of college graduates have changed over the past few years as AI use by potential employers has increased. The concer…
The Australian Political Studies Association has created a new prize in political theory and philosophy in memory of Peter Balint, a political theorist at the University of New Sou…
Economist Alex Tabarrok (GMU) recently wrote of “ideas behind their time”. He explains: We are all familiar with ideas said to be ahead of their time, Babbage’s analytical engine a…
Philosopher David Boonin (University of Colorado Boulder) is inviting other Jewish philosophers to contribute to a collection of writings he’s putting together. The idea is to ask …
The University at Buffalo Department of Philosophy is launching what will be the first PhD program in applied ontology. . It will be a fully online, asynchronous program, and it wi…
The latest links… A tendency to move from “disruptive innovation” to “novelty through recombining existing insights into new connective ideas” — a study of work by millions of scie…
Predictions aren't quite what they seem to be, according to Carissa Véliz, author of the book Prophecy. They often are intended to persuade you of the inevitability of a certain ou…
In the last episode of my column in Notices of the American Mathematical Society, we looked at a particle moving in an attractive central force whose strength is proportional to th…
Frederick Douglass and W.E.B Du Bois were two prominent African-Americans who made a significant impact on the civil rights movement in the US. Douglass is particularly associated …
Slides for a talk on features of the octonionic projective plane.
Democracy isn't working so well, so why not use a lottery system to choose representatives instead? Alexander Guerrero discusses his version of this old idea in this episode of the…
A large language model has very little self-awareness. But it is easy to give it some rudimentary but useful forms of self-awareness using the "plumbing" language.
A category-theoretic approach to "agent frameworks": that is, frameworks for coordinating "agents" that are large language models.
Narendra Modi has spoken of "decolonising" India including its post-colonial constitution Are philosophical criticisms of this constitution well-founded? Tarun Khaitan of the Londo…
Making precise the idea that equivalent structures are indistinguishable.
David Jaz Myers has some thoughts about Riemann's functional equation for the zeta function.
Philosophers argue endlessly about what philosophy is. Janet Radcliffe Richards suggests that a simple way to approach this question is to examine what we think about inconsistenci…
Dynkin diagrams have always fascinated me. They are magically potent language --- you can do so much with them!...
David Edmonds talks to Chike Jeffers of Dalhousie University about Africana Philosophy. This episode was supported by the Ideas Workshop, part of the Open Society Foundations.
There are two ways to stick SU(2) × SU(3) in Spin(10). One is good for physics; the other, alas, is easily obtained using the octonions.
An introduction to the bioctonionic plane and the mathematics needed to understand it.
A complex-analytic perspective on the indefinite integral of 1/x.
Grief is affected by the passage of time in a way that some attitudes and emotions aren't. Samuel Scheffler explores why this might be so in this episode of the Philosophy Bites po…
Philosophers who use thought experiments often believe their own intutions in response to them are unviersal. But that's not always so. In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podc…