As ever curious about the capacities of LLM's and not sure how to do philosophy of them, I just started writing my scattered thoughts about them in blogging fashion. Here is the first post and more to come! www.huseyingungor.com/ai-notes/cla...
Will be talking about philosophy of logic in the Islamic tradition in a week's time. Everyone's welcome!
OK! The world might be burning, and I'm usually too cool for this: but I'm personally excited about a boring acdemic thing!!
Here is an open-access source book on post-calssical Arabic/Persian logic and epistemology
Thanks to @histphilosophy.bsky.social, Fedor, Dustin, and other editors for this!
Looking at some old lecture materials on A.B. al-Razi, I am proud of how I presented the representations of Platonic solids.
3PR is hiring a postdoc through Center for Human Values! One of the most intellectually diverse and supportive group of people I have seen. Phil of religion is very broadly construed! Please apply. philjobs.org/job/show/28342
A wonderful forthcoming article on Avicenna's floating man argument. Its methodology is dear to me, because it analyzes Avicenna's argument as rigorously as one'd do in contemporary philosophy, while justifying itself through textual underdetermination. Highly recommended! philpapers.org/rec/ALMCTU
They do! Not perhaps on a landline where someone picks up a call from Kripke and starts talking about their favorite philosophical subject...
Do people phone other people to talk about philosophy anymore?
No love for ER=EPR?
Last friday taught the last class of my first fully self-designed/conducted course on A.B. al-Razi. Fascinating to see how students went from knowing absolutely nothing about Razi in the first lecture to responding to each other's queries from quoting Razi in the last.
From Abū Bakr al-Rāzī in his book _Spiritual Physick_: oll-resources.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/oll3/store/t...
Intrapersonal repugnant conclusion
I guess this is what happens when you search for one too many machine learning terms.
Hi everyone! Peter Adamson here the host of the History of Philosophy podcast (www.historyofphilosophy.net). Along with the rest of the world I am preparing for having to flee Twitter, so you can find me here.
