How common is usage of Sci-Hub among philosophers? It seems less well-known in the humanities, but it does provide access to philosophy articles. Feel free to share your experiences using it. There’s also The Philosophical Underclass, a Facebook “interlibrary loan”…
The researchers isolated some trout in a tank of water laced with the same level of meth that’s been found in some freshwater rivers. After eight weeks, the fish were transferred to a new tank and offered a choice between…
Despite the great promise of AI, we maintain that unless philosophers theorize about and help develop philosophy-specific AI, it is likely that AI will not be as philosophically useful. However the AI revolution turns out, philosophical inquiry will be radically…
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“It has always pleased me to exalt plants in the scale of organised beings,” Charles Darwin wrote in his autobiography. Long before he developed his theory of evolution, his grandfather — the physician, poet, slave-trade abolitionist, and scientist-predating-the-coining-of-scientist Erasmus Darwin…
During the early months of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, pianist Min Kwon felt like her hands were tied. Concerts had been canceled, her young children were adjusting to online school, and division and death seemed to loom everywhere. She…
What do we call a group of metaphysicians? Or political philosophers? Or Kant scholars? Or philosophers of science? Or epistemologists? Or…? Your task is to pick a specialization in philosophy and provide a name for a group of philosophers working…
GETTR didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. GETTR The platform calls itself a “non-bias social network for people all over the world” and has apps in the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store. It has a…
Her nomination was handed to German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier in mid-June, one of the sources told Reuters. If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Gutmann would replace interim appointee Robin Quinville. Gutmann, whose father fled the Nazis in 1934, would be…
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Professor Dotson works in epistemology, feminist philosophy (particularly Black feminism and feminist epistemology), and critical philosophy of race. You can learn more about her work here and here. She starts at the University of Michigan this coming fall. (via Tad…