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Interesting remarks by Strevens in response to Kitcher's book on the aims and methods of philosophy
> philosophy’s most influential counterexamples are intended ... to play the same role as anomalies in Kuhnian science: to serve as the brave little facts that bring down great theories and make progress possible. If philosophical thought-experimenters conduct themselves ... as empirical scientists... it might be no bad thing for the enterprise of philosophy

Philosophy as a Science and as a Humanity? - Philosophia
This commentary on Philip Kitcher’s book What’s the Use of Philosophy? addresses two questions. First, must philosophers be methodologically self-conscious to do good work? Second, is there value in the questions pursued in the traditional areas of analytic philosophy?

2/ Hat mir gerade jemand geschickt. Also #Philosophie scheint auch die Schnauze voll zu haben und sagt Tschüss. Sehr schön! #PoliticalPhilosphy #Wiley
„Die Open Library of Humanities hat jetzt Political Philosophy im Angebot. Political Philosophy ist ein großes Ding, jedenfalls in der theoretischen Politikwissenschaft. Es geht aus dem Wiley-Journal The Journal of Political Philosophy hervor, das aktuell kein Editorial Board hat.
Wiley hat den Editor in Chief, Robert Goodin, gefeuert, als dieser sich weigerte, mehr Artikel pro Jahr in dem Journal zu veröffentlichten. Daraufhin hat der Rest des Boards, ebenfalls sehr respektable Leute, hingeschmissen. [1] Du wirst Robert Goodin wahrscheinlich mögen, er hat u.a. ein Standardwerk zur politischen Theorie von Grüner Politik verfasst.
Wiley versucht offenbar, die Steuergelder abzuschöpfen, die in Gold-OA-Gebühren fließen. Diese Praxis kannte ich bisher nur von MDPI oder Frontiers. Die Preise bei Wiley für das Journal: $3840 oder 3190€. Ich glaube wir alle wissen, wie diese Preise zu bewerten sind ...“
[1] https://dailynous.com/2023/04/27/wiley-removes-goodin-as-editor-of-the-journal-of-political-philosophy/

Daily Nous || New Podcast: Doing Philosophy (plus: Confidence in Philosophy)
https://dailynous.com/2024/03/08/new-podcast-doing-philosophy-plus-confidence-in-philosophy/

PRobELM: Plausibility Ranking Evaluation for Language Models
Zhangdie Yuan, Chenxi Whitehouse, Eric Chamoun, Rami Aly, Andreas Vlachos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03818

PRobELM: Plausibility Ranking Evaluation for Language Models
This paper introduces PRobELM (Plausibility Ranking Evaluation for Language Models), a benchmark designed to assess language models' ability to discern more plausible from less plausible scenarios through their parametric knowledge. While benchmarks such as TruthfulQA emphasise factual accuracy or truthfulness, and others such as COPA explore plausible scenarios without explicitly incorporating world knowledge, PRobELM seeks to bridge this gap by evaluating models' capabilities to prioritise pl…

Colin McGinn || Bad Philosophers
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Colin McGinn || Bad Philosophers
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A Dataset for Physical and Abstract Plausibility and Sources of Human Disagreement
Annerose Eichel, Sabine Schulte im Walde
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04035

A Dataset for Physical and Abstract Plausibility and Sources of Human Disagreement
We present a novel dataset for physical and abstract plausibility of events in English. Based on naturally occurring sentences extracted from Wikipedia, we infiltrate degrees of abstractness, and automatically generate perturbed pseudo-implausible events. We annotate a filtered and balanced subset for plausibility using crowd-sourcing, and perform extensive cleansing to ensure annotation quality. In-depth quantitative analyses indicate that annotators favor plausibility over implausibility and …

Daily Nous || Teaching Philosophy with Non-Linguistic Media
https://dailynous.com/2024/05/07/teaching-philosophy-with-non-linguistic-media/

Daily Nous || Department of Defense Adopts a Philosopher’s Applied Ontology
https://dailynous.com/2024/03/07/department-of-defense-adopts-a-philosophers-applied-ontology/

Handling Ideas || What’s wrong with comparisons in philosophy papers?
https://handlingideas.blog/2024/03/08/whats-wrong-with-comparisons-in-philosophy-papers/