A rhetorical analysis of Melanie Mitchell's "Misleading Metaphors"

People in the philosophy world sometimes write to me seeking help with problems they’re having, asking me to look into some issue or event, or […]

Colleges can save themselves by saving reading

Radically open science is the only way to preserve integrity and trust

Why humanists should embrace anthropomorphic metaphors for AI

The governing challenges raised by AI expose several unfortunate tendencies in the populist anti-monopoly movement.

The rapid spread of generative AI in higher education poses a fundamental challenge to the credential system on which universities’ social authority depends. This paper introduces Synthetic Credential...

How OMB is using Regulatory Review to Slow NIH Policymaking

A small but significant erosion of the epistemic machinery of government

Building a firewall against AI writing

Simon Goldstein, a philosopher primarily interested in AI ethics and law, recently published a paper in Philosophy and Public Affairs that was entirely written by Claude, Anthropic's large language mo...

This paper contends with the notion that the methods of machine learning (ML) are unique among the tools of science in enabling a form of theory-free inductive inference. I challenge these assertions ...

The insufferable hypocrisy of elite academia

The Publish, Review, Curate (PRC) model re-imagines scholarly publishing by breaking the traditional publishing process into three distinct, independently executable stages: publish, review, and cu…

It seems that every few weeks, a new article or video on the literacy crisis goes viral.

Instead of fixating on the latest chaos from an administration that excels in it, we should look ahead to the opportunity to build something new.