In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam

As AI overtakes the web, five writers reflect on how far it’s fallen and what comes next.

Has your department instituted an AI policy? If so, whom does it govern, and what does it say? What should such a policy say? Has your department considered an AI policy but held off on writing or imp...

Last year the Australian National University (ANU) was getting some bad press, so they engaged a company called Bastion Reputation to help with the media fallout from restructures and the heavily crit...

In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

Human Studies - Synaesthesia, in which particular perceptual or cognitive stimuli trigger anomalous secondary sensations, has proven to be remarkably difficult to explain. The way it complicates...

Work on Merleau-Ponty has tended to overlook the role of the internal body in his phenomenology. In this paper, I examine the role of the heart as a temporalising and motivating organ for human exp...

MUP says it is ‘no longer viable’ to make the literary magazine – but almost none of them are financially viable. That’s not their purpose or value

Last week in Sydney, we saw a melodrama acted out that could stand in for the state of Australian universities more generally.

Want to expand your knowledge of world philosophy but don't know where to start? Bryan Van Norden chooses foundational texts of traditions around the globe.

This is the question I was asked last week. Why are government, the media, even university administrations, so carelessly participating in the gradual demolition of one of the foundation stones of our...

Patients and families need to know how these extraordinary treatments might change how they feel about themselves and the world.

This dissertation seeks to answer the question: how is lived experience conditioned by receiving an artificial heart? It is informed by a theoretical analysis of these devices and an extensive literat...

Soundtrack: Mack Glocky - Chasing Cars Last week, I spent a great deal of time and words framing the generative AI industry as a cynical con where OpenAI's Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei hav...

I left to stay true to my byline

The pay premium for graduates is on the decline, while the sector is a mess and academics are asking whether we have reached “peak university”.