Jordi Cat
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Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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November 21, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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Just published: our introduction to the history of peer review in the humanities! (with Marie-Gabrielle Verbergt) link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The Past and Present of Peer Review in the Humanities: An Introduction - Minerva
This Introduction to the Special Issue “The Past and Present of Peer Review in the Humanities” situates the currently dominant evaluative regime of peer review within a longer and broader history of s...
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November 13, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Just published: our introduction to the history of peer review in the humanities! (with Marie-Gabrielle Verbergt) link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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While AI earbuds promise to eliminate language barriers for tourists, researchers say true language learning offers far more: creative thinking, deeper cultural understanding and access to communities you can't reach through a translator.
What AI earbuds can’t replace: The value of learning another language
AI-fueled technologies make communicating in other languages easier than ever, but it still can’t replace the transformative value of learning a new language.
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November 12, 2025 at 12:02 AM
While AI earbuds promise to eliminate language barriers for tourists, researchers say true language learning offers far more: creative thinking, deeper cultural understanding and access to communities you can't reach through a translator.
Valuing vs value. Sometimes shared valuing is more valuable than a shared value.
November 10, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Valuing vs value. Sometimes shared valuing is more valuable than a shared value.
Science research is increasingly privatized, especially away from academic settings. What does it mean for the survival of research in the humanities, especially within academia? At the mercy of private funding and no less discretionary government interests? Can it survive outside academia at all?
November 9, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Science research is increasingly privatized, especially away from academic settings. What does it mean for the survival of research in the humanities, especially within academia? At the mercy of private funding and no less discretionary government interests? Can it survive outside academia at all?
Much analysis of the recent election results appear to assume that citizens/voters represent political parties rather than the other way around. Party dynamics remains, however, the same: parties represent themselves, their own interests, which often do not overlap with those of voters.
November 5, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Much analysis of the recent election results appear to assume that citizens/voters represent political parties rather than the other way around. Party dynamics remains, however, the same: parties represent themselves, their own interests, which often do not overlap with those of voters.
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November 4, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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The open access pdf has been out for a while but so much more exciting to hold the physical book in my hands!
October 20, 2025 at 9:23 AM
The open access pdf has been out for a while but so much more exciting to hold the physical book in my hands!
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It's Nobel Prize week! A good time to remember that the economics prize was created by Swedish bankers in 1968 (67 years after the 5 original Nobel prizes) against the wishes of the Nobel family, partly to legitimize neoclassical economics in the public eye and partly to help banks avoid regulation.
Philip Mirowski - Why Is There a Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics?
YouTube video by New Economic Thinking
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October 6, 2025 at 12:18 PM
It's Nobel Prize week! A good time to remember that the economics prize was created by Swedish bankers in 1968 (67 years after the 5 original Nobel prizes) against the wishes of the Nobel family, partly to legitimize neoclassical economics in the public eye and partly to help banks avoid regulation.
More by Friedrich Georg Jünger in 1942
October 5, 2025 at 5:09 PM
More by Friedrich Georg Jünger in 1942
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The First Amendment shields protesters, critics and even offensive voices (even at funerals)..
It doesn’t protect threats, incitement or defamation.
A legal scholar explains the line:
It doesn’t protect threats, incitement or defamation.
A legal scholar explains the line:
How the First Amendment protects Americans’ speech − and how it does not
Free speech is not absolute, nor does the Constitution protect only speech Americans like.
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September 29, 2025 at 10:48 AM
The First Amendment shields protesters, critics and even offensive voices (even at funerals)..
It doesn’t protect threats, incitement or defamation.
A legal scholar explains the line:
It doesn’t protect threats, incitement or defamation.
A legal scholar explains the line:
Updated, capitalist, technological and extra-terrestrial Orwellian farm rebellion in Alien: Earth.
September 28, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Updated, capitalist, technological and extra-terrestrial Orwellian farm rebellion in Alien: Earth.
Dark times under bright lights.
Dark times in broad daylight.
Dark times in broad daylight.
September 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Dark times under bright lights.
Dark times in broad daylight.
Dark times in broad daylight.
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#PhilJobs Dept Philosophy @ Stanford University
AOS: Philosophy of Physics (understood broadly to include all physical sciences, complexity, etc.), Philosophy of Science
AOC: Open
Open rank: tenure-track Assistant Prof, tenured Associate Prof, or Full Prof
Deadline: November 1
#PhilSci #philsky
AOS: Philosophy of Physics (understood broadly to include all physical sciences, complexity, etc.), Philosophy of Science
AOC: Open
Open rank: tenure-track Assistant Prof, tenured Associate Prof, or Full Prof
Deadline: November 1
#PhilSci #philsky
Stanford | Faculty Positions: Details - Open Rank Faculty Position in Philosophy of Physics
facultypositions.stanford.edu
September 25, 2025 at 7:43 PM
'What differentiates Switzerland and the United states is the beneficiaries of the [fallout] shelters: the population in the case of Switzerland, the government leaders in the case of the United States. Switzerland's goal is to make certain it can enact "legal equality"
September 19, 2025 at 10:50 PM
'What differentiates Switzerland and the United states is the beneficiaries of the [fallout] shelters: the population in the case of Switzerland, the government leaders in the case of the United States. Switzerland's goal is to make certain it can enact "legal equality"
Don't require or expect logical consistency where the relevant virtues are practical consistency and effectiveness.
September 19, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Don't require or expect logical consistency where the relevant virtues are practical consistency and effectiveness.
'the 1959 invention of CPR as an instance of why the United States –and by implication, every other country– should continue to support universities.'
Elaine Scarry, Thinking in an Emergency (2011)
Elaine Scarry, Thinking in an Emergency (2011)
September 17, 2025 at 1:56 PM
'the 1959 invention of CPR as an instance of why the United States –and by implication, every other country– should continue to support universities.'
Elaine Scarry, Thinking in an Emergency (2011)
Elaine Scarry, Thinking in an Emergency (2011)