Philosophy News https://philosophynews.com/ Think About It Wed, 23 Sep 2026 21:19:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 /wp-content/uploads/2022/02/cropped-image_bg_512x512-32x32.png Philosophy News https://philosophynews.com/ 32 32 “When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality.” https://philosophynews.com/when-all-actions-are-mathematically-calculated-they-also-take-on-a-stupid-quality/ Wed, 23 Sep 2026 21:19:00 +0000 https://philosophynews.com/?p=96676 “When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality.” - Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 70

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]]> Karl Leonhard Reinhold https://philosophynews.com/karl-leonhard-reinhold/ Wed, 23 Sep 2026 20:09:09 +0000 https://philosophynews.com/karl-leonhard-reinhold/ [Revised entry by Dan Breazeale and John Walsh on September 23, 2026. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Karl Leonhard Reinhold (1757 – 1823), Austrian philosopher and first occupant of the chair on Critical Philosophy established at the University of Jena in 1787, first achieved fame as a proponent of popular Enlightenment and as an early […]

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]]> Trust the System: Democratic Capacities in the Algorithmic Workplace (Part II) https://philosophynews.com/trust-the-system-democratic-capacities-in-the-algorithmic-workplace-part-ii/ Wed, 23 Sep 2026 19:00:00 +0000 https://philosophynews.com/trust-the-system-democratic-capacities-in-the-algorithmic-workplace-part-ii/ Picture a modern, high-tech warehouse. Here, human managers occupy a sort of fallback position: They still exist and still play a kind of supervisory role, but workers receive direction and have their performance monitored through the devices with which they interact. This is algorithmic management, and it can be extremely efficient because a complex software […]
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]]> “Artistic creation is a demand for unity and a rejection of the world.” — Albert… https://philosophynews.com/artistic-creation-is-a-demand-for-unity-and-a-rejection-of-the-world-albert/ Wed, 23 Sep 2026 17:19:00 +0000 https://philosophynews.com/artistic-creation-is-a-demand-for-unity-and-a-rejection-of-the-world-albert/ philosophybits:

“Artistic creation is a demand for unity and a rejection of the world.” — Albert Camus, The Rebel

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]]> Johann Georg Hamann https://philosophynews.com/johann-georg-hamann/ Wed, 23 Sep 2026 17:06:07 +0000 https://philosophynews.com/johann-georg-hamann/ [Revised entry by Gwen Griffith-Dickson on September 23, 2026. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Johann Georg Hamann (1730 – 1788) lived and worked in Prussia, in the context of the late German Enlightenment. Although he remained outside ‘professional’ philosophical circles, in that he never held a University post, he was respected in his time for […]

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]]> Are We Failing the Youth? A Young Professors Late Reckoning With AI https://philosophynews.com/are-we-failing-the-youth-a-young-professors-late-reckoning-with-ai/ Wed, 23 Sep 2026 15:02:11 +0000 https://philosophynews.com/are-we-failing-the-youth-a-young-professors-late-reckoning-with-ai/ I’m a professor who is banning AI in my classroom this semester. A note of mine recently got a lot more attention than expected. It was a regular Tuesday. I’d been reading some excellent work in the Atlantic by Rose Horowitch warning us that ‘the end of reading is here’. I decided that enough was […]

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]]> Beyond Plagiarism: A Confucian Reflection on Teaching Philosophy with ChatGPT https://philosophynews.com/beyond-plagiarism-a-confucian-reflection-on-teaching-philosophy-with-chatgpt/ Wed, 23 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://philosophynews.com/beyond-plagiarism-a-confucian-reflection-on-teaching-philosophy-with-chatgpt/ When ChatGPT first became widely available, many conversations among philosophy teachers centred on a familiar concern: plagiarism. How could we tell whether students had written their own essays? Should AI-generated text be banned? Should we redesign assessments to make cheating more difficult? These are important questions, but they gradually became less interesting to me than […]
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]]> “There is a doctrine about the nature and place of the mind… which hails chiefly… https://philosophynews.com/there-is-a-doctrine-about-the-nature-and-place-of-the-mind-which-hails-chiefly/ Wed, 23 Sep 2026 05:17:12 +0000 https://philosophynews.com/?p=95415 philosophybits:

“There is a doctrine about the nature and place of the mind… which hails chiefly from Descartes: Every human being has both a body and a mind… His body and his mind are ordinarily harnessed together, but after the death of the body his mind may continue to exist and function… People can see, hear and jolt one another’s bodies, but they are irremediably blind and deaf to the workings of one another’s minds and inoperative upon them… Such in outline is the official theory. I shall often speak of it, with deliberate abusiveness, as “the dogma of the Ghost in the Machine”… It is not merely an assemblage of particular mistakes. It is one big mistake and a mistake of a special kind. It is, namely, a category mistake. It represents the facts of mental life as if they belonged to one logical type or category (or range of types or categories), when they actually belong to another. The dogma is therefore a philosopher’s myth.” — Gilbert Ryle, The Concept of Mind

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]]> Nothing less than a world-destroyer will do. You’ve set this incredible standard for yourself… https://philosophynews.com/nothing-less-than-a-world-destroyer-will-do-youve-set-this-incredible-standard-for-yourself/ Wed, 23 Sep 2026 01:17:12 +0000 https://philosophynews.com/?p=95413 suliqyre:Nothing less than a world-destroyer will do. You’ve set this incredible standard for yourself because you know you’ll never succeed without it. You’ll be distracted into thinking about things that aren’t worth thinking about. You’ll end up pursuing some lesser idea that won’t solve anything. You’ll falsely believe that you’re creating something great when you’re not.To prevent such an outrageous disaster, you’ve set goals for your creative work. Every idea is given a rank — world-destroyer is the highest one. It’s called world-destroyer because that is what such an idea is supposed to do. At least, were adequate resources and time invested in it, it would theoretically be capable of fulfilling its task of total destruction.Read more…

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]]> AMA with Ellen Burns, PhD https://philosophynews.com/ama-with-ellen-burns-phd/ Tue, 22 Sep 2026 22:25:04 +0000 https://philosophynews.com/ama-with-ellen-burns-phd/ This was such a great first live! I really appreciate everyone’s questions, comments, and thoughts. I think that going forward this will be a monthly ‘office hour’ style thing, which I’m going to look into doing on zoom. In the meantime, please enjoy this live recording! Get more from Ellen Burns, PhD in the Substack […]

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