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Recent additions to the Heap of Links… “Beyond its role in policing deductive arguments, logic discerns patterns in reality of the most abstract, structural kind” — Timothy Williamson (Oxford) on the wonderful world of logic—a good piece to share with beginning logic students Existential Comics celebrates its first decade — with a joke 10 years in the making Did Kripke scoop Jackson’s knowledge argument against physicalism? — Adriana Renero (CUNY) presents a deafness-based example from Kripke’s 1979 Lectures on the Philosophy of Mind that’s similar to Jackson’s Mary example, published in 1982 LLMs are “fundamentally limited by language itself” while “human intelligence draws upon a panoply of ways of knowing and being” — critiques of current “AI” drawn from a philosopher ahead of her time: Susanne Langer “The obscurity with which the empirical interpretation of IIT [integrated information theory] is shrouded makes it very hard not to think of it as closer to metaphysics than to an empirical theory” — Felipe De Brigard (Duke) has started a new Substack, and his first post is on why he signed the “IIT is pseudoscience” letter Can the abortion debate be resolved by Immanuel Kant? — yes, argues Helga Varden (Illinois) “Painful feelings of loneliness” may arise “even though the individuals undergoing such experiences have a loving network of friends, family and colleagues who support them and recognise their unconditional value” — this suggests something is missing from standard conceptions of loneliness, argues Kaitlyn Creasy (CSU San Bernadino) Discussion welcome. Mini-Heap posts usually appear when 7 or so new items accumulate in the Heap of Links, a collection of items from around the web that may be of interest to philosophers. The Heap of Links consists partly of suggestions from readers; if you find something online that you think would be of interest to the philosophical community, please send it in for consideration for the Heap. Thank you.
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