Congratulations! Looking forward to using it in future teaching — the previous edition was such a great resource for both students and me.

Reasons academics should contest universities’ AI campaigns: a manifesto
- chatbots are being trained to replace your teaching
- you are wasting time grading chatbot papers
- you are wasting time peer reviewing chatbot papers
- you are wasting time submitting papers reviewed by chatbots

Record numbers becoming billionaires through inheritance, UBS report finds Swiss bank says bequests made 91 people billionaires, while overall number jumped from 2,682 in 2024 to 2,919 this year

Lately, I've been reading Piketty's 2013 'Capital in the Twenty-First Century'. In hindsight, it's impressive how much Piketty got right about what could happen if nothing changed re inequality. One argument was that we would be returning to a world dominated by inherited wealth (like before 1914).

"Em Causa" é uma plataforma de opinião (escrita, fotografada, desenhada, falada ...) criada a partir da Causa Pública. Um projeto de comunicação social para promover o pensamento e a ação política na área das esquerdas. O diretor é José Vítor Malheiros.
emcausa.org

📖 The Future of Normativity: https://academic.oup.com/book/59520

Relational Moral Demands Abstract. Relational moral theories hold that at least some moral demands are grounded in a relation between individuals. But how should this relation be u

Pleased this is out. 🙂 academic.oup.com/aristotelian...

The paper argues that there is an overlooked distinction in relational ethics regarding the ground of relational moral demands.

💭Mental health, collaboration & crimes against children investigations

🇵🇹I was delighted to go back to Lisbon to engage with investigators, analysts & helpline professionals who work on child abuse cases & support victims. But are THEY supported enough on the impact their work has on them?

👇

Hi! I'm new here.
I'll talk about my work at the International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (ICMEC), an international NGO working so that every child can grow up safe from exploitation, sexual abuse, or risk of going missing.

Looking forward to connecting 👋

Maybe is not ironically...

I Used to Teach Students. Now I Catch ChatGPT Cheats | The Walrus I once believed university was a shared intellectual pursuit. That faith has been obliterated

“Tailoring your assignments to make them difficult for AI tools often means not being able to ask the kinds of questions you want your students to answer, and not having them do the kind of work from which they would learn the most”

Barring any last minute change, the 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada are going into effect tomorrow

What should these countries (and, tomorrow, the European Union) do? 🧵

Never Had It So Good with Dominic Sandbrook Please Expand · Episode

My friend Ahilleas (Please Expand Podcast) chatted with Dominic Sandbrook (from @theresthistory.bsky.social) about his book 'Never Had It So Good'. They discuss the Suez crisis; the Macmillan government; Britain's imperial decline and its changing identity in the international stage.

Give it go!

Sempre "forte" com os fracos e fraco com os fortes.

Never Had It So Good with Dominic Sandbrook Please Expand · Episode

My friend Ahilleas (Please Expand Podcast) chatted with Dominic Sandbrook (from @theresthistory.bsky.social) about his book 'Never Had It So Good'. They discuss the Suez crisis; the Macmillan government; Britain's imperial decline and its changing identity in the international stage.

Give it go!

The most surreal and maddening feature of the campaign was that everyone agreed that high prices were the main issue but the guy explicitly, consistently running on a platform of raising everyone’s prices won voters most concerned about high prices.

We hammered this time and time again and yet.

A letter on Philosophy & Public Affairs letterhead that reads: November 12, 1973 Professor Robert Nozick Department of Philosophy Emerson Hall Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 Dear Professor Nozick, I have been meaning to send you a note ever since you did not telephone the second time last week just to say that I decided after all to drop the offending post-apostrophes from the possessive of Rawls. This is, as I told you, according to the Chicago Manual of Style an honor due only to Moses and Jesus, but with us aesthetic considerations won out. The decision puts us somewhat in a class by ourselves -- I note that in Brian Barry's new book he and Oxford Press write Rawls's -- but I don't mind being different. I trust that you will not. sincerely， Margot Cutter

November 12, 1973 --- The day Philosophy & Public Affairs started treating Rawls like Jesus.

I will be teaching an undergrad module on Environmental Ethics, next semester. Any good recent papers I might have missed? Any other recommendations?

Academic writing advice: Eliminate the word ‘explore’ from your vocabulary (unless you are literally an explorer). Yes explore, of course explore, explore all you like, but present your paper as a guide to what you found.

And you will not find Lee Ho Fook's here.

Acho que é: eu cheguei a abri o mapa para confirmar que não estava a dizer asneira em relação às linha do Saldanha...

Que erro! Vou apagar. Vamos fingir que não disse nada.

I will be teaching an undergrad module on Environmental Ethics, next semester. Any good recent papers I might have missed? Any other recommendations?

1/IMPORTANT thread about Bluesky funding and origins. Many folks know that it was seeded by Jack Dorsey around a libertarian vision of a magical network that wouldn’t need moderation because it would be decentralized and baked into a protocol (somehow).

Isto é serviço público

Oxford relying on ‘Deliveroo-style’ contracts with most tutorials not taught by full-time staff Leading university accused of relying on young academics employed on gig-economy terms

Oxford colleges relying on ‘Deliveroo-style’ contracts with most tutorials not taught by full-time staff on very low hourly pay (and they don’t even earn tips)… www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Rawlsians explaining the doctrine of public reason in terms that are not themselves reasonably rejectable

Resources for Bluesky philosophers

1. Some recommendations to get you started
bsky.app/profile/did:...

2. Philosophy and subject-specific feeds
bsky.app/profile/did:... (uses #philosophy, #PhilSky & other hashtags)

3. A list of philosophers on Bluesky (under construction)
bsky.app/profile/did:...

Thank you!

I would be happy to be added too, please.

Gift Article: The Rise of Techno-authoritarianism Silicon Valley has its own ascendant political ideology. It’s past time we call it what it is.

Claims vs. Actions

“The behavior of these companies and the people who run them is often hypocritical, greedy, and status-obsessed. But underlying these venalities is something more dangerous, a clear and coherent ideology that is seldom called out for what it is: authoritarian technocracy.”