From SEO for Search Engines to AAIO for Answer Providers: "Agentic AI Optimisation (AAIO): What it is, How it Works, Why it Matters, and How to Deal With It" papers.ssrn.com/sol3...

There goes the neighbourhood... The promise held out by AI is 'a bit shit, but much less effort'. Is that an idea people want associated with their scholarship? share.google/pMv2nbkXmLsG...

Da die großen News-Outlets wie Spiegel und Co. GPTBot und ähnliche crawler in der robots.txt blockieren, könnte das einerseits wirklich helfen. Andererseits würde die Springer-Presse damit zur Hauptquelle bei ChatGPT avancieren - mit vermutlich unangenehmen Folgen www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/t...

Es ist schön zu lesen, dass es auch sinnvollen Nutzen von LLMs in der Branche gibt. Ich habe leider beinahe ausschließlich gegenteilige Erfahrungen bei der Arbeit in Online-Redaktionen gemacht. Häufig gilt: Warum selbst Themen finden und Artikel schreiben, wenn das auch die KI übernehmen kann?

I wrote a blog post for @versobooks.bsky.social on writing a social history of analytic philosophy www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/o...

Most relevant for me is this recent discussion theotherjournal.com/2025/06/is-t...

„BURN IT WITH FIRE“ might sound dramatic, but if you listen to the stories teachers (worldwide) have to tell about how kids take everything ChatGPT says at face value without questioning any of its answers, it actually seems like a pretty reasonable demand.

Our book has now appeared, a bit ahead of schedule. Its in Open Access, meaning the chapters are all free to download either as epub or pdf from this link. I’ll put a thread together on what the individual chapters are about. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Es ist sehr schade, dass viele der ansonsten liebevoll gestalteten Erklärungen und Unterrichtsmaterialen, die Kindern Philosophie näherbringen sollen, den Fokus so stark auf die Behauptung „in der Philosoohie gibt es kein richtig oder falsch“ setzen. www.ardmediathek.de/video/planet...

Why... why do people not think of ways to encourage interaction with other humans to talk about the great books? Why this obsession with talking to a computer pretending (with very limited success) to be an imaginary human? I just... what? What? *screams*

This is the kind of engagement bait I want to see

When I think about what‘s currently happening, I am sadly reminded of the fact, that Machiavelli wrote down some thoughts about how to gain control over a failed state, and and then he wrote a very thick book on how to defend a republic against such attacks. But only one of his writings is famous…

Mythical symbolic forms of this sort can apparently be rather unproblematic to include in our science-influenced society. A fascinating attempt to reconcile two world views. www.bbc.com/news/article...

The Austrian far-right party that will apparently soon head our next government with support by the Conservatives wants to order all scientists and academics to publish in German only. I think the last international law scholar to do so was Carl Schmitt. (via @oliveras.bsky.social)

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Brb throwing out all my fire alarms bc I’ve never had a fire

Lange bevor „Interdisziplinarität“ zu einem verbreiteten Mantra zur Bannung von Drittmittelgebern wurde, hat Jürgen Habermas ein inter- und transdisziplinäres Werk ausgearbeitet, das sich weder der Philosophie noch den Sozialwissenschaften eindeutig... https://www.theorieblog.de/?p=28261

Ok, I'll bite - mainly because the idea that accommodating the radical right on immigration is almost bound to work electorally seems to be rather popular among mainstream politicians. Let me try to provide a basic overview of the party competition literature and, in doing so, explain why there are

The essence of man is to be found nowhere but in his works – in those fundamental activities on which all social life and all cultural life is based. To understand man we have no other way than to inquire into these activities.

Elon Musk qui veut donner un shitload de $$$ à l'extrême droite britannique. Pourquoi je ne suis pas surpris ? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

So many people are quoting Machiavelli right now while trying to make sense of current politics. But everyone focuses solely on the prince, when it‘s actually the discourses that deal with the question of how to defend a free republic from it‘enemies - external or internal.

Augsburg-Munich International Doctoral Program Rethinking Environment: The Environmental Humanities and the Ecological Transformation of Society Deadline: January 31, 2025 #envhum www.uni-augsburg.de/en/forschung...

It’s so fascinating that we can have the feeling that there’s something wrong with an argument - especially in philosophy - without being able to say exactly why and (for me at least) it can takes days, weeks, months, to formulate the problem in a satisfactory way.

„It is the power of opinion that makes admitting ignorance so difficult to achieve.“ - H.-G. Gadamer Some seemingly trivial philosophical insights seem so much more important in todays world than just a couple years back when I first read about them.

Anglo colleagues in Continental ##Philosophy don't like me pointing out the inadequacy of translations of Schelling, Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Wittgenstein and ignored original language scholarship. Embarrassing, but this needs to be stated. Learn the language of your studies!