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Category: Blogs
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This is just a quick note that Nathan Ballantyne (Arizona State University) has a really interesting site, The Workbench, which features "a series of conversations about the craft of academic writing." Here is a wonderful interview on "Relentless Adjuncting, Existential Graphs, and Non-Rejection" with philosophers Richard Atkins and Charlie Lassiter.
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Céline Leboeuf (Florida International University) has a new Substack, "Why Philosophy?", featuring short essays by philosophers addressing questions such as: What is philosophy to you? How were you first introduced to philosophy? How do you practice philosophy today? Why is philosophy important to you? What books, podcasts, or other media would you recommend to anyone…
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David Thorstad (Global Priorities Institute, University of Oxford) draws my attention to his new blog, "Ineffective altruism", which advances doubts about effective altruism and longtermism. As someone who shares many of these concerns (and more), I welcome the turning of a more critical eye toward these movements. To be clear, I very much support altruism…