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A new, open access, annotated edition of Plato’s Alcibiades is now available online.

“Alcibades Being Taught by Socrates” by François-André Vincent

The dialogue is the first release from the

“Over and over again I see philosophers go so far to take everything at face value that it leads them to a worse understanding of what is actually going on in an argument.”

Philosophers are an unusual bunch. Normally when someone gets up in front of their colleagues at work and gives a speech about, say, how “life has no ultimate meaning,” the appropriate resp...

When it comes to permissible uses of AI in professional writing, one philosopher argues that “anything that is acceptable to ask a human to do is, other things equal, acceptable for an LLM to do. (Equivalently, anything it would be wrong to ask a human to do is wrong to ask an LLM to do.)”

This “simple principle” was put forward by

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The practical and philosophical value of analytic jurisprudence — a defense from Barbara Levenbook

Giuliano Infantino, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto, has created new digital editions of the works of Hegel and Schelling.

About the Hegel collection, Infanti...