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29
May
2025

Putting others on a pedestal: Testimony, Admiration, and Due Respect

Seminar

Parents of children with disabilities often share their stories to attest to the positive impact parenting such a child has had on their lives. It is important to give due respect to such testimony, but what does due respect entail? Recently Chris Kaposy has argued in “Choosing Down Syndrome,” that…

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05
Jun
2025

Factfulness and Metalinguistic Agency in Humans and Language Models

Seminar

Language models (LMs) are known to suffer from a variety of infelicities of language such as hallucinations, inconsistencies, continuity and coherence problems, etc. Some of these difficulties suggest that LMs have no idea what they are saying when they “speak”. And yet LMs often also behave in…

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Gideon Rosen
17
Jul
2025

Explanatory Realism

Lecture

The cement of the universe is not causation: it is explanatory dependence. Reality is a network of facts connected by a single, irreducible, mind-independent “because”. It is widely held that explanation is a sort, interest-sensitive practice that aims to provide information only about other things…

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