Welcome as soon as extra to our month-to-month philosophy journal, the August version! As at all times, this version comprises all articles, together with the premium ones, that have been printed on the Each day Philosophy e-newsletter over the previous month.
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This month, we’ve quite a few fascinating articles within the DP Journal:
- A abstract of the primary arguments within the ethics of abortion. If you happen to ever puzzled whether or not the pro-life or pro-choice advocates are morally proper, that is the article for you!
- A defence of Synthetic Intelligence writing assistants. Within the July edition of this journal, we had an article on Jasper.ai, a brand new AI writing companion. Usually, such applications are perceived as threats to the writing professions. Who wants journalists, essayists and guide authors if an AI can generate a superbly usable article on any subject in seconds? On this article, although, which has been totally hand-written, we’ll attempt to see if there may be something constructive about such writing assistants. May it’s that they’ve a job to play within the writing economic system?
- In “How Free is Free Sufficient?” we tackle free speech, based mostly on an article by Ronald Dworkin. How a lot free speech do we actually want, and is free speech at all times a superb factor?
- Final on this situation, however definitely not least, is a superb rationalization of Kant’s idea of “classes” by thinker John Shand, which makes use of the expertise of a weather-station (a so-called “Stevenson-screen”) for example what Kant meant.
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I hope that you simply’ll benefit from the number of articles, a lot of which you’ll not discover wherever besides in these pages! And now, seize a chilly drink, change on the fan towards the August warmth, and let’s dive in!
Desk of contents for this situation:
- Each day Philosophy in August
- Is Abortion Moral?
- AI Writing Assistants: Assist or Cheat?
- How Free is Free Sufficient?
- John Shand: Kant’s Classes and the Stevenson Display
- Epilogue
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