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Global Philosophy at UofT
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Global Philosophy Research Interest Group at the Department of Philosophy of @UofT
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lutzfernandez.bsky.social
I've updated my document that tackles four of the common arguments used to encourage teachers to use AI.

I hope this will be helpful to those educators wanting to push back on AI mania.
Resisting School AI Mania Help Sheet
Help Sheet: Resisting AI Mania in Schools K-12 educators are under increasing pressure to use—and have students use—a wide range of AI tools. (The term “AI” is used loosely here, just as it is by man...
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October 14, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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enddaysengine.bsky.social
Yes. This! I attended an AI in Education conference as a skeptic who needs to understand implications on my job a few years ago. One of the speakers emphasized that our time is the thing that has value and using AI for something is a sign you don’t value it.
December 28, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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bookjockeyalex.bsky.social
"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.
December 27, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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To be read. #OtherMinds
walterveit.bsky.social Dr. Walter Veit @walterveit.bsky.social · Dec 27
And here is another 15k word paper just published!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
December 28, 2025 at 5:22 PM
globalphilosophy.bsky.social
Now listening to Artemij Keidan on "genderlessness in a gendered language" (that is, why Pāṇini did not discuss gender). Part of the problem is whether adjectives are a separate class in Sanskrit. Is there a separate pattern for adjectives
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December 23, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Now Raffaele Torella on Vāmanadatta, explaining about the ekāyanaveda, the shadow-Veda behind the historical Vedas and the weird puzzle that Vāmanadatta, a Vaiṣṇava author, is only cited by Śaiva authors (but by no Pañcarātra treatises).
December 23, 2025 at 2:35 PM
globalphilosophy.bsky.social
Just read that prof. Gerhard Oberhammer passed away yesterday. He was 96 and has greatly contributed especially to interreligious theology and to the study of the development of Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta.
December 23, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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Now Alessandro Graheli on Kumārila's opponent discussing that there is no distinction between correct and incorrect words. All words are correct insofar as they express a meaning.
December 23, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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Now Marco Ferrante is explaining Bhartṛhari, with some truly new insights about Bh's acceptance of external objects, even though naïve realism does not explain the way language works.
#Philsky #Philosophy #SanskritPhilosophy
December 23, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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Currently here: asiaticacoffeebreak.wordpress.com/14th-cbc-2025/
14th CBC 2025. Reading Sanskrit Texts
Deep Reading as an Analytical Method for Written, Oral, and Performative Texts Date and Venue 22–23 December 2025 Sapienza University of Rome — Italian Institute of Oriental Studies Building: &#822…
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December 22, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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"cite your sources" is not just an externally-imposed mandate but a personal discipline on thought itself. "cite your sources" is how you keep yourself in contact with reality. "cite your sources" is how you keep yourself from shadowboxing your own imagination."
December 21, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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aidanmcglynn.bsky.social
Reminder that the deadline for this is next month (actually, I'm going to double-check this is still when it is, but in the meantime let's just go with what's on the website):
December 19, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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sabrinanorwood.bsky.social
Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)?

Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"
Text reads: About synthetic panels Recruiting the right participants for a study can be difficult. You may not get the exact demographics you need, and the shorter the deadline, the less sure you can be that everyone will answer on time. One possible solution can be to use synthetic panels. Synthetic panels are powered by a first party proprietary AI model developed here at Qualtrics. Our synthetic panel is trained on thousands of responses from a variety of demographic backgrounds in order to more accurately predict how certain populations would respond to a survey. Our synthetic panel is based on the United States General Population, and is only available in English. This panel comes with ready-made quotas and target breakouts in order to represent your chosen population and make it easy to launch your survey right away. Text reads: Question-writing best practices To get the most reliable and actionable results from synthetic audiences, consider these question-writing best practices: Ask forward-looking and attitudinal questions. Synthetic panels perform best with perceptions, preferences, and intent-based questions. For example, “How likely are you to try…?” Synthetic panels are less applicable for studies on past behaviors, detailed recall, brand recall, or awareness questions. For example, “When did you last visit…?” Text reads: Discussion The current study aimed to conduct a meta-analysis of the TPB when applied to health behaviours which addressed the limitations of previous reviews by including only prospective tests of behaviour, applying RE meta-analytic procedures, correcting correlations for sampling and measurement error, and hierarchically analysing the effect of behaviour type and sample and methodological moderators. Some 237 tests were identified which examined relations amongst model components. Overall the analysis indicated that the TPB could explain 19.3% of the variance in behaviour and 44.3% of the variance in intention across studies. This level of prediction of behaviour is slightly lower than that of previous meta-analytic reviews which have found between 27% (Armitage & Conner, 2001; Hagger et al., 2002) and 36% (Trafimow et al., 2002) of the variance in behaviour to be explained by intention and PBC.
December 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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"We welcome PhDs to a round table table discussion from assistant professors who were recently on the job market"
December 16, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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egasmb.bsky.social
There is modern Sanskrit literature about everything. There is also a Sanskrit epic poem about Jesus Christ, titled Kristubhāgavatam, published by P.C. Devassia in 1977, which won the main Sanskrit literary prize in 1980 😁
December 16, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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carlbergstrom.com
Yet one more reason we cannot allow LLMs to serve as epistemic grounding is that we cannot triangulate among them the way you can among reasonable independent sources. They bullshit in the same way and end up agreeing with one other about things that are completely false.
December 15, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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drhonor.bsky.social
Professor's pro-tip for anyone with college-age kids: Tell your kids go to class. It's really that simple. If you show up, you'll do okay. You don't have to be smart, you just have to be there. Maybe stay off your phones for 50 minutes. Just listen. You'll absorb something. I have data to prove it.
December 15, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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waitmanwbeorn.com
If you have to train students to recognize when a *university provided* resource is lying to them, maybe the university should not provide that resource.
December 12, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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"Our conversation with Dan McQuillan will examine the political stakes of AI, asking what can and should be done". Livestreamed Friday 12 EST/5 GMT on YouTube with audience Q&A. www.youtube.com/live/wi0u3Hs...
Screenshot of Youtube livestream page with a photo of Dan McQuillan and the talk title, 'Resisting AI', and timing, 12 EST / 5 GMT,
December 8, 2025 at 6:59 AM
globalphilosophy.bsky.social
The last reading workshops of this Fall will take place on Thursday (we will read Periyavāccaṉ Piḷḷai's commentary on Rāmānuja's Śaraṇāgatigadya) and Friday (Maṇḍana's Vidhiviveka).
A good moment for a summary of our activities for the fall:
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December 9, 2025 at 2:45 PM
globalphilosophy.bsky.social
Join us today, 3 to 5pm (Toronto) for a talk by Marcus Schmücker on ontology, self and God in Sanskrit philosophy:
philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/global...
(zoom link available)
Global Philosophy Research Interest Group Talk (Marcus Schmücker, Austrian Academy of Sciences) - Department of Philosophy
Marcus Schmücker (Austrian Academy of Sciences) does interdisciplinary work in theology and philosophy.
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November 28, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Next talk at UofT—Global Philosophy, by Marcus Schmücker on the self, the world and God in Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta

philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/global...

#SanskritPhilosophy #GlobalPhilosophy
Global Philosophy Research Interest Group Talk (Marcus Schmücker, Austrian Academy of Sciences) - Department of Philosophy
Marcus Schmücker (Austrian Academy of Sciences) does interdisciplinary work in theology and philosophy.
philosophy.utoronto.ca
November 19, 2025 at 8:00 PM
globalphilosophy.bsky.social
Prof. Zeyad El Nabolsy (York) made me aware of this series of talks that might be interesting for several among us:

www.yorku.ca/research/tub...

#Philosophy #Philsky
Tubman Talks 2025-2026 | The Harriet Tubman Institute
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October 7, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Next talk on #ChinesePhilosophy at #UofT, by Hannah Kim, title: "Fiction without Mimesis: A Comparative Philosophy of Fiction"
#Philosophy #philsky #GlobalPhilosophy

philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/global...
Global Philosophy Research Interest Group Talk (Hannah Kim, Arizona) - Department of Philosophy
Hannah Kim (Arizona) works on aesthetics, metaphysics, and Asian philosophy.
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October 7, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Kumārila conference starting!

elisafreschi.com/2025/04/18/s...

#SanskritPhilosophy #Philosophy #GlobalPhilosophy
Second Kumārila conference (2025)—updated program
The first Kumārila conference took place at the University of Toronto in 2024. You can read more about why we need to read and write more about this key Sanskrit philosopher here: https://elisafreschi...
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May 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM