Could Distributed Peer Review Better Decide Grant Funding?
The landscape of academic grant funding is notoriously competitive and plagued by lengthy, bureaucratic processes, exacerbated by difficulties in finding willing reviewers. Distributed […]
Neuromania – Or Where Did the Person Go?
David Canter bemoans how people are disappearing as ‘brains’ take over.
Nick Camp on Trust in the Criminal Justice System
The relationship between citizens and their criminal justice systems comes down to just that – relationships. And those relations generally start with […]
Daron Acemoglu on Artificial Intelligence
Economist Daron Acemoglu, professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, discusses the history of technological revolutions in the last millennium and what they may tell us about artificial intelligence today.
The Perils of (Even Very Minor) Celebrity
David Canter considers the confusions inherent in being (even very moderately) well-known. That has implications for the considerably greater misinformation that gets linked to those who are very well-known indeed.
Philosophy Has Been – and Should Be – Integral to AI
Philosophy has been instrumental to AI since its inception, and should still be an important contributor as artificial intelligence evolves..
The Israel/Palestinian Crisis and International Relations Theory
The October 7, 2024, attack by Hamas on Israel, and the subsequent massive Israeli military response, have once again plunged the Middle […]
A Cautionary Tale: Flawed Electoral Science Can Harm Democracy
As political polarization deepens across advanced democracies, disputes over election fraud allegations have become commonplace. And analysis by academic researchers and other experts into alleged fraud can have substantial influence.
Why, and How, We Must Contest ‘Development’
Why is contestation a better starting point for studying and researching development than ‘everyone wants the same thing’?
