Month: September 2026

  • The paper that was never written

    Every published text (academic paper, story, novel, poem) is built on another text that is buried underneath, an abandoned text. And this is useless in a way, but it’s a sacrifice we must make; papers cannot be created without destroying in the process ideas, abandoning possible paths. The paper that never sees the light of…

  • Recognizing LLM-generated ideas

    [Image by Circe Denyer from source] Not text, ideas. As peer reviewer, I have been flooded in the last two years with requests to review papers in philosophy which I suspect bear a LLM-heavy influence in their design and interpretation. But how to show this to the journal editors who send these papers out for…