Lavinia Marin

On writing philosophy

  • 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…

  • Writing and reading practices revisited

    In my KU Leuven PhD thesis (revised and shortened, available as a book here, On the Possibility of a Digital University: Thinking and mediatic displacement at the university), I wrote about the discovery of writing and reading techniques in the Middle Ages as a revolution that changed how people think and use tools for that.…

  • Leadership training in Dutch universities – a whole new world

    I’ve recently attended a training workshop for academics, assistant profs transitioning from early to mid-career, about leadership in academia. It reminded me of similar theories I saw in other workshops – I’ve done several of these training before – and of some ideas that circulate informally when people are hired at our university. I keep…