Time for Philosophy’s COI Policies to Grow Up (guest post)

“Philosophy’s broadening impact has generated increasing interest from industries looking to partner with academic philosophers. Ties are now especially common between philosophers and technology companies producing AI products. These changes call for discipline-wide reflection on the norms of research integrity.” That is an excerpt from an open letter calling “for philosophy journals to strengthen or implement new policies requiring author disclosure of relevant industry ties and conflicts of interest (COI).” The letter was written by Cailin O’Connor (UC Irvine) and Craig Callendar (UC San Diego), who explain their reasoning for it in the following guest post. “Norms surrounding conflict disclosure (financial and non-financial) are basically non-existent” in philosophy, they say, and “improved disclosure is one easy first step” we can take to “protect the integrity of our research.” Time for Philosophy’s COI Policies to Grow Up by Cailin O’Connor & Craig Callendar Both of us have…