Can large language models return accurate results when asked to find real academic texts written by specific philosophers on a specific topic? In this case, the topic was Marxist theory — and the instruction was to list peer-reviewed publications in which Gilles Deleuze or Michel Foucault offer a critique of it.
What if philosophy students could go beyond reading about Kant and Hume — and instead step into their minds? What if, instead of summarising the Critique of Pure Reason, they became Hume and challenged Kant directly on causality, synthetic a priori knowledge, or the limits of metaphysics? This blog introduces a
Can a language model reason like a philosopher—not just mimic their tone, but follow and evaluate arguments with analytic precision? To explore this, we designed a two-step prompt experiment using Robert Nozick’s famous “Experience Machine” thought experiment. First, we instructed OpenAI’s o3 model to adopt the persona
What does Hegel really mean when he claims that “what is rational is actual, and what is actual is rational”? This widely quoted — and frequently misunderstood — statement from the Preface to the Philosophy of Right has been interpreted as everything from a defence of the political status quo to an
This case study examines the capabilities of OpenAI’s o3 model in interpreting and critically analysing classical philosophical texts. As of today, it is the most advanced language model released by OpenAI in terms of reasoning performance, and is particularly well-suited to delivering deeper comprehension and structured explanation of complex
