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In addition to many interesting points above, I wonder if welcoming AI into the research process turns off many academics…
Just as a further response to Daniel Kaufman’s comment that ‘Philosophy is much more like literature than the “hard science…
‘That the suggestion our subject is a lot more like literature than like science or mathematics causes consternation only makes…
People should understand what precipitated my remarks here at Leiter Reports. Also, a few replies and comments on the conversation:…
As far as I am concerned, I am open to being convinced that AI is good for the profession. However,…
Kaufman seems to imply that proponents of the “important truths” view must maintain that the truths AI might help us…
Wallace’s distinction between the value of the philosophical process and the value of its product suggests a further complication, one…
John Hawthorne (philosophy of language, metaphysics, epistemology, Leibniz) and Ted Sider (metaphysics, philosophy of language), both at Rutgers University at New Brunswick, and Jason Stanley (philosophy of language) at Michigan, have turned down the Yale offers. Bad break for Yale. Stanley still has a Rutgers offer.
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