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    Apropos of Sagar’s wish to foist the A.I. industry by its own petard, this article appeared in print in yesterday’s…

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    I teach both large courses, like Jurisprudence and Critical Legal Thinking (a.k.a Legal Argumentation), and small seminar-based courses at Edinburgh…

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    Surely there is an answer to the problem of AI cheating which averts the existential threat. . It’s not great,…

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    I’d like to pose a question. Let’s be pessimistic for the moment, and assume AI *does* destroy the university, at…

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Philosophy Blogs Make Newsweek

Josh Glasgow from Peasoup kindly called my attention to the fact that the July 26th Newsweek features a short item on philosophy blogs. (Inexplicably, the article omits Weatherson’s site, the pioneer in the arena where one really could discuss, as the article suggests, “epistemology”!)

A propos my recent item on “‘Arrogance’ and Knowledge,” note how the Newsweek article concludes, after urging readers to visit several of these blogs:

“You don’t need a Ph.D. to participate, but don’t fake it: draw on real-life experience to show ivy-tower academics the light.”

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