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Clune’s distinction seems to me exactly right, with one qualification. Dreyfus’s original target was largely what later came to be…
It is still relevant. But perhaps someone will offer an argument why it is not.
My sense is that the Dreyfus critique was aimed primarily at what was called “good old fashioned ai,” an ultimately…
A quick comment before I’ve read the piece: It seems pertinent to both the debates and the assessment of the…
Mößner, N. and Erlach, K. (eds) (2026) Vermessene Philosophie: Konstruktion und Kontrolle wissenschaftlicher Expertise im digitalen Raum. London: Ubiquity Press.…
House of Mirrors: The Illusion of Phenomenal Consciousness, by François Kammerer, at Oxford University Press. The book is a defense…
Thanks, I will check this out as well! 🙂
Horowitz’s house organ, FrontPage Magazine, gives a good indication of what "academic freedom" really means to Horowitz & his gang of thought police with this typical hatchet job on a Stanford professor. Note that there is no substantive, scholarly criticism in the entire article; this professor is to be condemned for his substantive views–on topics within his area of scholarly expertise, no less–and nothing else.
If David Horowitz didn’t exist, George Orwell would have had to invent him.
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