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With regard to the paper, it should not be much of a surprise that my views have substantially evolved over…
Gabriele Taylor was my undergraduate philosophy tutor at St Anne’s College, Oxford from 1989-1992. I remember her as an incisive…
> If you take a broadly Dennettian view on what it is to be a mind, then something has a…
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:…
William Bennett, well-known reaction formation, strikes again. (The thesis he mangles, by the way, was first put forward by Chicago economist Steven Levitt and law professor John Donohue, now of Yale; the linked discussion of Bennett’s proposal for racial genocide mentions only Levitt.) Of course, Mr. Bennett doesn’t ultimately endorse racial genocide; after all, abortion is immoral!
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