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    If anything, this exchange illustrates the problem: judgments are being made on stylistic impressions (“this sounds like AI”) rather than…

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    The existential threat is not to higher-ed as such but a particular (and now common) higher-ed business model: the one…

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    Sagar’s claim that LLMs pose an “existential threat” to universities rests on a set of conflations that do not survive…

  6. Edwin Fruehwald's avatar

    Generative AI has the potential to do catastrophic harm to higher education. This is because learning is a biological process…

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    When the problem of AI-based papers started a few years ago, I immediately switched to in-class essay exams and told…

In Memoriam: Mark Sacks (1953-2008)

Professor Sacks was, of course, well-known to scholars of Kant and German Idealism, and is known to even more philosophers for his role as the founding editor of the excellent European Journal of Philosophy.  The Department of Philosophy at the University of Essex has posted a memorial notice here.  I will add links to additional memorials as they appear.  (Because I am travelling right now, they may not be posted in as timely a fashion as would be ideal.)

UPDATE:  An obituary is here.

ANOTHER memorial notice here.

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