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Where in the remarks I sent to Brian is the “highfalutin rhetoric” about the social value of philosophy? As for…
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…
In the comments, Professors O'Donnell and Slater think so! Another rousing performance at PrawfsBlog by Professor Hills! But seriously, when you think of "extraordinarily generous deals," do you really think of public sector workers in New York City or NYU law professors? And will the financial implosion on Wall Street mean the end of the NYU Law gravy train? We shall see.
As it happens, Professor Krugman's column today is also apt.
Sorry, in the *20* years since it was published.