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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:…
…for juvenile stupidity. Didn't these folk see the poll results? Jeez.
UPDATE: Philosopher Christopher Pynes sends along this hysterical item:
There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.
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