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If anything, this exchange illustrates the problem: judgments are being made on stylistic impressions (“this sounds like AI”) rather than…
The existential threat is not to higher-ed as such but a particular (and now common) higher-ed business model: the one…
I think Paul is absolutely right. For the humanities it is an existential crisis, not just some minor issue that…
Is the joke here that your comment is very obviously written by AI?
Sagar’s claim that LLMs pose an “existential threat” to universities rests on a set of conflations that do not survive…
Generative AI has the potential to do catastrophic harm to higher education. This is because learning is a biological process…
When the problem of AI-based papers started a few years ago, I immediately switched to in-class essay exams and told…
Here's a great new resource for Nietzsche scholars. Are there similar on-line resources for other major philosophers? Please post links in the comments section. Submit comments only once, they may take awhile to appear.
There is something a bit like this for George Herbert Mead, and a whole host of philosophers, psychologists, and social thinkers related to him:
http://www.brocku.ca/MeadProject/
It is a fairly useful resource for those working in history of American philosophy and early psychology & social theory.
The Marxist Internet Archive has all kinds of materials from Marx and Engels and a wide variety of people who called themselves Marxists:
For Darwin: http://darwin-online.org.uk/
Everything Aquinas ever wrote, with a handy search function and bibliography of secondary literature: http://www.corpusthomisticum.org/
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