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    To be worth using, a detector needs not only (A) not get very many false positives, but also (B) get…

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    Everything you say is true, but what is the alternative? I don’t think people are advocating a return to in-class…

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    Cyber security professional here -reliably determining when a computational artifact (file, etc.) was created is *hard*. This is sorta why…

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    Agreed with the other commentator. It is extremely unlikely that Pangram’s success is due to its cheating by reading metadata.

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Four Philosophy PhD Students Win Newcombe Fellowships for 2010

The Woodrow Wilson Foundation kindly sent me the names, grad school, and dissertation title of this year's winners.  They are:

1.  Uygar Abaci, Philosophy

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

Kant's Critical Theory of Modality: A Basis for a Moral Metaphysics

2.  Adam Cureton, Philosophy

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

On the Nature, Grounds and Limits of Social Moral Rules

3.  Jeffrey Helmreich, Philosophy

University of California, Los Angeles

More than Words: Stances as an Alternative Model for Apologies, Forgiveness and Similar Speech Acts

4.  Kenneth Walden, Philosophy

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge

The Unity of Knowledge: Science, Ethics, and the Structure of Inquiry

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