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    I’d like to pose a question. Let’s be pessimistic for the moment, and assume AI *does* destroy the university, at…

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    I agree with all of this. The threat is really that stark. The only solution is indeed in-class essay exams,…

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    My big problem with LLMs at the present time, apart from being potentially the epitome of Foucault’s panopticon & Big…

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    I’m also at a British university (in a law school) and my sentiments largely align with the author’s. I see…

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    If one is genuinely uninterested in engaging with non-human interlocutors, it is unclear why one continues to do so—especially while…

2010: Philosophers Who Died

Here is a list of philosophers and historians of philosophy whose passing during 2010 was noted on the blog:  Kurt Baier, Jacques Brunschwig, Richard Cartwright, Denis Dutton, Antony Flew, Philippa Foot, David Furley, Pierre Hadot, John Haugeland, Paul Hoffman, David Hull, Claude Lefort, Ralph McInerney, Ian Mueller, Brian O'Shaughnessy, Margaret Osler, Nelson Pike, Itamar Pitowsky, Anthony Quinton, James Ross, J. Howard Sobel, Edna Ullmann-Margalit, Mary Anne Warren.

You can see a list of prior years' deaths of philosophers here.

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