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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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New Books in September

Author and/or publishers kindly sent me the following books this month:

The Ethics and Mores of Race: Equality after the History of Philosophy by Naomi Zack (Rowman & Littlefield, 2011).

Philosophy of Science:  A Contemporary Introduction, 3rd edition, by Alex Rosenberg (Routledge, 2012).

Pluralism and Liberal Politics by Robert B. Talisse (Routledge, 2012).

An Introduction to Indian Philosophy:  Perspectives on Reality, Knowledge, and Freedom by Bnia Gupta (Routledge, 2012).

The Ethics of War and Peace:  An Introduction by Helen Frowe (Routledge, 2011).

Beyond the Tractatus Wars:  The New Wittgenstein Debate edited by Rupert Read and Matthew A. Lavery (Routledge, 2011).

The Continental Aesthetics Reader, 2nd ed., edited by Clive Cazeaux (Routledge, 2011).

Philosophy, Ethics and A Common Humanity edited by Christopher Cordner (Routledge, 2011).

The Pursuits of Philosophy:  An Introduction to the Life and Thought of David Hume by Annette C. Baier (Harvard University Press, 2011).

Crime, Punishment, and Responsibility:  The Jurisprudence of Antony Duff edited by Rowan Cruft, Matthew H. Kramer, & Mark R. Reiff (Oxford University Press, 2011).

New Essays on the Normativity of Law edited by Stefano Bertea & George Pavlakos (Hart Publishing, 2011).

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