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21. Is style the last refuge against AI?
All about class.
*important caveat that said TT job was secured via an internal hire where two other grads of the same school…
Excellent questions! Re question 6, I have actually already invented a new punctuation mark. I can’t type it here, as…
29. Should competitive examination questions obey Betteridge’s Law?
It’s likely that Notre Dame will return to a policy of requiring GREs next year (this year they’re officially optional…
Would love to see what a successful answer (in the view of the All Souls’ examiners) looks like.
Authors and/or publishers kindly sent me the following new books in October:
The Atheist's Guide to Reality: Enjoying Life Without Illusions by Alex Rosenberg (W.W. Norton & Co., 2011).
Unpopular Privacy: What Must We Hide? by Anita L. Allen (Oxford University Press, 2011).
The Fate of Wonder: Wittgenstein's Critique of Metaphysics and Modernity by Kevin M. Cahill (Columbia University Press, 2011).
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