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I teach both large courses, like Jurisprudence and Critical Legal Thinking (a.k.a Legal Argumentation), and small seminar-based courses at Edinburgh…
Surely there is an answer to the problem of AI cheating which averts the existential threat. . It’s not great,…
I’d like to pose a question. Let’s be pessimistic for the moment, and assume AI *does* destroy the university, at…
Hear hear
I agree with all of this. The threat is really that stark. The only solution is indeed in-class essay exams,…
I’m not sure I’d yet go so far as to call LLMs an existential threat to universities. But I do…
My big problem with LLMs at the present time, apart from being potentially the epitome of Foucault’s panopticon & Big…
The Journal of the History of Philosophy has awarded the annual prize for the best book published on the history of Western philosophy in 2010 to Ursula Renz (Klagenfurt, Austria) for Die Erklärbarkeit von Erfahrung. Subjektivität und Realismus in Spinozas Theorie des menschlichen Geistes (Frankfurt: Klostermann, 2010).
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