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Apropos of Sagar’s wish to foist the A.I. industry by its own petard, this article appeared in print in yesterday’s…
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,…
Professor Gert, who taught for fifty years at Dartmouth College (from 1959 to 2009), was well-known for his work in moral philosophy. I will post links to memorial notices as they appear.
UPDATE: A nice story marking Professor Gert's final year of teaching at Dartmouth, with information about his family of philosophers!
A MEMORIAL NOTICE from Dartmouth.
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