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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…

New Books in June

Authors and/or publishers kindly sent me these new books this month:

Manhunts:  A Philosophical History by Gregoire Chamayou, trans. by Steven Rendall (Princeton University Press, 2012).

The Responsibility of the Philosopher by Gianni Vattimo, trans. by William McCuaig (Columbia University Press, 2012).

When is True Belief Knowledge? by Richard Foley (Princeton University Press, 2012).

The Law and Ethics of Medicine by John Keown (Oxford University Press, 2012).

The German Historicist Tradition by Frederick C. Beiser (Oxford University Press, 2011).

Plotinus Ennead IV.8:  On the Descent of the Soul Into Bodies translated and introduced by Barrie Fleet (Parmenides Publishing, 2012).

A Stranger's Knowledge:  Statesmanship, Philosophy & Law in Plato's Statesman  by Xavier Marquest (Parmenides Publishing, 2012).

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