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If much of the interest of high-quality papers lies between the lines—in the metaphorical fire that a paper lights in…
I would also recommend that potential grad students make inquiries into how far the compensation package actually goes towards cost…
It’s a mix. I’m still in the UAE with my family, and we feel safe. But some students and faculty…
In the above comment, Michel wrote: “As an aside, every once in a while I check out how the chatbots…
I could imagine LLMs having saved me a *ton* of time in graduate school–e.g., by having supplied reasonable answers to…
The McMaster Department of Philosophy has now put together the following notice commemorating Barry: Barry Allen: A Philosophical Life Barry…
These comments by my colleague Geoffrey Stone are apt.
UPDATE: An impressively sharp editorial from The New York Daily News. They might have added to the list the academic apologists for the reading of the Second Amendment that makes it an aider and abettor of mass murder.
ANOTHER: It's perhaps also a good time to recall Judge Posner's devastating analysis of the reprehensible Heller opinion of the Supreme Court. (Link to Judge Posner's essay now fixed.)
AND ANOTHER: More from Stone.
My former colleagues at another university in Middle East have also been moved to online teaching indefinitely, with the students…