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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…
Maybe people are more interested in engaging with human interlocutors than with machine ones, no matter what the argument.
Essays as coursework has never been just about engaging the argument itself. Authorship matters because it matters that the argument…
If anything, this exchange illustrates the problem: judgments are being made on stylistic impressions (“this sounds like AI”) rather than…
The existential threat is not to higher-ed as such but a particular (and now common) higher-ed business model: the one…
I think Paul is absolutely right. For the humanities it is an existential crisis, not just some minor issue that…
Is the joke here that your comment is very obviously written by AI?
In CHE. A comment from one "dvelleman" (I'm assuming it's the philosopher) that follows the article makes the key point:
Those who lament the loss of "relevance" and the rise of "specialization" in philosophy haven't read Aristotle's Metaphysics … or Spinoza … or Leibniz … or Kant … or, for that matter, Aristophanes' Clouds, which shows that their complaint is as old as the discipline itself.
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