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Where in the remarks I sent to Brian is the “highfalutin rhetoric” about the social value of philosophy? As for…
With regard to the paper, it should not be much of a surprise that my views have substantially evolved over…
Gabriele Taylor was my undergraduate philosophy tutor at St Anne’s College, Oxford from 1989-1992. I remember her as an incisive…
> If you take a broadly Dennettian view on what it is to be a mind, then something has a…
In addition to many interesting points above, I wonder if welcoming AI into the research process turns off many academics…
Just as a further response to Daniel Kaufman’s comment that ‘Philosophy is much more like literature than the “hard science…
Story here. As we've noted before, free-standing law schools that are not part of universities are often the most vulnerable in an economic downturn.
(As an amusing sidenote, you will see that that expert self-promoter and failed academic, Paul Campos, gets himself quoted insulting Vermont Law School in the linked article. Journalists, alas, eat this stuff up, regardless of the source.)
Sorry, in the *20* years since it was published.