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    I teach both large courses, like Jurisprudence and Critical Legal Thinking (a.k.a Legal Argumentation), and small seminar-based courses at Edinburgh…

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    Surely there is an answer to the problem of AI cheating which averts the existential threat. . It’s not great,…

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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…

New Books in March

Brian Leiter

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

Philosophy of Mathematics in the Twentieth Century:  Selected Essays by Charles Parsons (Harvard University Press, 2014).

Mirror, Mirror:  The Uses and Abuses of Self-Love by Simon Blackburn (Princeton University Press, 2014).

Why Law Matters by Alon Harel (Oxford University Press, 2014) [this is part of the Oxford Legal Philosophy series].

Will to Power, Nietzsche's Last Idol by Jean-Etienne Joullie (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).

Revolutionary Ideas:  An Intellectual History of the French Revolution from The Rights of Man to Robespierre by Jonathan Israel (Princeton University Press, 2014).

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