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Sorry, in the *20* years since it was published.
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…
Richard G. Heck, Jr. (philosophy of math, language & logic) at Brown University will not be at Rutgers University, New Brunswick this fall, as originally planned, but will continue next year as a professor at Brown. The Rutgers offer remains open, so students considering Brown and Rutgers during next year's admissions season (for fall 2015) interested in his areas should inquire.
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