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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…
…but I can happily agree with this observation (from this profile):
The U.S. News and World Report rankings of law schools are an abomination. The legal profession and the country would be better off if they were eliminated. I gather that all these rankings are one of these things that keeps U.S. News and World Report in the black—unlike Newsweek.
(Thanks to Ronald Collins for the pointer.)
Sorry, in the *20* years since it was published.