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    Cyber security professional here -reliably determining when a computational artifact (file, etc.) was created is *hard*. This is sorta why…

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    Agreed with the other commentator. It is extremely unlikely that Pangram’s success is due to its cheating by reading metadata.

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    At the risk of self-advertising:… You claim “AI is unusual in degree, not in kind” and “It is not clear…

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    Apropos of Sagar’s wish to foist the A.I. industry by its own petard, this article appeared in print in yesterday’s…

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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…

Philosopher’s Annual, the “top 10” papers of 2014

The Philosopher’s Annual volume 34

from the literature of 2014 

Saba Bazargan (UC San Diego), "Moral Coercion", Philosophers’ Imprint 14(11):1-18 

Justin Clarke-Doane (Columbia), “Moral Epistemology: The Mathematics Analogy,” Nous 48 (2):238–255 

Kenny Easwaran (Texas A&M), "Decision Theory Without Representation Theorems", Philosophers' Imprint 14(27)1-30 

Hannes Leitgeb (Munich), “A Lottery Paradox for Counterfactuals Without Agglomeration,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 89(3): 605–636 

Conor Mayo-Wilson (Washington/Seattle), “The Limits of Piecemeal Causal Inference,” British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 65(2):213-249 

Christopher Menzel (Texas A&M), “Wide Sets, ZFCU, and the Iterative Conception,” Journal of Philosophy 111(2):57-83 

Samuel Newlands (Notre Dame), "Leibniz on Privations, Limitations, and the Metaphysics of Evil", Journal of the History of Philosophy 52(2):281-308 

Anat Schechtman (Wisconsin), "Descartes's Argument for the Existence of the Idea of an Infinite Being" Journal of the History of Philosophy 52(3):487-517 

Owen Ware (Simon Fraser), “Kant on Moral Sensibility and Moral Motivation,” Journal of the History of Philosophy 52(4):727-746 

Timothy Williamson (Oxford), “Very Improbable Knowing,” Erkenntnis 79 (5): 971-99

Editors:  Patrick Grim (Logic & Formal Semantics, Philosophy, Stony Brook), Sara Aronowitz, Zoe Johnson King, Nicholas Serafin (all Philosophy, University of Michigan)

Nominating Editors:

Rachel Barney, JC Beall, Ned Block, Ben Bradley, Tyler Burge, David Chalmers, Andrew Chignell, David Christensen, Gregory Currie, David Danks, Keith DeRose, Cian Dorr, Lisa Downing, Julia Driver, Adam Elga, Brandon Fitelson, Stacie Friend, Alan Hajek, Ned Hall, Elizabeth Harman, Verity Harte, Gary Hatfield, Benj Hellie, Christopher Hitchcock, Des Hogan, Brad Inwood, Simon Keller, Tom Kelly, Joshua Knobe, Marc Lange, Brian Leiter, Neil Levy, Martin Lin, Peter Ludlow, Ishani Maitra, Shaun Nichols, Paul Noordhof, Derk Pereboom, Jim Pryor, Greg Restall, Geoffrey Sayre-McCord, Richard Scheines, Mark Schroeder, Laura Schroeter, Ted Sider, Michael Slote, Scott Soames, Roy Sorensen, Peter Spirtes, Johan van Benthem, Mark van Roojen, Peter B. M. Vranas, Ted Warfield, Eric Watkins, Sam Wheeler, Jim Woodward, Gideon Yaffe

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