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    To be worth using, a detector needs not only (A) not get very many false positives, but also (B) get…

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    Everything you say is true, but what is the alternative? I don’t think people are advocating a return to in-class…

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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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JHP Article Prize for 2015

Philosopher Jack Zupko (Alberta), Editor of the Journal of the History of Philosophy, kindly shares the following news:

The Board of Directors of the Journal of the History of Philosophy has awarded the prize for the best article to appear in volume 53 (2015) of the JHP to Therese Scarpelli Cory for “Rethinking Abstractionism: Aquinas’s Intellectual Light and Some Arabic Sources” in JHP 53.4: 607–46.  Professor Cory is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame.

Details here (upper right corner, under 'Announcements'): http://philosophy.wisc.edu/jhp/.

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