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  1. Jonathan Turner's avatar

    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…

  4. A in the UK's avatar

    I’m also at a British university (in a law school) and my sentiments largely align with the author’s. I see…

  5. André Hampshire's avatar

    If one is genuinely uninterested in engaging with non-human interlocutors, it is unclear why one continues to do so—especially while…

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    Essays as coursework has never been just about engaging the argument itself. Authorship matters because it matters that the argument…

More mindless identity-politics attacks on the curriculum…

in English at Yale.  But can philosophy be far behind?

ADDENDUM:  As if on cue, Audrey Yap (Victoria) (yes, that Audrey Yap).  At least the "battle lines" are clear, and many on the wrong side of these issues have identified themselves.

INDEED as this mindlessness migrates to philosophy, the results should be interesting.  The typical "intro" graduate seminar to 20th-century analytic philosophy would involve reading Frege, Russell, Strawson, Carnap, Quine, Kripke, maybe some Davidson or Putnam or D. Lewis too.  That course would have to go.  The study of German Idealism:  that's out too, all a bunch of white guys, Fichte, Schelling, Hegel etc.  19th-century German philosophy:  forget it, all white guys again, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, maybe also Feuerbach and Schopenhauer (and all Germans to boot–what a disgraceful lack of diversity).   Of course, the study of ancient Greek and Roman philosophy would have to go, once again all white guys (were they white?  I'm not even sure, but they were definitely guys!).  The future of academic philosophy is going to be interesting! 

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