I'll be doing less blogging during the summer, but will have occasional updates–things will pick up again in August. I'll also have some additions to the "most cited" lists during the summer. To answer a question that comes up a fair bit regarding highly cited faculty who work in different areas of law: based on a sample of results, we treat faculty as highly cited in a particular field if about 75-80% of the cites are to work in that field.
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For what it’s worth, I agree. I have, with some trepidation, given it a bunch of my papers and asked…
Looking at some of the AI-amplified cranks on philpeople, it is hard to agree with the assessment of this article.…
Perhaps a useful distinction here is between replacing philosophers and changing the conditions under which philosophical work gets done. LLMs…
Conditional on the hypothesis that journal editors sometimes desk reject high-quality papers written and commended by world experts on a…
Some users seem to have conflicting impressions about the (absolute level of) abilities of current iterations of the LLMs. But…
One thing I appreciate about Greco’s piece is the very helpful distinction between instrumental and intrinsic value, which he lays…
I respond to this report here https://jasonstanleyantifascist.substack.com/p/on-the-philosophical-muddle-that