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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…
‘That the suggestion our subject is a lot more like literature than like science or mathematics causes consternation only makes…
People should understand what precipitated my remarks here at Leiter Reports. Also, a few replies and comments on the conversation:…
Courtesy of the good folks at St. Thomas. The number of cites are remarkably few, even for those in "the top ten."
UPDATE: A colleage elsewhere writes with an explanation for why the numbers are artificially low: "They only counted citations in the Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals, and state supreme courts. Also, they only counted citations to traditional law review articles: Citations to books, treatises, etc were not counted."
With regard to the paper, it should not be much of a surprise that my views have substantially evolved over…