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  1. Justin Fisher's avatar

    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…

  5. sahpa's avatar

    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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Best PhD Programs for Metaphysics for 2016-17

Following up on this post, and once again taking account of faculty changes since the fall 2014 PGR, here's an attempted update of the top (3.5 or higher) programs in metaphysics for 2016-17, again by rough "clusters" of peer programs:

Group 1 (1-2)

New York University

Rutgers University, New Brunswick

Group 2 (3-7)

Massachussetts Institute of Technology

Oxford University

Princeton University

University of Notre Dame

University of Southern California

Group 3 (8-17)

Cornell University

Syracuse University

University of Arizona

University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Santa Barbara

University of Massachussetts, Amherst

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (this assumes that L.A. Paul stays)

University of St. Andrews/University of Stirling Joint Program

University of Toronto

University of Virginia

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