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  1. Mark Robert Taylor's avatar

    At the risk of self-advertising:… You claim “AI is unusual in degree, not in kind” and “It is not clear…

  2. F.E. Guerra-Pujol's avatar

    Apropos of Sagar’s wish to foist the A.I. industry by its own petard, this article appeared in print in yesterday’s…

  3. Claudio's avatar

    I teach both large courses, like Jurisprudence and Critical Legal Thinking (a.k.a Legal Argumentation), and small seminar-based courses at Edinburgh…

  4. Charles Pigden's avatar

    Surely there is an answer to the problem of AI cheating which averts the existential threat. . It’s not great,…

  5. Mark's avatar

    I’d like to pose a question. Let’s be pessimistic for the moment, and assume AI *does* destroy the university, at…

  6. A in the UK's avatar
  7. 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,…

New Books in October

Authors and/or publishers kindly sent me these new books this month:

Debating Gun Control:  How Much Regulation Do We Need by David DeGrazia & Lester H. Hunt (Oxford University Press, 2016).

Ten Neglected Classics of Philosophy edited by Eric Schliesser (Oxford University Press, 2017).

The Ethics of Sport:  Essential Readings edited by Arthur L. Caplan & Brendan Parent (Oxford University Press, 2017).

The Geography of Morals:  Varieties of Moral Possibility by Owen Flanagan (Oxford University Press, 2017).

Philosophy in the Islamic World:  A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, Volume 3 by Peter Adamson (Oxford University Press, 2016).

A Short History of German Philosophy by Vittorio Hösle, translated by Steven Rendall (Princeton University Press, 2017).

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