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Sorry, in the *20* years since it was published.
Where in the remarks I sent to Brian is the “highfalutin rhetoric” about the social value of philosophy? As for…
With regard to the paper, it should not be much of a surprise that my views have substantially evolved over…
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…
This long-gestating paper has finally appeared in the Sydney Law Review (it was the 2013 Julius Stone Address in Jurisprudence at Sydney), and can be downloaded here for those who are interested. This year's electoral catastrophe just underlines the crucial Millian point, namely, that well-being in America will remain in danger as long as Breitbart, Drudge, Fox and the other fact-free media are allowed to operate freely.
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