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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…
A beanbrain legislator from rural Wisconsin plans to introduce the legislation, which was defeated previously. The Associated Students of Madison has launched a petition in opposition, which is here. You should sign if you have a Wisconsin connection–obviously faculty and students, but also, for example, parents with children at Wisconsin colleges.
UDPATE: Ohio too is on the edge of this insanity.
(Thanks to Evan Woods for the pointer.)
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