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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…

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

2016 in review, 1st quarter: January, February, March

Here were some of the most popular posts from the first quarter of the year:

Most important Anglophone epistemologists since 1945 (January)

More PhD programs whose existence is not easy to explain (January)

Actually, no one has recommended closing programs "that better serve women and minorities in philosophy"… (January)

How "professional" is Carolyn Dicey Jennings's data analysis (January)

Twenty "Most Important" Philosophers of Mind since 1945 (January)

Best Anglophone philosophers of language since 1945 (January)

Roosevelt, Reagan, and the Sanders moment (January) (sigh) 

The sociology of English academia in the 1980s and 1990s, and Philosophy academia today (February)

The best post-WWII Anglophone scholars of ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy(February)

Simon Newman, the President of Mount Saint Mary's University in Maryland, is a disgrace (February)

APA issues bizarre statement lumping together the criminal threats and racist abuse suffered by Prof. Yancy with "uncivil" lawful speech on anonymous blogs (February)  

A few comments on the legal and political significance of the death of Justice Scalia (February) 

Best Anglophone and German Kant scholars since 1945 (February)

Best Anglophone philosophers of science since 1945 (February)

American political circus: "Super Tuesday" post-mortem (March)

Soames on philosophy's interdisciplinarity and why it belongs in a university (March) 

Publishing while in graduate school? (March) 

Philosopher Crispin Sartwell, Dickinson College, and Academic Freedom (March) 

Evaluating philosophy programs: a cautionary tale about IBHE (Christopher Pynes, guest blogger) (March) 

Girls, women and philosophy (Darlene Deas, guest blogger) (March) 

The rise of philosophy of race (March)

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