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Mark on “AI will destroy universities”April 8, 2026
Everything you say is true, but what is the alternative? I don’t think people are advocating a return to in-class…
Deirdre Anne on “AI will destroy universities”April 8, 2026
The discussion here assumes an institutional context where returning to supervised in-person assessment is at least theoretically feasible, a reasonable…
Keith Douglas on AI cheating and pangram reduxApril 8, 2026
Cyber security professional here -reliably determining when a computational artifact (file, etc.) was created is *hard*. This is sorta why…
sahpa on AI cheating and pangram reduxApril 8, 2026
Agreed with the other commentator. It is extremely unlikely that Pangram’s success is due to its cheating by reading metadata.
Deirdre Anne on AI cheating and pangram reduxApril 8, 2026
I see this question as a bit naïve. There is metadata on every document created by a modern word processor…
Mark on AI cheating and pangram reduxApril 8, 2026
There’s a simple way to test. Open a pre-2022 essay and copy-and-paste it into a new file.
Mark Robert Taylor on “AI will destroy universities”April 7, 2026
At the risk of self-advertising:… You claim “AI is unusual in degree, not in kind” and “It is not clear…

2016 in Review, 2nd quarter: April, May, June

12/27/2016

Brian Leiter

Here are some of the most popular posts from the second quarter of 2016:

Why aren't more philosophers writing about climate change? (April)

Why do undergraduate women give up on philosophy? (April)

On study of the humanities (April)

Dickinson College has now terminated tenured philosophy professor Crispin Sartwell (April)

McMahan's defense of "effective altruism" against the philosophical critics (April)

Carrie Jenkins's electric scooter and other revelations (April)

Ludlow and Northwestern undergraduate settle their lawsuits against each other, and both criticize Northwestern (April)

How hard or easy to move from a faculty position in the developing world to a tenure-track job in North America (for a student with a North American PhD) (April)

Best Anglophone moral philosophers since 1945 (April)

Best Anglophone political philosophers since 1945 (May)

Marquette poli sci professor sues university (May)

Recent PhD placement data: women more likely than men to secure permanent positions within two years of the PhD (May)

Anglophone departments aren't "Departments of European and American Philosophy"… (May)

Where did the positive valence associated with the idea of "diversity" come from? (May)

Another creepy Thomas Pogge incident (May)

How one top ten department understands faculty hiring (May)

A classic metablog moment (June)

Thinking about a major in philosophy at WIU? Think again (Christopher Pynes, guest-blogger, June)

160 faculty, including almost all Yale philosophy faculty, sign open letter of protest about Thomas Pogge's conduct (June)

The slave revolt in philosophy, redux (June)

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