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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…
‘That the suggestion our subject is a lot more like literature than like science or mathematics causes consternation only makes…
People should understand what precipitated my remarks here at Leiter Reports. Also, a few replies and comments on the conversation:…
Philosopher Jack Zupko (Alberta), editor of Journal of the History of Philosophy, asked me to share this announcement, which I'm happy to do:
The Board of Directors of the Journal of the History of Philosophy has awarded the prize for the best article to appear in volume 54 of theJHP to Jean-Luc Solère for "The Coherence of Bayle's Theory of Toleration," JHP 54.1 (January 2016): 21-46. Professor Solère is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Boston College.
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