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    Apropos of Sagar’s wish to foist the A.I. industry by its own petard, this article appeared in print in yesterday’s…

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    I teach both large courses, like Jurisprudence and Critical Legal Thinking (a.k.a Legal Argumentation), and small seminar-based courses at Edinburgh…

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    Surely there is an answer to the problem of AI cheating which averts the existential threat. . It’s not great,…

  4. Mark's avatar

    I’d like to pose a question. Let’s be pessimistic for the moment, and assume AI *does* destroy the university, at…

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    I agree with all of this. The threat is really that stark. The only solution is indeed in-class essay exams,…

  7. Craig Duncan's avatar

Best philosophy book publishers in English? (UPDATED)

MOVING TO FRONT FROM YESTERDAY

We haven't done this in about five years, so here goes:  rank these publishers by the quality of their catalogue of philosophy books in English.  Some, of course, publish more than others, so think of this in terms of something like per capita quality as it were:  if a book appears from this publisher, is it likely to be a good, worthwihle book?

UPDATE:  In view of the pattern of strategic voting for MIT Press it may be necessary to drop it from the results.  Cut it out. 

ANOTHER UPDATE:  I've closed the poll, the results are garbage.  The strategic voting for MIT Press has now been outdone by strategic voting for University of Chicago Press.  Before the mischief set in, Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Princeton, and Routledge, more or less in that order, were the top five.   A notable result, even despite the strategic voting at the high end, was that Palgrave MacMillan did quite well, "top ten-ish," as it were.  That's consistent with what does seem to be a strong set of authors/books in the last couple of years.   Since these polls have become so important that some folks now feel the need to fuck them up I guess the only alternative will be private polls, with invited respondents.  This will take more work, so won't happen soon, but at least the results will be better.

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