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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,…

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    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,…

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    My big problem with LLMs at the present time, apart from being potentially the epitome of Foucault’s panopticon & Big…

Maryland makes bid for UC Santa Cruz’s Orlandi

Brian Leiter

Nico Orlandi (philosophy of mind and cognitive science), Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has a tenured offer from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Maryland, College Park.  Maryland is poised to be back in the U.S. "top 30" given recent hires, and this appointment would solidify that.  Prospective students should keep an eye on this.

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