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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:…
MOVING TO FRONT (ORIGINALLY POSTED JANUARY 9: UPDATED
A leading scholar of legal ethics and the legal profession, as well as gender and the law, Professor Rhode spent her academic career at Stanford Law School. I will add links to memorial notices as they appear.
UPDATE: The Stanford memorial notice is here.
ANOTHER UPDATE: The NY Times obituary is here.
With regard to the paper, it should not be much of a surprise that my views have substantially evolved over…