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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…
I teach both large courses, like Jurisprudence and Critical Legal Thinking (a.k.a Legal Argumentation), and small seminar-based courses at Edinburgh…
Surely there is an answer to the problem of AI cheating which averts the existential threat. . It’s not great,…
I’d like to pose a question. Let’s be pessimistic for the moment, and assume AI *does* destroy the university, at…
Hear hear
I agree with all of this. The threat is really that stark. The only solution is indeed in-class essay exams,…
I’m not sure I’d yet go so far as to call LLMs an existential threat to universities. But I do…
Prof. Deborah Boyle (Charleston), editor of the Journal of the History of Philosophy, writes:
The Journal of the History of Philosophy has awarded the prize for the best article published in the journal in 2021 to Matthew D. Walker’s article, “Aristotle’s Eudemus and the Propaedeutic Use of the Dialogue Form” (JHP 59.3 [July 2021]: 399–427).
Professor Walker is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Yale NUS College (part of the National University of Singapore).
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