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  1. Keith Douglas's avatar

    Cyber security professional here -reliably determining when a computational artifact (file, etc.) was created is *hard*. This is sorta why…

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    Agreed with the other commentator. It is extremely unlikely that Pangram’s success is due to its cheating by reading metadata.

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    At the risk of self-advertising:… You claim “AI is unusual in degree, not in kind” and “It is not clear…

  6. F.E. Guerra-Pujol's avatar

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

  7. Claudio's avatar

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

JHP Book Prize for 2022

Professor Jean-Luc Solère, book review editor of the Journal of the History of Philosophy, has shared the following:

The winner of the 2022 Journal of the History of Philosophy Book Prize for the best book written in history of philosophy in 2021 is: Arthur Ripstein (University of Toronto) for his Kant and the Law of War (Oxford University Press, 2021).

An Honorable Mention goes to Mara van der Lugt (University of St Andrews) for her Dark Matters: Pessimism and the Problem of Suffering (Princeton University Press, 2021).

 

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