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In terms of pedagogy, I agree with Professor Sagar. In philosophy courses, at least, the exercise is the point; I…
The central claim is that LLMs (or AI more generally, I suppose) is an existential threat to universities. This gets…
I’m not at a university, so I don’t have a ton to contribute, but I want to subscribe to see…
My former colleagues at another university in Middle East have also been moved to online teaching indefinitely, with the students…
If much of the interest of high-quality papers lies between the lines—in the metaphorical fire that a paper lights in…
I would also recommend that potential grad students make inquiries into how far the compensation package actually goes towards cost…
It’s a mix. I’m still in the UAE with my family, and we feel safe. But some students and faculty…
So why is a secular newspaper running an interview that treats this as a serious possibility? It's one thing for a Church newspaper to feature such an interview, but the New York Times? Maybe they should now run an interview with a Hume scholar on Hume on miracles and the comparative worthlessness of "testimony" in this context.
(Thanks to Howard Berman for the pointer.)
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