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Sorry, in the *20* years since it was published.
Where in the remarks I sent to Brian is the “highfalutin rhetoric” about the social value of philosophy? As for…
With regard to the paper, it should not be much of a surprise that my views have substantially evolved over…
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…
They are: Jeremy Goodman (metaphysics, epistemology, philosophical logic), previously Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California; and E.J. Green (philosophy of mind & cognitive science), previously Associate Professor of Philosophy at MIT. Green will also have an appointment in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences (effective January 2024).
(There is at third hire with tenure pending, that I hope to be able to announce some time this fall.)
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