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I don’t see any connection between the knowing how/that issue and LLM opacity. Can you elaborate?
Clune’s distinction seems to me exactly right, with one qualification. Dreyfus’s original target was largely what later came to be…
It is still relevant. But perhaps someone will offer an argument why it is not.
My sense is that the Dreyfus critique was aimed primarily at what was called “good old fashioned ai,” an ultimately…
A quick comment before I’ve read the piece: It seems pertinent to both the debates and the assessment of the…
Mößner, N. and Erlach, K. (eds) (2026) Vermessene Philosophie: Konstruktion und Kontrolle wissenschaftlicher Expertise im digitalen Raum. London: Ubiquity Press.…
House of Mirrors: The Illusion of Phenomenal Consciousness, by François Kammerer, at Oxford University Press. The book is a defense…
Nature covers the story. (Wiley is a culprit in one of the featured stories, as in philosophy. And, yes, there is discussion about moving the PGR from Wiley given these events.)
(Thanks to Nathan Ballantyne for the pointer.)
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