Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog

News and views about philosophy, the academic profession, academic freedom, intellectual culture, and other topics. The world’s most popular philosophy blog, since 2003.

  1. Wynship W. Hillier, M.S.'s avatar

    I first met Professor Hoy when I returned to UC Santa Cruz in Fall of ’92 to finish my undergraduate…

  2. Justin Fisher's avatar

    To be worth using, a detector needs not only (A) not get very many false positives, but also (B) get…

  3. Mark's avatar

    Everything you say is true, but what is the alternative? I don’t think people are advocating a return to in-class…

  4. Deirdre Anne's avatar
  5. Keith Douglas's avatar

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

  6. sahpa's avatar

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

  7. Deirdre Anne's avatar

In Memoriam: George Bealer (1944-2025)

Brian Leiter

Professor Bealer was well-known for his contributions to metaphysics and cognate areas.  He taught at Reed College, the University of Colorado at Boulder, the University of Texas at Austin, and, from 2005 until his retirement, at Yale University.  The Yale statement in honor of his retirement in 2014 gives a nice sense of his distinctive contributions to philosophy.  Comments are open for remembrances from those who knew Professor Bealer or for those who wish to comment on the significance of his work.

,

Leave a Reply to Nick Zangwill Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

One response to “In Memoriam: George Bealer (1944-2025)”

  1. Nick Zangwill

    His very long paper 'The Limits of Scientific Essentialism' (Philosophical Perspectives 1, 1987) deserves to be more widely known.
    It lays down a challenge that has yet to be met by wannabe 'naturalists'. Also, there is less commitment to 'conceptual analysis', which comes to the fore later in his work, and in my view the paper is stronger for that.

    —–
    KEYWORDS:
    Primary Blog

    Reply

Designed with WordPress