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Why not publish open access? Are university presses such an important tool to generate money?
My general rule is that any book involving extensive mathematical or logical notation should be read in hard copy. Digital…
I’ve had to deal with a few of these HTML e-books from OUP. Aside from the usual annoyances, I have…
Just to share a personal observation on the state of academic freedom in mainland China: I spent seven years in…
(Not an academic, but I read a lot of PDFs of current philosophy publications). Besides the big-picture concerns (like undermining…
I’ve nothing to add except to reaffirm that Volker is right. It’s a mess, and likely to get messier. What…
Despite the inconvenience, this makes a lot of sense to me. Thousands of recently published philosophy books can be found…
Ben Levinstein (epistemology, decision theory, philosophy of AI), Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has been on leave at Anthropic, the LLM company, and will be leaving Illinois this fall to continue work there. I know that AI companies do hire philosophers, but is this the first time a tenured philosophy has left the academy for an AI company?
Joshua Cohen from Stanford to Apple University? (depending on one’s definition of “an AI company” as of 2014)
Lisa Miracchi Titus left a tenured position at the University of Denver to work at Meta. Her Google Scholar profile indicates that some of her research is related to A.I.
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=v2Wni-EAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate
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