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There are some errors (not surprising in something of this size!): down at the bottom of the journal list, among…
“Freedom’s just another word for Je est un autre.”
Touché. And given the present thread, Rimbaud may have arrived rather more punctually than either of us had any right…
Correction to my post: it should have read “when I went to her home last summer”.
I first met Gabriele Taylor when I was a graduate student in philosophy at St. Anne’s, studying for the B.Phil.…
Dear Roger of Invisible America, Your remarks towards the end of this comment about Nat Goldhaber (I’ve got a friend…
A remembered Dreyfus remark on the Maharishi: I recall hearing Dreyfus say in a recorded lecture, perhaps twenty-five years ago,…
An interesting piece by philosopher Anastasia Berg (UC Irvine) at CHE. Once again (given reader interest), I’m opening comments for discussion and reactions to Professor Berg’s essay.
I don’t have much to say beyond:
(1) I emphatically agree with everything Berg says, and
(2) I am appalled to learn that Harvard and Dartmouth are promoting even more AI use across the curriculum.
There’s no doubt that AI use is “harming faculty-student trust,’” but… the solution here is not to just accept (let alone promote) its use all over campus. Honestly, I seriously contemplated quitting when 80%+ student work was obviously AI-generated. In-person assessments reduced the number enough that I no longer want to quit, but I really think that something important has been lost along the way.
If there’s anything of value in AI that is genuinely best learned at the university level (which I doubt, but remain open to), then I would expect particular courses in particular departments (probably compsci?) to be the best places to teach and learn it. I see no reason why it should be taught in every course in a single department, let alone across the university. That’s just a recipe for half-assed and half-baked education. (Just consider the state of ‘critical thinking’ education across the university, which everyone likes to claim but most of which is entirely informal and sometimes outright wrong.)
The latest from CHE on closely related topics:
https://www.chronicle.com/article/what-even-is-an-author
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