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I chatted with the Ludwig Wittgenstein bot and was overall quite impressed. It confirmed a hypothesis I previously had that…
I’m a little bit disappointed that no one here thus far has posted a comment on Iain Thomson’s recent Heidegger…
There was a moment, back in the mid-2010s, when these clowns were ascendent and in a position to impose real…
Given your recent interests, Mark, here’s what I would read next: Charles Guignon, Heidegger and the Problem of Knowledge. It…
> I’m sure many other practical philosophy teachers feel the same way, but thirty years ago I simply would not…
I was fortunate enough to be taught logic by Timothy Smiley as an undergraduate at Cambridge. His lectures were wonderfully…
My first reaction was that this was going to be a semi-popular, magazine-type article. So I first looked for the…
This is amusing. I haven’t tried it, so can’t vouch for how reliable it is, but I’ve opened comments for those who do sample it to report their impressions. I note that for some of the living philosophers–like Peter Singer and Torbjörn Tännsjö–the site indicates that these philosophers were consulted on their bot, so presumably they are more reliable.
I chatted with the Ludwig Wittgenstein bot and was overall quite impressed. It confirmed a hypothesis I previously had that LLMs may be in a better position to interpret historical figures and works, in part because of their sheer ability to take all of the relevant evidence in at once. The LW-bot gave answers that coherently wove together a wide range of texts in the Philosophical Investigations.
Insofar as most students are interested in learning about the major figures of philosophy, I wonder whether these sorts of applications will make philosophy departments seem obsolete, to the general public, or to university administrators. Regardless, I anticipate radical changes to (higher) education very soon, at least if progress in AI continues at its current pace.
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