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Where in the remarks I sent to Brian is the “highfalutin rhetoric” about the social value of philosophy? As for…
With regard to the paper, it should not be much of a surprise that my views have substantially evolved over…
Gabriele Taylor was my undergraduate philosophy tutor at St Anne’s College, Oxford from 1989-1992. I remember her as an incisive…
> If you take a broadly Dennettian view on what it is to be a mind, then something has a…
In addition to many interesting points above, I wonder if welcoming AI into the research process turns off many academics…
Just as a further response to Daniel Kaufman’s comment that ‘Philosophy is much more like literature than the “hard science…
…is causing vaccine manufacturers to cut back. God forbid there’s a bird flu pandemic with RFK Jr. running HHS. Since Senator Cassidy’s reward for voting for this imbecile was to have Trump back a candidate to run against him in the primaries, perhaps the Senator might try to do the right thing now and get…
…and it’s worrisome, especially given the imbeciles in Washington, D.C.
Sorry, in the *20* years since it was published.