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Brian Leiter
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Philosopher David Sackris, the editor of this resource, writes: The teaching resource Teachphilosophy101.org has recently been updated in a collaboration between the journal Teaching Philosophy and the Philosophy Documentation Center. TΦ101 presents strategies and resources for faculty members and graduate...
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.
Professor Bender, well-known for his work in constitutional law and also Federal Indian law, taught for more than two decades at the University of Pennsylvania, before becoming Dean at Arizona State University, where he spent the remainder of his academic career. The ASU memorial notice is here. (Thanks to Art...
…powered by AI, via philosopher Nat Hansen. I learned about it via Joshua Knobe on Twitter. If you try it out, please share your thoughts in the comments about the utility of this for teaching or other purposes.
…with Johnathan Bi. (There’s a transcript here, if you subscribe to Mr. Bi’s substack.) I have only listened to some of this, but I find Harvey’s position genuinely surprising. If readers listen to the interview, or read the transcript, feel free to discuss.
A leading figure in law and economics, Professor Ulen was a longtime faculty member at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he was emeritus. My colleague Lisa Bernstein kindly shared this memorial notice from Nuno Garoupa, the President of the European Association of Law and Economics: It is with...
This is much in the news now. One “godfather” of AI, Yann LeCunn, famously thinks they are overblown, while another, Geoffrey Hinton, disagrees. This Axios piece offers a simple overview. This law professor thinks the “existential” risks are a bit of a distraction from much more immediate problems. AI could...
Philosopher J.P. Messina (Purdue) kindly gave permission to share what he posted on FB recently, and it seems to me his policy is a good one: I have refereed two papers this week that were pretty clearly written or heavily revised by LLMs. New policy: unless editors have an AI-use policy which requires AI-use...
A statement by 25 Fields Medalists in mathematics. Some of their case applies, I would venture, to philosophy. An excerpt, but do read the whole statement: [T]he push by AI companies to solve mathematical problems as a benchmark is detrimental to the science of mathematics, and to the mathematical community. The...
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