Month: November 2021

Daily Nous Features

Mini-Heap

November 2, 2021

Links of interest to those interested in philosophy…
philosophy

What Philosophers Believe: Results from the 2020 PhilPapers Survey

November 1, 2021

Results from the 2020 PhilPapers survey, with responses from nearly 1,800 philosophers (mainly from North America, Europe, and Australasia), to questions on a variety…
Teaching

A Map of the Most-Assigned Philosophical Works

November 1, 2021

The Open Syllabus Project (previously) collects and analyzes data about course syllabi and the readings professors assign.
Daily Nous Features

Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

November 1, 2021

The report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources and new reviews of philosophy books…
Lives of Philosophers

Mary Rowland Haight (1938-2021)

November 1, 2021

Mary Rowland Haight, a long time member of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Glasgow, has died.

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DoctorK on AI Use in STEM and Philosophy Dissertations
Unacceptable*
DoctorK on AI Use in STEM and Philosophy Dissertations
The second to last item is problematic, depending on what suggestions are made and how they are implemented. The other items are either clear academic misconduct or acceptable…
David Wallace on AI Use in STEM and Philosophy Dissertations
I’m not sure we’re in serious disagreement. The really crucial thing about an AI detector is that it doesn’t show false positives, so that if it says “AI”…
Henry Shevlin on The Future Currency of Achievement in Human Philosophy
Pretty confident! I think it's likely that AI will dominate in all analytic philosophy domains by 2030, but the terms of the bet are unreasonably charitable to me…
Daniel Greco on AI Use in STEM and Philosophy Dissertations
I think the caveats you include at the end of your (1) are in some tension with (2). I use Pangram and I think it's quite good; it's…
David Wallace on AI Use in STEM and Philosophy Dissertations
Substitute “Claude” for “your dissertation director”, and not a few PhDs have a form not too different from this. (Which again is my point about implementation being what…
GVAponte on AI Use in STEM and Philosophy Dissertations
How about if Claude dictates a list of interconnected ideas, I write down what I gather, and write a dissertation, all by myself, based on those notes: Am…
Tenured Realist on AI Use in STEM and Philosophy Dissertations
This is a bit off topic from the post but I'm curious to hear what people think of the following scenarios. Would you say the AI use described…
Justin Weinberg on Overwhelming Cheating
Reminder: The comments policy says of LLMs, "please do not submit comments written in whole or in part by these tools."
Nice try on AI Use in STEM and Philosophy Dissertations
"If there is a line, defend it. If there is no line and any AI-generated text invalidates authorship, defend that instead." Have you heard of a false dilemma…
Rosanna Festa on My Crystal Ball
I am a philosopher woman and I have the Crystal Ball.
Animal Symbolicum on New: “Why Teach Philosophy?”
Since everyone knows that the paradigm philosophical achievement is the production of a peer-reviewed article presenting an argument for a claim, the series’ titular question is already answered.…
Dave on Putting the Pub in Public Philosophy
Georgia Southern also does Philosophy After Dark' at a local brewery (!): https://www.griceconnect.com/lets-eat/philosophy-after-dark-builds-community-through-timely-and-timeless-questions-10373344.
MBW on AI Use in STEM and Philosophy Dissertations
Not so worried – it's also in Pangram's interest to continue the arms race. Their AI can fight the chatbots, and when it's not useful, we won't rely…
Paul Doran on Putting the Pub in Public Philosophy
Check out Philosophy In Pubs, Liverpool, England – https://www.philosophyinpubs.co.uk/schedule/all/schedule https://philosophyinpublic.co.uk