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praymont on Overwhelming Cheating
Susan D. Blum, an Anthropology professor at Notre Dame, published some of the history of academic cheating in My Word! Plagiarism and College Culture (2009). She reports that…
oxan on Overwhelming Cheating
JFK?
Gary Bartlett on Overwhelming Cheating
Michael, at this point I'm going to suggest you read my blog post. Here's the part that addresses your current question: I now have two streams of assignments…
P D Van Pelt on Overwhelming Cheating
Has anyone thought about (or tried to tabulate) a history of cheats? Were there rich, famous and influential cheaters who are beloved historical figures? There are many who…
Louis F. Cooper on Analytic Philosophy and McCarthyism: A New Look (guest post)
I suppose it's also relevant that the column was published only a couple of months after the missile crisis, when information about the internal deliberations among JFK and…
Michael Gorman on Overwhelming Cheating
I get this, and I find it quite plausible. Students still want to think. But can you explain the technical side? Does your syllabus simply say, "If you…
Matt Brown on Analytic Philosophy and McCarthyism: A New Look (guest post)
I would add here that there are popular strains in Continental philosophy and "humanistic" American philosophy that are highly conservative/reactionary (Heidegger, Adler) or apolitical (the individualist version of…
James on Overwhelming Cheating
In Fall 2025, I TA'ed for an instructor who assigned a typical essay to be done outside of class due at the beginning of the week, but additionally…
Gary Bartlett on Overwhelming Cheating
I know it sounds like a recipe for a total student revolt. But I've actually been surprised at how few students have complained. Some do, to be sure,…
Brian Weatherson on Analytic Philosophy and McCarthyism: A New Look (guest post)
That's true, but being in the Ivy League isn't what makes Penn private. After all, Cornell is also an Ivy and it's a weird private-public hybrid. Philosophy is…
Michael Gorman on Overwhelming Cheating
Can you explain how you set up your grading system so that "If they can't, then their grade for the in-class assignments will determine their overall course grade"?…
Thomas Nadelhoffer on Overwhelming Cheating
I have been teaching remotely full-time since 2021 at the College of Charleston (where I am a full professor). I began administering an anonymous survey about AI at…
Matt L on Overwhelming Cheating
When I moved to Australia, the university I moved to (Deakin, in Melbourne) had a large amount of on-line students. They all had to take exams in-person, in…
Sander Verhaegh on Analytic Philosophy and McCarthyism: A New Look (guest post)
Thanks Charles, I very much agree with you on Russell. The decline of Dewey's school is an interesting story. In the book, I reconstruct how Columbia's department of…
Sander Verhaegh on Analytic Philosophy and McCarthyism: A New Look (guest post)
Update: The author of the article taught international relations at Norwich University, a military college. So it is not unlikely that he associated logical empiricism with game theory.