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  1. WiseGuy on A Philosopher Among the MacArthur Fellows

    of course.. they gave it to him and not me.

  2. David Wallace on AI in Peer Review: Practices & Policies

    Let’s stipulate that Dropbox genuinely has no ties to AI companies. What about using Gmail or OneDrive? I don’t see how one could consistently (e.g.) abjure using Gemini…

  3. David Wallace on AI in Peer Review: Practices & Policies

    That’s my (4): no objection in principle but it is probably sensible to draw a bright line.

  4. Meme on New Study on AI’s Philosophical Skills

    Surreptitiously

  5. Michael on A Philosopher Among the MacArthur Fellows

    Yes, memory is narrative storytelling using context triggered neurological networks. Freud speculated about memory traces, Friston called the Bayesian probability clouds.

  6. Luca Barlassina on A Philosopher Among the MacArthur Fellows

    Amazing! Congrats!

  7. Patrick Lin on New Study on AI’s Philosophical Skills

    I assume they'll be using the rigorous standard set by the US Supreme Court: "I'll know it when I see it."

  8. Nicolas Delon on New Study on AI’s Philosophical Skills

    How do you get credit anonymously?

  9. Meme on New Study on AI’s Philosophical Skills

    Still need someone to start it (I’m more of an “ideas guy who will take all the credit” myself).

  10. Jukka on AI in Peer Review: Practices & Policies

    That's a laudable editorial practice. But AI & Society and a social contract between readers and journals: well, I turn to Jill; https://jilltxt.net/misaligned-citations-and-llm-generated-scientific-fraud/

  11. Dee on AI in Peer Review: Practices & Policies

    And if evidence of bad behavior from Dropbox comes to light, I'll trust them less than I do at the moment. Many of us have used Dropbox for…

  12. Kate on AI in Peer Review: Practices & Policies

    Just on point 2. I don't really think that editors are asking for reviewers to know what *you* think of it in a way that excludes what you…

  13. Sander Verhaegh on Analytic Philosophy and McCarthyism: A New Look (guest post)

    Thanks Conner, interesting suggestion! I guess the list of philosophers targeted by Red hunters is too short to draw any firm conclusions. But even this short list does…

  14. Protrepticus on New Study on AI’s Philosophical Skills

    “What exactly do you mean by…?” There is a potential demarcation problem here. Before asking whether AI can ‘do philosophy’, we need some account of what counts as…

  15. Conner Schultz on Analytic Philosophy and McCarthyism: A New Look (guest post)

    Thanks, Sander—this was an interesting read, and I appreciate you bringing (much needed) archival data to bear on this debate. Some aspects of the McCarthyist thesis have long…

  16. Terence Rajivan Edward on How Different Are Philosophers? (guest post)

    Professor Pigden, you are on fire today. I am not sure why the classical empiricists favoured thinking of concepts as images myself. "The problem is how we manage…

  17. J. Bogart on Analytic Philosophy and McCarthyism: A New Look (guest post)

    UPenn is not a public university.

  18. Walter Veit on Analytic Philosophy and McCarthyism: A New Look (guest post)

    Worth a read: Analytic Philosophy Is the Ideology of the Status Quo https://walterveit.substack.com/p/analytic-philosophy-is-the-ideology

  19. David Wallace on New Study on AI’s Philosophical Skills

    I await the new journal's first plagiarism scandal with curiosity, then.

  20. Meme on New Study on AI’s Philosophical Skills

    Articles from such journals may be cited if they were published before, say, 2023. Otherwise, no dice. NEXT!

  21. David Wallace on AI in Peer Review: Practices & Policies

    I suppose one other thing I should have said is: even if there are permissible ways for a reviewer to use AI to improve their review without seeing…

  22. Adam Rigoni on AI in Peer Review: Practices & Policies

    I think this is a sound policy.

  23. Runa on AI in Peer Review: Practices & Policies

    I really appreciate this discussion.

  24. David Wallace on AI in Peer Review: Practices & Policies

    I haven't made a close study of the copyright-infringement cases, but my understanding is that they're mostly about the legal status of something where the facts are broadly…

  25. David Wallace on AI in Peer Review: Practices & Policies

    You're probably right about MS Word, having done slightly more homework.