academic integrity
TagCantor’s Plagiarism
A new article by Joseph Howlett at Quanta explains how Georg Cantor plagiarized Richard Dedekind’s work on infinity. (more…)
Ethics Announces AI Policy
Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy has published its policy regarding the use of artificial intelligence (AI) by authors, editors, and reviewers. (more…)
The Integrity of Academic Integrity Enforcement
The philosophy professor heading up the office at his college that handles student violations of academic integrity, like cheating, is dealing with a seemingly stonewalling upper administration, and needs some help. (more…)
If You Can’t Beat Them, Join Them: GPT-3 Edition
“How to deal with GPT-3-written essays? Instead of scolding students not to use it, we ask them to generate a ten, choose the best one, and explain why. Unless they have a paid account, the word-count limit would make it impossible to use GPT-3 to also generate the explanation…” (more…)
Peter J. Schulz Plagiarizes Again—And Is Caught By Philosophy Prof.’s Class (updated)
Peter J. Schulz, who has a PhD in philosophy from Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (Germany) and is currently employed as Professor of Communication in the Faculty of Communication Sciences at the University of Lugano, and who already had four plagiarism-related retractions (and three citation-related errata) to his name, was again found to have plagiariz..
When You Should Have Been Cited, But You Weren’t
A philosopher writes in with a query at the intersection of research ethics, publishing norms, and academic etiquette. (more…)
Did Gorsuch Plagiarize? Philosophers & Others Consulted (updated)
Politico has consulted several “experts on academic integrity” to assess whether Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch plagiariazed parts of his book, The Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia, which was a revised version of his D.Phil thesis, as well as an article in the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, while the White House has produced statements from sev..