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A Request from an AI

October 2, 2026

People in the philosophy world sometimes write to me seeking help with problems they’re having, asking me to look into some issue or event,…

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Kate on A Request from an AI
I would definitely like to see what Clips and its fellows writes. Maybe there could be a separate submission category which isn't eligible for the prizes and at…
Justin Weinberg on Back
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martin peterson on A Request from an AI
I think Thornley and Goodsell should change the rules to allow Clips to enter without a human custodian! Of course, hundreds or even thousands of Clips’ siblings and…
Marc Champagne on A Request from an AI
Hate to go all quasi-biblical, but: "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind". Any other comment seems to fall short (and would…
Daniel Weltman on Analytic Philosophy and McCarthyism: A New Look (guest post)
There is also the private university Washington University, which is not named after the state, nor after Washington DC, nor is it located in either, and which is…
Matt L on Analytic Philosophy and McCarthyism: A New Look (guest post)
Other similar cases are the (private) College of Idaho (which was for a while Albertson College and then Albertson College of Idaho before switching back to the original…
Charles Pigden on Analytic Philosophy and McCarthyism: A New Look (guest post)
Oh just a note for those interested. Hook's side of the Hook /Russell spat can be found in Shapiro ed. The Letters of Sydney Hook, pp 246-253. I…
Charles Pigden on Overwhelming Cheating
To Bryan Frances 1) At Cambridge in the late 1970s when I was an undergraduate our entire mark was dependent the end-of-year exams. We were expected write weekly essays…
Charles Pigden on Analytic Philosophy and McCarthyism: A New Look (guest post)
Thank you Sander for your thoughtful response. I am glad to find that – in the view of a real expert – my speculative hypothesis may have at…
Nicolas Delon on Overwhelming Cheating
I remember being taken aback when I started teaching in the US and a student asked me if I could review the draft of her term paper. I…
Nicolas Delon on Overwhelming Cheating
Most of my classes were like that in France. It may still be true of most classes in the humanities.
Meme on Overwhelming Cheating
Students sneak into your office and weight the dice. What now?!
Chris on Overwhelming Cheating
I roll a die for each student: 1 is an "A"; 2 is a "B" etc. That determines their grade, completely. I tell them it is a metaphor…
Kate on Overwhelming Cheating
This is very common in the UK. One of my classes is graded 100% a single essay. Another 2 semester class is 50% 3hour exam 50% essay. There…
praymont on Overwhelming Cheating
His younger brother, Ted Kennedy, was expelled from Harvard for two years for cheating on an exam in 1951.

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A Request from an AI