Tag: associates

Data

Trend: Fewer Philosophy Majors

June 6, 2017

The number of philosophy majors in the United States declined in the years leading up to 2015, part of a general decline in the…

Latest Comments

Michel on Overwhelming Cheating
This is why our department now requires all exams to be in person, even for online courses, and for 60%+ of assessments to be conducted in person. Otherwise…
Dee on AI in Peer Review: Practices & Policies
There's plenty of great products outside the Google-verse. Replace Gmail with FastMail. You won't regret it.
Eric on Mini-Heap
Re 1 — A response to Williams College philosophy prof. Joe Cruz on the importance of writing, from a Williams alum: https://danieldrezner.substack.com/p/im-a-college-professor-writing-is
Daniel Weltman on Underappreciated Philosophical Writing of the Past 50 Years, Part 3: 1990s
Alan Sidelle's "On the prospects for a theory of personal identity" in Philosophical Topics 26 (1-2): 351-72. 1999.
Louis F. Cooper on Analytic Philosophy and McCarthyism: A New Look (guest post)
"…[A] political columnist could praise John F. Kennedy’s actions during the Cuban Missile Crisis because he displayed 'a harshness of which the intellect only of the logical empiricist…
Kate on AI in Peer Review: Practices & Policies
Sorry you're right, not sure how i missed that but i did
Milan on An Open Letter from Academics about AI Risk / Life Without the Internet & the Case for Non-Network Redundancy
This seems to carry risks of political repression. Various countries have recently restricted internet access to suppress political protest/unrest. One reason these attempts had limited to success is…
WiseGuy on A Philosopher Among the MacArthur Fellows
of course.. they gave it to him and not me.
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…
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.
Meme on New Study on AI’s Philosophical Skills
Surreptitiously
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.
Luca Barlassina on A Philosopher Among the MacArthur Fellows
Amazing! Congrats!
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."
Nicolas Delon on New Study on AI’s Philosophical Skills
How do you get credit anonymously?

Tag: associates

Trend: Fewer Philosophy Majors