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Never Trained How To Teach

May 15, 2017

I was never trained or advised how to teach. I just imitated what I liked about my own teachers… Once I said in a…

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Russell Marcus on New: “Why Teach Philosophy?”
I appreciate the sarcasm! One thought, though, that I hope isn't pedantic or humorless: On-line discourse may give us misleading impressions about what most of us philosophers do…
Michel on AI Use in STEM and Philosophy Dissertations
Maybe. The problem is what's going unsaid; presumably you then have to find and read the sources for those ideas, and explain them yourself. If so, then it's…
Jukka on AI Use in STEM and Philosophy Dissertations
I am disturbed by the prevalence in STEM, and heartened by the lag in philosophy. Me too, and I am in STEM. Nowadays, personally, I always put a…
DoctorK on AI Use in STEM and Philosophy Dissertations
Unacceptable*
DoctorK on AI Use in STEM and Philosophy Dissertations
The second to last item is problematic, depending on what suggestions are made and how they are implemented. The other items are either clear academic misconduct or acceptable…
David Wallace on AI Use in STEM and Philosophy Dissertations
I’m not sure we’re in serious disagreement. The really crucial thing about an AI detector is that it doesn’t show false positives, so that if it says “AI”…
Henry Shevlin on The Future Currency of Achievement in Human Philosophy
Pretty confident! I think it's likely that AI will dominate in all analytic philosophy domains by 2030, but the terms of the bet are unreasonably charitable to me…
Daniel Greco on AI Use in STEM and Philosophy Dissertations
I think the caveats you include at the end of your (1) are in some tension with (2). I use Pangram and I think it's quite good; it's…
David Wallace on AI Use in STEM and Philosophy Dissertations
Substitute “Claude” for “your dissertation director”, and not a few PhDs have a form not too different from this. (Which again is my point about implementation being what…
GVAponte on AI Use in STEM and Philosophy Dissertations
How about if Claude dictates a list of interconnected ideas, I write down what I gather, and write a dissertation, all by myself, based on those notes: Am…
Tenured Realist on AI Use in STEM and Philosophy Dissertations
This is a bit off topic from the post but I'm curious to hear what people think of the following scenarios. Would you say the AI use described…
Justin Weinberg on Overwhelming Cheating
Reminder: The comments policy says of LLMs, "please do not submit comments written in whole or in part by these tools."
Nice try on AI Use in STEM and Philosophy Dissertations
"If there is a line, defend it. If there is no line and any AI-generated text invalidates authorship, defend that instead." Have you heard of a false dilemma…
Rosanna Festa on My Crystal Ball
I am a philosopher woman and I have the Crystal Ball.
Animal Symbolicum on New: “Why Teach Philosophy?”
Since everyone knows that the paradigm philosophical achievement is the production of a peer-reviewed article presenting an argument for a claim, the series’ titular question is already answered.…

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Never Trained How To Teach