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Philosophy, Real People, and the Real World

March 23, 2015

What are the boundaries of philosophy? Why are they there and what is their nature? How do such boundaries structure the way philosophers approach…
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Political Philosophy’s “Fantasy World”

November 16, 2014

[M]ainstream political philosophy is seen as irrelevant… because of the bizarre way it has developed since Rawls (a bizarreness not recognized as such by…

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Brian Weatherson on Analytic Philosophy and McCarthyism: A New Look (guest post)
That's true, but being in the Ivy League isn't what makes Penn private. After all, Cornell is also an Ivy and it's a weird private-public hybrid. Philosophy is…
Michael Gorman on Overwhelming Cheating
Can you explain how you set up your grading system so that "If they can't, then their grade for the in-class assignments will determine their overall course grade"?…
Thomas Nadelhoffer on Overwhelming Cheating
I have been teaching remotely full-time since 2021 at the College of Charleston (where I am a full professor). I began administering an anonymous survey about AI at…
Matt L on Overwhelming Cheating
When I moved to Australia, the university I moved to (Deakin, in Melbourne) had a large amount of on-line students. They all had to take exams in-person, in…
Sander Verhaegh on Analytic Philosophy and McCarthyism: A New Look (guest post)
Thanks Charles, I very much agree with you on Russell. The decline of Dewey's school is an interesting story. In the book, I reconstruct how Columbia's department of…
Sander Verhaegh on Analytic Philosophy and McCarthyism: A New Look (guest post)
Update: The author of the article taught international relations at Norwich University, a military college. So it is not unlikely that he associated logical empiricism with game theory.
Sander Verhaegh on Analytic Philosophy and McCarthyism: A New Look (guest post)
Interesting! I guess the suggestion is that Kennedy outsmarted the Russians. In the paragraph just before the quoted passage, the author cites Thucydides: "It must be thoroughly understood…
ehz on Overwhelming Cheating
How did you remove all possibilities of cheating in your courses?
Gorm on Analytic Philosophy and McCarthyism: A New Look (guest post)
In fact, UPenn is one of the eight Ivy League schools
Josh Giese on A Philosopher Among the MacArthur Fellows
Wonder how this applies to people with trauma, depression, self esteem and personality disorders, dysfunctional behaviors, others in perception, substance abuse. Is there a book or paper?
Gary Bartlett on Overwhelming Cheating
I don't teach online, thank goodness. I'm tremendously sorry for those of us who are having to do that now. I think I'd be sticking forks in my…
Marc Champagne on Overwhelming Cheating
I removed all possibilities for cheating in my courses, started a website (https://certifiedaifreeskillsandknowledge.org/) to help students in these no-AI conditions brag and distinguish themselves from AI cheaters, and…
Also CC Professor on Overwhelming Cheating
Cheating is absolutely rampant in my online classes. I redesigned them early on in the AI crisis to take away as much of the incentives to cheat as…
Thinkmaxxing on Overwhelming Cheating
One thing I like to do is make a few assessment questions class specific. I give open note, open book assessments and ask things like explain the utility…
Michael Gorman on Overwhelming Cheating
This is my fourth semester of giving (almost–see below) no take-home assignments, either papers or tests. It's either bluebook tests or oral tests for pretty much everything. The…

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Philosophy, Real People, and the Real World

Political Philosophy’s “Fantasy World”