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Stats Courses For Philosophers (guest post by Joshua Knobe)

May 29, 2017

The following is a guest post* by Joshua Knobe, professor of philosophy and psychology at Yale University. It first appeared at The Brains Blog, and follows…

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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…
Peter on Analytic Philosophy and McCarthyism: A New Look (guest post)
Are you saying 'worth a read' about your own post?
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…
Community College Philosophy Professor on Overwhelming Cheating
I teach online philosophy classes at a community college. I began suspecting that people were using AI to cheat on the multiple choice exams about a year and…
Charles Pigden on Analytic Philosophy and McCarthyism: A New Look (guest post)
Another problem with the McCumber thesis is that that one of the the principal victims of of pre-McCarthyite red-baiting was Bertrand Russell, a standard-bearer for (and one of the co-inventors of)…

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Stats Courses For Philosophers (guest post by Joshua Knobe)