Tag: plagiarism
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Careful with those Accusations
Academia is in turmoil regarding partially or wholly AI-written research. AI-written work is being submitted to journals, but it isn’t clear how much. Publisher,…
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After Experiment, Journal Decides to Prohibit AI-Authored Content
Earlier this month, the journal Philosophy & Public Affairs published an article largely written by an AI.
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Does Your Department Have an AI Policy? Here’s Edinburgh’s
[Originally published on May 27, 2026. Reposted by request.] Has your department instituted an AI policy? If so, whom does it govern, and what…
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A Scene from the AI Flooding of Academic Journals
“We recently received a double-digit number of submissions from authors in the Far East… where we had strong evidence of machine generated content. Nothing…
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A New Tool for Curbing AI Cheating (guest post)
“The aim is not to keep everything exactly as it was before gen AI took off. That would be both impossible and undesirable. The…
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The Integrity of Academic Integrity Enforcement
The philosophy professor heading up the office at his college that handles student violations of academic integrity, like cheating, is dealing with a seemingly…
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AI Generated Content and Academic Journals
What are good policy options for academic journals regarding the detection of AI generated content and publication decisions?
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Publisher Stops Selling Two Books about Philosophers over Citation Problems
The University of Chicago Press (UCP) has ceased selling two books about philosophers because their authors did not properly cite sources.
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Zombie Plagiarism in Philosophy
Some philosophy articles might be exposed as containing plagiarized material, might have editorial notes appended to them indicating as much, or might even be…
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Theoria Publishes Recap & Assessment of CNRS Plagiarism Scandals
The French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) hosted two related plagiarism scandals in recent years. One concerned the serial plagiarism of one of…
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The AI-Immune Assignment Challenge
AutomatED, a guide for professors about AI and related technology run by philosophy PhD Graham Clay (mentioned in the Heap of Links last month),…
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It’s All Too Hard to Get Plagiarizing Philosophy Publications Retracted (guest post)
“It can involve an unreasonable amount of time, an unreasonable amount of work, and an unreasonably uphill struggle to obtain retractions of philosophy publications,…
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Plagiarized Articles at the Internet Encylopedia of Philosophy? (updated)
Mark Thakkar (St. Andrews) says he has discovered plagiarism in around 40 articles in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
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CNRS Commission Defends Roques in Response to Plagiarism Accusations / Update: Roques Dismissed from CNRS (updated)
A commission formed by the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) has issued a statement defending a researcher in medieval philosophy against multiple…
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Philosopher Revealed as Serial Plagiarist (multiple updates)
A researcher specializing in medieval philosophy has plagiarized the writings of a number of scholars in several of her published works, according to an…
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Topic-Appropriate Excuses for Plagiarism in Philosophy Papers
For a paper on time travel: “I didn’t plagiarize David Lewis’s 1976 American Philosophical Quarterly paper. In 1975, he traveled to the future and plagiarized me!”
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Philosophy’s Plagiarism Patrol
The body of published scholarship in my discipline—academic philosophy—suffers from a host of authorship violations, including plagiarism, undisclosed pseudonyms, and duplicate publication. These problems…
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Plagiarist’s University Issues Criticism …of the Whistleblower
Last month we learned how philosophy professor Michael V. Dougherty (Ohio Dominican) and his students discovered and reported that Peter J. Schulz, a Professor of Communication in…
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Peter J. Schulz Plagiarizes Again—And Is Caught By Philosophy Prof.’s Class (updated)
Peter J. Schulz, who has a PhD in philosophy from Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (Germany) and is currently employed as Professor of Communication in the Faculty…
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Plagiarism In Philosophy: How Publishers Respond
How do publishers respond to cases of plagiarism in philosophy? Michael V. Dougherty, professor and Sr. Ruth Caspar Chair in Philosophy at Ohio Dominican University,…