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What Should Academics Do About Journal Prices?

November 2, 2015

All six editors and all 31 editorial board members of Lingua, one of the top journals in linguistics, last week resigned to protest Elsevier’s…
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Philosophers On Drug Prices

September 28, 2015

The price of Daraprim (pyrimethamine), a drug that treats the parasitic infection toxoplasmosis and is used in some cases to treat cancer and AIDS,…

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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…
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)…
Josh on Overwhelming Cheating
Our department is strongly leaning towards requiring all online courses to have in person exams. Where do you teach? It would be good to know of precedents when…

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What Should Academics Do About Journal Prices?

Philosophers On Drug Prices