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Ubermess: Philosophers Discuss the Self-Driving Car Crash

March 26, 2018

On March 19, 2018 a self-driving Uber car-for-hire struck and killed a pedestrian, Elaine Herzberg, in Tempe, Arizona. This was not the first trouble…
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Philosophers Awarded Over $500,000 To Study Autonomous Vehicles

October 6, 2017

A group of three philosophers and a civil engineer have been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to “construct ethical answers to…

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Matt Brown on Analytic Philosophy and McCarthyism: A New Look (guest post)
I would add here that there are popular strains in Continental philosophy and "humanistic" American philosophy that are highly conservative/reactionary (Heidegger, Adler) or apolitical (the individualist version of…
James on Overwhelming Cheating
In Fall 2025, I TA'ed for an instructor who assigned a typical essay to be done outside of class due at the beginning of the week, but additionally…
Gary Bartlett on Overwhelming Cheating
I know it sounds like a recipe for a total student revolt. But I've actually been surprised at how few students have complained. Some do, to be sure,…
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…

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Ubermess: Philosophers Discuss the Self-Driving Car Crash

Philosophers Awarded Over $500,000 To Study Autonomous Vehicles