Tag: writing
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New Study on AI’s Philosophical Skills
Sebastian Thrun, a computer scientist, entrepreneur, and adjunct professor at Stanford University (whose projects have included Waymo, Google X, Google Street View, and more)…
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“Proper education arouses intellectual curiosity”
Nathan Ballantyne (ASU) continues his wonderful series of thoughtful, in-depth interviews of philosophers, The Workbench, with a conversation with Paul Gooch (Toronto).
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Revisiting “Slow Philosophy”
Over a decade ago, Jennifer Whiting (Pittsburgh) asked us to seriously consider an idea of Annette Baier‘s regarding tenure and promotion decisions. Recent technological…
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Teaching College Students Basic Studenting
Do you take time to teach your lower level students basic student skills? How do you do it?
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On Writing for Pay
Some philosophy professors, on top of all the work they do for the universities at which they’re employed, write public philosophy, and sometimes such…
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A Meta-Epistemological Reason for Rejecting AI-Written Philosophy
“The fact that you, an expert human, generated the text is evidence that the view is worth thinking about—more so than if the text…
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Writing Together: A Teaching Experiment (guest post)
“I’m very fond of the take-home essay, as there’s something irreplaceable about the experience of articulating a theory over the course of multiple weeks—doing…
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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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How To Write A Philosophy Paper: Online Guides
Some philosophy professors, realizing that many of their students are unfamiliar with writing philosophy papers, provide them with “how-to” guides to the task.
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Influential Ideas in an AI Era
A philosopher often praised for the accessibility of his writing, when asked about it (he often took part in advice sessions for younger academics),…
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Grammarly Is a Cheating Machine
Grammarly is sometimes thought by instructors to be a relatively benign writing tool app, akin to a sophisticated spelling and grammar checker.
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Value Capture in Philosophy
“Value capture is… where your values are rich and subtle or in the process of developing that way. And you get put in a…
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Ethics Announces AI Policy
Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy has published its policy regarding the use of artificial intelligence (AI) by authors, editors,…
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Scholarships for Dyslexic Graduate Students
A proofreading and writing consultancy developed by a pair of philosophers is offering a set of modest scholarships for graduate students with dyslexia.
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Peer Review, Intellectual Tastes, and Some Fun
Have you ever wanted to tell off the reviewers of your manuscript?
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“Pity the Poor Reader”
“Pity the poor reader” is one of philosopher Penelope Maddy‘s writing maxims.