Shawn Standefer
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Shawn Standefer
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Philosophical logician at North Carolina State University
More evidence for the probably independent hypothesis
November 25, 2025 at 3:59 PM
I’ve also wondered about the “compute” thing. The use of “spend” over “spent” has been common in Australian English for over a decade, so that’s probably independent.
November 25, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I'm not sure that the hype-backlash was as unproductive as suggested. Due to AI hype, universities all over the place are putting a lot of resources into AI stuff and letting/forcing it into a lot of pedagogical areas. The backlash may result in some of that being scaled back, which seems good.
November 24, 2025 at 11:50 PM
One issue here is that especially early students haven’t got a feel for how to be critical of feedback. So I think that having bad suggestions mixed in won’t be beneficial on balance.
November 24, 2025 at 4:41 PM
My main issue with current LLMs is that there isn’t a guard rail between getting the feedback and getting the LLM to do the rewrite. That’s not an essential problem with the LLMs, but it’s also not one that’s likely to be fixed
November 24, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Just anecdotally, I find this kind of curious. Lots of CS people I follow are fairly negative on LLMs for coding beyond fairly basic things, but I could see some disciplinary divergence here
November 24, 2025 at 3:22 PM
This surprised me too, but more power to him if it’s working
November 24, 2025 at 2:50 PM
How have your students found using an AI or LLM as a supplemental advisor? What are your thoughts on the guidance you’ve seen so far?
November 24, 2025 at 2:31 PM
What are you finding useful and effective in using AI in philosophy classes?
November 24, 2025 at 1:35 PM
It’s fantastic!
November 23, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Thanks! This is helpful. I think you’re right that analyticity is the issue.
November 20, 2025 at 3:56 PM
How did Carnap struggle with the incompleteness of arithmetic? I'm not remembering.
November 20, 2025 at 3:39 PM
FEW2026 will run June 19-21, 2026.
November 19, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Is there a reference for the multi set point? I’d like to see the details.
November 17, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Yeah, I’d say chili is a soup
November 16, 2025 at 11:22 PM
I thought all stews were soups
November 16, 2025 at 9:33 PM