I’ve long held CMU’s philosophy department in high regard. One of their leading lights, Clark Glymour, recently published a short manifesto, which Brian Leiter summed up as saying that “the measure of value for philosophy departments is whether they are taken seriously by computer scientists.”
Selected quote from Glymour’s manifesto:
Were I a university administrator facing a contracting budget, I would not look to eliminate biosciences or computer engineering. I would notice that the philosophers seem smart, but their writings are tediously incestuous and of no influence except among themselves, and I would conclude that my academy could do without such a department… But not if I found that my philosophy department retrieved a million dollars a year in grants and fellowships, and contained members whose work is cited and used in multiple subjects, and whose faculty taught the traditional subject well to the university’s undergraduates.
Also see the critique here, but I’d like to have Glymour working on FAI.
Philosophy that can be “taken seriously by computer scientists”
I’ve long held CMU’s philosophy department in high regard. One of their leading lights, Clark Glymour, recently published a short manifesto, which Brian Leiter summed up as saying that “the measure of value for philosophy departments is whether they are taken seriously by computer scientists.”
Selected quote from Glymour’s manifesto:
Also see the critique here, but I’d like to have Glymour working on FAI.