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another attempt to preserve semantics while reducing complexity is through word embeddings. Here, the model constructs a vector mapping that puts words that tend to occur near to one another in text in locations proximate to one another. We might imagine a two-dimensional space, which ...
Nigel Warburtonwill be leading two 6-session evening courses on Thursday evenings from 4th September, 2014 in the Bertrand Russell Room atConway Hallnear Holborn, London. Details of the courses and booking can be found here: Philosophy: the Basics ...
It is okay to try to teach them, within limits (and I do: that’s why I literally teach courses on this stuff, and write books about it), but failing that, one just has to put up with them. And yet, Stoicism also reminds me that I ain’t no sage, and that I am labile to ...
Is it costly signaling, the government subsidies, increased quantity of small specialized courses, administrative bloat, or the Baumol effect? These are all interesting theories, some with more merit than others. But let’s talk about the theoretical development of a college program. As a ...
★★★ (100+ reviews for our courses) We’ve also created a condensed reading list of the 7 best books by and about Nietzsche, where we offer some more biographical details about the great philosopher’s life. Otherwise, below you’ll find 97 of Nietzsche’s cleverest and most provocative...
channeling our conflicting impulses into dramatic rehearsal of possible courses of action. Exploring these possibilities through careful examination of the facts of the situation, bringing prior knowledge to bear, along with dramatic rehearsal is what intelligent moral deliberation requires; and finally, ac...
As all human courses of action were predetermined, considering them as free-willed choices was an illusion – thus no one was actually capable of acting good or evil. For Spinoza, the only positive effect a person could have was to have an understanding of their predetermined path and an ...
(he also teaches English online). I am an author and trained philosopher with a doctorate in the subject who taught philosophy courses in years past, walked away from academia, still writes philosophy emphasizing the need to identify, clarify, and evaluate the success (or failure) of ...