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Beyond Plagiarism: A Confucian Reflection on Teaching Philosophy with ChatGPT

When ChatGPT first became widely available, many conversations among philosophy teachers centred on a familiar concern: plagiarism. These are important questions, but they gradually became less interesting to me than […] The post Beyond Plagiarism: A Confucian Reflection on Teaching Philosophy with ChatGPT first appeared on Blog of the APA.

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When ChatGPT first became widely available, many conversations among philosophy teachers centred on a familiar concern: plagiarism.

These are important questions, but they gradually became less interesting to me than […] The post Beyond Plagiarism: A Confucian Reflection on Teaching Philosophy with ChatGPT first appeared on Blog of the APA.

How could we tell whether students had written their own essays?

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When ChatGPT first became widely available, many conversations among philosophy teachers centred on a familiar concern: plagiarism. These are important questions, but they gradually became less interesting to me than […] The post Beyond Plagiarism: A Confucian Reflection on Teaching Philosophy with ChatGPT first appeared on Blog of the APA. How could we tell whether students had written their own essays?

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