Corpus evidence — top 10 passages

Most-relevant passages from the entire indexed corpus (67,286 paragraph chunks across YouTube transcripts, PubMed, arXiv, archive.org, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, OpenAlex, and more) ranked by semantic similarity (bge-small-en-v1.5).

1. 01 · _intake0.914

   > that is, I know I have the reputation, both because I periodically in my student evaluations get told I'm one of Yale's harsher graders, and because every now and then the Yale Daily News will have an article about grade inflation and they'll always ask me, "Well Professor Kagan is

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2. 02 · yt0.867

   I know this is true, that is, I know I have the reputation, both because I periodically in my student evaluations get told I'm one of Yale's harsher graders, and because every now and then the Yale Daily News will have an article about grade inflation and they'll always ask me, "Well Professor Kagan is somebody..." Once there was a story on grade inflation that the Yale Daily News began by saying, "As Shelly Kagan (known at Yale as one of the hardest graders)." So I know I've got at least the reputation of being a hard grader. I don't actually know whether it's deserved or not, because Yale do…

   yt/p2J7wSuFRl8-1-course-introduction/transcript.txt

3. 03 · yt0.770

   (10) "He does go around and around the same idea a number of times, which does cut down on the notes for the class, but it can get a little boring." (11) "Though I've heard students say he often repeats himself, I think this is a merit in a philosophy course in which arguments and thoughts can quickly become confusing." (12) "Shelly Kagan is a fabulous, resourceful, utterly convincing lecturer." (13) "He would work through arguments right in front of--" I like this one, because this is what I at least aim to be inside my head. Here's what I'm doing. Thirteen: "He would work through arguments r…

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4. 04 · yt0.706

   If I decide to challenge you, I'm going to challenge you because I know when I challenge you, there's something that's going to come out of that interaction that's going to give me a new nugget to study, to go down. This is part of the reason why I like being a doctor. Patients teach me more than I teach them. When did you realize you were different? This will probably stun people. Uh, not until I was at my first year of residency at LSU. I basically played sports, didn't break a sweat in the classroom, and had spectacular grades. But even at that time, I never thought I was going to do anythi…

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5. 05 · yt0.701

   So I always admired Cornell although we were for more than a decade I would think it's fair to say friendly acquaintances rather than friends much less brothers and then one day in my office hours a student who was both Cornell's student and my student Andrew Pormother >> Brother Andrew >> came to visit me and he said professor George I have a favor to ask and I said well certainly Andrew what is it? He said, "Well, some of my fellow students and I are starting a new magazine. It's going to be called The Green Light, and it's going to be a magazine of culture, arts, politics, liter…

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6. 06 · gutenberg0.700

   At most of our American Colleges there are Clubs formed by the students devoted to particular branches of learning; and these clubs have the laudable custom of inviting once or twice a year some maturer scholar to address them, the occasion often being made a public one. I have from time to time accepted such invitations, and afterwards had my discourse printed in one or other of the Reviews. It has seemed to me that these addresses might now be worthy of collection in a volume, as they shed explanatory light upon each other, and taken together express a tolerably definite philosophic attitude…

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7. 07 · yt0.699

   In the book in which the essay "The Intentional Fallacy" appeared, a book called The Verbal Icon, Wimsatt collaborated with Monroe Beardsley on three essays, and this is one of them. So we try to remember to say "Wimsatt and Beardsley" even though it is Wimsatt who taught at Yale. That in itself needn't be significant except that the New Critics, the school of critics to which he belonged, have always been identified with Yale and indeed consolidated here a kind of teaching method and attitude toward literature which constituted the first wave-- the first of two waves--of involvement in litera…

   yt/mT7roDHocuc-5-the-idea-of-the-autonomous-artwork/transcript.txt

8. 08 · yt0.692

   And and one of the one of the things I do is I try to use 4E cognitive science that has an ongoing critique of the representationalist and the Cartesian framework, and I try to and I I've been hired to do that, so I'm not doing anything to deceive the implicitists. To bring that into the courses I teach on cognitive psychology. And I mean, I've had long-standing success with my students, and they go on to excellent graduate programs. And if if it's not bragging, I'm now getting a lot of success in getting stuff published in in important journals. Uh but, to your point, for a long time I was lo…

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9. 09 · yt0.686

   My goal here is to be honest with you, right? Look, you're smart enough probably most of you to pull off some sort of B without breaking into a sweat, or at least not a significant sweat. So be it. But it's just lying to you to pretend that that's excellence in philosophy. So what I want to do in this class is be honest with you and tell you, "You've really done work here to be extraordinarily proud of yourself" versus "Yeah, you've done something okay" or "You've done good work. Admittedly, it's not great, but you've done good work." All right, that's 75% of your grade is the papers. The rema…

   yt/p2J7wSuFRl8-1-course-introduction/transcript.txt

10. 10 · yt0.684

    More and more academics want to engage in more public uh dis- uh presentation of their idea and I think it's reasonable to conclude that I've earned their trust, that they know that they're going to be able to do something that is public-facing, but nevertheless um you know, is has academic integrity and rigor to it. Mhm. What do you think, Chris? There's also Chris, there's also something else that it was a new way like I kind of remember, you know, being at the University of Toronto back in like maybe circa 2010, 11, 12, like that period was the period that I was there and first met John and…

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