🧩 Philosophy May 12, 2026 · Justin Weinberg

The Market for Scholar Replicas

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The Market for Scholar Replicas
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Why should a department hire some fresh PhD when it could instead hire Derek Parfit, Daniel Dennett, Judy Thomson, Hilary Putnam, Ruth Barcan Marcus, or David Lewis?
You might say: “How could a department hire these people? They’re dead!”
True. But it is only a matter of time before AI-based “replicas” of them exist. Imagine a sophisticated, well-trained language model paired with some video or holographic technology, and you get the idea. Instead of hiring a person

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