Meta-Evidence Beyond AI: Why Humans Still Signal Quality in Philosophy
Justin Weinberg outlines a meta-epistemic argument that human-authored philosophy carries evidential weight beyond content, since journals’ imprimatur and a scholar’s creative effort signal rigorous, expert scrutiny. AI-written text can be valuable as a tool, but relying on human provenance helps readers triage what to trust and where to look for independent verification. This is not a blanket rejection of AI in philosophy, but a nuanced case for using provenance as part of evaluating arguments.