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Justin Weinberg
Daily Nous provides news for and about the philosophy profession, useful information for academic philosophers, links to items of interest elsewhere, and an online space for philosophers to publicly discuss it all. The site is maintained by me, Justin Weinberg, an associate professor of philosophy at the University of South Carolina.
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The Philosophy in an Inclusive Key Summer Institutes (PIKSI) in Boston aim to “broaden inclusion within professional philosophy.” In part because such efforts are currently unpopular with the powers that be, its primary funding, from MIT and Harvard, has been cut. To cope with the cuts, its organizers say that “it...
New links… “Collecting is a game, but what kind of game? It is an imperfect information game of acquisition” — a theory of collecting, from Steven Hales “A general human tendency: to overestimate how far we have come in the progress of human knowledge” — a lengthy interview with Thomas Nagel “Many couples do not...
“What do we lose if LLMs kill the journal system? Nothing but some heavy ass chains, and a few weak heuristics for assessing CVs quickly that were never worth the outrageous amounts of time and labour the journal system wasted anyway.” . That’s Jonathan Weisberg (Toronto), who knows a little bit more than the...
Various parties concerned about the risks that artificial intelligence (AI) pose to humanity have called for a pause in its development. But such a call faces a difficult collective action problem. Can it be solved? I have been skeptical (and suggested an alternate type of approach to AI safety here). But a new...
This is the report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, new podcast episodes, recently published open access philosophy books, and more. . (If we missed something, let us know.) Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy New: ∅ Revised: The Cambridge Platonists by...
Recent additions to the Heap of Links… The most bizarre plagiarism-related story ever — featuring: a death, an investigator, a dissertation, a mysterious red book, and more New data on earnings by major and university — though not all universities “AI poses two different existential threats to [our] valuing...
“AI systems… will transform the discipline: they will make philosophy more capital-intensive. “ * * * The following is a guest post by David Strohmaier, a philosopher and computer scientist in the Natural Language and Information Processing group at the University of Cambridge. In it, he explains why he thinks it’s...
In what is being called “the most important event in the history of mathematics” (by an AI), OpenAI, using an advanced model not yet available to the public, yesterday released 722 mathematics manuscripts containing 337 results it has generated on open mathematics problems. Italian Calculators (images via MoMA)...
Mona Simion, professor of philosophy at the University of Oxford, has been elected to the Governing Board of the International Science Council (ISC). The International Science Council (ISC) is a non-governmental organization whose members are major disciplinary academic organizations (such as the International Union...
If you could give beginning philosophy graduate students just one piece of advice, what would it be? I know that some readers will want to jump in to say “don’t”—either as a wisecrack or as sincere guidance. But as humor it’s clichéd, and as advice it’s not helpful. All graduate students nowadays have heard some...
With which universities have APA Presidents been affiliated? Joshua Paschal, a recent philosophy PhD out of Indiana University Bloomington, took up that question, gathered the data, and discusses it in the guest post, below. It’s a look at one kind of the institutional history of philosophy in the United States, one...
David Danks, professor of philosophy, artificial intelligence, and data science, at the University of Virginia, has been awarded a $1 million three-year senior fellowship for a project on “human-AI value coevolution.” The fellowship is from Schmidt Sciences, a science-supporting philanthropic organization founded by...
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