Daily Nous
Daily Nous
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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Links to stuff elsewhere you might find worth checking out… “A wave of censorship and self-censorship that… is curbing academic freedom and learning” — the NYT on how “we’ve never seen this much surveillance” of university faculty “There...
David T. Wasserman, a bioethicist at the National Institutes of Health, died this past December. The following memorial notice is by Sean Aas (Georgetown University). David T. Wasserman, bioethicist and philosopher of disability, health,...
For some reason, Renu Khator, the longtime president of the University of Houston and chancellor of the University of Houston System, has felt the need to remind her faculty that “our responsibility is to give [students] the ability to...
The faculty of the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) program at the University at Buffalo were awarded a $4 million grant from the US Department of Education for an initiative on “civil discourse”. [Adam Pendleton, untitled (We...
Some university administrations are (as we have seen) trying to prevent professors from teaching about topics related to gender, sexuality, and race. Some may be doing this of their own accord. Others may be begrudgingly succumbing to...
“For the first time in human history, we are no longer alone in the space of general intelligence.” [image made with ChatGPT]In a commentary published today at Nature, a group of researchers, including two philosophers, argue that “once...
A new website serves as a centralized source of information for “Bioethics Bowl,” a learning competition modeled after the popular Ethics Bowl events, but with a focus on issues in clinical, biomedical research, and healthcare ethics....
This is the weekly 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. Online Resources Update [Last Week of...
David Hume’s tomb was one of a few sites at a cemetery in Edinburgh that have been vandalized with “disturbing occult-style paraphernalia,” according to The Guardian. [photograph via The Guardian]The Guardian reports: A tour guide made...
New links… Why does philosophy have a history? — a lecture by Michael Rosen at the Royal Institute of Philosophy The inaugural addresses delivered by the first ten women Presidents of the Aristotelian Society — now available in a free...
“Value capture is… where your values are rich and subtle or in the process of developing that way. And you get put in a setting or near a technology or an institution that presents you with a simplified, typically quantified version, and...
Bernhard Waldenfels, professor emeritus of Philosophy at the Ruhr University in Bochum and an influential figure in contemporary phenomenology, has died. Professor Waldenfels was known for his phenomenological approaches to a variety of...
Though philosophers are often (if not quite accurately) thought to have been asking the same questions for thousands of years, philosophers throughout history have responded in their work to the circumstances of their day. [photo by...
The Journal of the History of Philosophy has announced that Julia Jorati, professor of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, is the winner of its 2025 Book Prize. Professor Jorati was awarded the prize for her book,...
I’ve updated the Comments Policy at Daily Nous with a passage about using AI to write comments here. [Manipulation of M.C. Escher’s “Drawing Hands”]The update was occasioned by a recent discussion in which a few accusations were tossed...