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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Straive is a firm that uses AI to, among other things, help publishers with various tasks “across the publishing value chain”. One of its clients is Springer Nature, the publisher of many philosophy journals. Recently, Harry R. Lloyd,...
“The dirtiest secret in higher education is that there is no good data on the quality of teaching and teachers on college campuses.” So begins an interesting essay, “Teaching Quality,” by Hollis Robbins at her newsletter, Anecdotal...
“When Medicine Becomes Torture: Burn Patient Dax Cowart and His Involuntary Treatment for 232 Days”, “Bomber, Pass By: How the Abortion-Clinic Bomber almost Killed Me”, and “The Biggest Loser Wasn’t Just Unhealthy—It Was Unethical” are...
Several projects led by philosophers are among the recent recipients of large grants from the Swedish Research Council. [Sigrid Sandström, untitled (detail)]They are: Natural Properties – a Causation-First Approach Bram Vaassen (Umeå...
The Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP) and the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BAdW) are launching a joint project to digitize and place online the complete works of Rudolf Carnap. Led by Hannes Leitgeb and...
New and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, new podcast episodes, and more—including, now, a section on recently published open access philosophy books (if you tell us about them). (If we...
When did analytic philosophy begin? Many who ask that question answer: 1879, the year Gottlob Frege’s Begriffsschrift was published. But how did Frege, a math professor whose studies originally focused on geometry, do it? Is it true that...
Philosophers at Northeastern University have been awarded two substantial grants for work related to artificial intelligence. One is a $400,000 grant to Katie Creel and John Basl from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, for the project...
Barbara Vetter, professor of theoretical philosophy at the Free University of Berlin, has been awarded a Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize from the German Research Foundation (DFG). The Leibniz Prize is Germany’s most prestigious research...
A new peer-reviewed open-access journal, Experimental Philosophy, has been launched. . According to a description on its website, Experimental Philosophy is an open-access journal founded to enable authors to publish work in experimental...
The latest links… “There will be no Q&A sessions. There will be no dead air. We shall not hear the tick-tock of the clock. How will OpenAI learn from us? I feel a flash of small panic, like a trapped squirrel” — philosopher Daniel Story...
“I don’t believe that arguing is usually the way we come up with good ideas. Argument might be an effective way of deciding which ideas to believe in. But adjudication is not creation. Safety inspections are important for deciding...
All of the editors-in-chief and associate editors of Springer Nature’s Journal of Philosophical Logic have announced their immediate or pending resignation and the launch, as of today, of a new “diamond” open access journal,...
Are you putting on a philosophy summer program, philosophy summer school, or philosophy camp in 2025? Listing your summer programs here at Daily Nous increases the chances that more people (including potential applicants) learn about...
Please use the comments section on this post to share information about Summer 2026 Programs in Philosophy for high school students. If you are organizing such a program, please add a comment to this post that includes:– program name–...