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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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Please use the comments section on this post to share information about Summer 2026 Programs in Philosophy for college undergraduate students. If you are organizing such a program, please add a comment to this post that includes:–...
Please use the comments section on this post to share information about Summer 2026 Programs in Philosophy for graduate students and/or PhDs in philosophy. If you are organizing such a program, please add a comment to this post that...
Bence Nanay, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Antwerp, has been awarded the 2025 Ernest-John Solvay Excellence Prize in the Humanities. Bence Nanay accepts the Solvay Prize from the King of Belgium, Philippe. The Humanities...
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). This update...
“Our current cognitive concepts are simultaneously indispensable, yet inadequate; indispensable, because we need the richness of cognitive vocabulary to guide trust and decision-making; inadequate, because they encode anthropomorphic...
James “Jim” Bogen, a longtime professor of philosophy at Pitzer College as well as an adjunct professor in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, has died. Professor Bogen was known for his work on various...
If you could build an agent from the ground up, what would its character be like? That’s the question confronting AI developers today. Recently some details came to light about how Anthropic is approaching this task for its model,...
Clarifying these expectations is not a minor pedagogical matter. It is essential to helping students succeed, avoid wasted effort, and stay motivated. Many of us have witnessed at least one graduate student who, when confronted with the...
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Texas Tech University System Chancellor Brandon Creighton, in a memo yesterday to the presidents of the universities in the system, announced a policy to “ensure that classroom instruction fully complies with state and federal law, Board...
Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy has published its policy regarding the use of artificial intelligence (AI) by authors, editors, and reviewers. Douglas Portmore (Notre Dame), editor-in-chief of...
Sylvia Burrow, professor in the Department of Humanities at Cape Breton University, has died. The following obituary is by Letitia Meynell (Dalhousie University). Sylvia Burrow (1969-2025) After more than a decade of fighting a brain...
Links of late… What counts as cheating in video games? What about in single-player video games? — Charles Joshua Horn explores these questions “Models of the mind and brain [in cognitive science] make use of idealized terms that have no...
In October, a settlement was announced in the copyright lawsuit against Anthropic, providing authors of books they trained their AI on with compensation of around $3000. There were certain eligibility conditions, though. One condition is...
“I should have presented my topic using the p4c [philosophy for children] method,” said a philosopher about about his talk at a conference on Plato’s theory of forms, after taking part in a demonstration of it. That remark is conveyed in...