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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Artificial intelligence is an amazing technology, but also one that seems to pose threats to human relations, to aspects of human flourishing, and to education. It’s not going to go away, but that doesn’t mean there’s nothing we can do...
“Administrators who claim that their university is under financial distress must not be given carte blanche,” wrote members of the Department of Philosophy at Portland State earlier this past January, when three of its faculty members...
The Synergy Grants program from the European Research Council awards grants of millions of euros to “foster collaboration between outstanding researchers, enabling them to combine their expertise, knowledge and resources to push the...
In a philosophy seminar—“my favorite class I’ve taken so far,” she said—Gwen used AI to write almost all her essays just to avoid late submissions. That’s “Gwen”, a student at Yale, interviewed for an article by Alex Moore in The New...
Philosopher Krushil Watane and archaeologist Thegn Ladefoged, both of the University of Auckland, have won a major grant from the Marsden Fund of The Royal Society Te Apārangi (New Zealand) for work on the persistence and flourishing of...
The weekly report has a new section starting this week. In addition to new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, and new podcast episodes, we will also list recently published open access...
Links of interest… “People had all sorts of reactions to being asked to do the right thing” — the moral psychology behind not returning your shopping cart when you’re done with it The “word of the year” was selected (and is often used)...
A “16-year-old who tragically leaped to his death at New York City’s famed Regis High School had gotten into hot water after taking a controversial stance in his ethics class,” according to The New York Post. Upper East Side, Manhattan,...
World Philosophy Day is the third Thursday of November. That’s next Thursday. How will you be celebrating? World Philosophy Day, created by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), celebrates “the...
The Texas A&M University System’s Board of Regents took steps yesterday to impose its conservative ideology on college students by prohibiting professors from teaching certain ideas about race and gender. They did so by making changes to...
A philosophy professor is interested in developing a social media account for his department, and could use some help. He writes that his department has decided it needs to improve its communication with and visibility to students, the...
How is the development and use of artificial intelligence changing the norms of inquiry and knowledge production across different disciplines? That’s the question to be taken up by Eamon Duede, assistant professor of philosophy at Purdue...
Recent additions to the Heap of Links… It’s surprisingly “puzzling and difficult… to explain why right hands and left hands are identical but different” — Kant tried, but an adequate explanation, according to this article, was not...
If certain cultures didn’t have the word “philosophy,” or a word that can directly be translated with “philosophy,” is it illegitimate, maybe culturally imperialist, to impose it on them? In the following guest post, Peter Adamson (LMU,...
“In Fall 2022, we had four students majoring or minoring in Philosophy; today we have 31.” That’s Paul Butterfield, assistant professor of philosophy at Alfred University in New York. He adds, “we estimate that, over five years, we will...