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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The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, and new podcast episodes… (If we missed anything, please let us know.) SEP New: Weighing Reasons by Chris Tucker. Revised: Sin...
Large language models like ChatGPT are not conscious, but there are other “serious contenders for AI consciousness that exist today” Furthermore, “AI development will not wait for philosophers and cognitive scientists to agree on what...
“Obtain free publicity for your conference by writing a post for Daily Nous in which you get to mention it.” That’s not really part of the post, but I have to give Craig Agule (Rutgers University-Camden) and Brian Berkey (University of...
Philip A. Ebert, currently professor of law and philosophy at the University of Stirling, has accepted an offer from the University of Salzburg, where he will be professor of theoretical philosophy. Professor Ebert works on various...
New in the Heap of Links… “Current academic philosophers are losing rather dramatically in the fight for intellectual influence” — Tyler Cowen recommends “AI practitioners and the Bay Area obsessives” over philosophers “I don’t do...
At the end of October, 2015 I made five predictions about “the state of philosophy in ten years.” How was my forecasting? Let’s take a look. Below are my predictions, along with my verdict for each, in bold text. (You can check out the...
The Research Council of Finland has announced the new recipients of its Academy Professorship and Centres of Excellence in Research funding. Of the 15 new Academy Professors, two are philosophers: Jari Kaukua (University of Jyväskylä)...
Stephen Menn, currently Professor of Philosophy at McGill University, will be moving to the University of Toronto, where he will be the inaugural holder of the Michael and Virginia Walsh Chair in the History of Philosophy. The position...
The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, and new podcast episodes… (If we missed anything, let us know.) SEP New: Alberic of Paris by Heine Hansen and Boaz Faraday...
Are we making progress in philosophy? Or at least in philosophy-themed costumes? Here’s one way to find out. Ten years ago, I put up a post asking which philosophy ideas make for good Halloween costumes. I included some suggestions: Yes,...
The University at Buffalo is launching a fully online program in applied ontology. Graduates will leave the program with an MS degree. The program, based in Buffalo’s Department of Philosophy, aims to “prepare students from around the...
New links… “If you look at the history of science, the ultimate goal has been changing constantly… We have a much stronger and more honest way of approaching reality without being attached to this misleading idea of there being an...
Charles Barry Hoffmaster, professor emeritus of philosophy at Western University, has died. Professor Hoffmaster (known in the profession as Barry Hoffmaster), worked mainly in bioethics, normative ethics and the philosophy of law,...
Sometimes, philosophical terms mean one thing, but sound like they really ought to mean something else. That was the premise of the Uxbridge Dictionary of Philosophy, a compilation of “misdefinitions” of philosophical ideas, started by...
The Australian Research Council has announced the winners of its latest round of Discovery Grants, and several philosophers are among them. . The principal investigators, co-investigators, and their projects are listed below: Samuel...