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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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This is the 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. . (If we missed something, let us know.) Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy New: Friedrich Engels by Matt Shafer. The...
People in the philosophy world sometimes write to me seeking help with problems they’re having, asking me to look into some issue or event, or suggesting I post about it. Yesterday, for the first time, an AI agent did this. . The request concerned a philosophy competition organized by Elliott Thornley and Zachary...
In a comment on an earlier post, a professor suggested as a topic for discussion, “Academic integrity violations becoming commonplace (analog, not just AI!) and what to do about it.” Diane Arbus, “Screaming woman with blood on her hands” I’ve certainly heard from many professors about rampant AI-enabled cheating in...
Links of to interesting stuff elsewhere… The AI threat to independent student writing is not necessarily a threat to student learning — what’s needed, says Joe Cruz, are courses “in which ideas are expressed in real time and analytical thought unfolds as a debate or an oral defense or a group discussion”—and small...
Felipe De Brigard, professor of philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience at Duke University, principal investigator at the Imagination and Modal Cognition Lab, and core faculty of the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences and Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, has been selected as a 2026 Fellow by the MacArthur...
To what extent is the “the story about the analytic turn” in philosophy a story about politics? There’s been an increased discussion in recent years of externalist explanations of philosophy, and one such explanation that has gotten a fair amount of attention lately is the idea that McCarthyist anti-communism in the...
A few years back, I posted about the “Daily Logic” and “Daily Semantics” project of Josh Dever, professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. The projects offer up mini-lessons in logic or semantics that anyone can subscribe to. At the time, Professor Dever wrote, “The idea of each is that each day...
“The key question is not whether AI is used, but how it is used.” That’s from Springer Nature’s policy on using AI when peer reviewing for its journals. Wiley tells its journal referees: “Use AI responsibly: Apply best practices and properly disclose AI use in manuscripts and peer review.” That’s right: two of the...
This is the 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. . (If we missed something, let us know.) Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy New: Animal Thought by Laura Danón. Shaaban...
Sebastian Thrun, a computer scientist, entrepreneur, and adjunct professor at Stanford University (whose projects have included Waymo, Google X, Google Street View, and more) has launched a study to evaluate “the capabilities and limitations of AI systems for writing English-language philosophy.” Called...
New links… A political theorist and a comedian discuss the American presidency — “The Oath and the Office” is the podcast of Corey Brettschneider & John Fugelsang An “evidence revolution” has taken place in medicine and other fields over the past 50 years — but, as Benjamin Santos Genta asks, there’s still the...
TeachPhilosophy101, a free and helpful collection of resources and ideas for teaching philosophy, has recently been updated. “Struttúra” by Florence Henri Its materials cover course planning, how to use class time, student assessment, challenges, and much more. TeachPhilosophy101 was created by John Immerwahr...
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