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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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Last week I posted about PhilLit, a new AI research tool for philosophers that finds and summarizes philosophical writing. The post generated a lot of comments, which prompted one reader to run a little experiment. The experiment consisted in having ChatGPT read the post, predict the comments, read the actual...
Matt Zwolinski (University of San Diego) says he has long thought it would be useful to have a website in which you could type in the name of a book and be shown all the different reviews of it that have been published. Tired of waiting, he recently, “with a lot of help from Claude code,” started building such a...
The pursuit of knowledge generates disagreement, including disagreement about how to pursue knowledge. This has implications for current debates of scholarship and activism and complaints about some academics being activists. Enzo Rossi (Amsterdam) puts it this way: Those who oppose the distinction between...
Grammarly is sometimes thought by instructors to be a relatively benign writing tool app, akin to a sophisticated spelling and grammar checker. Bits of Grammarly screenshots (clipped from Barker’s video) That may have once been true, but as Kieran Barker, an educational associate for academic AI initiatives at...
I’ve been asked to put up a post about what goes under the “publications” heading on a cv, but I thought we could expand the discussion to include other bits of cv-related advice for job applicants. Here’s the main thing I was asked to convey: the only things that should be listed under unqualified cv headings like...
Latest links… “Each step made sense within its own intellectual climate, yet the cumulative effect was to impose on Aristotle a conception of tragedy he would scarcely have recognized” — Jonathan Bate on the history of the “tragic flaw” “Past, present, and future are all there because I look backwards in gratitude,...
Reminder: if you’re organizing a philosophy summer program, you can list it here at Daily Nous. Just go to the page that’s right for your program and follow the instructions: Summer Philosophy Programs for HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS Summer Philosophy Programs for UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS Summer Philosophy Programs for...
A forthcoming study shows that a critical thinking course focused on a few good, relatively easy to learn, and useful reasoning strategies can impart lessons that remain effective long after the course has ended. The study, authored by Michael Bishop (Florida State), Adam Feltz (Oklahoma), and Paul Conway...
Last week, I asked philosophy instructors to let us know how much reading they assign in their undergraduate courses. As of yesterday afternoon, there were around 700 responses for the “lower level” philosophy course poll and a little less than that for the “upper level” philosophy course poll. For lower-level...
This is the weekly 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 anything, please let us know.) SEP New: Sikh Philosophy by Arvind-Pal S. Mandair. Revised: David Lewis...
A pair of philosophers have developed a new research tool that uses AI to provide comprehensive and reliable philosophical literature reviews, and they’d like you to give it a try. Just last week I checked out a new AI tool discussed in Nature that is supposed to be able to “synthesize scientific literature”. As...
The American Philosophical Association (APA) has signed onto to a letter by PEN America to the Texas A&M University System Regents “to request that they rescind two policies, passed in fall 2025, that have resulted in the censorship of academic courses across the institution, and the announced closure of the...
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