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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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The faculty of the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) program at the University at Buffalo were awarded a $4 million grant from the US Department of Education for an initiative on “civil discourse”. [Adam Pendleton, untitled (We Are Not) (detail)]The grant’s principle investigator is Justin Bruner, and the...
Some university administrations are (as we have seen) trying to prevent professors from teaching about topics related to gender, sexuality, and race. Some may be doing this of their own accord. Others may be begrudgingly succumbing to pressure from legislators or trustees. Still others may be preparing to manage or...
“For the first time in human history, we are no longer alone in the space of general intelligence.” [image made with ChatGPT]In a commentary published today at Nature, a group of researchers, including two philosophers, argue that “once you clear away certain confusions, and strive to make fair comparisons and avoid...
A new website serves as a centralized source of information for “Bioethics Bowl,” a learning competition modeled after the popular Ethics Bowl events, but with a focus on issues in clinical, biomedical research, and healthcare ethics. The site was created by Mark Wells (Northeastern University). He writes, “While...
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. Online Resources Update [Last Week of January, 2026] SEP New: Marsilius of Padua by Alessandro Mulieri. Revised: John...
David Hume’s tomb was one of a few sites at a cemetery in Edinburgh that have been vandalized with “disturbing occult-style paraphernalia,” according to The Guardian. [photograph via The Guardian]The Guardian reports: A tour guide made the discovery at the Old Calton burial ground. It included a drawing of a naked...
New links… Why does philosophy have a history? — a lecture by Michael Rosen at the Royal Institute of Philosophy The inaugural addresses delivered by the first ten women Presidents of the Aristotelian Society — now available in a free virtual issue How philosophy of science can “promote dialogue and mutual...
“Value capture is… where your values are rich and subtle or in the process of developing that way. And you get put in a setting or near a technology or an institution that presents you with a simplified, typically quantified version, and the simplified version takes over.” That’s C. Thi Nguyen, professor of...
Bernhard Waldenfels, professor emeritus of Philosophy at the Ruhr University in Bochum and an influential figure in contemporary phenomenology, has died. Professor Waldenfels was known for his phenomenological approaches to a variety of topics, including attention, the foreign, embodiment, nature, migration, the...
Though philosophers are often (if not quite accurately) thought to have been asking the same questions for thousands of years, philosophers throughout history have responded in their work to the circumstances of their day. [photo by Justin Weinberg]We are living in strange, transformative, possibly calamitous times....
The Journal of the History of Philosophy has announced that Julia Jorati, professor of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, is the winner of its 2025 Book Prize. Professor Jorati was awarded the prize for her book, Slavery and Race: Philosophical Debates in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries...
I’ve updated the Comments Policy at Daily Nous with a passage about using AI to write comments here. [Manipulation of M.C. Escher’s “Drawing Hands”]The update was occasioned by a recent discussion in which a few accusations were tossed around that commenters were submitting AI-written comments. Here’s what I added:...
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