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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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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:...
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: ∅ Revised: Life by Carlos Mariscal. Philosophy of Immunology by...
Links to things you might find interesting… What is a music genre? — P.D. Magnus, Emmie Malone, & Brandon Polite explore the idea that music genres are “historical individuals” (thanks to OUP for making this article temporarily open access) “The core danger we identified [in our simulation] is now emerging: a...
The American Philosophical Association (APA) has announced that the new chair of its Board of Officers will be Marya Schechtman. Marya Schechtman is a Liberal Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Her three-year term as APA Board Chair begins on July 1st,...
Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business has revamped its MBA curriculum and has made ethics a focal point of its first-year curriculum. The McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University A press release about the changes states that As part of the opening term, students will kick off their MBA...
What’s one thing that could make ICE agent Jonathan Ross’s lethal shooting of innocent US citizen Renee Good even worse? If it were legally justified. ICE agent killing Renee Good How would this make it worse? The shooting was a horrific event. If it were determined to be legally justified, then (a) it would be...
Bastiaan “Bas” van Fraassen, professor emeritus of philosophy at Princeton University, has been awarded the 2026 Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy. The Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy is bestowed by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (KVA). Winners each receive 600,000 Swedish kronor (approximately...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has announced the winners of its latest round of grants, and several philosophy professors are among them. . They and their projects are: David Ebrey (University of Barcelona) Plato’s Inferences about the Soul Research and writing leading to a book on Plato’s ideas...
“You want to know why philosophy matters? This is the true answer, and the one upon which we must plant our flag: philosophy is the most productive force ever discovered by human beings and we are responsible for modernity. Philosophy is the great gear deep in the heart of the world, and when that gear moves, the...
Has the literature review in philosophy dissertations largely disappeared, and if so, what should we think of this change? In a post reflecting on how younger scholars have engaged (or not) with his work, Eric Schliesser (Amsterdam) expresses his sense of futility about his inclusion in that “a fragile chain of...
How, as a researcher, can you use AI tools like ChatGPT in a way that doesn’t compromise your integrity, creativity, and independence? In the following guest post, Jimmy Alfonso Licon (Arizona State University) explains how he does it, laying out how he approaches his writing process and the roles he assigns ChatGPT...
In recognition of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, here are MLK’s six principles of nonviolent resistance. [Martin Luther King, Jr., Montgomery Jail, 1958. Photo by Charles Moore.] “Nonviolent resistance is not a method for cowards… This is ultimately the way of the strong man… While the nonviolent resister is passive...
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