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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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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...
The Library of Congress announced this week that it is awarding the 2026 John W. Kluge Prize for the Achievement in the Study of Humanity to Martha Nussbaum (University of Chicago). The $500,000 prize “recognizes individuals whose outstanding scholarship in the humanities and social sciences has shaped public...
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. This edition covers last week and the week before. (If we missed something, let us know.) Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy...
One day, I’m posting here about how to address AI risks, the next, Daily Nous suffers from a “critical error” and goes down for over a week. Coincidence? Or evidence that the AI’s thought I was onto something? Yes I know it was the former… probably. What happened? Daily Nous and its server were hacked. This isn’t...
One day, I’m posting here about how to address AI risks, the next, Daily Nous suffers from a “critical error” and goes down for over a week. Coincidence? Or evidence that the AI’s thought I was onto something? Yes I know it was the former… probably. What happened? Daily Nous and its server were hacked. This isn’t...
There has been an increase in concern over AI destroying humanity, most recently spurred by tweets from former Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon about how dangerous AI is, and a follow-up tweet from current employee Evan Hubinger, who said “Jacob is correct here — we really do earnestly believe A.I. could kill all...
There has been an increase in concern over AI destroying humanity, most recently spurred by tweets from former Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon about how dangerous AI is, and a follow-up tweet from current employee Evan Hubinger, who said “Jacob is correct here — we really do earnestly believe A.I. could kill all...
“Do philosophers really think differently than non-philosophers?” That’s the question taken up by a team of researchers in a recent study published in Philosophical Psychology. Focusing on differences between philosophers and non-philosophers in regard to neurodivergent traits and responses to thought experiments,...
“Do philosophers really think differently than non-philosophers?” That’s the question taken up by a team of researchers in a recent study published in Philosophical Psychology. Focusing on differences between philosophers and non-philosophers in regard to neurodivergent traits and responses to thought experiments,...
New links… “50 Things Every AI Working with Humans Should Know” — a short story by Ken Liu “We need a moratorium on new rules and new software purchases until we’ve pruned what does not serve the fundamental mission of teaching and learning and in fact gets in the way of it” — Barry Lam on higher ed’s...
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