Daily Nous
Daily Nous
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.
Latest Posts
New links… “It may well be that the models were loose for about a week before OpenAI realized that they were the ones attacking” — an autonomous AI’s recent escape from its sandbox to hack another site shows the need for better AI...
I don’t know about you, but I read more novels during the summer than any other time of year. I probably can fit in a few more novels before the school year begins. What have you read lately that you like? As for me, two recent fiction...
“We recently received a double-digit number of submissions from authors in the Far East… where we had strong evidence of machine generated content. Nothing made much sense in these papers, the authors, with their yahoo and aol type email...
George Graham, professor of philosophy at Georgia State University, has died. The following obituary has been provided by the Department of Philosophy at Georgia State University. George Graham (1945-2026) After a long illness, George...
The British Academy has announced the selection of 92 new fellows, and four philosophy professors are among them. The British Academy Building in London They are: Béatrice Longuenesse (New York University) Richard Pettigrew (University...
Recent links… Aphantasia, Hume, and empiricism — some people seem to lack mental imagery, and this has philosophical implications, argue Uku Tooming & Roomet Jakapi Are philosophers who work for AI firms “arsonists who moonlight as...
“The fact that you, an expert human, generated the text is evidence that the view is worth thinking about—more so than if the text were generated by an LLM.” That’s Eric Schwitzgebel (UCR), writing at The Splintered Mind about why he...
“Talks are not merely communication: they are also a performance… So many talks that could have been successful end up flopping because they’re not serious performances.” That’s one observation about job talks from Daniel Muñoz. Dr....
“Americans are probably reading more words than ever before. What has changed is what they read, and how. People are bombarded with emails, text messages, X posts, Reddit threads, Instagram captions. This explosion of textual fragments...
Interested in completely free, browser-based, instructional logic software? Brian Rabern spent a decade at the University of Edinburgh working in logic, formal semantics, and other areas of philosophy before moving into the tech world....
The latest links… Can life—all life—be defined in terms of agency? — well what do we mean by agency? From Newton’s few laws to Alphafold’s 93 million parameters: how should we understand the scientific virtue of simplicity today? — Eric...
An op-ed about curiosity published in the New York Times yesterday will resonate with many philosophers. Angela Palmer, Self-Portrait (scans engraved on glass) Written by Anne-Laure Le Cunff, a neuroscientist at King’s College London, it...
The Centre for Ethics, Law and Public Affairs (CELPA) at the University of Warwick has announced a mentorship program that “aims to support academics from groups underrepresented in moral, legal, and political philosophy, particularly...
Have you heard? AI companies are hiring philosophers! Sort of. News about jobs for philosophers is the kind of thing you might expect to read about at Daily Nous—for example, here is a post about which philosophers are working for which...
Luke Fenton-Glynn, a philosopher at Monash University, and before that, University College London, has died. Dr. Fenton-Glynn worked in philosophy of science, metaphysics, and epistemology, with a focus on causation, probability, and...