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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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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: Types and Tokens by David Liebesman. Revised: Friedrich Albert...
Interesting stuff elsewhere… “There are lots of decisions that, in an ideal world, would be made in a flexible, holistic, discretionary way, but which cannot be made that way by institutions that have lost the public’s trust” — Daniel Greco on public trust in higher education The Splintered Mind turns 20 — Eric...
“I wonder if these people have ever seen a student’s face when they finally understand something for the first time.” Jane Sloan Peters, a professor of religious studies and historical theologian at the University of Mount Saint Vincent, was talking with her students about changes she has made to her teaching so as...
William J. Prior, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Santa Clara University, has died. The following obituary is by Elizabeth Radcliffe. William J. Prior (1946-2026) William J. Prior, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Santa Clara University, died on April 23rd, 2026, a few weeks short of his 80th birthday....
About a year ago, the UK government’s Office for Students (OfS) (whose “free speech czar” is philosopher Arif Ahmed) levied a fine of £585,000 on the University of Sussex after investigating how the university handled the case of philosopher Kathleen Stock, who resigned after students protested her views and called...
In 2024, a study found that “7–17% of the sentences in the reviews [of computer science manuscripts] were written by LLMs”. It was only a matter of time before this spread, and now it appears to have reached philosophy. Last year, a philosophy PhD student in the US submitted a paper to a well-known philosophy...
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: Realism by Alexander Miller. Inheritance Systems by...
Faculty at Arizona State University are developing a new philosophy major program with a focus on artificial intelligence, consciousness, and ethics. [Sou Fujimoto, “Many Small Cubes”]ASU’s School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies already offers philosophy bachelors degrees with concentrations in...
New links… Which button should you press? — Richard Chappell on a recent viral poll “It is somewhat puzzling that… so few universities have found ways to make the case [for] independent education and the advancement and preservation of knowledge” — Eric Schliesser on cynicism in the academy “Qualia are not puzzles...
The Marc Sanders Foundation has announced that its 2026 Prize in Political Philosophy has been awarded to Adam Kern (University of San Diego) and Jacob Nebel (Princeton University). Adam Kern & Jake Nebel They received the prize for their piece, “Migration and Social Population Ethics“. Here’s the abstract: This...
Plenty of philosophers have tattoos, but how many philosophers have philosophy tattoos? And what are they of? Image from “30 Socrates Tattoo Designs for Men” (?) A graduate student in philosophy is considering getting a “philosophy related tattoo” and expressed curiosity about their prevalence in the profession. So,...
Some philosophy journals seem friendlier to work in experimental philosophy (x-phi) than others. You may have a sense about this when it comes to some journals, but with others it can be hit-or-miss. Would it be useful to you to have more information handy about whether particular journals tend to publish x-phi? If...
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