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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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“Unfortunately, the types of people for whom such fellowships might represent the greatest departure from their everyday experience—and whose career trajectories might be most dramatically shifted given freedom from their usual constraints—are infrequently their beneficiaries.” In an article at Public Books,...
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has announced its new class of fellows, and three philosophers are among them. They are: Alan Baker (Swarthmore College) Kate Manne (Cornell University) Gina Schouten (Harvard University) Alan Baker, Kate Manne, Gina Schouten From nearly 5000 applicants, 223 fellows...
The AI firm Anthropic recently shared a detailed description of the various capabilities and safety risks of Claude Mythos Preview, a new AI model (Anthropic’s “most capable frontier model to date”). If you’ve heard anything about Claude Mythos Preview, it may be that its cybersecurity/hacking skills capabilities...
The International Society for Moral Psychology (ISMP) is a new association that aims to be an “interdisciplinary and international home for moral psychology, aimed at fostering deeper engagement across traditions, methodologies, and cultural contexts.” An announcement from the association states that ISMP is...
Jason Turner, currently professor of philosophy at the University of Arizona, will be moving to the University of Notre Dame. Professor Turner works in metaphysics, philosophy of action, and philosophy of logic. He is the author of The Facts in Logical Space and many other writings, which you can learn about here....
Later this week, at least two philosophers will risk arrest by taking part in the largest-ever open rescue in the history of animal activism. Ridglan Farms, located in Wisconsin, is, according to David Killoren, visiting professor of philosophy at Grand Valley State University, “one of the largest and most notorious...
Recent links… Previously unknown poems by Iris Murdoch have been discovered and will be read at an upcoming festival — including “a very moving love poem” about Elizabeth Anscombe “The suspicion that he abused a white girl is a threat to his legitimacy in a way that the documented obliteration of a school of brown...
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: Experimental Philosophy by Justin Sytsma, Kevin Reuter, and...
Louis deRosset, currently professor of philosophy at the University of Vermont, will be moving to the University of Notre Dame. Professor deRosset works in metaphysics, philosophy of language, and philosophy of logic. He is the author of Fundamental Things: Theory and Applications of Grounding, among other writings,...
Martin Peterson, currently professor of philosophy at Texas A&M University, will be moving to Southern Methodist University (SMU). Professor Peterson works in ethics, particularly normative ethics, engineering ethics, and the ethics of technology. His latest book is Ethics in the Gray Area: A Gradualist Theory of...
The National Humanities Center (NHC) recently announced its fellows for the 2026-27 academic year, and two philosophers are among them. They are S.M. Love (Georgia State University) for the project, “Freedom from the Market: A Kantian Account of Socioeconomic Rights,” and James Van Cleve (University of Southern...
The Marc Sanders Foundation has announced that its 2026 Prize in Metaphysics has been awarded to Ezra Rubenstein and Verónica Gómez-Sánchez (both of UC Berkeley). They won the prize for their paper, “Logical Atomism“. Here’s the abstract of the paper: The core of logical atomism is the view that fundamental reality...
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