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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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Recent links… “Data is not available upon request” — a study (via Brian Earp) “What might I learn from those encounters that I had not already gleaned from the analytical papers and philosophical discussions?” — photographer Dan Turello reflects on taking portraits of humanoid robot Sophia and human David Chalmers...
At its November 2025 meeting, the Board of the American Philosophical Association (APA) approved a statement addressed “first and foremost, to trans members of our profession,” and to “those who teach and research in the philosophy of sex and gender, and philosophy that addresses LGBTQ+ issues,” but also to “all...
In light of Texas A&M’s decision to tell a philosophy professor to remove readings by Plato from his course, one enterprising philosopher has come up with a way for people to voice their support for academic freedom. It’s the “Legalize Plato” t-shirt. Designed by UC San Diego philosophy professor Saba Bazargan, the...
“The first question is: what is the question?” That’s the first in a set of “rules for writing” which Peter Adamson (LMU, KCL) developed for his students over the years, and which he is currently sharing in a series of posts this month at the History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps blog. He writes: “The first...
Barry Lam (UC Riverside) wrote recently about the practice of “calling dibs.” In case you’re unfamiliar with the practice, Lam describes it and provides some examples: Calling “dibs” is a very pervasive social phenomenon. In Boston, Chicago, and other snowy regions, you have dibs on a parking spot you dug out during...
“The universe is old, big, and empty. In comparison, we are new and small.” So begins an interesting and fun article on a big question of perennial popular concern by Luke Elson (University of Reading) in the latest issue of Ethics. Observations of the vastness of the universe in comparison to tiny little us—the...
Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That’s a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy at Texas A&M University, was told by university officials today about his upcoming “Contemporary Moral Problems”...
What does a course on public philosophy look like? Ian Olasov developed a version of it with Susan Dieleman that takes students beyond the typical classroom experience, and will be teaching it for the first time this coming term at the University of Lethbridge. He writes: The course is intended to serve as the...
Links of interest… A daily logic puzzle — called “Clues for Sam” (via MeFi) “One critique of consent… is that it is too permissive—that it ignores how coercion or delusion may result in the illusion of agreement. But another critique is that it’s too restrictive and punitive. Decades of reform laws have expanded the...
The pessimistic meta-induction—the argument that since past scientific theories have been shown to be false, we should expect that today’s will turn out false, too—makes the New York Times. . Elay Shech, professor of philosophy at Auburn University, takes up the topic in the context of current political disputes...
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