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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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He sees you when you’re sleeping. He knows when you’re awake. What else does Santa Claus know, and how does he know it? These are the questions Derek Anderson (Boston University) examines in his timely investigative report, below. Seasons greetings, everyone! (A version of this post first appeared at Dr. Anderson’s...
Some people have the ability to look at a mess and see the makings of something beautiful. I don’t know David Kishik personally, but judging from what he is doing in the classroom, it seems like he is one of those people. A professor of philosophy at Emerson College, he looked at contemporary college courses and...
The American Philosophical Association (APA) has announced the winners of its latest round of prizes. Below are the prizes and their winners. 2025 AI2050 Prizes ($10,000 each. Awarded in recognition of outstanding philosophical scholarship relating to artificial intelligence.) Early Career Researcher: Raphaël...
Links links links… In defense of “mere civility” as a governing strategy for campus conflict — because, says Marie Newhouse, “No set of shared values specific enough to be action-guiding will be endorsed by all students, faculty, and staff, no matter how carefully those values are selected” Would an AI have moral...
Straive is a firm that uses AI to, among other things, help publishers with various tasks “across the publishing value chain”. One of its clients is Springer Nature, the publisher of many philosophy journals. Recently, Harry R. Lloyd, assistant professor of philosophy at UNC Chapel Hill, had an article accepted for...
“The dirtiest secret in higher education is that there is no good data on the quality of teaching and teachers on college campuses.” So begins an interesting essay, “Teaching Quality,” by Hollis Robbins at her newsletter, Anecdotal Value. Robbins laments the lack of data on instructional quality in higher education....
“When Medicine Becomes Torture: Burn Patient Dax Cowart and His Involuntary Treatment for 232 Days”, “Bomber, Pass By: How the Abortion-Clinic Bomber almost Killed Me”, and “The Biggest Loser Wasn’t Just Unhealthy—It Was Unethical” are just three of the episodes in Gregory Pence’s video series, Great Stories in...
Several projects led by philosophers are among the recent recipients of large grants from the Swedish Research Council. [Sigrid Sandström, untitled (detail)]They are: Natural Properties – a Causation-First Approach Bram Vaassen (Umeå University), Jennifer McDonald (Columbia University), Tom Wysocki...
The Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP) and the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BAdW) are launching a joint project to digitize and place online the complete works of Rudolf Carnap. Led by Hannes Leitgeb and Stephan Hartmann (LMU Munich) together with Eckhart Arnold (Bavarian Academy of...
New and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, new podcast episodes, and more—including, now, a section on recently published open access philosophy books (if you tell us about them). (If we missed anything, please let us know.) SEP New: 20th Century Theories of Scientific...
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