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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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Sylvia Burrow, professor in the Department of Humanities at Cape Breton University, has died. The following obituary is by Letitia Meynell (Dalhousie University). Sylvia Burrow (1969-2025) After more than a decade of fighting a brain tumour and exhausting her treatment options, Sylvia Jane Burrow, professor in the...
Links of late… What counts as cheating in video games? What about in single-player video games? — Charles Joshua Horn explores these questions “Models of the mind and brain [in cognitive science] make use of idealized terms that have no counterpart in reality… Still [they’re] consistent with a version of scientific...
In October, a settlement was announced in the copyright lawsuit against Anthropic, providing authors of books they trained their AI on with compensation of around $3000. There were certain eligibility conditions, though. One condition is that the book must have been registered with the US Copyright Office during the...
“I should have presented my topic using the p4c [philosophy for children] method,” said a philosopher about about his talk at a conference on Plato’s theory of forms, after taking part in a demonstration of it. That remark is conveyed in the following guest post by Sophia Stone, associate professor of philosophy at...
Philosofriends, here’s an opportunity to do some good. Once again, Malte Hendrickx, a philosophy graduate student at the University of Michigan, has set up a charity “competition” for philosophy departments to raise money for the Against Malaria Foundation. He says: There’s no lever, no bystanders, and no...
The Korean version of a college admissions exam, the CSAT, administered last month, had several questions about Immanuel Kant. [image made with To-ASCII and Photoshop]According to reports in the Chosun Daily, the German philosopher was “tormenting students” in various sections of the exam, and there was a fair...
If you’re a current philosophy PhD student or received your PhD within the past decade, Academic Philosophy Data and Analysis (APDA) wants to make sure you’re counted in its 2025 survey, which is running until the end of the year. APDA director Carolyn Dicey Jennings (UC Merced) writes at the APDA blog: We have...
Andrew Cooper, associate professor of philosophy at the University of Warwick, has died. Professor Cooper worked in the history of modern philosophy, especially on the ideas of Immanuel Kant and Amalia Holst, and had recently begun focusing on philosophical issues surrounding conservation and land management. He was...
In a previous Thanksgiving post that first appeared in 2016, I noted that a 1975 article in Ethics by Fred Berger (then a philosopher at UC Davis), “Gratitude“, begins with the following: Gratitude is not a subject much discussed in the philosophical literature, though hardly a book or article is published without...
“Leaders at these institutions want to ban only certain topics from discussion. To do so, they have issued vague directives that no one knows how to interpret.” That’s philosopher Jacob Beck (York), writing about higher education in Texas. His first job as a professor was at Texas Tech. Earlier this fall that...
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