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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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The German Society for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Psychosomatics and Neurology, the largest continental European national association for psychiatry, has announced the winners of its Prize for Philosophy and Ethics in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy. The prize is in recognition of “outstanding contributions that...
The Elizabeth D. Rockwell Center on Ethics and Leadership at the Hobby School of Public Affairs at the University of Houston has announced the winner and runner-up for its 2025 Prize for the Best Article on Ethics, Leadership, and Public Policy. The Rockwell Prize is awarded for an article on “ethics and/or...
New links… “It is not uncommon to open an analytic philosophy paper written during the past century and find logical symbols and mathematical notation among the prose… Why do analytic philosophers do this?” — Richard Pettigrew answers “Much to many philosophers’ chagrin, the true can and does come apart from the...
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 send them to us). (If we missed anything, please let us know.) SEP New: ∅ Revised: Feminist Perspectives on...
Tell us about something that would make a great gift, and in exchange you get a chance of winning it or any of the other gifts people suggest. That’s right, it’s time for the Daily Nous Holiday Gift Guide Giveaway. Yes, I could give you a bunch of gift suggestions. I’ve done it before, and may do it again. But I am...
The Australian has published its Research Magazine, which includes a list of the top current researchers in Australia in 250 fields. Two philosophers are on the list. The Australian‘s top researcher in the “Philosophy” category is Mark Alfano of Macquarie University. In the “Epistemology & Scientific History”...
John Tasioulas resigned from his position as director of the University of Oxford’s Institute for Ethics in AI in September. Five months earlier, the university had begun an investigation into allegations of harassment against him. [Balliol College. Photo by Stuart Bebb.]Those details are revealed in an...
“What do we want the theory for?” That’s the question that should be kept in mind when doing social metaphysics, argues Ásta (Duke University) in a new article, “Critical Social Metaphysics: Metaphysics for Liberation and Social Science and Theory” in the Journal of Social Ontology. She writes: I want us to keep...
Artificial intelligence is an amazing technology, but also one that seems to pose threats to human relations, to aspects of human flourishing, and to education. It’s not going to go away, but that doesn’t mean there’s nothing we can do about it. How AI affects us is in part a function of its infrastructure, and, if...
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