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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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“Administrators who claim that their university is under financial distress must not be given carte blanche,” wrote members of the Department of Philosophy at Portland State earlier this past January, when three of its faculty members were told they’d be out of their jobs at the end of the 2024-25 academic year....
The Synergy Grants program from the European Research Council awards grants of millions of euros to “foster collaboration between outstanding researchers, enabling them to combine their expertise, knowledge and resources to push the boundaries of scientific discovery.” Two projects involving philosophers were among...
In a philosophy seminar—“my favorite class I’ve taken so far,” she said—Gwen used AI to write almost all her essays just to avoid late submissions. That’s “Gwen”, a student at Yale, interviewed for an article by Alex Moore in The New Journal about how students and professors at Yale are grappling with the use of AI....
Philosopher Krushil Watane and archaeologist Thegn Ladefoged, both of the University of Auckland, have won a major grant from the Marsden Fund of The Royal Society Te Apārangi (New Zealand) for work on the persistence and flourishing of indigenous communities. [“A Construction of the Past” by Kura Te Waru Rewiri]The...
The weekly report has a new section starting this week. In addition to new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, and new podcast episodes, we will also list recently published open access philosophy books (if you send them to us). (If we missed anything, please let us...
Links of interest… “People had all sorts of reactions to being asked to do the right thing” — the moral psychology behind not returning your shopping cart when you’re done with it The “word of the year” was selected (and is often used) precisely because no one really knows what it means — the folks at dictionary.com...
A “16-year-old who tragically leaped to his death at New York City’s famed Regis High School had gotten into hot water after taking a controversial stance in his ethics class,” according to The New York Post. Upper East Side, Manhattan, New York A lot of details are missing from the story, but the Post says it was...
World Philosophy Day is the third Thursday of November. That’s next Thursday. How will you be celebrating? World Philosophy Day, created by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), celebrates “the enduring value of philosophy for the development of human thought, for each...
The Texas A&M University System’s Board of Regents took steps yesterday to impose its conservative ideology on college students by prohibiting professors from teaching certain ideas about race and gender. They did so by making changes to the system’s policies. One change to the “Civil Rights Protection and...
A philosophy professor is interested in developing a social media account for his department, and could use some help. He writes that his department has decided it needs to improve its communication with and visibility to students, the rest of the university, and the surrounding community, and that a greater social...
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