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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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How is the development and use of artificial intelligence changing the norms of inquiry and knowledge production across different disciplines? That’s the question to be taken up by Eamon Duede, assistant professor of philosophy at Purdue University, as part of a new interdisciplinary, multi-institutional project....
Recent additions to the Heap of Links… It’s surprisingly “puzzling and difficult… to explain why right hands and left hands are identical but different” — Kant tried, but an adequate explanation, according to this article, was not discovered until 1956 (via the Browser) “All the people talking about polarization are...
If certain cultures didn’t have the word “philosophy,” or a word that can directly be translated with “philosophy,” is it illegitimate, maybe culturally imperialist, to impose it on them? In the following guest post, Peter Adamson (LMU, KCL) takes up that question. Readers may know Professor Adamson not just from...
“In Fall 2022, we had four students majoring or minoring in Philosophy; today we have 31.” That’s Paul Butterfield, assistant professor of philosophy at Alfred University in New York. He adds, “we estimate that, over five years, we will have increased our enrollment tenfold.” You probably have questions about how...
The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, and new podcast episodes… (If we missed anything, please let us know.) SEP New: Weighing Reasons by Chris Tucker. Revised: Sin in Christian Thought by Kevin Timpe. Peter John Olivi by Juhana Toivanen and...
Large language models like ChatGPT are not conscious, but there are other “serious contenders for AI consciousness that exist today” Furthermore, “AI development will not wait for philosophers and cognitive scientists to agree on what constitutes machine consciousness… There are pressing ethical issues we must face...
“Obtain free publicity for your conference by writing a post for Daily Nous in which you get to mention it.” That’s not really part of the post, but I have to give Craig Agule (Rutgers University-Camden) and Brian Berkey (University of Pennsylvania) credit for thinking to do this, as it does fit with what they’re...
Philip A. Ebert, currently professor of law and philosophy at the University of Stirling, has accepted an offer from the University of Salzburg, where he will be professor of theoretical philosophy. Professor Ebert works on various topics in epistemology (especially risk and rationality), early analytic philosophy...
New in the Heap of Links… “Current academic philosophers are losing rather dramatically in the fight for intellectual influence” — Tyler Cowen recommends “AI practitioners and the Bay Area obsessives” over philosophers “I don’t do philosophy for the sake of doing philosophy” — Haiyan Lee on her “stultifying...
At the end of October, 2015 I made five predictions about “the state of philosophy in ten years.” How was my forecasting? Let’s take a look. Below are my predictions, along with my verdict for each, in bold text. (You can check out the original post with its predictions here.) 1. Philosophy’s popularity as a major...
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