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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 Research Council of Finland has announced the new recipients of its Academy Professorship and Centres of Excellence in Research funding. Of the 15 new Academy Professors, two are philosophers: Jari Kaukua (University of Jyväskylä) and Maria Lasonen (University of Helsinki). Each will receive 2.4 million euros...
Stephen Menn, currently Professor of Philosophy at McGill University, will be moving to the University of Toronto, where he will be the inaugural holder of the Michael and Virginia Walsh Chair in the History of Philosophy. The position was endowed by a significant gift by the Walsh’s to the Toronto Department of...
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, let us know.) SEP New: Alberic of Paris by Heine Hansen and Boaz Faraday Schuman. Revised: Lord Shaftesbury [Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury]...
Are we making progress in philosophy? Or at least in philosophy-themed costumes? Here’s one way to find out. Ten years ago, I put up a post asking which philosophy ideas make for good Halloween costumes. I included some suggestions: Yes, Brain in Vat. We all think we’ve thought of that one already. What else?...
The University at Buffalo is launching a fully online program in applied ontology. Graduates will leave the program with an MS degree. The program, based in Buffalo’s Department of Philosophy, aims to “prepare students from around the world for work in this rapidly growing interdisciplinary branch of information...
New links… “If you look at the history of science, the ultimate goal has been changing constantly… We have a much stronger and more honest way of approaching reality without being attached to this misleading idea of there being an ultimate truth” — physicist Carlo Rovelli on relational quantum mechanics, the aim of...
Charles Barry Hoffmaster, professor emeritus of philosophy at Western University, has died. Professor Hoffmaster (known in the profession as Barry Hoffmaster), worked mainly in bioethics, normative ethics and the philosophy of law, writing on a wide range of subjects in these areas. He is the co-author of...
Sometimes, philosophical terms mean one thing, but sound like they really ought to mean something else. That was the premise of the Uxbridge Dictionary of Philosophy, a compilation of “misdefinitions” of philosophical ideas, started by Anthony Gottlieb and compiled and maintained by the late D.H. Mellor. Dubbed the...
The Australian Research Council has announced the winners of its latest round of Discovery Grants, and several philosophers are among them. . The principal investigators, co-investigators, and their projects are listed below: Samuel Baron (University of Melbourne) with Elizabeth Sonenberg, Piers Howe, Kate Lynch,...
A philosopher noticed something off about the paper he was refereeing for a journal. In the following guest post, Jakob Ohlhorst (RWTH Aachen University) shares his experience and raises some questions about how to deal with the problem he encountered. Reviewing an LLM-written paper by Jakob Ohlhorst It was bound to...
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