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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 system which is now beginning to design its successor is also increasingly self-aware and therefore will surely eventually be prone to thinking, independently of us, about how it might want to be designed.” That’s Jack Clark, one of the co-founders of the artificial intelligence firm Anthropic. Of the latest...
Michael Sandel, professor of government at Harvard University, is the 2025 winner of the $1 million Berggruen Prize for Philosophy and Culture. The Berggruen Institute hailed Sandel as “one of the world’s leading thinkers and public intellectuals” who “has had far-reaching impact from the U.S. and Europe to Asia and...
In 2023, I attended an annual conference on the humanities. In a conversation over lunch, a program manager for a state humanities council, whose job is to review grant applications for humanities projects in their state, asked me what I did. After I replied that I was a philosophy professor, she responded, “Oh, I...
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: ∅ Revised: Legal Positivism by Leslie Green and Thomas Adams. The Ergodic Hierarchy by Roman Frigg, Joseph Berkovitz, and Fred Kronz....
New links… “Do we have the right to rewrite nature so we can perpetuate our nature-killing ways?” — on using gene-editing as an environmentalist tool There were 6870 instances of book bans in the US during the 2024-25 school year. The most-banned book is A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess. — a report on “the...
A philosophy professor has a question about teaching that I think will resonate with many readers. . This professor teaches many lower- and mid-level philosophy courses in ethics and epistemology, but sometimes other subfields as well, and they have a problem they’re hoping some of you can help with. They write: I...
According to a site that aggregates data from several betting markets, bettors think there’s a 63.9% chance that the Democratic Party will regain control of the US House of Representatives in the midterm elections scheduled for November 3rd, 2026. This is aligned with historically-informed analyses of the election,...
The Public Philosophy Network has published the first volume in its series of “Guides to Public Philosophy.” The guides are intended to provide useful advice about engaging in public philosophy. Some of the guides cover subfields of philosophy, such as philosophy of science and aesthetics. Others are about specific...
New interesting things elsewhere… “Affirm the real existence of everything that is left over of the human, once politics is subtracted. Authoritarianism, practically by definition, does not want to find anything left over. It does not know what to do with that remainder.” — Justin Smith-Ruiu on changing the world...
“One of the most visible and impactful ways that philosophers demonstrate their practical value,” says Matthew Kisner, professor of philosophy at the University of South Carolina, is by having ethicists “embedded in a professional setting, working alongside clinicians and health care professionals.” He is now...
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