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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 settlement in the copyright lawsuit against Anthropic provides authors of books they trained their AI on with compensation. The amount of compensation ultimately depends on the number of people who file a claim, but estimates are that claimants will receive a little under $3000 per book. The total settlement...
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: Psychoanalytic Feminism by Claudia Leeb and Emily Zakin. Kant’s Moral Philosophy by Robert Johnson and Adam Cureton....
“It is often thought that philosophical excellence is the sole province of the genius. I by contrast believe that it can be achieved through countless small techniques that can be taught and learned.” So writes Neil Mehta, professor of philosophy at National University of Singapore, in his, “A Guide to Professional...
Recent additions to the Heap of Links… “What is the relationship between disability and well-being?” — in taking up this question, philosophers must consult—and critically analyze—the empirical literature, says Avram Hiller Tractatus lego-philosophicus — Philip Bold offers fellow philosophy instructors a useful...
Where do you like to write? Via Jason Kottke, I learned of a recent article in Wallpaper with photos of the favored writing spaces of a dozen authors longlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize. Some write outside on benches, some at desks, at least one at the kitchen table. How about you? In this post, I invite people to...
This past June, Helen De Cruz, professor of philosophy at Saint Louis University, died at the age of 46. Remembered not merely as a professor, but as a source of assistance, advice, and kindness for others in the profession, as well as an innovative popularizer of philosophy, De Cruz is being honored with a memorial...
In this era of AI, “can we still rely on take-home writing assignments to assess student learning? And, should we allow students to use ChatGPT in order to complete such assignments? My answer to both questions is ‘yes’.” That is Carlos Zednik, assistant professor of philosophy at Eindhoven University of Technology...
Last April, Mohsen Mahdawi, then a philosophy major at Columbia University, was attending a US citizenship application interview in Vermont when Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents wearing hoods and masks took him from the building, put him into an unmarked car, and drove off. Later that month, a judge...
In a recent editorial, Douglas Portmore (Notre Dame), the editor-in-chief of Ethics, sets forth some “initial guidelines” about AI use for the journal. He says his remarks “represent only my own opinions, not necessarily those of the associate editors. But I’m hoping to have some official policies and guidelines...
The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, and new podcast episodes… (If we’ve missed anything, please let us know.) SEP New: ∅ Revised: Epistemology of Geometry by Jeremy Gray and José Ferreirós. Domination by Richard C. McCammon. The Ethics of...
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