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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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Philosopher John Searle, well-known for his work on philosophy of mind and philosophy of language, has died. John Searle wrote extensively consciousness and the mind, intentionality, and speech act theory. He is especially well known for his Chinese Room Argument on artificial intelligence. He has also made...
New links… Intellectual jokes: good. Smart people jokes: not so good. — so says Linch Zhang, with some good examples of the former “A story about the absurd, immense power of the giving of reasons” — philosophy professor Jeffrey Kaplan tells a harrowing true story as part of an absolutely brilliant commencement...
We’ve talked previously about some of the various tasks that philosophers might have large language models help them with in their work, mainly focusing on the ethics of doing so. But what about the mechanics of doing so? There are different ways to make use of AIs like ChatGPT. You could simply open it up and start...
Adrian Kind, a postdoctoral researcher in philosophy and psychology at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, is one of the winners of the 2025 Open Access Award. The award is given by Open Library of Humanities, the diamond open access publisher of Free & Equal, Political Philosophy, and other journals. This year,...
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