Daily Nous
Daily Nous
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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James “Jim” Bogen, a longtime professor of philosophy at Pitzer College as well as an adjunct professor in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, has died. Professor Bogen was known for his work on various...
If you could build an agent from the ground up, what would its character be like? That’s the question confronting AI developers today. Recently some details came to light about how Anthropic is approaching this task for its model,...
Clarifying these expectations is not a minor pedagogical matter. It is essential to helping students succeed, avoid wasted effort, and stay motivated. Many of us have witnessed at least one graduate student who, when confronted with the...
Just a couple of days remain for people to enter the Daily Nous Gift Guide Giveaway. All you have to do to enter is suggest an idea for a gift, and you might win that gift or any of the other suggested ones. What kind of gift could you...
Texas Tech University System Chancellor Brandon Creighton, in a memo yesterday to the presidents of the universities in the system, announced a policy to “ensure that classroom instruction fully complies with state and federal law, Board...
Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy has published its policy regarding the use of artificial intelligence (AI) by authors, editors, and reviewers. Douglas Portmore (Notre Dame), editor-in-chief of...
Sylvia Burrow, professor in the Department of Humanities at Cape Breton University, has died. The following obituary is by Letitia Meynell (Dalhousie University). Sylvia Burrow (1969-2025) After more than a decade of fighting a brain...
Links of late… What counts as cheating in video games? What about in single-player video games? — Charles Joshua Horn explores these questions “Models of the mind and brain [in cognitive science] make use of idealized terms that have no...
In October, a settlement was announced in the copyright lawsuit against Anthropic, providing authors of books they trained their AI on with compensation of around $3000. There were certain eligibility conditions, though. One condition is...
“I should have presented my topic using the p4c [philosophy for children] method,” said a philosopher about about his talk at a conference on Plato’s theory of forms, after taking part in a demonstration of it. That remark is conveyed in...
Philosofriends, here’s an opportunity to do some good. Once again, Malte Hendrickx, a philosophy graduate student at the University of Michigan, has set up a charity “competition” for philosophy departments to raise money for the Against...
The Korean version of a college admissions exam, the CSAT, administered last month, had several questions about Immanuel Kant. [image made with To-ASCII and Photoshop]According to reports in the Chosun Daily, the German philosopher was...
If you’re a current philosophy PhD student or received your PhD within the past decade, Academic Philosophy Data and Analysis (APDA) wants to make sure you’re counted in its 2025 survey, which is running until the end of the year. APDA...
Andrew Cooper, associate professor of philosophy at the University of Warwick, has died. Professor Cooper worked in the history of modern philosophy, especially on the ideas of Immanuel Kant and Amalia Holst, and had recently begun...
In a previous Thanksgiving post that first appeared in 2016, I noted that a 1975 article in Ethics by Fred Berger (then a philosopher at UC Davis), “Gratitude“, begins with the following: Gratitude is not a subject much discussed in the...