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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The weekly report has a new section starting this week. In addition to new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, and new podcast episodes, we will also list recently published open access...
Links of interest… “People had all sorts of reactions to being asked to do the right thing” — the moral psychology behind not returning your shopping cart when you’re done with it The “word of the year” was selected (and is often used)...
A “16-year-old who tragically leaped to his death at New York City’s famed Regis High School had gotten into hot water after taking a controversial stance in his ethics class,” according to The New York Post. Upper East Side, Manhattan,...
World Philosophy Day is the third Thursday of November. That’s next Thursday. How will you be celebrating? World Philosophy Day, created by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), celebrates “the...
The Texas A&M University System’s Board of Regents took steps yesterday to impose its conservative ideology on college students by prohibiting professors from teaching certain ideas about race and gender. They did so by making changes to...
A philosophy professor is interested in developing a social media account for his department, and could use some help. He writes that his department has decided it needs to improve its communication with and visibility to students, the...
How is the development and use of artificial intelligence changing the norms of inquiry and knowledge production across different disciplines? That’s the question to be taken up by Eamon Duede, assistant professor of philosophy at Purdue...
Recent additions to the Heap of Links… It’s surprisingly “puzzling and difficult… to explain why right hands and left hands are identical but different” — Kant tried, but an adequate explanation, according to this article, was not...
If certain cultures didn’t have the word “philosophy,” or a word that can directly be translated with “philosophy,” is it illegitimate, maybe culturally imperialist, to impose it on them? In the following guest post, Peter Adamson (LMU,...
“In Fall 2022, we had four students majoring or minoring in Philosophy; today we have 31.” That’s Paul Butterfield, assistant professor of philosophy at Alfred University in New York. He adds, “we estimate that, over five years, we will...
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, please let us know.) SEP New: Weighing Reasons by Chris Tucker. Revised: Sin...
Large language models like ChatGPT are not conscious, but there are other “serious contenders for AI consciousness that exist today” Furthermore, “AI development will not wait for philosophers and cognitive scientists to agree on what...
“Obtain free publicity for your conference by writing a post for Daily Nous in which you get to mention it.” That’s not really part of the post, but I have to give Craig Agule (Rutgers University-Camden) and Brian Berkey (University of...
Philip A. Ebert, currently professor of law and philosophy at the University of Stirling, has accepted an offer from the University of Salzburg, where he will be professor of theoretical philosophy. Professor Ebert works on various...
New in the Heap of Links… “Current academic philosophers are losing rather dramatically in the fight for intellectual influence” — Tyler Cowen recommends “AI practitioners and the Bay Area obsessives” over philosophers “I don’t do...