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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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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) precisely because no one really knows what it means — the folks at dictionary.com...
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, New York A lot of details are missing from the story, but the Post says it was...
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 enduring value of philosophy for the development of human thought, for each...
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 the system’s policies. One change to the “Civil Rights Protection and...
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 rest of the university, and the surrounding community, and that a greater social...
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 University, as part of a new interdisciplinary, multi-institutional project....
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 discovered until 1956 (via the Browser) “All the people talking about polarization are...
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, KCL) takes up that question. Readers may know Professor Adamson not just from...
“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 have increased our enrollment tenfold.” You probably have questions about how...
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 in Christian Thought by Kevin Timpe. Peter John Olivi by Juhana Toivanen and...
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 constitutes machine consciousness… There are pressing ethical issues we must face...
“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 Pennsylvania) credit for thinking to do this, as it does fit with what they’re...
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