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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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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...
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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