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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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A new article by Joseph Howlett at Quanta explains how Georg Cantor plagiarized Richard Dedekind’s work on infinity. The case that Cantor plagiarized Dedekind had been made earlier by José Ferreirós (University of Seville), and some earlier mathematicians, such as Emmy Noether (a student of Dedekind’s) seemed to be...
Pete Hegseth, the US Secretary of War, earlier this week ordered Anthropic, the company that makes Claude artificial intelligence products, to allow the Department of War unrestricted use of Claude. Anthropic is resisting, saying that certain restrictions on Claude’s use are necessary to protect “democratic values”....
In this installment of the occasional academic equipment series, the topic is audio. . Some of you listen to music while you work. Some of you prefer to block out the noise around you. Some of you record yourselves, for lectures, notes, or podcasts. What do you use to do these things? Are there especially good...
What’s going on elsewhere… “Aristotle told us there were five senses. But he also told us the world was made up of five elements and we no longer believe that” — Barry Smith on how we may have over 20 different senses and how they are interrelated A cryptic crossword puzzle for philosophers — by Joe Slater “The...
To what extent should theoretical approaches to understanding the world offered up by the humanities be sensitive to empirical evidence? And how might the humanities be different if its scholars took the demands of evidence more seriously? The emergence of Black Male Studies provides one lens through which to look...
Are all happy classrooms alike? Probably not. But perhaps there’s some qualities common to many of them. In the following guest post, Daniel Story, assistant professor of philosophy at California Polytechnic State University, suggests that among those qualities are care and connection. His experiences teaching this...
Malcolm Budd, emeritus professor of philosophy at University College London, has died. Professor Budd was especially well-known for his work in the philosophy of art and music and on the philosophy of Wittgenstein, but also had interests in the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of nature, the philosophy of...
Michelle Beer, professor of philosophy at Florida International University, has died. Professor Beer taught at FIU from 1982 until her retirement in December 2025. A specialist in metaphysics and the philosophy of science, she was well-known for her article “Temporal Indexicals and the Passage of Time,” first...
This is the weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, new podcast episodes, recently published open access philosophy books, and more. (If we missed anything, please let us know.) SEP New: Evolutionary Approaches to Religion by Jason Marsh. Revised:...
With measures borrowed from history’s totalitarian regimes, political leaders in Florida are taking unprecedented steps to indoctrinate students and prevent them from learning about the world in ways that may lead them to question the leaders’ ideology. The State University System of Florida’s Board of Governors...
Links to check out… “The greatest risk posed by automation in higher education is not simply the replacement of particular tasks by machines, but the erosion of the broader ecosystem of practice that has long sustained teaching, research and learning” — Nir Eisikovits & Jacob Burley on how AI may “hollow out”...
Philosophy is a “fact-based discipline” that makes progress, says Bryan Frances, and to prove it he offers up “200 straightforward facts directly about philosophical matters that virtually all philosophers know and non-philosophers don’t know.” They are listed in the appendix to a recent article of his in...
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