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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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Please use the comments section on this post to share information about Summer 2026 Programs in Philosophy for college undergraduate students. If you are organizing such a program, please add a comment to this post that includes:– program name– dates– location – contact information– application deadline– a brief...
Please use the comments section on this post to share information about Summer 2026 Programs in Philosophy for graduate students and/or PhDs in philosophy. If you are organizing such a program, please add a comment to this post that includes:– program name– dates– location – contact information– application...
Bence Nanay, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Antwerp, has been awarded the 2025 Ernest-John Solvay Excellence Prize in the Humanities. Bence Nanay accepts the Solvay Prize from the King of Belgium, Philippe. The Humanities prize is awarded once every five years. Its aim is to “reward the scientific...
New and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, new podcast episodes, and more—including, now, a section on recently published open access philosophy books (if you tell us about them). This update covers the past two weeks. (If we missed anything, please let us know.) SEP...
“Our current cognitive concepts are simultaneously indispensable, yet inadequate; indispensable, because we need the richness of cognitive vocabulary to guide trust and decision-making; inadequate, because they encode anthropomorphic assumptions.” That’s the guiding idea of “How We Need to Think about Artificial...
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 topics in the philosophy and history of science, including the epistemology of...
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, Claude. The “soul document” of Claude 4.5 Opus was recently posted at Less Wrong by AI...
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 requirement that their dissertation be an “original” contribution to 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 suggest? Anything (so long as it costs no more than $100). It could be something...
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 of Regents policy, and Chancellor directives.” The memo includes a remarkable...
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 Ethics, had shared some preliminary thoughts on the matter in an earlier issue...
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 tumour and exhausting her treatment options, Sylvia Jane Burrow, professor in the...
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