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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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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 send them to us). (If we missed anything, please let us know.) SEP New: ∅ Revised: Feminist Perspectives on...
Tell us about something that would make a great gift, and in exchange you get a chance of winning it or any of the other gifts people suggest. That’s right, it’s time for the Daily Nous Holiday Gift Guide Giveaway. Yes, I could give you a bunch of gift suggestions. I’ve done it before, and may do it again. But I am...
The Australian has published its Research Magazine, which includes a list of the top current researchers in Australia in 250 fields. Two philosophers are on the list. The Australian‘s top researcher in the “Philosophy” category is Mark Alfano of Macquarie University. In the “Epistemology & Scientific History”...
John Tasioulas resigned from his position as director of the University of Oxford’s Institute for Ethics in AI in September. Five months earlier, the university had begun an investigation into allegations of harassment against him. [Balliol College. Photo by Stuart Bebb.]Those details are revealed in an...
“What do we want the theory for?” That’s the question that should be kept in mind when doing social metaphysics, argues Ásta (Duke University) in a new article, “Critical Social Metaphysics: Metaphysics for Liberation and Social Science and Theory” in the Journal of Social Ontology. She writes: I want us to keep...
Artificial intelligence is an amazing technology, but also one that seems to pose threats to human relations, to aspects of human flourishing, and to education. It’s not going to go away, but that doesn’t mean there’s nothing we can do about it. How AI affects us is in part a function of its infrastructure, and, if...
“Administrators who claim that their university is under financial distress must not be given carte blanche,” wrote members of the Department of Philosophy at Portland State earlier this past January, when three of its faculty members were told they’d be out of their jobs at the end of the 2024-25 academic year....
The Synergy Grants program from the European Research Council awards grants of millions of euros to “foster collaboration between outstanding researchers, enabling them to combine their expertise, knowledge and resources to push the boundaries of scientific discovery.” Two projects involving philosophers were among...
In a philosophy seminar—“my favorite class I’ve taken so far,” she said—Gwen used AI to write almost all her essays just to avoid late submissions. That’s “Gwen”, a student at Yale, interviewed for an article by Alex Moore in The New Journal about how students and professors at Yale are grappling with the use of AI....
Philosopher Krushil Watane and archaeologist Thegn Ladefoged, both of the University of Auckland, have won a major grant from the Marsden Fund of The Royal Society Te Apārangi (New Zealand) for work on the persistence and flourishing of indigenous communities. [“A Construction of the Past” by Kura Te Waru Rewiri]The...
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 philosophy books (if you send them to us). (If we missed anything, please let us...
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