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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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A philosopher noticed something off about the paper he was refereeing for a journal. In the following guest post, Jakob Ohlhorst (RWTH Aachen University) shares his experience and raises some questions about how to deal with the problem he encountered. Reviewing an LLM-written paper by Jakob Ohlhorst It was bound to...
Recent additions to the Heap of Links… If the free will debate is at a theoretical stalemate, should we decide the matter on practical grounds, and if so, how? — Dmitry Sereda offers a new answer: the “deontic wager” “Possessed” is a new podcast from a pair of philosophers and an historian about “the historical...
It’s not just budget cuts that are leading some colleges and universities to get rid of their philosophy major programs. Sometimes its legislation. For example, as reported this summer, the state legislature of Indiana passed a bill that requires BA major programs to have a minimum average of 15 students graduating...
An open-access spreadsheet about philosophy graduate program admissions has been updated for the upcoming admissions season. The spreadsheet includes information about application deadlines, fees, requirements, funding packages, and so on, as well as links to the programs. The spreadsheet is maintained by Linds...
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, let us know.) SEP New: Primitivist Theories of Truth by Jeremy Wyatt. Revised: The Epistemology of Religion by Peter Forrest. Prisoner’s Dilemma by Steven...
Daniela Vacek, a philosopher at the Slovak Academy of Sciences and Comenius University, has received the ESET Science Award for Outstanding Scientist in Slovakia Under the Age of 35. Dr. Vacek was given the award in recognition of her work on responsibility and artificial intelligence, which has focused on...
Links! Links! Links! When we “leave something to the imagination,” what are we doing? — Luke Roelofs takes up the question “Most people are such that most people they know are more social than they are” — a short demonstration from Alex Pruss Claude and ChatGPT are not welfare subjects. But thinking of them that way...
What is the institutional future of philosophy? Various demographic, economic, and technological developments raise concerns about the long term survival of traditional institutions of higher education, and over the past decade or so we’ve seen many colleges and universities reduce their philosophy offerings, or...
The Trump administration has issued an update to the president’s recent proclamation about new visa fees, with implications for current international students and faculty. Last month, the Trump administration announced that new applications for H-1B visas will only be accepted if accompanied by a $100,000 payment,...
Harvard University is drastically cutting the number of PhD students it is admitting over the next two years. The sciences will see a 75% reduction in new PhD slots, and departments in the arts and humanities will see a reduction of 60%, reports The Harvard Crimson. A source has confirmed that the Department of...
It’s International Open Access Week. In honor of the occasion, I invite those who have authored or edited an open access book in philosophy to share it in the comments here, with a link to where it is available. Open Access Week is organized by SPARC, a nonprofit advocacy organization that supports open systems for...
The American Association of Philosophy Teachers (AAPT) will be 50 years old next year. Renée Smith, Professor of Philosophy at Coastal Carolina University, was recently elected president of the AAPT. In the following guest post, she talks about her experiences with the AAPT, what the organization does, and how to...
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