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News for & about the philosophy profession, ed. by Justin Weinberg, philosopher at the U. of South Carolina. You can also find me on bsky.
Joined March 2014
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Jim Bogen, a philosopher at the University of Pittsburgh and, before that, Pitzer College, has died.
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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...
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If you could build an agent from the ground up, what would its character be like? What should it be like? That's the moral philosophy happening at AI firms today. Here's a peek at how one firm is doing it.
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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...
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"Philosophy students are often told that their work must be 'original' to be of high quality. Similarly, the importance of 'interdisciplinarity' is increasingly emphasized. But what do these terms actually mean in academic philosophy?"
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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...
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Philosophers are people, too, I always say. And people like presents...
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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...
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This policy seems to make it impermissible for professors in the Texas Tech system to include, say, gay marriage or transgender participation in sports as topics in critical thinking or contemporary moral problems courses...
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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...
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"AI tools cannot author or even co-author a submission..." The journal Ethics announces its AI policy for authors, editors, and reviewers...
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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...
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Philosopher Sylvia Burrow of Cape Breton University has died.
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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...
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Lessons from using AI to write Hannah Arendt's unfinished book. Philosophy in Tom Stoppard's plays. What's cheating in video games? Affirmative action arguments. Models of the mind & scientific realism. Naomi Zack's Dewey Lecture, PBS on AI & academia...
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Links of late… What counts as cheating in video games? What about in single-player video games? — Charles Joshua Horn explores these questions “Models of the mind and brain [in cognitive science]...
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When your publisher's failure to meet its contractual obligation ends up costing you justice and a few thousand dollars...
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In October, a settlement was announced in the copyright lawsuit against Anthropic, providing authors of books they trained their AI on with compensation of around $3000. There were certain eligibil...
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"When... philosophers are open to new ways of doing philosophy, even if those new ways are designed for children, it can have a remarkable effect on how one approaches and thinks about philosophical problems."
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“I should have presented my topic using the p4c [philosophy for children] method,” said a philosopher about about his talk at a conference on Plato’s theory of forms, after taking part in a demonst...
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"Every year, philosophy departments around the world enter a friendly ‘competition’ to raise money for bed nets that protect people from malaria." It starts today...
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Philosofriends, here’s an opportunity to do some good. Once again, Malte Hendrickx, a philosophy graduate student at the University of Michigan, has set up a charity “competition” for philosophy...
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There were some questions about Kant on the recent Korean SAT. One of the questions came in for scrutiny after a philosopher challenged the official answer...
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The Korean version of a college admissions exam, the CSAT, administered last month, had several questions about Immanuel Kant. According to reports in the Chosun Daily, the German philosopher was...
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Academic Philosophy and Data Analysis (APDA) is collecting information about philosophy departments. If you're a current philosophy PhD student or received your PhD within the past 10 years, and you haven't heard from them, see this.
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If you’re a current philosophy PhD student or received your PhD within the past decade, Academic Philosophy Data and Analysis (APDA) wants to make sure you’re counted in its 2025 survey, which is...
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Philosopher Andrew Cooper of the University of Warwick has died.
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Andrew Cooper, associate professor of philosophy at the University of Warwick, has died. Professor Cooper worked in the history of modern philosophy, especially on the ideas of Immanuel Kant and...
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The winners of the 2025 Prize for Philosophy and Ethics in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy are...
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The German Society for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Psychosomatics and Neurology, the largest continental European national association for psychiatry, has announced the winners of its Prize for...
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An "honest" book review. Formal methods in philosophy. Poetry against the machine. Who disagrees w/ scientific consensus? Folk psychology, science, & IQ. AI girl/boyfriends as "dependency-fostering products". Nancy Sherman answers "why philosophy?"
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New links… “It is not uncommon to open an analytic philosophy paper written during the past century and find logical symbols and mathematical notation among the prose… Why do analytic philosophers do...
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