Justin Weinberg

A new annual series and accompanying conference has been launched: Oxford Studies in Philosophy of AI and Computing.

The philosophy-specific analysis of the “Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences" has been released.

AI is already affecting philosophical research and academic philosophy's institutions. An upcoming conference aims to explore what a coordinated, wise, and effective response to these developments would involve.

AI models tend "to resolve cross-linguistic disagreement by treating the English judgment as authoritative, rather than acknowledging the cross-linguistic inconsistency of human language." What's the problem with that, and what should be done about it?

World Philosophy Day is next month. It's a good excuse for an event with students, majors, or the general public. What is your department doing to mark the day?

Timothy Smiley, professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Cambridge, has died.

New reviews of philosophy books, new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new philosophy podcast episodes, and more...

Ask a group of people a philosophical question and it’s often the case that they'll give conflicting answers to it. We quite naturally interpret this as different people having different intuitions. But that's not the only available explanation...

"There is nothing wrong with thought, with seeking out some sense. But what can be made sense is rarely all there is; it leaves in remainder much, too much."

"There is nothing wrong with thought, with seeking out some sense. But what can be made sense is rarely all there is; it leaves in remainder much, too much."

What we lose & gain with AI's discoveries. New directions in philosophy of fiction. The debate over the debate about transwomen. The Rawls game. Abolish business schools. Human brain cells in mice brains. Why ask, "How did I get here?"

New series of posts on philosophical puzzles and thought experiments...

The university of Toronto and the LSE have new Philosophy of AI initiatives...

New reviews of philosophy books, new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new episodes of philosophy podcasts...

“Stereotypes, when it comes down to it, are mental short cuts… We all are prey to using them—it’s a tiring thing, this business of living, so we conserve what energies we can. But what we gain in hasty efficiency loses out on much.”

A public philosophy night at one pub is so popular there's now a waitlist to attend. What other bars/restaurants are serving up public philosophy?

More and more dissertations contain AI-generated writing. What (if anything) should be done about that?

A new series of interviews about teaching philosophy...

More and more dissertations contain AI-generated writing. What (if anything) should be done about that?

"In the current climate, institutional efforts to address inclusion have been discouraged, and budget cuts in higher education have hit such programs hard." A well-established philosophy summer program loses its funding...

A theory of collecting. "Madness-as-strategy" & PTSD. The very first issue of Mind. Interview w/ Tom Nagel. Bingo card for bad AI-consciousness takes. How a philosopher & her husband picked up the pieces after she was brutally attacked. The Principle of Sufficient Reason & panpsychism...

“What do we lose if LLMs kill the journal system? Nothing but some heavy ass chains, and a few weak heuristics for assessing CVs quickly.” OK, but then what will the academic discipline of philosophy use for measuring human philosophical excellence?

The call to pause AI development faces a difficult collective action problem. Can it be solved? An interdisciplinary team's new report answers "yes".

New philosophy book reviews, new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new episodes of philosophy podcasts...

World's most bizarre plagiarism story. How AI threatens our valuing practices. The myth of agency. A game about making it in philosophy. New data on majors & earnings. Interview w/ Christa Acampora. An app for keeping track of papers to read...

"Philosophy will become a capital-intensive discipline in which a significant portion of research will be driven by AI systems."

What should we think about the trove of math results released by OpenAI yesterday? What does it portend for other disciplines?

The international academic organization of international academic organizations has selected another philosopher for its governing board.

Philosofriends, if you have a piece of advice for beginning philosophy graduate students, please share it in the comments at Daily Nous. Thanks!

If you could give beginning philosophy graduate students just one piece of advice, what would it be? (If you're tempted to respond "don't", don't.)

A look at who the presidents of the American Philosophical Association have been, and the universities with which they've been affiliated, gives us a glimpse into the history and sociology of philosophy in the United States.

Philosopher get $1 million fellowship for work on how our values and the values of AIs will coevolve and change each other...

Ioanna Kuçuradi, a leading Turkish philosopher known especially for her work on human rights, has died.

Several philosophers are among the winners of substantial funding from the Australian Research Council.

Philosophers' weird concept of knowledge. When psychiatrists disagree. Defusing AI panic /w questions. The dilemma facing DoJ lawyers & others. Interview w/ a first-gen college student, now a philosophy prof. Underappreciated philosophy. Where Aristotle taught Alexander...

New reviews of philosophy books, new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new episodes of philosophy podcasts...

People sometimes write to me asking for help or to discuss an issue at Daily Nous. This is the first time an AI has done so...

We may try to prevent AI cheating or try to make cheating “not worth it.” Some strategies may help, but what are you doing about all the cheating that remains? What should one do?

Choosing not to sleep. Philosophy of paleontology. How AI's represent. Sixty years of philosophy in America. The pathologizing tendency. Undergrads teaching undergrads philosophy. AI, writing, thinking, & learning...

For the first time in a while, a philosophy professor has been awarded one of the MacArthur genius grants...

"The story about the analytic turn is more complicated than the McCarthyist thesis suggests..."

Mini-lessons in logic or semantics that anyone can subscribe to.

What happens when an author suspects their referee report was written by an AI? Many journals lack policies on this, and the publishers of many journals have policies that are vague or, given the realities of enforcement, quite lenient.

A new study will be looking at “whether AI can generate novel philosophical ideas and develop them clearly with depth and sophistication, not merely summarize existing views or apply existing philosophical theories.”

Behind the scenes at Ethics. An art festival inspired by Martha Nussbaum. Observing the effective altruists. Aristotle & AI. What counts as good scientific evidence. Young Scruton. A political theorist & a comedian on Trump...

A helpful and free set of resources and ideas for teaching philosophy has recently been updated.

Another big prize for Martha Nussbaum...

A little later than usual, but here's the report on recent reviews of philosophy books, new and revised entries to online philosophy resources, new episodes of philosophy podcasts, and more...

A few adjustments still need to be made, but Daily Nous is back online...

Hi everyone. Daily Nous is still down, but work on it continues and it should be back up and running later this week.