Justin Weinberg
@dailynous.com
• philosophy professor • editor of Daily Nous, philosophy news site • person
Faculty are suing Texas A&M over a policy that led to the banning of Plato's Symposium, the cancellation of an ethics course, and other violations of academic freedom...
Faculty Sues University over Plato-Banning Policy - Daily Nous
Texas A&M is being sued by a group of professors and the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas over a policy that led to, among other things, a professor being banned from teaching Plato's Symposium...
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The problem of describing something as indescribable. New St. Augustine. In defense of middlebrow. Ugliness & injustice. Some students prefer an AI-free course. Problems with time travel. From turkey factory to philosophy department...
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New links... To say that something is indescribable is to describe it. What should we think about this “paradox of ineffability”? -- best to dissolve it, argues Peter van Elswyk “Moving through time a...
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The lawsuit details the outrageous treatment of Kershnar...
Kershnar Case Moving to Trial Phase - Daily Nous
In 2022, Stephen Kershnar, distinguished teaching professor of philosophy at SUNY Fredonia, was told by his university president, Stephen H. Kolison, Jr., that he was no longer allowed to be on campus...
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A look at two groups of philosophy grad students: conservative students and international students.
International Students & Conservative Students: How Are They Doing In Academic Philosophy? (guest post) - Daily Nous
"Conservative and international students face different challenges: one feels forced to self-censor while the other reports fewer job opportunities. No significant impact on employment is found for ei...
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New: Journal of Mathematical Philosophy
New: Journal of Mathematical Philosophy - Daily Nous
The Journal of Mathematical Philosophy is a new open-access journal. According to an announcement from its editors, the journal is "the first open access journal that is devoted to mathematical philos...
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David Berman, philosopher at Trinity College Dublin, has died.
David Berman (1942-2026) - Daily Nous
David Berman, Fellow Emeritus of Trinity College Dublin, has died. Professor Berman was known for his work on the philosophy of George Berkeley, Irish philosophy, and philosophy of religion. He is the...
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The philosophy of waiting in line. Einstein & philosophy. The epistemology of inquiry. Socrates, Smith, ambition, and equality. Risks of comparative philosophy. AI & understanding the past. Eleanore Stump on her philosophy & life...
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Items of interest elsewhere... “Du Bois is read as the Black Hegel, and Fanon as a Black Sartre… [but] turning non-Western thinkers into tame versions of ourselves is a kind of intellectual colonialis...
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How will your department be handling admissions in the era of AI?
Graduate Admissions in the AI Era - Daily Nous
Are applicants to your graduate program using AI to create their admissions materials? Do you know? How? And what, if anything, should your department do about it? The topic is suggested to me by Alex...
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Which readings about AI would be good to assign in philosophy courses?
AI & Philosophy Readings for Undergraduate Courses - Daily Nous
Artificial intelligence is relevant to so many philosophical subfields, and its increased presence in our lives makes it a ripe topic to cover in philosophy courses. Philosophical writing on AI is at ...
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New reviews of philosophy books, new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new philosophy podcast episodes, and more...
Online Philosophy Resources Monthly Update - Daily Nous
Here’s (usually weekly, but during the summer, monthly) report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, and new podcast episodes. (If we’ve missed an...
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"I was completely convinced after about 20 minutes with the submission that it was mostly (if not entirely) written using AI tools of some sort... The editor disagreed..."
If You Think You’re Refereeing an AI-Written Submission, What Should You Do? - Daily Nous
You're refereeing a paper and you come to suspect it was substantially and/or illicily written by an LLM. What should you do? My suggestion: Keep in mind the possibility that you are mistaken as well ...
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"Wyoming will become the first state in the US where you cannot receive a B.A. in Philosophy."
University of Wyoming to Drop Philosophy Major - Daily Nous
As for Fall 2027, incoming students at the University of Wyoming will no longer be allowed to major in philosophy. The news was shared by philosophy professor Bradley Rettler in posts on social media. He says that students will be able to major in "philosophy and religion" but not "philosophy" nor "religious studies". Rettler points
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Thomas Hill, a philosopher known for his work in moral and political philosophy and on the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, has died.
Thomas E. Hill, Jr. (1937-2026) - Daily Nous
Thomas E. Hill, Jr., professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, has died. Professor Hill was well-known for his work in ethics, the history of ethics, and polit...
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Today I found out that Matisse made this with Bergson's image of the élan vital in mind. He was reading Creative Evolution in the 1940s.
New fashion & philosophy podcast. Tough talk on color perception. The risks of AI to our humanity, and to humans. A poem on personal identity. Special issue on "Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline". The state where people are searching for philosophy...
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New links... “It may well be that the models were loose for about a week before OpenAI realized that they were the ones attacking” -- an autonomous AI's recent escape from its sandbox to hack another ...
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Excited to announce I started a podcast with my friend @trufelman.bsky.social, where we read classic philosophical works and discuss what they can teach us about why we buy, wear, and value the things we do. It’s basically a podcast for people who love clothes, books, and big ideas.
One medical ethics journal retracts an article after a second journal publishes a critique of it in part because of its reliance on seemingly AI-fabricated sources. The problem of AI-written or AI-corrupted submissions seems to be getting worse. What's the solution?
A Scene from the AI Flooding of Academic Journals - Daily Nous
"We recently received a double-digit number of submissions from authors in the Far East... where we had strong evidence of machine generated content. Nothing made much sense in these papers, the autho...
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George Graham, professor of philosophy at Georgia State University, has died.
George Graham (1945-2026) - Daily Nous
George Graham, professor of philosophy at Georgia State University, has died. The following obituary has been provided by the Department of Philosophy at Georgia State University. George Graham (1945-...
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Four philosophy professors are among the newly selected British Academy fellows...
Four Philosophy Professors Among New British Academy Fellows - Daily Nous
The British Academy has announced the selection of 92 new fellows, and four philosophy professors are among them. They are: Béatrice Longuenesse (New York University) Richard Pettigrew (University of ...
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Whether external funding corrupts philosophy. When a being's memories outlive its brain. The moral competence of AI (and AI philosophers). The problems of "uni-context". Aphantasia & Hume. Airplane seat ethics.
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Recent links... Aphantasia, Hume, and empiricism -- some people seem to lack mental imagery, and this has philosophical implications, argue Uku Tooming & Roomet Jakapi Are philosophers who work for AI...
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“The fact that you, an expert human, generated the text is evidence that the view is worth thinking about—more so than if the text were generated by an LLM.”
A Meta-Epistemological Reason for Rejecting AI-Written Philosophy - Daily Nous
"The fact that you, an expert human, generated the text is evidence that the view is worth thinking about---more so than if the text were generated by an LLM." That's Eric Schwitzgebel (UCR), writing ...
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Advice for giving a philosophy job talk…
How to Give a Killer Job Talk (guest post) - Daily Nous
"Talks are not merely communication: they are also a performance... So many talks that could have been successful end up flopping because they’re not serious performances." That's one observation abou...
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Some students think: “By asking them to read... professors are arbitrarily withholding information from students by forcing them to get it through this more difficult medium.”
The Demise of Reading? - Daily Nous
"Americans are probably reading more words than ever before. What has changed is what they read, and how. People are bombarded with emails, text messages, X posts, Reddit threads, Instagram captions. ...
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"I just have a thing that I and others have found useful for teaching logic, and it seemed wrong not to share it. So I’ve opened it up..."
Free Web-Based Logic Software (guest post) - Daily Nous
Interested in completely free, browser-based, instructional logic software? Brian Rabern spent a decade at the University of Edinburgh working in logic, formal semantics, and other areas of philosophy...
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Dr. Brown's, of course. Summa cum laude for Cel-Ray.
Rachael "Trademark Clippy" Dickson@tudorsandtms.bsky.social · last mo.I adore Dr. Pepper as a drink and I also love trademarks, so I have a growing collection of photos of "sodas with a doctorate." Please witness some of my treasures. (Plz share more too if you have anyyyy)
Life as agency. What the scientific virtue of simplicity means today. The conceptual inflation of "racist". A bibliography of the mind. What beliefs are. Rawls: a favorite American. Philosophy of science reading group...
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The latest links... Can life—all life—be defined in terms of agency? -- well what do we mean by agency? From Newton’s few laws to Alphafold’s 93 million parameters: how should we understand the scient...
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"By shortening the time between asking a question and getting an answer, these [AI] tools are actually undermining curiosity". Philosophy, by contrast, appears to specialize in lengthening that time...
Philosophy, Brain Studies, and the Value of Curiosity - Daily Nous
An op-ed about curiosity published in the New York Times yesterday will resonate with many philosophers. Written by Anne-Laure Le Cunff, a neuroscientist at King's College London, it uses the example ...
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A new mentorship program from Warwick's Centre for Ethics, Law and Public Affairs pairs early-career scholars from the Global South with established senior academics from around the world...
New Mentoring Program Focuses on Philosophers from the Global South - Daily Nous
The Centre for Ethics, Law and Public Affairs (CELPA) at the University of Warwick has announced a mentorship program that "aims to support academics from groups underrepresented in moral, legal, and ...
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