Author: Justin Weinberg
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Large Grant for Artificial Cognition Project
“Our current cognitive concepts are simultaneously indispensable, yet inadequate; indispensable, because we need the richness of cognitive vocabulary to guide trust and decision-making; inadequate,…
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James Bogen (1935-2025)
James “Jim” Bogen, a longtime professor of philosophy at Pitzer College as well as an adjunct professor in History and Philosophy of Science at…
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How “Originality” and “Interdisciplinarity” Can Mislead Philosophy Students (guest post)
Clarifying these expectations is not a minor pedagogical matter. It is essential to helping students succeed, avoid wasted effort, and stay motivated.
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This Year, Give the Idea of a Gift
Just a couple of days remain for people to enter the Daily Nous Gift Guide Giveaway. All you have to do to enter is…
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Ethics Announces AI Policy
Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy has published its policy regarding the use of artificial intelligence (AI) by authors, editors,…
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Sylvia Burrow (1969-2025)
Sylvia Burrow, professor in the Department of Humanities at Cape Breton University, has died.
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Copyright, Publishers, and Your Anthropic Payout
In October, a settlement was announced in the copyright lawsuit against Anthropic, providing authors of books they trained their AI on with compensation of…
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What Can Professional Philosophers Learn from Philosophy for Children? (guest post)
“I should have presented my topic using the p4c [philosophy for children] method,” said a philosopher about about his talk at a conference on…
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Philosophers Against Malaria: Philosophy Department Fundraising Competition
Philosofriends, here’s an opportunity to do some good.
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Kantraversy Over Korean SAT Question
The Korean version of a college admissions exam, the CSAT, administered last month, had several questions about Immanuel Kant.
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Current & Recent Philosophy Grad Students: APDA Is Reaching Out
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…
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Andrew Cooper (1986-2025)
Andrew Cooper, associate professor of philosophy at the University of Warwick, has died.
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Gratitude
In a previous Thanksgiving post that first appeared in 2016, I noted that a 1975 article in Ethics by Fred Berger (then a philosopher at…
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Kind & Nickel Awarded Prize for Philosophy in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
The German Society for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Psychosomatics and Neurology, the largest continental European national association for psychiatry, has announced the winners of its…
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Pevnick Wins Rockwell Prize
The Elizabeth D. Rockwell Center on Ethics and Leadership at the Hobby School of Public Affairs at the University of Houston has announced the…
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Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update
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…