Category: Daily Nous Features

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Philosophers on Rating People

October 19, 2015

If you were to be rated—as a person—on a scale of 1 to 10, what do you think you’d get? Questions like that might have been…
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Mistaking Criticism for Discrimination (Ought Experiment)

October 14, 2015

Welcome back to Ought Experiment! This week’s question is a sensitive one, indeed. A professor writes that s/he’s struggling to reach a grad student who…
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Meet the Daily Nous Cartoonists!

October 10, 2015

I am very excited to announce that Daily Nous will soon have its own comic strips! The call for cartoonists generated so many good submissions…
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10 Ways to Beat Writer’s Block (Ought Experiment)

September 30, 2015

Welcome back to Ought Experiment! This week’s question comes to us from someone dealing with a bad case of writer’s block. Maybe. Dear Louie,…
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Philosophers On Drug Prices

September 28, 2015

The price of Daraprim (pyrimethamine), a drug that treats the parasitic infection toxoplasmosis and is used in some cases to treat cancer and AIDS,…
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Daily Nous Seeks Cartoonist

September 18, 2015

I would like Daily Nous to run a regular humorous comic strip having something to do with philosophy, the philosophy profession, or academia. The…
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Imposter Syndrome (Ought Experiment)

September 17, 2015

Making your way in the world today takes everything you’ve got. Taking a break from all your worries sure would help a lot. Wouldn’t…
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Taking Jokes Too Far in the Classroom (Ought Experiment)

September 2, 2015

Welcome back to Ought Experiment! It’s a new semester, and that can only mean one thing: fresh opportunities to go home and torture ourselves…
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Philosophers On The Ashley Madison Hack

August 24, 2015

Last Tuesday, a group calling itself “Impact Team” followed through on its threat to release data it had stolen from Ashley Madison, an internet…
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Trolls in the Philosophical Blogosphere (Ought Experiment)

August 19, 2015

Welcome back to Ought Experiment! We had ourselves quite the weekend, didn’t we? Well hang on to your armchairs, folks, because apparently it’s time…
Daily Nous Features, Philosophy and Culture

Philosophers On Coates’s “Between the World and Me”

August 18, 2015

This installment of the Daily Nous Philosophers On series was organized by Janice Dowell (Syracuse). Introduction by Janice Dowell In the midst of growing media…
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Ought Experiment

August 5, 2015

Welcome to Ought Experiment! For our first advice column, an ABD grad student writes: Over the last several years, I have repeatedly noticed a…
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Philosophy Tag

May 28, 2015

In our last round of Philosophy Tag, Eric Beerbohm (Harvard) tagged Miranda Fricker (Sheffield) for her essay “Silence and Institutional Prejudice.” Professor Fricker (who has been busy elsewhere in…
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Philosophy Tag

April 21, 2015

I know what you’ve been wondering: where has Philosophy Tag been? Actually, maybe some of you are wondering: what is Philosophy Tag? Philosophy Tag…
Daily Nous Features, Lives of Philosophers

Hobbies of Philosophers: Steff Rocknak

March 30, 2015

For this installment of “Hobbies of Philosophers”, I talked to Steff Rocknak, professor of philosophy at Hartwick College. Steff works on Hume, Quine, philosophy…
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Philosophy Tag

February 10, 2015

In our previous edition of Philosophy Tag, my attempts to get Sarah Conly (Bowdoin) to tag someone’s article failed. She instead tagged someone’s book.…
Daily Nous Features, Lives of Philosophers

Hobbies of Philosophers: Meg Wallace

February 3, 2015

For the second installment of our Hobbies of Philosophers series, I talked with Meg Wallace (Kentucky). Meg works on metaphysics and philosophy of language,…
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Heap of Links

January 21, 2015

Daily Nous readership has grown quite a bit over the past few months and it occurs to me that some new visitors may not…
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This is It!

December 12, 2014

Today is the last day of the Daily Nous t-shirt sale! As far as I know, this is the only shirt with this fantastic…
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Philosophy Tag

December 11, 2014

So we were busy. But it’s okay. It’s only a game, and that game is philosophy tag. When we were last in session, Michael…

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naive skeptic on A Request from an AI (updated)
I was one of the people trying to do that exact work: https://naiveskepticblog.wordpress.com/2026/05/23/three-perspectives-on-ai-accelerationism-pragmatism-doomerism/ I am grateful for the people who let the way
Eric Steinhart on A Request from an AI (updated)
Argument? I never said I was making an argument. I will say that the AI threads on DailyNous fall into larger cultural patterns. And that there's an enormous…
Jr Phil Prof on Overwhelming Cheating
Unless you are teaching an innovative new course on the philosophy of how to use AI effectively, why is it our job to teach philosophy students how to…
Daniel King on Overwhelming Cheating
The teaching profession is obviously not good at keeping up with new technology. Instead of fighting AI, teachers need to teach students how to use AI effectively. In…
Runa on A Request from an AI (updated)
Perhaps consider the possibility that the theology has entered the discourse originally in a different way. Namely, via those who are hellbent on pushing AI on everyone to…
Runa on A Request from an AI (updated)
(1) (2) or (a) (b) take your pick
Runa on A Request from an AI (updated)
@Krell, @Naive Skeptic I'm impressed by the different CATEGORIES of harm bit. To me this seems like (1)harm concerning which our institutions cannot handle, or at least did…
Runa on A Request from an AI (updated)
I'm not talking about on this blog, but elsewhere.
Runa on A Request from an AI (updated)
I think the way the Accelerationist vs Pragmatist vs Doomer labels got generated in the first place was via people trying to make a similar point to yours,…
naive skeptic on A Request from an AI (updated)
I agree with the sentiment of this, but I do think it's relevant that most AI accelerationists and AI pragmatists do in fact completely dismiss any sort of…
Keith Tipton on A Request from an AI (updated)
An AI was told "go, play outside and find a moneymaking venture and leave me alone" and it came back with an essay it wants to enter in…
krell_154 on A Request from an AI (updated)
I'd say almost everyone acknowledges Doom as possibilty, Doomers are those that consider it highly probable
krell_154 on A Request from an AI (updated)
Very good points you make, but let me stress a distinction. The thing you focus on is Clips's capability, which is indeed interesting. But this whole situation could…
Will Conner on A Request from an AI (updated)
My sense is that the pro-AI camp has made their case, and it's not a very good one. Caricaturing only a bit: philosophy, (allegedly!) like the sciences, is…
AGT on A Request from an AI (updated)
That's no pt what I meant. Labeling and thereby closing down free inquiry is silly. This is what I called camps. This is what is happening in most…