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Posting Likely To Be Light This Week

June 4, 2018

Hi everyone. I’m away at a conference this week and will have less time for attending to Daily Nous.
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A Note On Making Discussions Here Better

June 2, 2018

We often have vigorous and contentious discussions in the comments here at Daily Nous, and this past week—with its focus on philosophizing about transgender…
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Administrative Note

August 16, 2017

Dear readers, posting at Daily Nous will be on the rather light side for the remainder of the week.
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Message from the Editor regarding “A Tale of Two Conferences”

September 27, 2016

Running a news and discussion site for professional philosophers involves, among other things, making judgments about what is and what is not newsworthy. That…
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This Week at Daily Nous

June 6, 2016

This week Daily Nous will be publishing a number of guest posts. I’m at a conference and will have considerably less time to attend…
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Thanks to This Month’s Advertisers

May 5, 2016

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Thanks to This Month’s Advertisers

April 2, 2016

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Daily Nous Turns 2

March 7, 2016

Daily Nous turns 2 today! Time flies. I was looking through the old scrapbook the other day and it is amazing how much DN…
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Thanks to This Month’s Advertisers

March 1, 2016

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Daily Nous Year In Review

December 28, 2015

2015 is drawing to a close. I hope you had a good year. The year saw Daily Nous’s first birthday (in March) and a…
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Comments Changeover This Weekend

December 19, 2015

As the new commenting system (described here) is put into place this weekend, piece by piece, the commenting on Daily Nous may be a…
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Some Upcoming Changes to Daily Nous

December 17, 2015

At Daily Nous we toil to provide you, dear readers, with an exceptional philosoblogospheric experience. There have been a number of changes to the site…
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Advertising On Daily Nous

July 14, 2015

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From The Censor

June 9, 2015

One of the benefits of thought experiments and hypothetical examples is that, since the people with which they’re populated aren’t real, you can relentlessly…
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A Reminder About Comments

June 3, 2015

Since Daily Nous has been getting a bit more traffic over the past few days I’d like to draw people’s attention to the comments…
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Unblock Thyself

January 27, 2015

Jon Cogburn (LSU) has run a little experiment. For months he and others have been unable to comment at Daily Nous. Long thought to…
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Comment Tech

November 14, 2014

I have received the following three complaints and would like to know if the problems they’re about are widespread. (a) You cannot reply to…
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Comments and Anonymity at Daily Nous

October 11, 2014

I am grateful that people take the time and make the effort to comment on the posts here at Daily Nous. I try to post…

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WiseGuy on A Philosopher Among the MacArthur Fellows
of course.. they gave it to him and not me.
David Wallace on AI in Peer Review: Practices & Policies
Let’s stipulate that Dropbox genuinely has no ties to AI companies. What about using Gmail or OneDrive? I don’t see how one could consistently (e.g.) abjure using Gemini…
David Wallace on AI in Peer Review: Practices & Policies
That’s my (4): no objection in principle but it is probably sensible to draw a bright line.
Meme on New Study on AI’s Philosophical Skills
Surreptitiously
Michael on A Philosopher Among the MacArthur Fellows
Yes, memory is narrative storytelling using context triggered neurological networks. Freud speculated about memory traces, Friston called the Bayesian probability clouds.
Luca Barlassina on A Philosopher Among the MacArthur Fellows
Amazing! Congrats!
Patrick Lin on New Study on AI’s Philosophical Skills
I assume they'll be using the rigorous standard set by the US Supreme Court: "I'll know it when I see it."
Nicolas Delon on New Study on AI’s Philosophical Skills
How do you get credit anonymously?
Meme on New Study on AI’s Philosophical Skills
Still need someone to start it (I’m more of an “ideas guy who will take all the credit” myself).
Jukka on AI in Peer Review: Practices & Policies
That's a laudable editorial practice. But AI & Society and a social contract between readers and journals: well, I turn to Jill; https://jilltxt.net/misaligned-citations-and-llm-generated-scientific-fraud/
Dee on AI in Peer Review: Practices & Policies
And if evidence of bad behavior from Dropbox comes to light, I'll trust them less than I do at the moment. Many of us have used Dropbox for…
Kate on AI in Peer Review: Practices & Policies
Just on point 2. I don't really think that editors are asking for reviewers to know what *you* think of it in a way that excludes what you…
Sander Verhaegh on Analytic Philosophy and McCarthyism: A New Look (guest post)
Thanks Conner, interesting suggestion! I guess the list of philosophers targeted by Red hunters is too short to draw any firm conclusions. But even this short list does…
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Thanks, Sander—this was an interesting read, and I appreciate you bringing (much needed) archival data to bear on this debate. Some aspects of the McCarthyist thesis have long…