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Philosophers Among Swedish Research Council Grant Winners

Several projects led by philosophers are among the recent recipients of large grants from the Swedish Research Council.

December 17, 2025
The Complete Carnap: Online and Open-Access

The Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP) and the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BAdW) are launching a joint project to digitize and…

December 16, 2025
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…

December 15, 2025
Frege and Philosophy at Home

When did analytic philosophy begin? Many who ask that question answer: 1879, the year Gottlob Frege’s Begriffsschrift was published. But how did Frege, a…

December 12, 2025
Two Substantial AI-Related Grants for Northeastern University Philosophers

Philosophers at Northeastern University have been awarded two substantial grants for work related to artificial intelligence.

December 12, 2025
Vetter Wins Leibniz Prize

Barbara Vetter, professor of theoretical philosophy at the Free University of Berlin, has been awarded a Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize from the German Research…

December 11, 2025
New Journal: Experimental Philosophy

A new peer-reviewed open-access journal, Experimental Philosophy, has been launched.

December 11, 2025
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December 10, 2025
Argument Isn’t Everything: On Creativity in Philosophy

“I don’t believe that arguing is usually the way we come up with good ideas. Argument might be an effective way of deciding which…

December 10, 2025
Editors at Springer’s Journal of Philosophical Logic Resign, Launch New Open Access Journal

All of the editors-in-chief and associate editors of Springer Nature’s Journal of Philosophical Logic have announced their immediate or pending resignation and the launch, as…

December 10, 2025
Philosophy Summer Programs 2026

Are you putting on a philosophy summer program, philosophy summer school, or philosophy camp in 2026?

December 9, 2025
Philosophy Summer Programs for High School Students – 2026

Please use the comments section on this post to share information about Summer 2026 Programs in Philosophy for high school students.

December 9, 2025
Philosophy Summer Programs for Undergraduate College Students – 2026

Please use the comments section on this post to share information about Summer 2026 Programs in Philosophy for college undergraduate students.

December 9, 2025
Philosophy Summer Programs for Graduate Students /PhDs – 2026

Please use the comments section on this post to share information about Summer 2026 Programs in Philosophy for graduate students and/or PhDs in philosophy.

December 9, 2025
Nanay Wins 2025 Ernest-John Solvay Prize

Bence Nanay, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Antwerp, has been awarded the 2025 Ernest-John Solvay Excellence Prize in the Humanities.

December 9, 2025
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…

December 8, 2025
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,…

December 5, 2025
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…

December 4, 2025
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.

December 4, 2025
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…

December 3, 2025

Heap of Links

“Submission” is a humorous clicker-style game about starting a career in academic philosophy (or not) — created by Nat Hansen
“The best investment in education is to become the most human human—-a challenging, fulfilling, exciting pursuit that connects us across generations” — an interview with Christa Acampora, philosopher and dean of Arts & Sciences at UVA
“What would happen if we tried to live without the mythology of agency at all?” — It's worth pondering, since "agency is just an internal command hallucination," says Alexander Douglas
“Reading List” is a free Mac app for keeping track of papers to read — philosophy PhD student Hayden Kajercline created this productivity tool for researchers, with help from Claude
How should we react to scary predictions about AI? “First: by asking questions” — "If you believe predictions uncritically, it amounts to obeying in advance," says Carissa Véliz
“I feel unbelievably lucky that I was able to make philosophy my profession” — Karen Ng reflects on her path into philosophy, at #first-genphilosophers
The ordinary concept of knowledge “doesn’t work at all the way philosophers said it does” — a round-up of studies shows how weird the philosophers' version of the concept is
1000 or so psychiatrists were asked to diagnose standardized clinical case vignettes. “Two doctors agreed on the diagnosis only 55% of the time” — What does this tell us about psychiatry? Or about other fields in which experts disagree?
Where Aristotle taught Alexander — "this newest dig may be the most revealing yet, offering insight into the specifics of Alexander the Great’s education"
Over 4000 of the Justice Department’s lawyers have left their jobs since Trump’s second term began — The New Yorker on the moral dilemma facing some government employees: resign and avoid complicity, or stay and resist where one can?
Underappreciated philosophy published between 1970-2019 — some old posts to which you can still add works that should be better appreciated
The AI threat to independent student writing is not necessarily a threat to student learning — what's needed, says Joe Cruz, are courses "in which ideas are expressed in real time and analytical thought unfolds as a debate or an oral defense or a group discussion"—and small enough classes to make that work
Would you take a pill that allows you, with no ill health effects, to permanently forgo sleep? — Rebecca Lowe thinks you have no good reason not to, though she neglects to consider that sometimes it's the world that needs a break from you
Fifty essays in the philosophy of paleontology — by Max Dresow at the Extinct blog
“Asking whether [an AI] model ‘has a world model’ leaves much unresolved. Our findings point toward mechanistically studying its world modeling; uncovering the structures it learned [and] the world modeling capacities that recruit these” — further research on the internal representations of AIs
Sixty Years of Philosophy in America — Ernest Sosa's Dewey Lecture from the 2024 APA Eastern Division Meeting
“You’re responsible for other people’s learning of this material, so you better know it at a higher level yourself” — for 20 years, the Socrates Project at the University of Toronto has hired senior philosophy undergrads to run weekly tutorials for introductory students
“Suddenly, my problems stop being problems in the world. They become problems in my head. The problem is no longer: ‘my job is demoralizing, but I can’t leave it’… It’s: ‘I have a chemical imbalance that prevents me from enjoying life'” — Justin Garson on “the pathologizing tendency”
A political theorist and a comedian discuss the American presidency — "The Oath and the Office" is the podcast of Corey Brettschneider & John Fugelsang
An “evidence revolution” has taken place in medicine and other fields over the past 50 years — but, as Benjamin Santos Genta asks, there's still the question: "what counts as good scientific evidence?"

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Yuanshan Li on Those OpenAI Math Results
Some prominent mathematicians have indeed claimed that good problems that invite understanding are scarce, and are at risk of being exhausted by AI. I personally isn't convinced by…
Dmitri Gallow on Those OpenAI Math Results
I don't think that *everything* now hangs on that counterfactual, because of everything else that I put aside at the start of my last comment. In terms of…
Meme on Those OpenAI Math Results
(Notwithstanding my confusion, I agree with the other stuff you say about the adjustment of values, etc. I’m just not seeing how the infinite/finite distinction is resolving a…
Meme on Those OpenAI Math Results
I’m not sure this addressed my question. You said it’s important to distinguish math itself from the study of math, presumably because “by definition mathematics is infinite, so…
HotWheelReggie1991 on Those OpenAI Math Results
OK, i'll grant your distinction – and so it would seem (on that granting) everything now hangs on the medium-to-long-run counterfactual. So, i've got two thoughts on that..…
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Yuanshan Li on Those OpenAI Math Results
I think the space of problems that we care about at a given time T is arguably finite, but is potentially infinite in the sense that for any…
Dmitri Gallow on Those OpenAI Math Results
Let's put aside all the other results and all the other changes due to AI. Suppose that tomorrow a convoluted and unintelligible proof of the RH dropped from…
Yuanshan Li on Those OpenAI Math Results
You seem to assume that knowing more truths is inherently valuable (a common assumption indeed, also made in the most recent philosophy talk I went to). But people…
Meme on Those OpenAI Math Results
I’m not sure I understand why the first distinction is important. Did anyone believe the problem to be that AI might literally exhaust an infinite space of problems?…
Michel on Those OpenAI Math Results
“It feels like something written by someone who’s on psychedelics…” and “so horribly written that it’s impossible to read it without AI help…” are not assessments that inspire…
Meme on Those OpenAI Math Results
“[T]he journey matters more than the destination.” I remember when the producers of LOST said this after its finale failed to offer a satisfying resolution to the core…
Yuanshan Li on Those OpenAI Math Results
In these discussions it is important to distinguish *mathematics/philosophy itself* versus *the current academic institutions that specialize in the study of mathematics/philosophy*. By definition mathematics is infinite, so…
HotWheelReggie1991 on Those OpenAI Math Results
So is your position that epistemically speaking we're worse off if OpenAI, say, proves that all the non-trivial zeros of the Riemann zeta function have real part 1/2,…
Dmitri Gallow on Those OpenAI Math Results
I don't think we should be dismissing Terrance Tao's argument so quickly. I take it that there's partly a concern about how results like these are going to…

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