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Texas higher education vs. freedom

The winners of the 2025 Prize for Philosophy and Ethics in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy are...

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An "honest" book review. Formal methods in philosophy. Poetry against the machine. Who disagrees w/ scientific consensus? Folk psychology, science, & IQ. AI girl/boyfriends as "dependency-fostering products". Nancy Sherman answers "why philosophy?"

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Philosophers on The Australian's Top Researchers List...

A philosopher has resigned from his position at Oxford following a months-long investigation of sexual harassment allegations against him...

"Metaphysics is unavoidably value laden in this specific sense: guiding us are the values regarding what needs to be explained and what is relevant to that explanation..."

What's needed is "a governance architecture—a shared set of rules that lets educators and professions define the terms under which AI can enter their practices."

The faculty fought the cuts... and won.

The Cloudflare outage this morning is causing Daily Nous to be intermittently down. Apparently downforeveryoneorjustme.com is also down... or is it?

Two projects involving philosophers are among the winners of these multimillion-euro grants...

"She felt that she was deceiving her professors and betraying the purpose of her education." Still, she continued to use ChatGPT...

An interesting project by a philosopher and an archaeologist looks at the resilience of indigenous communities...

A new section has been added to the online philosophy resources weekly update: Recently Published Open Access Philosophy Books. Check it out, alongside new reviews of philosophy books, philosophy podcast episodes, updates to philosophical references, etc...

The philosophy behind the political capture of New College of Florida. On clarity in philosophical writing. New problems in the ethics of peer review. The moral psychology of shopping cart return. A meaningless word of the year. Do ants morally matter?..

World Philosophy Day is next Thursday. What will you (or your department) be doing to celebrate?

Texas A&M Board of Regents takes steps to impose ideology on students and recruit them into political activity...

How should a philosophy department use social media? Which platforms should it have accounts on? What are some examples of philosophy departments using social media well?

A large grant will fund a philosopher-led project to "understand how the rapid integration of artificial intelligence is transforming the norms that govern how different scientific and scholarly disciplines produce, justify, and communicate knowledge."

Teaching philosophy through games. The puzzle of right & left hands. AI & the concept of consciousness. Countering the crisis of attention. Individualism & the arts. Fascism enablers. Philosophers explained via a sitcom...

Is it really philosophy when they didn't call it philosophy?

“We estimate that, over five years, we will have increased our enrollment tenfold.”

"There’s no reason to think systems like ChatGPT or Gemini are conscious," says Susan Schneider, but there are other "serious contenders for AI consciousness that exist today" that raise "pressing ethical issues we must face now."

New reviews of philosophy books, new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, and new philosophy podcast episodes...

"There’s no reason to think systems like ChatGPT or Gemini are conscious," says Susan Schneider, but there are other "serious contenders for AI consciousness that exist today" that raise "pressing ethical issues we must face now."

"Many of the features of a zero-budget conference are preferable to more traditional ways of organizing conferences, and... we’d like to encourage other conference organizers to consider adopting them..."

OVERHEARD IN A PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT "One day, if we're lucky . . . we'll all be robots"

Faculty on the move...

The "intellectual influence" of today's philosophers. Empirical research on intuitions. What it is like to be a rock. Do philosophers think enough about reading? The philosophical self-help genre. A song about Aristotelian syllogism. Sideways philosophy.

Ten years ago, I made some predictions about what the philosophy profession would be like today. How did I do?

Ten years ago, I made some predictions about what the philosophy profession would be like today. How did I do?

Three philosophy projects receive multi-million-euro grants in Finland...

New reviews of philosophy books, new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, and new episodes of philosophy podcasts...

Faculty on the move...

Is there progress in philosophy costumes?

Is there progress in philosophy costumes?

The Department of Philosophy at the University at Buffalo is starting a fully online MS program in applied ontology...

Why a fetus can't be what you think it is. Mental imagery, life, & philosophy. Perspective & the aim of science. Reasons not to write with AI, and how AI threatens learning. Remembrances of Jonathan Lear. An interview with Shaun Gallagher...

Barry Hoffmaster, professor emeritus of philosophy at Western University, has died.

Sometimes, philosophical terms mean one thing, but sound like they really ought to mean something else...

"Artificial Philosophy," a talk by me, is happening at the next workshop of the Metaphilosophy Project, this Thursday, October 30th (1pm Eastern US time). metafilozofija.uniri.hr?p=968

Philosophers have been awarded over $6.6 million for a variety of projects in the recent round of Discovery Grants.

Thinking fondly of a girl I asked out in high school who, not wanting to be mean, explained to me the distinction between "dating" and actually going on a date. We "dated" without actually going out for like 2 weeks then she broke up with me. Anyway I hope she became an analytic philosopher.

I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.” It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”

Has this happened to you yet?

The ideas that haunt us. Betting on free will. The conspiracy theory of imposter syndrome. AI "clones" of incapacitated patients. Smith's impartial spectator and God. Real freedom for those who got here first (Van Parijs interview). The neurocognitive foundations of mind.

When budget cuts and state laws end philosophy major programs, how can philosophy still have a role in the education of undergraduates?