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A philosopher has created a new ranking of philosophy journals based on how often their articles are cited in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. dailynous.com/2026/11/03/new…
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Students at Wichita State University will no longer be able to major in philosophy... dailynous.com/2026/11/03/wic…
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"We have built the prototype." A pair of philosophers have been working on an AI to provide "philosophy on demand: philosophical judgment of exceptional depth and quality, available quickly enough to inform consequential decisions.” dailynous.com/2026/11/02/bui…
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New and revised entries at online philosophy resources. New reviews of philosophy books. New episodes of philosophy podcasts... dailynous.com/2026/11/02/onl…
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Daily Nous / Justin Weinberg retweeted
I hate philosophy Halloween, what do you mean you’re going as Johann Christian von Mannlich’s portrait of Jacobi, often mistaken for Immanuel Kant?
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Explaining explanation. The topology of a paradox. Insights about loneliness. Debating metaphysics. AI friendships. Interpreting Kant's racism. Delightful error. dailynous.com/2026/10/30/min…
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A research administrator at the University of Kentucky objected on religious grounds to the pressure the university was putting on him to rely on AI in his work, and was able to secure a Title VII exemption from using the technology. dailynous.com/2026/10/30/hum…
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"It reminds me of the time I spent an hour fighting my way up an English hill through thick, knee-high heather, only to discover at the top that there had been an unmarked path 20 meters to my right the whole time." dailynous.com/2026/10/29/whe…
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"As [the philosophers] became more familiar with generative AI and increasingly recognized its formal competence, they simultaneously sharpened the boundaries they drew around what they regarded as genuinely philosophical thinking." dailynous.com/2026/10/28/a-f…
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Some findings from the “largest and most systematic study of linguistic inequity in academic philosophy to date.” dailynous.com/2026/10/28/und…
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Reconsidering just war theory. A philosophy prof's "mission statement." What intuition is. What "intrinsic human dignity" is. Philosophy: head and heart. Lots of philosophy majors at Harvard. What university administrations should do about AI... dailynous.com/2026/10/28/min…
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A new annual series and accompanying conference has been launched: Oxford Studies in Philosophy of AI and Computing dailynous.com/2026/10/27/new…
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The philosophy-specific analysis of the “Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences" has been released. dailynous.com/2026/10/27/the…
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AI is already affecting philosophical research and academic philosophy's institutions. An upcoming conference aims to explore what a coordinated, wise, and effective response to these developments would involve.
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AI models tend "to resolve cross-linguistic disagreement by treating the English judgment as authoritative, rather than acknowledging the cross-linguistic inconsistency of human language." What's the problem with that, and what should be done about it? dailynous.com/2026/10/26/lin…
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World Philosophy Day is next month. It's a good excuse for an event with students, majors, or the general public. What is your department doing to mark the day? dailynous.com/2026/10/26/rem…
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Timothy Smiley, professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Cambridge, has died. dailynous.com/2026/10/26/tim…
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New reviews of philosophy books, new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new philosophy podcast episodes, and more... dailynous.com/2026/10/26/onl…
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Daily Nous / Justin Weinberg retweeted
Death Just Got Out of this Truck, by Amy Olberding, author of Kill All the Chickens (a book about grief, philosophy, and much else).
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Ask a group of people a philosophical question and it’s often the case that they'll give conflicting answers to it. We quite naturally interpret this as different people having different intuitions. But that's not the only available explanation... dailynous.com/2026/10/23/whe…
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