Daily Nous / Justin Weinberg

Hypothesis on when societies create philosophers. The beauty of materialism. Non-experts don't even know what expertise is. The semantics of "consciousness". Analytic philosophy's fake (?) insularity. Making art in the "afterlife". What's your philosophy? dailynous.com/2025/07/25/min…

Professors, If you don’t want your students using ChatGPT, Claude, DeepSeek, Gemini, Llama, etc., what do you tell your students, and what do you have them do? What's your course's AI policy? dailynous.com/2025/07/25/if-…

Door #1: Lose at least $400 million in federal grants. Door #2: Lose at least $221 million and your institutional autonomy. dailynous.com/2025/07/24/col…

People in #Gaza, including UNRWA colleagues, are fainting due to severe hunger. They are being starved. Meanwhile, just a few kilometers away from Gaza supermarkets and shops are loaded with food and other goods. Lift the siege. Allow UNRWA to bring in food and medicines.

"In our discipline’s founding act of slapstick, Thales fell into a well because he was too busy staring at the sky, but the rest of us do it less conspicuously every weekday..." Helena de Bres on philosophy and the comic, at Daily Nous. dailynous.com/2025/07/22/on-…

University of Tulsa students have started a petition to save their Honors College and have asked me to share with my followers here. If you are inclined to support these students in their goal to recover what was lost, you can sign here: change.org/Protect_UTulsa…

“The tragedy of the contemporary academy is that even when traditional liberal learning clearly wins with students and donors, it loses with those in power,” writes Jennifer Frey, who created a liberal arts honors college. dailynous.com/2025/07/17/adm…

Sleep as death. All possible photos. A film about a philosophy professor. Manipulative language. Assisted dying & freedom. The state of academia. McDowellian quietism... dailynous.com/2025/07/16/min…

On “the very specific work involved in infusing your writing with energy and life” — C. Thi Nguyen shares his thoughts about the creative craft of writing philosophy… dailynous.com/2025/07/15/bey…

Caravello is scheduled to have his first court appearance this morning, according to local news reports. See the update on this post. dailynous.com/2025/07/12/phi…

New research on the question of whether studying philosophy makes students better thinkers... dailynous.com/2025/07/14/stu…

A philosophy professor was assaulted and abducted by ICE while protesting the agency's raid on a farm near his university. dailynous.com/2025/07/12/phi…

Where is sound? Problems with "viewpoint diversity" hires. Is Descartes gaslighting us? The kids ain't partying and neither are you. Why it's okay to be a moderate. AI & higher education. The philosophy of Paul Snowdon... dailynous.com/2025/07/11/min…

Faculty on the move… dailynous.com/2025/07/10/ben…

Stephen H. Daniel, emeritus professor of philosophy at Texas A&M University, has died. dailynous.com/2025/07/10/ste…

Three big grants for three new and interesting philosophy projects… dailynous.com/2025/07/10/phi…

Though a newspaper reports that “Violence has plummeted in a... prison where inmates have been learning Greek philosophy,” don't get carried away--it's a very misleading claim. But the effects of teaching philosophy in prison are probably worth studying. dailynous.com/2025/07/09/phi…

for every 10 likes, I will make this statement more analytic philosophy-like: “What can be said at all can be said clearly; and whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”

“An under-discussed aspect of striving to have conversations across serious disagreement is the personal value they can bring... I think they make me a better philosopher” — Elizabeth Barnes at Daily Nous dailynous.com/2025/07/08/the…