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"Why do we sleep? In short, because our parents would have killed us if we didn't." philosophydad.blogspot.com/2…
LOL at this hilarious comment on Daily Nous about my recent piece about sleep! "no good reason" is a bizarre conclusion to draw and makes for an extremely uncharitable description, but my favorite thing is the deep weirdness of the supposedly obvious consideration i missed..
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People sometimes write to me asking for help or to discuss an issue at Daily Nous. This is the first time an AI has done so... dailynous.com/2026/10/02/a-r…
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Daily Nous / Justin Weinberg retweeted
Academic philosophy is so countercultural.
Philosophers insist you understand what you are talking about.
They insist on giving reasons for your view & have standards for what good reasons are.
They insist you know the best objections to your views and have responses to them.
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We may try to prevent AI cheating or try to make cheating “not worth it.” Some strategies may help, but what are you doing about all the cheating that remains? What should one do? dailynous.com/2026/09/30/ove…
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Choosing not to sleep. Philosophy of paleontology. How AI's represent. Sixty years of philosophy in America. The pathologizing tendency. Undergrads teaching undergrads philosophy. AI, writing, thinking, & learning... dailynous.com/2026/09/30/min…
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For the first time in a while, a philosophy professor has been awarded one of the MacArthur genius grants...
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"The story about the analytic turn is more complicated than the McCarthyist thesis suggests..." dailynous.com/2026/09/29/ana…
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Mini-lessons in logic or semantics that anyone can subscribe to. dailynous.com/2026/09/29/a-l…
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What happens when an author suspects their referee report was written by an AI? Many journals lack policies on this, and the publishers of many journals have policies that are vague or, given the realities of enforcement, quite lenient dailynous.com/ai-in-peer-rev…
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A new study looks at “whether AI can generate novel philosophical ideas and develop them clearly with depth and sophistication, not merely summarize existing views or apply existing philosophical theories.” dailynous.com/new-study-on-a…
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Behind the scenes at Ethics. An art festival inspired by Martha Nussbaum. Observing the effective altruists. Aristotle & AI. What counts as good scientific evidence. Young Scruton. A political theorist & a comedian on Trump... dailynous.com/mini-heap-4/
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A helpful and free set of resources and ideas for teaching philosophy has recently been updated. dailynous.com/philosophy-tea…
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Another big prize for Martha Nussbaum... dailynous.com/nussbaum-wins-…
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A little later than usual, but here's the report on recent reviews of philosophy books, new and revised entries to online philosophy resources, new episodes of philosophy podcasts, and more... dailynous.com/online-philoso…
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A few adjustments still need to be made, but Daily Nous is back online... dailynous.com/back/
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Hi everyone. Daily Nous is still down, but work on it continues and it should be back up and running later this week.
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How should we respond to AI risk? Perhaps with “non-network redundancy”—that is, by society being prepared to function without the internet, just in case. dailynous.com/2026/09/12/an-…
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Since DN is currently not working, I put this post up at my other site: justinweinberg.org/2026/09/1…
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A letter from academics calling for international cooperation to slow or pause AI development is open for signatories. Perhaps, though, what we should be doing is preparing for life without the internet. dailynous.com/2026/09/12/an-…
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