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How, as a researcher, can you use AI tools like ChatGPT in a way that doesn’t compromise your integrity, creativity, and independence? Here's one philosopher's approach...
Have Pen, Laptop, and ChatGPT, Will Publish (guest post) - Daily Nous
How, as a researcher, can you use AI tools like ChatGPT in a way that doesn't compromise your integrity, creativity, and independence? In the following guest post, Jimmy Alfonso Licon (Arizona State U...
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January 19, 2026 at 2:51 PM
How, as a researcher, can you use AI tools like ChatGPT in a way that doesn’t compromise your integrity, creativity, and independence? Here's one philosopher's approach...
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s principles of nonviolent resistance...
MLK on Nonviolent Resistance - Daily Nous
In recognition of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, here are MLK's six principles of nonviolent resistance. [Martin Luther King, Jr., Montgomery Jail, 1958. Photo by Charles Moore.] "Nonviolent resistance ...
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January 19, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s principles of nonviolent resistance...
New philosophy book reviews, episodes of philosophy podcasts, and entries at online philosophy resources…
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update - Daily Nous
This is the weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, new podcast episodes, recently published open access philosophy books, and more. (...
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January 19, 2026 at 12:43 PM
New philosophy book reviews, episodes of philosophy podcasts, and entries at online philosophy resources…
Time wasn't always a line. The love pill---would you take it? Fake images, real harm. To gamify or not to gamify? Analyzing paradoxes. Lessons for knowledge producers. Sidgwick: utilitarian villain or hero?
Mini-Heap - Daily Nous
New links... The Sorites Paradox isn’t just about concepts, the Problem of the Many isn’t just about objects -- and there is an underlying commonality to these two classic puzzles of vagueness, argue ...
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January 18, 2026 at 3:15 PM
Time wasn't always a line. The love pill---would you take it? Fake images, real harm. To gamify or not to gamify? Analyzing paradoxes. Lessons for knowledge producers. Sidgwick: utilitarian villain or hero?
"I've never felt my speech was so chilled as it was in the classroom at UATX." A report on the university created as a bastion of independent thinking and free expression.
University of Austin’s Experiment: a Report - Daily Nous
"I’ve never felt my speech was so chilled as it was in the classroom at UATX." That's one student quoted in an article at Politico by Evan Mandery that describes how things have gone at the University...
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January 17, 2026 at 5:05 PM
"I've never felt my speech was so chilled as it was in the classroom at UATX." A report on the university created as a bastion of independent thinking and free expression.
First Plato, now ethics...
Texas A&M Administrators Will Cancel Your Course If You Don’t Tell Them Exactly Where And What Its Race And Gender Parts Are* - Daily Nous
Texas A&M University (TAMU) administrators cancelled "Ethics in Public Policy," a graduate course in the university's Bush School of Government and Public Service, because they rejected as too vague i...
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January 16, 2026 at 1:46 PM
First Plato, now ethics...
A few philosophers were awarded Major Research Fellowships from the Leverhulme Trust...
Philosophers Among the Winners of Recent Leverhulme Grants - Daily Nous
The Leverhulme Trust has announced the winners of its 2025 Major Research Fellowships, and three philosophy professors are among them. They are: Christoph Kelp (University of Glasgow), awarded £169,83...
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January 16, 2026 at 11:51 AM
A few philosophers were awarded Major Research Fellowships from the Leverhulme Trust...
The APA will return to conducting all of its major conferences in person... dailynous.com/2026/01/15/a...
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January 15, 2026 at 1:18 PM
The APA will return to conducting all of its major conferences in person... dailynous.com/2026/01/15/a...
The Journal of the History of Philosophy article prize goes to...
Stratmann Wins JHP Article Prize - Daily Nous
The Journal of the History of Philosophy has announced that the winner of its 2025 article prize is Joe Stratmann, assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Professo...
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January 14, 2026 at 1:06 PM
The Journal of the History of Philosophy article prize goes to...
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The president of a university actually defends forcing a professor to remove Plato from his course by saying, "We didn't ban ALL Plato." Um, first, no one said you did. Second... dailynous.com/2026/01/13/a...
A Dishonest Response from TAMU President Tommy Williams - Daily Nous
The interim president of Texas A&M, Tommy Williams, has publicly replied to last week's reports of his university telling a philosophy professor to remove readings by Plato and others from the syllabu...
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January 13, 2026 at 7:45 PM
The president of a university actually defends forcing a professor to remove Plato from his course by saying, "We didn't ban ALL Plato." Um, first, no one said you did. Second... dailynous.com/2026/01/13/a...
The president of a university actually defends forcing a professor to remove Plato from his course by saying, "We didn't ban ALL Plato." Um, first, no one said you did. Second... dailynous.com/2026/01/13/a...
A Dishonest Response from TAMU President Tommy Williams - Daily Nous
The interim president of Texas A&M, Tommy Williams, has publicly replied to last week's reports of his university telling a philosophy professor to remove readings by Plato and others from the syllabu...
dailynous.com
January 13, 2026 at 7:45 PM
The president of a university actually defends forcing a professor to remove Plato from his course by saying, "We didn't ban ALL Plato." Um, first, no one said you did. Second... dailynous.com/2026/01/13/a...
Time is short, so how can we possibly give enough oral exams to all of our students to make sure they're actually learning in our courses and not just cheating with AI? Have an AI administer the exams, of course.
Fighting AI with AI - Daily Nous
Is there a German word for a feeling that combines admiration, weariness, and a touch of disgust? That word would be handy as we continue to catalog attempts to teach in a world of artificial intellig...
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January 12, 2026 at 1:55 PM
Time is short, so how can we possibly give enough oral exams to all of our students to make sure they're actually learning in our courses and not just cheating with AI? Have an AI administer the exams, of course.
Proofs that you're immortal. A innate "number sense". Photographing a robot & a philosopher. The *un*availability heuristic. Data actually not available upon request. Your domestic bot & your morality. Getting writing done...
Mini-Heap - Daily Nous
Recent links... “Data is not available upon request” -- a study (via Brian Earp) “What might I learn from those encounters that I had not already gleaned from the analytical papers and philosophical d...
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January 12, 2026 at 1:19 PM
Proofs that you're immortal. A innate "number sense". Photographing a robot & a philosopher. The *un*availability heuristic. Data actually not available upon request. Your domestic bot & your morality. Getting writing done...
"Trans members of this profession have been rapidly losing their freedoms and protections.... Scholarship on the philosophy of sex and gender, especially trans philosophy, has come under attack” -- from a recent APA Board open letter to trans philosophers & the philosophy profession...
The APA Board’s Open Letter to Trans Philosophers - Daily Nous
At its November 2025 meeting, the Board of the American Philosophical Association (APA) approved a statement addressed "first and foremost, to trans members of our profession," and to "those who teach...
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January 9, 2026 at 5:09 PM
"Trans members of this profession have been rapidly losing their freedoms and protections.... Scholarship on the philosophy of sex and gender, especially trans philosophy, has come under attack” -- from a recent APA Board open letter to trans philosophers & the philosophy profession...
"Legalize Plato" t-shirts and a revision to Professor Peterson's syllabus, in the updates at dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
January 9, 2026 at 4:31 PM
"Legalize Plato" t-shirts and a revision to Professor Peterson's syllabus, in the updates at dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
Show your support for academic freedom...
Legalize Plato: The Shirt - Daily Nous
In light of Texas A&M's decision to tell a philosophy professor to remove readings by Plato from his course, one enterprising philosopher has come up with a way for people to voice their support for a...
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January 8, 2026 at 9:51 PM
Show your support for academic freedom...
“The first question is, what is the question?”
One of Peter Adamson's "rules" for writing philosophy...
One of Peter Adamson's "rules" for writing philosophy...
Adamson’s “Rules” for Writing Philosophy - Daily Nous
"The first question is: what is the question?" That's the first in a set of "rules for writing" which Peter Adamson (LMU, KCL) developed for his students over the years, and which he is currently shar...
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January 8, 2026 at 5:29 PM
“The first question is, what is the question?”
One of Peter Adamson's "rules" for writing philosophy...
One of Peter Adamson's "rules" for writing philosophy...
Texas A&M philosophy professor Martin Peterson, who was told by the university to remove readings by Plato & others from his moral problems course, is replacing them with a news article about the university's censorship and violation of academic freedom. See Update 3 at dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
Texas A&M Bans Plato (further updates) - Daily Nous
Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...
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January 8, 2026 at 4:26 PM
Texas A&M philosophy professor Martin Peterson, who was told by the university to remove readings by Plato & others from his moral problems course, is replacing them with a news article about the university's censorship and violation of academic freedom. See Update 3 at dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
Is there “calling dibs” in philosophy?
Calling Dibs in Philosophy - Daily Nous
Barry Lam (UC Riverside) wrote recently about the practice of "calling dibs." In case you're unfamiliar with the practice, Lam describes it and provides some examples: Calling “dibs” is a very pervasi...
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January 8, 2026 at 1:42 PM
Is there “calling dibs” in philosophy?
"Dr. Peterson said he would reluctantly alter the course." See Update 2 at dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous
Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy at Texas A&M University, was told by university officials today about his upcoming "Contemporary Moral Problems" course, due to start next
dailynous.com
January 7, 2026 at 9:52 PM
"Dr. Peterson said he would reluctantly alter the course." See Update 2 at dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
"We are tiny specks in a vast universe. How can we or anything we care about really matter?" Philosophers have tended to be critical of the reasoning behind this kind of lament, but in a new paper, philosopher Luke Elson defends something like it.
Does the Size of the Universe Matter to Whether Anything Objectively Matters? - Daily Nous
"The universe is old, big, and empty. In comparison, we are new and small." So begins an interesting and fun article on a big question of perennial popular concern by Luke Elson (University of Reading) in the latest issue of Ethics. Observations of the vastness of the universe in comparison to tiny little us---the "cosmic disparity"---are
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January 7, 2026 at 2:01 PM
"We are tiny specks in a vast universe. How can we or anything we care about really matter?" Philosophers have tended to be critical of the reasoning behind this kind of lament, but in a new paper, philosopher Luke Elson defends something like it.
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Texas A&M actually tells a philosophy professor he may not teach Plato.
Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous
Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...
dailynous.com
January 7, 2026 at 2:37 AM
Texas A&M actually tells a philosophy professor he may not teach Plato.
Texas A&M actually tells a philosophy professor he may not teach Plato.
Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous
Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...
dailynous.com
January 7, 2026 at 2:37 AM
Texas A&M actually tells a philosophy professor he may not teach Plato.
Not your typical philosophy course...
A Course on Public Philosophy - Daily Nous
What does a course on public philosophy look like? Ian Olasov developed a version of it with Susan Dieleman that takes students beyond the typical classroom experience, and will be teaching it for the...
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January 6, 2026 at 8:39 PM
Not your typical philosophy course...
Reconsidering consent in the ethics of sex. A tv show about teaching philosophy in prison. Narratives vs. vibes. Why do we sleep? A daily logic puzzle. Conversation on consciousness. New philosophy podcast...
Mini-Heap - Daily Nous
Links of interest... A daily logic puzzle -- called "Clues for Sam" (via MeFi) “One critique of consent… is that it is too permissive—that it ignores how coercion or delusion may result in the illusio...
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January 6, 2026 at 1:59 PM
Reconsidering consent in the ethics of sex. A tv show about teaching philosophy in prison. Narratives vs. vibes. Why do we sleep? A daily logic puzzle. Conversation on consciousness. New philosophy podcast...