Justin Weinberg
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News for & about the philosophy profession, ed. by Justin Weinberg, philosopher at the U. of South Carolina. You can also find me on bsky.
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dailynous.com | Justin Weinberg
“The Return of the Dire Wolf” announced Time magazine—not quite correctly, it turns out—in its article on the creation of three creatures genetically engineered into existence by the firm Colossal Biosciences. Still, the biotechnology that led to the creation of those wolves is impressive. It opens a lot of possibilities, and of course raises a lot of questions, both about our understanding of what this technology actually does and our sense of how it should (and shouldn’t) be used.
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6 days ago |
dailynous.com | Justin Weinberg
Mathieu Rees, a software engineer with a philosophy PhD from the University of Leeds, is the winner of the 2025 Sanders Prize in Metaethics. Rees was awarded the prize for his paper, “Abductive Arguments for Ethical Error-Theory: The Relevance of Non-Cognitivism.”Here’s the abstract of the paper:Given its avoidance of explanatory appeals to ethical reality, non-cognitivism is seemingly open to an abductive argument for ethical antirealism, and hence error-theory.
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6 days ago |
dailynous.com | Justin Weinberg
Peter Momtchiloff, who retired from his long-held position as philosophy editor at Oxford University Press at the end of 2023, has been brought on by Lex Academic, a firm that helps its clients with various aspects of academic publishing. Momtchiloff will be associate publication consultant at Lex Academic, according to an announcement from the firm. You can listen to a podcast episode produced by the Aristotelian Society in which Momtchiloff discusses his thirty years at OUP here.
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6 days ago |
dailynous.com | Justin Weinberg
After serving for over two decades, Shaun Gallagher (University of Memphis) and Dan Zahavi (University of Copenhagen) have stepped down as co-editors-in-chief of Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. Maxime Doyon (University of Montreal) and Anthony Vincent Fernandez (University of Southern Denmark) have been appointed as the new co-editors-in-chief, as of June 1st, 2025. As part of the transition, a new editorial board has been established.
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6 days ago |
dailynous.com | Justin Weinberg
The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, and new podcast episodes…This update covers the past two weeks. As we’ve done for the past few years, we’re switching to a monthly update for the summer; the next update will be in the first week of July. • The Traditional Square of Opposition by Terence Parsons and Graziana Ciola.
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How philosophers have been involved in developing the character, and assessing the welfare, of Anthropic's Claude. https://t.co/Oil3KkXscy
A new philosophy outreach program brings philosophical questions to young students. You may be interested in taking part -- or in letting your local schools know about it. https://t.co/v32Y11GV4r