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“Reading philosophy is valuable, but students can struggle to keep track of the reasoning. That’s why displaying the map of a philosophical argument can make the subject so much more accessible—especially to students new to the discipline.”
Many philosophy instructors find argument-mapping an effective way of teaching reasoning.
If you’re interested in learning ...
Over the past day or so, you may have noticed that Daily Nous was down quite a bit, and sluggish when you could access it.
It turn out there were over 127 million requests (web communications) initiated with Daily Nous over the past 24 hours or so. That is 135 times the normal amount.
According to my IT guy, the best explanation for this is that there w...
David Charles, professor emeritus of philosophy at Yale University, has died.
Professor Charles was well-known for his work in ancient philosophy, and especially on Aristotle. He is the author of The Undivided Self (2021), Aristotle on Meaning and Essence (2000), Aristotle’s Philosophy of Action (1984), among other works, which you ca...
Philosophy & Public Affairs recently—and knowingly—published an article written mostly by Claude, Anthropic’s LLM.
The article’s thesis w...
The University of Michigan’s College of Literature, Science and the Arts is trying out something new this coming term: a dual grading system in which professors give students ordinary letter grades based on the quality of their work, but what shows up on the student’s transcript is either a “pass” or “no credit”.
The initiative applies just to first-semester st...