Daily Nous
Daily Nous
Justin Weinberg
Daily Nous provides news for and about the philosophy profession, useful information for academic philosophers, links to items of interest elsewhere, and an online space for philosophers to publicly discuss it all. The site is maintained by me, Justin Weinberg, an associate professor of philosophy at the University of South Carolina.
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The American Philosophical Association (APA) has signed onto to a letter by PEN America to the Texas A&M University System Regents “to request that they rescind two policies, passed in fall 2025, that have resulted in the censorship of...
What’s the latest data about philosophy graduate programs? In the following guest post, Carolyn Dicey Jennings, professor of philosophy at UC Merced and co-director of Academic Philosophy Data and Analysis (APDA), shares results from the...
If you appreciate Rawls, you should read this brief essay by Joseph Heath. If you don’t appreciate Rawls, you should read this brief essay by Joseph Heath. If you’re in the first group, you’ll enjoy how Heath captures Rawls’s importance....
New links… “The current state of education positively requires external pressure on the universities, demonstrating to them a model of inquiry that they have themselves patently failed to uphold” — Justin Smith-Ruiu introduces The...
In 2024, Philosophia: A Global Journal of Philosophy introduced an “Outstanding Referee Award“, joining a small number of journals that single out particular referees for special acknowledgement of their services. The award is intended...
At the end of this post is a poll about how much reading you assign. Please take part in it if you teach philosophy courses. Thanks. “Stop Meeting Students Where They Are” is the title of a recent piece at The Atlantic by Walt Hunter,...
Laurence Thomas, professor emeritus of philosophy at Syracuse University, died this past December. The following obituary is by David Benatar (University of Cape Town). Laurence Mordekhai Thomas (1949-2025) Laurence Thomas, Emeritus...
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. (If we missed anything, please let us...
Megan Hyska, currently assistant professor of philosophy at Northwestern University, will be moving to University of Leeds, where she will be associate professor of philosophy. Dr Hyska‘s research is in social philosophy of language,...
It appears that no new tenure-track hires will be made at public regional universities and community colleges in Oklahoma. J. Kevin Stitt, the governor of Oklahoma, has issued an executive order recommending as much to the state’s...
Links to stuff elsewhere you might find worth checking out… “A wave of censorship and self-censorship that… is curbing academic freedom and learning” — the NYT on how “we’ve never seen this much surveillance” of university faculty “There...
David T. Wasserman, a bioethicist at the National Institutes of Health, died this past December. The following memorial notice is by Sean Aas (Georgetown University). David T. Wasserman, bioethicist and philosopher of disability, health,...
For some reason, Renu Khator, the longtime president of the University of Houston and chancellor of the University of Houston System, has felt the need to remind her faculty that “our responsibility is to give [students] the ability to...
The faculty of the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) program at the University at Buffalo were awarded a $4 million grant from the US Department of Education for an initiative on “civil discourse”. [Adam Pendleton, untitled (We...
Some university administrations are (as we have seen) trying to prevent professors from teaching about topics related to gender, sexuality, and race. Some may be doing this of their own accord. Others may be begrudgingly succumbing to...