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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Bastiaan “Bas” van Fraassen, professor emeritus of philosophy at Princeton University, has been awarded the 2026 Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy. The Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy is bestowed by the Royal Swedish Academy...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has announced the winners of its latest round of grants, and several philosophy professors are among them. . They and their projects are: David Ebrey (University of Barcelona) Plato’s...
“You want to know why philosophy matters? This is the true answer, and the one upon which we must plant our flag: philosophy is the most productive force ever discovered by human beings and we are responsible for modernity. Philosophy is...
Has the literature review in philosophy dissertations largely disappeared, and if so, what should we think of this change? In a post reflecting on how younger scholars have engaged (or not) with his work, Eric Schliesser (Amsterdam)...
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 University) explains how he does it,...
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 is not a method for cowards… This is...
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...
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 Isa Kooiman & Robert van Rooij What...
“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 of Austin (UATX). UATX was announced...
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 its professor’s explanation of when...
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 £169,830 for Norms of Inquiry Stephen...
The American Philosophical Association (APA) has been experimenting with holding one of its three major conferences entirely online. The organization has now announced that, after the second of these online-only events—the Pacific...
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. Professor Stratmann was awarded the prize for...
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 syllabus of his moral problems course. In a...
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 intelligence, such as this one from professor...