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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Last December, all of the editors-in-chief and associate editors of Springer Nature’s Journal of Philosophical Logic resigned and formed Philosophical Logic, a new “diamond” open-access journal (details here). Earlier this month the...
The Executive Board of the University of Exeter has proposed cutting around 150 staff roles, reports the BBC, with with 115 of them in the Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, according to Times Higher Education. The Exeter...
That was part of Rebecca Tuvel’s answer to a question from journalist Evan Goldstein about “the benefits of almost getting canceled.” [Annie Vought, “Demeter” (detail)]Professor Tuvel (Rhodes College) was interviewed recently by...
Here’s (usually weekly, but during the summer, monthly) report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, and new podcast episodes. (If we’ve missed anything, please let us know.) Stanford...
Graham Priest, currently Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center, will be moving to Tohoku University in Japan. Professor Priest is known for his work in logic, especially non-classical...
Recent links… “Philosophical thinking will remain a source of human competitive advantage” — “philosophy is staging a royal comeback,” says The Economist. And from the same issue: “Why big AI labs are hiring so many philosophers“ A...
“I’m very fond of the take-home essay, as there’s something irreplaceable about the experience of articulating a theory over the course of multiple weeks—doing background research, letting the ideas marinate in one’s subconsciousness,...
In April, Jonathan Pike, a professor of philosophy at Open University, submitted a formal complaint about the appointment of his colleague, professor of philosophy Sophie Grace Chappell, a trans woman, to the Research Excellence...
“Publication differences by gender are small or statistically undetectable during graduate study, but become more pronounced by graduation and especially by the time of first permanent hire…. Teaching portfolios appear broadly similar...
What happens to the articles published in an online-only journal when that journal not only ceases to publish, but ceases to exist? A screenshot of the Kant Studies Online homepage, via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine That question...
“The University of Dundee has announced it plans to cease offering Philosophy as a named degree from 2027. This news has come as a complete shock to students, staff and the wider Scottish community. We, the philosophy community of...
The American Philosophical Association (APA) has announced the winners of its Spring 2026 prizes. 2027 John Dewey Lectures Three annual lectures, one at each divisional meeting of the APA, given by a prominent and senior (typically...
A slightly larger mini-heap of links than usual… How “claim[s] that someone was the inventor of modern logic or a particular branch of philosophy” come to be a part of philosophy’s story — more from Jens Lemanski on the case-study of...
“The aim is not to keep everything exactly as it was before gen AI took off. That would be both impossible and undesirable. The aim is to preserve the parts of philosophical education that are still worth preserving while changing the...
Governments and firms are turning to philosophers and other scholars more and more in regard to the ethics of developing and regulating technology. Yet this engagement with ethics may be superficial, careless, or even manipulative—and...