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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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Faculty and Students at Ghent University are objecting to the university’s recent hiring of philosopher Nathan Cofnas. Readers may recall Cofnas as the person who wrote on his blog that “In a meritocracy… Black people would disappear from virtually all high-ranking positions, with the exception of sports and...
To what extent has the development of AI over the past several years led to non-academic work for academically-trained philosophers? [Refik Anadol, “Unsupervised – Machine Hallucinations” (detail)]AI raises questions across various domains of philosophical expertise, including philosophy of mind, ethics, philosophy...
Philosophers of the past 100 years or so have tended to reach “peak influence” between their early 50s and late 60s, according to a new analysis from Eric Schwitzgebel (UC Riverside). To determine this, Professor Schwitzgebel looked at how frequently the authors are mentioned in philosophy journal abstracts, titles,...
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 know.) Online Resources Update [Second Week of March, 2026] SEP New: Bioethics...
Jürgen Habermas, well-known for his influential work in political philosophy and social theory, has died. Professor Habermas wrote extensively on critical social theory, and is often seen as a figure through which the critical theory of the Frankfurt School is connected to today’s political philosophy. He is best...
Should academics be more conservative? [Allan D’Arcangelo, “Side View Mirror” (detail)]One way to characterize conservatism is as an appreciation of enduring institutions and widespread social practices, flawed as they may be—and which are constituted and maintained by human beings, flawed as they may be—that have...
The latest links… “It is puzzling to many why enthusiasts of sports get so emotionally caught up and absorbed in the outcome of games in spite of the fact that those outcomes rarely if ever have any appreciable bearing on their ordinary lives” — Is this like getting emotionally invested in fiction, as some argue?...
Susan Haack, professor of philosophy and law at the University of Miami, has died. Professor Haack was well-known for her work in philosophy of logic, epistemology, pragmatism, and philosophy of law. She is the author of Deviant Logic, Fuzzy Logic (1974), Philosophy of Logics (1978), Evidence and Inquiry: Towards...
The editors of the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (BJPS) have announced the winner of the 2025 Popper Prize. The Popper Prize is awarded annually for the best article appearing in the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science in the prize year. The 2025 award goes to Fabrizio Calzavarini...
In its 2023 and 2025 surveys, Academic Philosophy Data & Analysis (APDA) asked current PhD students to rate their satisfaction with their financial situation. [collage by Mark Wagner]In a post at the APDA site, co-director Kino Zhao (Simon Fraser University) reports on some of the findings. Students in 2025 report...
Conferences provide valuable opportunities to academics and can influence disciplinary agendas. But scholars have unequal access to conferences, often owing to where such conferences are held and the availability of funding. As Kritika Maheshwari (Delft University of Technology), Thierry Ngosso (University of St....
The University of Leipzig is launching a new, tuition-free English-language Master of Arts program in philosophy. Professor Kristina Musholt writes that it is a two-year program “with a diverse range of courses that create the conditions for acquiring in-depth skills in academic work, placing particular emphasis on...
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