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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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“The first question is: what is the question?” That’s the first in a set of “rules for writing” which Peter Adamson (LMU, KCL) developed for his students over the years, and which he is currently sharing in a series of posts this month at the History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps blog. He writes: “The first...
Barry Lam (UC Riverside) wrote recently about the practice of “calling dibs.” In case you’re unfamiliar with the practice, Lam describes it and provides some examples: Calling “dibs” is a very pervasive social phenomenon. In Boston, Chicago, and other snowy regions, you have dibs on a parking spot you dug out during...
“The universe is old, big, and empty. In comparison, we are new and small.” So begins an interesting and fun article on a big question of perennial popular concern by Luke Elson (University of Reading) in the latest issue of Ethics. Observations of the vastness of the universe in comparison to tiny little us—the...
Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That’s a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy at Texas A&M University, was told by university officials today about his upcoming “Contemporary Moral Problems”...
What does a course on public philosophy look like? Ian Olasov developed a version of it with Susan Dieleman that takes students beyond the typical classroom experience, and will be teaching it for the first time this coming term at the University of Lethbridge. He writes: The course is intended to serve as the...
Links of interest… A daily logic puzzle — called “Clues for Sam” (via MeFi) “One critique of consent… is that it is too permissive—that it ignores how coercion or delusion may result in the illusion of agreement. But another critique is that it’s too restrictive and punitive. Decades of reform laws have expanded the...
The pessimistic meta-induction—the argument that since past scientific theories have been shown to be false, we should expect that today’s will turn out false, too—makes the New York Times. . Elay Shech, professor of philosophy at Auburn University, takes up the topic in the context of current political disputes...
Ian Church, associate professor of philosophy at Hillsdale College, has received a $2.5 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation for a project on “The Virtues and Vices of Spiritual Yearning”. Professor Church will be collaborating with Daryl R. Van Tongeren (psychology, Hope College) on the grant, which...
The winner of the 2025 Marc Sanders Prize in Epistemology is Errol Lord (University of Pennsylvania). Professor Lord was awarded the prize for “Aestheticizing Epistemology”. Here’s the abstract of the paper: Aesthetic value is central to epistemic normativity. That is a startling sentence to the vanishingly small...
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. This edition covers the past couple of weeks. (If we missed anything, please let us know.) SEP New: Ontology and...
Happy New Year to you all! I hope the year is off to a good start for you. While I won’t be asking you about your new year’s resolutions, I thought it would be a good idea to hear from you about what you’d like to see covered and discussed at Daily Nous this coming year. Are there categories of news you think should...
The Hubert L. Dreyfus Foundation, a nonprofit, public benefit corporation founded by Hubert Dreyfus’s family following the philosopher’s death in 2017, is raising funds to establish an audio archive. Hubert Dreyfus B. Scot Rouse, a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley who is assisting the Foundation with the project,...
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