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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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A researcher in political theory has developed a new resource for early-career scholars working in political theory, political philosophy, and related fields. It’s a database of regularly-offered grants and fellowships that are aimed at junior researchers, particularly recent PhDs. The site was developed by Marcus...
“Whenever I see people engaged in philosophical debate or argument, I want to see people trying to win. I like my philosophy adversarial, aggressive, combative, and even hostile. I think there are some good reasons for this approach… but I also think it’s more fun that way. And I’m not the only one. Friedrich...
A proofreading and writing consultancy developed by a pair of philosophers is offering a set of modest scholarships for graduate students with dyslexia. The scholarships are offered by Lex Academic, run by Louise Chapman and Constantine Sandis, and have been announced recently to coincide with Dyslexia Awareness...
The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, and new podcast episodes… (If we missed anything, let us know.) SEP New: ∅ Revised: Dualism by Howard Robinson and Ralph Weir. Moral Vegetarianism by Tyler Doggett. Edmund Burke by Ian Harris. Kant’s...
“The paradox is that the more analytic philosophy became dominant in the universities, the more it became removed from the concerns of the average person with philosophical interests.” And “it has had little impact on the general culture and on other parts of the academy.” So writes Tim Crane, professor of...
What do you do as a philosophy professor? What does it take to get a job as a philosophy professor? To get tenure? What is teaching like? What is a philosophy department like as a work environment? How much does college or university administration affect your work? What are plusses and minuses of the job? When...
Just a few years ago, the philosophy major seemed on the rise. Now, the data reveal a different picture. As Eric Schwitzgebel shares in the following guest post, the number of undergraduate degrees awarded in philosophy (and their share of the total undergraduate degrees awarded) has declined over the past few...
New additions to the Heap… “The careless adage that Plato banished poetry should itself be banished” — Elaine Scarry makes the case, and argues that though “philosophy and poetry are distinct inventions… each suffers by keeping the other at arm’s length” The “Why Philosophy?” interviews are back — Céline Leboeuf has...
“Here’s the pitch: it’s a philosophy movie…” “Huh.” “based on a philosophy book…” “I’m listening.” “by an actual philosopher.” “Go on.” “That is, a philosophy professor.” “You don’t say.” “An analytic philosophy professor.” “Sold!” Okay, that’s not how it happened. But somehow, Tetralogue, by Timothy Williamson,...
“The system which is now beginning to design its successor is also increasingly self-aware and therefore will surely eventually be prone to thinking, independently of us, about how it might want to be designed.” That’s Jack Clark, one of the co-founders of the artificial intelligence firm Anthropic. Of the latest...
Michael Sandel, professor of government at Harvard University, is the 2025 winner of the $1 million Berggruen Prize for Philosophy and Culture. The Berggruen Institute hailed Sandel as “one of the world’s leading thinkers and public intellectuals” who “has had far-reaching impact from the U.S. and Europe to Asia and...
In 2023, I attended an annual conference on the humanities. In a conversation over lunch, a program manager for a state humanities council, whose job is to review grant applications for humanities projects in their state, asked me what I did. After I replied that I was a philosophy professor, she responded, “Oh, I...
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