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.
August 2026
September 2026
October 2026
Top Words
- philosophy
- mini
- heap
- guest
- online
- update
- resources
- weekly
- philosophers
- philosopher
- students
- prize
All posts (477)
Philip A. Ebert, currently professor of law and philosophy at the University of Stirling, has accepted an offer from the University of Salzburg, where he will be professor of theoretical philosophy. Professor Ebert works on various topics in epistemology (especially risk and rationality), early analytic philosophy...
New in the Heap of Links… “Current academic philosophers are losing rather dramatically in the fight for intellectual influence” — Tyler Cowen recommends “AI practitioners and the Bay Area obsessives” over philosophers “I don’t do philosophy for the sake of doing philosophy” — Haiyan Lee on her “stultifying...
At the end of October, 2015 I made five predictions about “the state of philosophy in ten years.” How was my forecasting? Let’s take a look. Below are my predictions, along with my verdict for each, in bold text. (You can check out the original post with its predictions here.) 1. Philosophy’s popularity as a major...
The Research Council of Finland has announced the new recipients of its Academy Professorship and Centres of Excellence in Research funding. Of the 15 new Academy Professors, two are philosophers: Jari Kaukua (University of Jyväskylä) and Maria Lasonen (University of Helsinki). Each will receive 2.4 million euros...
Stephen Menn, currently Professor of Philosophy at McGill University, will be moving to the University of Toronto, where he will be the inaugural holder of the Michael and Virginia Walsh Chair in the History of Philosophy. The position was endowed by a significant gift by the Walsh’s to the Toronto Department of...
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: Alberic of Paris by Heine Hansen and Boaz Faraday Schuman. Revised: Lord Shaftesbury [Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury]...
Are we making progress in philosophy? Or at least in philosophy-themed costumes? Here’s one way to find out. Ten years ago, I put up a post asking which philosophy ideas make for good Halloween costumes. I included some suggestions: Yes, Brain in Vat. We all think we’ve thought of that one already. What else?...
The University at Buffalo is launching a fully online program in applied ontology. Graduates will leave the program with an MS degree. The program, based in Buffalo’s Department of Philosophy, aims to “prepare students from around the world for work in this rapidly growing interdisciplinary branch of information...
New links… “If you look at the history of science, the ultimate goal has been changing constantly… We have a much stronger and more honest way of approaching reality without being attached to this misleading idea of there being an ultimate truth” — physicist Carlo Rovelli on relational quantum mechanics, the aim of...
Charles Barry Hoffmaster, professor emeritus of philosophy at Western University, has died. Professor Hoffmaster (known in the profession as Barry Hoffmaster), worked mainly in bioethics, normative ethics and the philosophy of law, writing on a wide range of subjects in these areas. He is the co-author of...
Sometimes, philosophical terms mean one thing, but sound like they really ought to mean something else. That was the premise of the Uxbridge Dictionary of Philosophy, a compilation of “misdefinitions” of philosophical ideas, started by Anthony Gottlieb and compiled and maintained by the late D.H. Mellor. Dubbed the...
The Australian Research Council has announced the winners of its latest round of Discovery Grants, and several philosophers are among them. . The principal investigators, co-investigators, and their projects are listed below: Samuel Baron (University of Melbourne) with Elizabeth Sonenberg, Piers Howe, Kate Lynch,...
Page 36 of 40