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So, philosophers tend to have these occupational tics, right? - Daily Nous
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Many years ago I realized that, while teaching, I was automatically adding the one-word question, "right?" to the end of a lot of my sentences. I believe I contracted this tic from a professor of mine during my student days. But given how common this verbal habit is among philosophers while...
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Cancellation of NEH Grants Begins - Daily Nous
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Cultural groups across the country received notices yesterday of the abrupt cancellation of their National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grants, according to The New York Times, and according to other sources, some individual grant recipients, including philosophers, have had their NEH...
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A Philosopher’s Testimony before the House Judiciary Committee - Daily Nous
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"If we do not want to slide towards illiberalism, no one should be above the law." That's Luke Hunt, associate professor of philosophy at the University of Alabama, during his testimony before the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Oversight, on the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)...
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A Different Open Access Model for Journals - Daily Nous
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Recent discussion of open-access journals and their financing prompted a reader to share information about a different model for publishers and journals converting to open-access, known as "subscribe-to-open". Subscribe-to-open hasn't been discussed much, but it is currently being tried out by...
on Sep 6
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AAUP & AFT Sue Departments of Justice, Education, and other Federal Agencies - Daily Nous
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Last week, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) filed a lawsuit to "challenges the Trump administration’s unlawful and unprecedented effort to overpower a university’s academic autonomy and control the thought, association,...
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The Multi-Day In-Class LockDown Browser Essay Assignment (guest - Daily Nous
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Many professors in philosophy and other disciplines believe that having students write take-home essays is important. Essays give students the opportunity to spend a lot of time pondering their topic, with ideas percolating in their brains over days, and students develop and exercise valuable...
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Students Protest, a Philosopher is Knifed, and Faculty are Unpaid in Serbia - Daily Nous
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Natalija Jovanović, dean of the Philosophy Faculty at the University of Niš in Serbia, was attending a student protest when a woman who opposed the protest reportedly threatened to throw acid on her and then cut her with a knife. Students in Serbia have been protesting for months. According to...
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The 253 Most Cited Works in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (guest post) - Daily Nous
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What are the most cited works in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP)? Eric Schwitzgebel (UC Riverside), with the help of graduate student Jordan Jackson, has gathered and crunched the numbers, and he shares the answer, below. (A version of this post first appeared at The Splintered...
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The Department of Philosophy at the University of Southern California (USC), like many departments, sends out offers of admission to its PhD program to more students than it actually expects to admit. The idea is that some accepted students will end up choosing to enroll at other universities,...
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Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update - Daily Nous
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The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, and new podcast episodes. SEP New: Mexican Existentialism by Carlos Sánchez. Aesthetics in Critical Theory by Owen Hulatt. Dehumanization by Ben Phillips. Prioritarianism as a Theory of...
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Links of interest to people interested in philosophy... Can you be friends with an AI chatbot? Should we be concerned that people think you can be? -- Vox asks philosophers about AI friendship The Universal Declaration of Human Rights says people have a right to “share in scientific advancement”...
on Mar 28
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APA Signs Onto Statement Defending the Dept. of Education - Daily Nous
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The Board of Officers of the American Philosophical Association (APA) has added the organization to a list of signatories of a statement opposing the Trump administration's attempts to dismantle the Department of Education. The statement, initially issued by the American Council of Learned...
on Mar 27
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Philosophy Department Survival Strategies: Alumni Relations - Daily Nous
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Alumni can have a surprisingly strong voice in university and college decisions, and they can also help individual departments in various ways. What is your department doing to maintain good relations with its graduated philosophy majors and minors? This is the fifth installment in the...
on Mar 27
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Michael Friedman (1947-2025) - Daily Nous
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Michael Friedman, professor emeritus of philosophy at Stanford University, has died. Professor Friedman was well-known for his work in philosophy of science and on Kant, the history of Twentieth Century philosophy, the interaction between science and philosophy, and the relationship between...
on Mar 26
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New links... “Language is built up bit by bit, word by word, through slow, metaphoric accretion” -- an appreciation of Susanne K. Langer's oft-overlooked work on metaphor “The fundamental loneliness into which we are born remains untouched, and the hunger for inner companionship remains...
on Mar 26
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Stanley from Yale to Toronto - Daily Nous
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Jason Stanley, currently professor of philosophy at Yale University, will be moving to the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto (with a partial appointment in Toronto's Department of Philosophy). Professor Stanley is well known for his work in philosophy...
on Mar 26
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The Anti-Authoritarian Academic Code of Conduct (updated) - Daily Nous
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[Originally published on November 29th, 2016. Moved to the top temporarily at the suggestion of a reader.] People are wondering how authoritarian the United States government will become under a Trump administration. There's no way to know for sure. Perhaps the answer is: no more than it already...
on Mar 25
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Philosopher to Lead New Animal Sentience Center - Daily Nous
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The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) will be launching a new center focused on "studying the feelings of other animals scientifically" making use of "the emerging science of animal sentience to design better policies, laws and ways of caring for other animals." The Jeremy...
on Mar 25
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Philosophers in Administrative Positions - Daily Nous
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(Moving this to the top again; first published on April 18th, 2024). A few months ago during a discussion here about the demand for philosophers, the importance of philosophers in high-level administrative roles came up. - Here's the relevant bit: One thing we should do is encourage universities...
on Mar 24
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Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update - Daily Nous
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The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, and new podcast episodes. SEP New: Comparative Philosophy of Religion by Mikel Burley. Content Externalism and Skepticism by Gary Ebbs. Edith Landmann-Kalischer by Daniel Dahlstrom....
on Mar 24
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Fredonia Cuts Kershnar, Kills Philosophy Program - Daily Nous
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"The BA Philosophy was approved for discontinuation and the Philosophy minor will be sunset, which will abolish the Philosophy department, and your continuing appointment will be terminated as of the close of business August 31, 2026." That is an excerpt from a March 11th letter from Stephen...
on Mar 21
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A Philosophy Conference in Kyiv this Summer - Daily Nous
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"Existential Questions" is the name of a philosophy conference being held at the Kyiv School of Economics this coming August, organized by Jason Stanley (Yale). The conference's speakers will include Stanley, David Chalmers (NYU), Quill Kukla (Georgetown), L. A. Paul (Yale), Volodymyr Yermolenko...
on Mar 20
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on Mar 19
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Defending Freedom of Speech & Thought at Universities - Daily Nous
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"Freedom of thought and expression is indispensable to the mission of a modern research university." That's from an open letter, begun at UC Berkeley but now available for academics anywhere to sign, in defense of freedom of expression and academic freedom at universities, in light of the Trump...
on Mar 19
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New: Minorities and Philosophy x Philosophers for Sustainability - Daily Nous
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Minorities and Philosophy (MAP) and Philosophers for Sustainability (PfS) are joining forces to launch the MAP Climate Ambassadors Initiative. The initiative aims to promote environmental sustainability in academic philosophy by way of a network of organizers. There are MAP chapters in many...
on Mar 18
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Of interest elsewhere... A lot of major Western philosophers were childless -- Doug Muir asks why Had Jews “rejected the canard that anti-Zionism is anti-semitism then this process would not have reached the point at which Trump can hold Columbia University ransom under the pretext that he is...
on Mar 18
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A Professor and an Athlete Talk Basketball and Philosophy - Daily Nous
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"For certain majors and certain disciplines, when you leave that discipline, you’re done. Philosophy isn’t like that. You take it with you." That's Trey Kaufman-Renn, philosophy major and star basketball player at Purdue University, reflecting on his education and the value of philosophy. All...
on Mar 17
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Sandra Harding (1935-2025) - Daily Nous
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Sandra Harding, a philosopher well-known for her work in feminist theory, postcolonial theory, and philosophy of science, has died. Professor Harding was recognized for her development of standpoint theory, and is the author of, among other works, The Science Question in Feminism (1986), Whose...
on Mar 17
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Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update - Daily Nous
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The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, and new podcast episodes. (This installment covers the past two weeks.) SEP New: Ideology by William Clare Roberts. The Textual Transmission of the Aristotelian Corpus by Justin...
on Mar 17
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Processing: A Philosophy Mixtape - Daily Nous
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It's only March, but we may already have a winner for the coolest philosophy of the year: a new project "combining mixtape aesthetics with philosophical reflections on technology." Dubbed Processing..., it was created by Nick Kroll, associate professor of philosophy at Franklin & Marshall...
on Mar 14
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A $600,000 grant was awarded to a team of researchers to study "The Emergence and Evolution of Goal-Directed Behavior in Collective Entities." Led by philosopher Derek Skillings (University of North Carolina, Greensboro), the team also includes Benjamin Allen (Mathematics, Emmanuel College),...
on Mar 14
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One way of thinking about the job of a philosophy instructor is that it's about teaching students to disagree well. Yet when it comes to some moral, social, and political issues, students may seem reluctant to voice their own views in the classroom, let alone argue about them there. To help...
on Mar 13
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"I’m here to sound a warning bell for those who are now in the position I was several years ago." In the following guest post, Noah Gordon, who earned his PhD in philosophy from the University of Southern California, shares his experiences on the non-academic job market, thoughts on our current...
on Mar 12
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Philosophy Department Survival Strategies: The Ontarian Approach (guest post) - Daily Nous
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The percentage of college graduates who are majors in philosophy is about five and half times higher in Canada than in the United States. One factor in this might be the success philosophers have had in implementing philosophy courses in Ontario high schools. In the following guest post, Eric...
on Mar 11
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A Philosopher’s Reflections on Teaching in a World with AI - Daily Nous
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"I once believed my students and I were in this together, engaged in a shared intellectual pursuit. That faith has been obliterated over the past few semesters." That's Troy Jollimore, a philosopher and poet at California State University, Chico, writing at The Walrus about the widespread use of...
on Mar 7
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Kingston Plans to Close Its Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy - Daily Nous
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The administration of Kingston University has announced plans to close its Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP). The demise of CRMEP is part of the university's plan to shutter the entire Humanities Department, which would affect English Literature and Modern Languages...
on Mar 7
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Philosophy Department Survival Strategies: Interdepartmental Cooperation on Campus - Daily Nous
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This is the third installment in the occasional series, Philosophy Department Survival Strategies. In this post, our topic is about philosophers working with members of other departments at their university or college. . How many of your colleagues in other departments at your university...
on Mar 6
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Trump’s Threat to Universities about “Illegal Protests” - Daily Nous
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Yesterday President Trump threatened via social media to stop "all federal funding" for "any College, School, or University that allows "illegal protests". I think the first question to ask in regard to things like this is, "what is this meant to divert our attention from?" After all, it's a...
on Mar 5
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Why Philosophy? Lou Marinoff - Daily Nous
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Lou Marinoff is interviewed by Céline Leboeuf. Why Philosophy? Lou Marinoff interviewed by Céline Leboeuf What is philosophy to you? First of all, philosophy means “love of wisdom.” There are many ways of loving, and many aspects of wisdom to love. Some philosophers love logic, critical...
on Mar 5
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W. David Solomon (1944-2025) - Daily Nous
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W. David Solomon, emeritus associate professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, has died. Professor Solomon worked in ethics, particularly virtue ethics. At Notre Dame he was the founding director of the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture and the Arts & Letters/Science Honors...
on Mar 5
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Recent links... The Trolley Problem makes it to SNL -- in a love song by Jane Wickline “An essential function of power is in constructing the lenses through which the public interprets their reality” -- Danielle Wenner on current politics and the "third face of power" “We draw comfort when...
on Mar 4
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The First Year of Political Philosophy (the Journal) - Daily Nous
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In the beginning of 2024, a new journal, Political Philosophy, started accepting submissions. How is it doing? This is of interest because of how Political Philosophy got its start. Briefly, in 2023 the publishing firm Wiley threatened to fire Robert Goodin from his position as editor-in-chief...
on Mar 4
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Philosophy Major Retention Data - Daily Nous
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How many college graduates end up getting their undergraduate degree in the major they declared when they initially started college? That's one of the questions taken up in a new study, "From Matriculation to Completion: How College Students Move Between Majors." The study is by Humanities...
on Mar 3
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Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update - Daily Nous
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The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, and new podcast episodes… (If you notice something missing from the update, let us know. Thanks.) SEP New: ∅ Revised: Archytas by Carl Huffman. Thomas Hobbes by Stewart Duncan. Truth...
on Mar 3
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Academic Equipment: E-Readers & Reading Apps - Daily Nous
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For the third installment of the academic equipment series (we've so far talked about bags and chairs) we turn to the subject of e-readers. Some of you will recall the days of having to photocopy journal articles out of unwieldy bound volumes you pulled off the shelf in the lower levels of your...
on Feb 28
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Helton from Princeton to Rochester - Daily Nous
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Grace Helton, currently Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University, will be moving to the University of Rochester, where she will be Associate Professor of Philosophy. Professor Helton works mainly in cognitive science, epistemology, and the philosophy of emotions. She is...
on Feb 27
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Interesting stuff elsewhere... A brief institutional history of the Academy and the Lyceum -- Edmund Stewart on these ancient quasi-universities and what can be learned from them “If you care about free speech, the Department of Education’s anti-D.E.I. effort is a cure far worse than the...
on Feb 26
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Stephenson from Southampton to LMU - Daily Nous
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Andrew Stephenson, currently Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Southampton, has accepted a professorship at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU). Dr. Stephenson works on the philosophy of Kant and related topics in contemporary philosophy of mind, epistemology, metaphysics, and...
on Feb 26
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Philosophical Canon Expansion Gets Big Boost in Minnesota - Daily Nous
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Philosophers at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities have been awarded a $500,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation to further support the work of their Center for Canon Expansion and Change. The Center for Canon Expansion and Change (CCEC) is an initiative housed in the University of...
on Feb 26
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Philosophers Awarded Large Grants from Italian Science Fund - Daily Nous
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The Italian Science Fund (FIS) of Italy's Ministry of University and Research has announced the winners of its latest round of multi-million euro grants, and several philosophers are among the recipients. They and their projects are: Silvia De Toffoli (IUSS Pavia) Humanizing Mathematical...
on Feb 26