2015 is drawing to a close. I hope you had a good year.

The year saw Daily Nous’s first birthday (in March) and a number of new features, including:

• Philosophers On Series: group posts consisting of brief remarks by several philosophers on topics of current interest.
• Ought Experiment: the column doling out “personal advice for your academic life,” written by Louie Generis.
• Daily Nous Philosophy Comics with Rachel Katler‘s Ad Hoc, Tanya Kostochka‘s To φ Or Not To φ , Ryan Lake‘s Chaospet, and Peter Mandik‘s Mind Chunks.
• Value of Philosophy Pages: a place online for articles and information about the benefits of studying philosophy.
• New comments system: allows “real-time” conversational commenting

I have a few other ideas in the works for the coming year. Stay tuned.

What were the most popular posts published in 2015 at Daily Nous? With the chance that spots 2 and 3 might switch places in the next couple of days, at the moment, this is the ranking:

1. Philosophers On the Supreme Court’s Gay Marriage Ruling
2. Philosophers On Rachel Dolezal
3. Philosophers On Star Wars: The Force Awakens
4. Northwestern and Title IX: What’s Going On
5. “Raw Intellectual Talent” and Academia’s Gender and Race Gaps
6. Salaries of Philosophy Majors Over Time
7. Philosophers on the Syrian Refugees
8. A Database of Philosophical Ideas
9. Peter Railton’s Dewey Lecture
10. Ruin a Date with a Philosopher in Five Words

Here are some other noteworthy posts and discussions you shouldn’t miss:

• Answers from Academic Publishers — editors from several academic presses answer readers’ questions
• Philosophers and Welders — what happens when politicians hate on philosophers (also here)
• A Closer Look at Philosophy Journal Practices — in response to concerns about unfairness, editors from several philosophy journals describe how they operate
• Philosophers and Depression — philosophers share their experiences with depression and its challenges
• Philosophers on Prostitution’s Decriminalization — philosophers weigh in on the proposal to decriminalize the selling and buying of sex
• Philosophy’s Most Beautiful Sentence or Paragraph — over 100 suggestions
• “Motivational” Posters from Philosophers — demotivational, really

Some other topics occupying philosophers this year:

• Controversy over Heidegger’s anti-semitism and attempts to cover it up (see also here and here)
• Problems with philosophers’ citation practices, here and here
• Academic freedom, culture of fear, trigger warnings, microaggressions, and chill
• Whether there are too many philosophy PhDs: the data, some questions, my view
• Various items related to sexual harassment and assault cases
• Viral philosophy: the dress and the logic problem

What do you think were the important topics and stories this year? What issues should the philosophy profession take up in the coming year?