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Thanks to this month’s advertisers at Daily Nous!

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Thanks to This Month’s Advertisers

Daily Nous thanks April’s advertisers. See the ads in right side bar for:

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Daily Nous Turns 2

Daily Nous turns 2 today!

Time flies. I was looking through the old scrapbook the other day and it is amazing how much DN has changed since those first few months…

Daily Nous continues to grow. Over the past year it was visited nearly three and a half million times, and there are bunch of new features at the site, as I detailed in the end-of-2015 post.
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Thanks to This Month’s Advertisers

Daily Nous thanks March’s advertisers. See the ads in right side bar for:

The Public Discourse Project at the University of Connecticut’s Humanities Institute
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The George Washington University’s Masters Programs in Philosophy
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Daily Nous Year In Review

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 b..

Comments Changeover This Weekend

As the new commenting system (described here) is put into place this weekend, piece by piece, the commenting on Daily Nous may be a bit buggy. This may mean some comments getting lost, some going right through on the new system without my moderation, and some being queued for moderation as on the old system. Please bear with us.

The ‘reply’ function and comment ‘..

Some Upcoming Changes to Daily Nous

At Daily Nous we toil to provide you, dear readers, with an exceptional philosoblogospheric experience. There have been a number of changes to the site over the course of its existence, and a complete overhaul in October of last year. I bet none of you remembers the site looking like this: (more…)

Advertising On Daily Nous

Daily Nous is supported by caffeine and advertising revenue, so please buy me a coffee next time you see me, and also check out our advertisers. By “check out” I mean click on them and see what they’re about. They’re right over there → (on a standard screen), or down there ↓ (on a phone).

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From The Censor

One of the benefits of thought experiments and hypothetical examples is that, since the people with which they’re populated aren’t real, you can relentlessly discuss your way through the logical space without having to worry about how they’ll take what you’re saying about them. Your conversation might justifiably sound a bit different, I’d think, if your interlocuto..

A Reminder About Comments

Since Daily Nous has been getting a bit more traffic over the past few days I’d like to draw people’s attention to the comments policy. Check it out, please. In general, the idea is to try to keep the comments section worth reading, even for people who haven’t participated in it. For some further thoughts from me about moderating comments here, see this. Thank you f..

Unblock Thyself

Jon Cogburn (LSU) has run a little experiment. For months he and others have been unable to comment at Daily Nous. Long thought to be the result of my tyrannical and heavy-handed moderation, this problem has now been traced by Cogburn to Askimet, a spam-filtering service used by many blogs, including DN. Apparently, in some cases, having one of your comments marked ..

Comment Tech

I have received the following three complaints and would like to know if the problems they’re about are widespread.

(a) You cannot reply to specific comments (such that your reply appears beneath the comment to which you are replying). To reply to a specific comment, move your mouse cursor over the comment you wish to reply to and a reply link should appear next ..

Comment Linking, Accessing the Heap

Two minor updates about the site:

Some of you may have already noticed this but a bug of the recent redesign has just been fixed: you can now successfully link to individual comments. Also, clicking on specific comments in the “Recent Comments” section of the sidebar will take you to the specific comment. I appreciate your patience while that was taken care of. ..

Comments and Anonymity at Daily Nous

I am grateful that people take the time and make the effort to comment on the posts here at Daily Nous. I try to post about news and issues that are important to or of interest to other philosophers, and the discussions that the posts generate is one way of gauging success at that. Some of these discussions have been informative and helpful, occasionally provocative..