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Month: August 2014

  • On Moderation

    Here at Daily Nous, comments are moderated. Over the past several months, I have heard some complaints and received some questions about the moderation here,…

  • Confusion

    “It seems that, if you just present the correct information, five things happen,” he said. “One, students think they know it. Two, they don’t…

  • Updated Contemporary Moral Problems

    Many colleges and universities offer a lower-level course on “contemporary moral problems” or “ethics and social issues.” These courses typically include topics like free speech,…

  • The Top 267

    Eric Schwitzgebel (Riverside) has combed through the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy to learn the names of the 267 most-cited contemporary philosophers in it. Are…

  • ‘Misunderstands’ is not an option

    Here at Daily Nous we are committed to using self-selected responses to simple internet polls as a method for investigating the important issues in…

  • Philosophy Tag

    In our last round, Charlie Kurth (Washington University in St. Louis) was tagged by Gillian Russell (Washington University in St. Louis), a tag that was geographically…

  • APA Seeks Chairs and Commentators for 2015 Central

    If you are interested in volunteering to chair a session or respond to a paper at the 2015 Central Division Meeting of the American…

  • APA Prizes Announced

    The American Philosophical Association has announced the winners of a few of its prizes: 2014 Essay Prize in Latin American Thought was won by…

  • Philosophy Majors and the GRE 2011-2014

    ETS has released data showing how well people perform on the GRE, sorted by intended area of graduate study. Once again, prospective philosophy graduate…

  • Heap of Links

    1. Hindu philosophy of religion. 2. A series of posts on Cusa and Hegel. 3. Artificial wombs are already being tested and developed, and…

  • Philosophers Propose Boycott

    Related to the earlier post of links to philosophers writing about the current conflict in Gaza and associated issues, some philosophers and political theorists…

  • Philosophy Can Help South Africa

    So, what would a just South Africa look like, and how do we achieve it? If we’ve inherited a legacy of racial injustice, what…

  • More on the Barnett story

    [reporting from Boulder, CO] The story about the University of Colorado beginning the steps of firing associate professor of philosophy David Barnett (previously) has…

  • University of Colorado Moves to Fire David Barnett

    The University of Colorado is moving to fire philosophy professor David Barnett: Boulder campus leaders have begun the process of firing a tenured faculty member…

  • Philosophy Students: A Tumblr

    Zac Cogley (Northern Michigan) has created a tumblr featuring links about and pictures of people in the news who have majored in or otherwise studied philosophy. It’s…

  • Dennett on Brains and Blame

    “Of course my brain made me do it! What would you want, your stomach to make you do it?” That’s from the text of…

  • Writing Tools

    No, this is not a post about jerks who write. Rather, it is spurred by an inquiry from John Schwenkler (Florida State) about which…

  • It’s Five O’clock Somewhere

    “Beer and Trembling” and other bars philosophy professors opened after being denied tenure. (via Mark Alfano) Suggestions—for other bars or the drinks served at…

  • Philosophers on the Israeli – Palestinian Conflict

    Jason Stanley (Yale) has a piece in today’s Frankfurter Allgemeine, a German newspaper. It is entitled “An Open Letter to the Protestors on the streets…

  • New Open Access Journal

    Symposion has been relaunched as an open access, multilingual, quarterly, philosophy-centric interdisciplinary journal. Its first issue in its new format has just been published.