Alas, I did not have time to put together a new gift guide this year, but I have an idea: suggest a gift and get a chance to win a gift.

While in some years I’ve been able to produce a gift guide (here’s one from a few years back), a couple of years ago I asked for your suggestions. And while some of you sent in some good ones (for example), I felt there could have been more participation.

I like the idea of crowd-sourcing a gift guide. While I sometimes come across interesting and fun gift ideas—for example, these:

which I put in the Heap of Links the other day—you all are, together, more likely to do a better job at this.

So I’m asking each of you to suggest a gift in the comments: one thing you would want. Though this is a philosophy site, the gift need not be philosophy-related, though of course it could be.

Include the name of the gift, a link to where it may be purchased, and a line or two about what’s good about it. Keep it under $75 (a price limit helps the suggestions be of more use to more people). And just one suggestion per person.

If you follow those instructions (and the ones below under “fine print”), you’ll be entered into a drawing to win the gift you suggested. UPDATE 1: The prize will be your choice of either the gift you suggested or any one of the other suggested gifts.

If more than 100 people comment with suggestions, two winners will be drawn. (If the participation in this is tremendous, I may, at my discretion, add more winners.) UPDATE 2: This drawing will take place only if there are at least 50 eligible suggestions. So encourage your friends and colleagues to suggest a gift!

I’ll keep comments on this open until Wednesday, the 13th , (UPDATE🙂 Thursday, the 14th, 3pm Eastern Time. and I’ll post by the 15th a video in which I select, at random, the winner.

Sound fun? I hope so—a little holiday cheer from your philosophy news site.

Here’s some “fine print”:

• Suggestions of gift certificates, gift cards, money, etc., will not be eligible for the drawing.
• One suggestion per person.
• Gifts must cost less than $75 (US) in order to be eligible for the drawing.
• For a gift to be eligible for the drawing, it must be possible to order it online from a device in the United States.
• To enter the drawing, you will need to comment using your real name (at least first name) and your official university/college email address (UPDATE 3: this originally required a “.edu” email, but any verifiable university/college email is fine.) Your email address will not appear in your published comment. Note: if you regularly use that email address and a pseudonym when commenting here, in order to avoid inadvertently revealing your identity, add a “.DN” to the end of your email address. For example, if your name is Joe Smith and your email address is [email protected], but you regularly comment as “PuzzleDude” here, enter your name as “Joe Smith” or “Joe” and your email as “[email protected]”. (If you are a regular visitor to or commenter on Daily Nous but do not have a “.edu” address, you are welcome to make a suggestion but your eligibility for the drawing will depend on my discretion at recognizing you as a regular visitor and being able to get in touch with you via a working email address.)
• Suggestions of gratuitously offensive or inappropriate gifts will be deleted at my discretion and the persons suggesting them will be ineligible for the drawing. No, there will be no discussion of this clause in the comments on this post.
• If possible, the winning gift(s) will be ordered between the 15th and the 18th. Shipping is obviously out of my control, so I can make no assurances about when the gifts will arrive, or their condition, etc.
• The drawing will only take place if at least 50 eligible suggestions are made.
• If, by the time of the drawing, the chosen gift is sold out, backordered into 2024, or otherwise no longer available, the winner will have the option of requesting an alternative gift of comparable value.
• Every once in a while, some comments that shouldn’t get trapped in the spam filter, sometimes the commenting system malfunctions, and sometimes the site goes down, etc. In short, there’s no guarantee a submitted comment will actually show up, though within reason I’ll do what I can to check for “lost” comments.
• I may have forgotten to include something in this list I should have, in which case I may update it later.

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