Month: April 2025
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Karl Ameriks (1947-2025)
Karl Ameriks, emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, has died.
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A Journal’s Experiment with Interdisciplinarity
Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy is a peer-reviewed philosophy journal that publishes single-theme issues. For a recent issue they tried something new: a…
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Virtual Dissertation Writing Groups
New virtual writing groups for people working on dissertations in philosophy will be forming soon.
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Teaching Humanities in the AI Era: Is this the Bargaining or the Acceptance Stage?
“What, again, is education? The non-coercive rearranging of desire.”
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Are Human Reasoning Abilities Declining?
In a piece at the Financial Times (and in a Bluesky thread about it), John Burn-Murdoch, the chief data reporter for the newspaper, goes over some of the…
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Author Gender in Elite Philosophy Journals (guest post) (updated)
What percentage of the authors in elite philosophy journals are women?
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Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update
The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, and new podcast episodes.
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A Mysterious Publication (updates, incl. response from publisher)
(ETA: See Update 5, below, from Springer.) An article published recently in Synthese caught the eye of a few Daily Nous readers.
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New: The Stephen J. White Prize
The American Philosophical Association (APA) has announced the creation of a new prize in honor of the late philosopher Stephen J. White.
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A Trove of Data about Philosophy Departments in the US
How many philosophy departments are there in the United States? How many people do they employ? How many students are there in philosophy courses…
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2025 Sanders Prize in Philosophy of Religion to Cutter & Swenson
Brian Cutter (University of Notre Dame) and Philip Swenson (The College of William & Mary) are the winners of the 2025 Sanders Prize in…
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Philosophers Among New Members of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
The American Academy of Arts & Sciences has announced its new members for 2025, and several philosophers are among them.
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Harvard Sues Trump Administration
Today, Harvard University filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over the billions of dollars in funding it has cut and threatened to cut…