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Graduate Programs

Placement, Program Ratings, Student Comments, and Keywords: an APDA Update (guest post)

February 11, 2026

What’s the latest data about philosophy graduate programs?
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A Brief Appreciation of Rawls

February 11, 2026

If you appreciate Rawls, you should read this brief essay by Joseph Heath. If you don’t appreciate Rawls, you should read this brief essay…
Daily Nous Features

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February 10, 2026

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Awards Grants Honors

Philosophia’s Outstanding Referee Award

February 10, 2026

In 2024, Philosophia: A Global Journal of Philosophy introduced an “Outstanding Referee Award“, joining a small number of journals that single out particular referees for special…
Teaching

How Much Reading Do You Assign?

February 9, 2026

At the end of this post is a poll about how much reading you assign. Please take part in it if you teach philosophy…
Lives of Philosophers

Laurence Thomas (1949-2025)

February 9, 2026

Laurence Thomas, professor emeritus of philosophy at Syracuse University, died this past December.
Daily Nous Features

Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

February 9, 2026

This is the weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, new podcast episodes, recently published…
Faculty Moves

Hyska from Northwestern to Leeds

February 6, 2026

Megan Hyska, currently assistant professor of philosophy at Northwestern University, will be moving to University of Leeds, where she will be associate professor of philosophy.
Academic Freedom

Tenure to Be Eliminated at Many Public Colleges in Oklahoma

February 6, 2026

It appears that no new tenure-track hires will be made at public regional universities and community colleges in Oklahoma.
Daily Nous Features

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February 5, 2026

Links to stuff elsewhere you might find worth checking out…
Lives of Philosophers

David T. Wasserman (1953-2025)

February 5, 2026

David T. Wasserman, a bioethicist at the National Institutes of Health, died this past December.
When the University President Endorses the “Indoctrination” Narrative (multiple updates)

February 4, 2026

For some reason, Renu Khator, the longtime president of the University of Houston and chancellor of the University of Houston System, has felt the…
Awards Grants Honors

Buffalo Philosophers Receive $4 Million Grant for Civil Discourse Initiative

February 3, 2026

The faculty of the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) program at the University at Buffalo were awarded a $4 million grant from the US…
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Justifying the Inclusion of Race, Gender, Sexuality (etc.) in Philosophy Courses

February 3, 2026

Some university administrations are (as we have seen) trying to prevent professors from teaching about topics related to gender, sexuality, and race.
technology

Is Artificial General Intelligence Here?

February 2, 2026

“For the first time in human history, we are no longer alone in the space of general intelligence.”
extracurricular

A New Hub for Bioethics Bowl Information

February 2, 2026

A new website serves as a centralized source of information for “Bioethics Bowl,” a learning competition modeled after the popular Ethics Bowl events, but…
Daily Nous Features

Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

February 2, 2026

This is the weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, new podcast episodes, recently published…
News

Hume’s Tomb Vandalized with “Satanic” Symbols

January 30, 2026

David Hume’s tomb was one of a few sites at a cemetery in Edinburgh that have been vandalized with “disturbing occult-style paraphernalia,” according to The…
Daily Nous Features

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January 29, 2026

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Philosophy and Culture

Value Capture in Philosophy

January 28, 2026

“Value capture is… where your values are rich and subtle or in the process of developing that way. And you get put in a…

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“Professors can’t fix the problem on their own” — Victor Kumar on what university administrators need to do address AI's threat to higher education
“The wall between jus ad bellum and jus in bello, which had sustained his theory for almost half a century, was no longer sturdy” — a profile of Michael Walzer, focusing on his thoughts about just war theory and the Israeli-Palestine conflict
We may think that we lose something significant when AI beats us to a discovery — if we do, Daniel Greco says, that seems to imply we gained something significant, too
“Once upon a time there were a couple of handsome naturalistic philosophers working in and around the philosophy of fiction” — thoughts on new directions in philosophy of fiction, from several philosophers
What is the debate over whether transwomen are women even about? — Katie Zhou argues that it's about which facts are granted "the cross-contextual significance and stickiness characteristic of gender"
We’re putting human brain cells into mice brains — One moral risk of this, says Mackenzie Graham, is a decrease in our ability to interpret what mice behavior tells us about their experiences and welfare
The Rawls Game — with instructions, background, advice, and downloadable character cards
“The central question would shift from ‘How do we maximize shareholder value?’ to ‘How do different forms of organization distribute power, risk and reward — and which should we strengthen?'” — Chris Marquis on the case for abolishing, or at least radically changing, business schools
Asking “How did I get here?” may help us reflect on the nature of personal identity in ways that asking “Who am I?” cannot — Marya Schechtman's 2024 Central Division Meeting Presidential Address
“Collecting is a game, but what kind of game? It is an imperfect information game of acquisition” — a theory of collecting, from Steven Hales
“A general human tendency: to overestimate how far we have come in the progress of human knowledge” — a lengthy interview with Thomas Nagel
“Many couples do not survive trauma like this” — A profile of Susan Brison—who was brutally attacked in 1990, and who wrote about it in Aftermath—and her husband, Thomas Trezise, who has now written his own book stemming from those events
“Bad AI Consciousness Takes” Bingo Card — Henry Shevlin's area of specialization is becoming a popular topic in popular discourse, and he can't stand the "cavalcade of terrible takes"
Does the principle of sufficient reason imply panpsychism? If it does, do we then ponens or tollens? — Sam Kimpton-Nye on these questions and the "demand for intelligibility"
PTSD flashbacks may be harmful, but they may also be helpfully “resupplying phenomenal experience” to those who, owing to trauma, are “grasp alienated” — Michaela McSweeney on trauma and "madness-as-strategy"
A look at the very first issue of Mind — Brett Mullins surveys its articles on the occasion of the journal's 150th anniversary
The most bizarre plagiarism-related story ever — featuring: a death, an investigator, a dissertation, a mysterious red book, and more
New data on earnings by major and university — though not all universities
“AI poses two different existential threats to [our] valuing practices” — Jordan MacKenzie offers an account of why negative judgments about AI taking over our creative and caring activities are justified
“Submission” is a humorous clicker-style game about starting a career in academic philosophy (or not) — created by Nat Hansen

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it is disingenuous to claim that the academic life is somehow purely a life of the mind It's not impolite, but I'm not sure if you thought I…
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I don't think the call is for non-classical logics. I interpreted more as a call for non-classical theories of meaning, such that the words being used to express…
Paul Wilson on Putting the Pub in Public Philosophy
While theology is not (usually) philosophy, a remarkably successful pub-centric public initiative is "Theology on Tap". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theology_on_Tap RENEW International
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I often get in deep discussions with barflys, as did Aristotle. Their perspectives – far distanced from academic philosophy – homelessness, addiction, alienation from family, friends, romantic and…
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I hope it is not too impolite to point out that for anyone who is a professional philosopher, (especially the tenured kind) philosophy has quite obviously the ability…
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This was wonderful to read. To me, the best philosophy is literary.
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Edit! "argued for *alternatives to* the no-conflicting-intuitions explanation"
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To each their own. I have always admired Olberding's writing style. The tension you seem to find off putting isn't arbitrary, though. This is a philosopher who is…
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"Independent of anything that could be settled through further empirical work on ordinary intuitions, we need to know whether there is some way of working out a philosophical…
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John Bengson on Where Intuitions Conflict
Glad to see attention to this issue, though I’ll note that back in 2013 ("Experimental Attacks on Intuitions and Answers”, PPR) I argued for no-conflicting-intuitions explanations of the…
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There are things philosophy helps us think better about. That is the one thing philosophy does.