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Faculty Moves

Marmodoro from Durham to Saint Louis University

February 6, 2025

Anna Marmadoro, previously Professor of Philosophy and Chair of Metaphysics at Durham University, recently moved to Saint Louis University, where she is the Leonard…
Lives of Philosophers

Krister Segerberg (1936-2025)

February 6, 2025

Krister Segerberg, professor emeritus of philosophy at Uppsala University, has died.
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Professors, How Are You Using AI in Your Day to Day Work?

February 5, 2025

More outside of academia than within it, one hears things like “in a few years saying ‘I don’t use AI’ will sound as weird…
Lives of Philosophers

Allen Carlson (1943-2025)

February 5, 2025

Allen Arvid Carlson, professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Alberta, has died.
technology

California State University System to Become “AI-Powered”

February 4, 2025

The Chancellor of the California State University (CSU) system has announced that its 23 universities will become “AI-powered.”
Events

This Year, the Central APA Comes to You (guest post)

February 4, 2025

The American Philosophical Association (APA) is beginning an experiment in which one of its three annual divisional meetings is held online. This year, it’s…
Daily Nous Features

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February 4, 2025

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Cuts and Threats to Philosophy Programs

Cuts to Philosophy Are Part of Massive Layoffs at St. Norbert College

February 3, 2025

“The problem is, the administration keeps coming back for more, and more, and more, and it never stops.”
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Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

February 3, 2025

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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New Interactive Visualization of Philosophy

January 31, 2025

Designer Deniz Cem Önduygu has built a new interactive visualization of philosophy.
Events

Philosophy Summer Programs 2025

January 31, 2025

Are you putting on a philosophy summer program, philosophy summer school, or philosophy camp in 2025?
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DeepThinking To Some Purpose (guest post)

January 30, 2025

“Real thinking isn’t about the grammatical structure of a sentence but about the mental state of being curious, puzzled, and actively seeking understanding.”
Cuts and Threats to Philosophy Programs

Moratorium on Philosophy & Other Programs at the University of Puerto Rico

January 29, 2025

The president of the University of Puerto Rico (UPR), Luis Ferrao Delgado, has temporarily shuttered undergraduate major programs in 64 fields, including philosophy, across…
Daily Nous Features

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January 29, 2025

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Explaining the Value of the Liberal Arts Requires More than Words

January 28, 2025

“The decline in liberal-arts disciplines is happening because, on many campuses, no one has taken ownership of explaining them.”
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Trump Halts All Federal Grants (update: OMB Rescinds Order)

January 28, 2025

“To the extent permissible under applicable law, Federal agencies must temporarily pause all activities related to obligation or disbursement of all Federal financial assistance……
Daily Nous Features

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January 27, 2025

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Rushing and Ruining: “Nature Research Intelligence”

January 27, 2025

“We’ve been the most trusted name in research for over 150 years” says Nature on its “Nature Research Intelligence” site. You’d think they’d be a little…
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Transferring Referee Reports from One Journal to Another

January 27, 2025

Several publishers have policies that say that a manuscript rejected by one of its journals may be referred to another of its journals.
Daily Nous Features

Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

January 27, 2025

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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“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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Student Philosopher on Where Intuitions Conflict
But the history of philosophy shows us no cases in which adept questioners left their interlocutors in aporia Mad Max – That's Bait
Vinicius Rodrigues on Where Intuitions Conflict
One of my main concerns with your answer to x-phi studies is that it makes having an intuition a difficult thing to pick out in the stream of…
philatetelist on Where Intuitions Conflict
This is a startling hypothesis, because if one and the same individual can have conflicting intuitions about cases, then a philosophically adept questioner should be able to elicit…
Patrick Lin on Death Just Got Out of This Truck (guest post)
“You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, and there's still going to be somebody who hates peaches.”— Dita Von Teese, American philosopher
Non-classical? on Where Intuitions Conflict
I guess I can see that reading of the call, but then I just know even less what to do with the call. Consider that, at least as…
PhilCon Ed on Death Just Got Out of This Truck (guest post)
That which makes plainspoken language more accessible and meaningful to you is the same mechanism which makes flowery, emotive language more meaningful and accessible to others.
Jason Aleksander on Death Just Got Out of This Truck (guest post)
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…
Kenny Easwaran on Where Intuitions Conflict
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
Paul Wilson on Death Just Got Out of This Truck (guest post)
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…
Student Philosopher on Death Just Got Out of This Truck (guest post)
You seem like you would enjoy Hemingway
Paul Taborsky on Death Just Got Out of This Truck (guest post)
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…
Student Philosopher on Death Just Got Out of This Truck (guest post)
This was wonderful to read. To me, the best philosophy is literary.
Paul Wilson on Putting the Pub in Public Philosophy
While managing a used bookshop a couple of decades ago, I hosted a weekly "Socrates Cafe" with free coffee (and also wine and beer (this being New Orleans),…
John Bengson on Where Intuitions Conflict
Edit! "argued for *alternatives to* the no-conflicting-intuitions explanation"