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Rasmussen from Azusa to Baylor
Joshua Rasmussen, currently associate professor of philosophy at Azusa Pacific University, will be moving to Baylor University, where he will be professor of philosophy. (more…)
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update
The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources and new reviews of philosophy books… (more…)
Site Damage & Repair (updated)
Daily Nous suffered an as-of-yet unexplained “critical error” tonight. The site was down for several hours and could only get back online by restoring an earlier version of it. (more…)
Are Your Students Doing The Reading?
And if they’re not, what can be done to get them to do it? Or is that the wrong way to think about it? (more…)
Leverhulme Trust to Investigate One of Its Philosophy Fellows at Cambridge (updated)
The Leverhulme Trust, a philanthropy in London which provides grants and fellowships to scholars across a range of disciplines, has launched an investigation of one of its early career fellows who works in philosophy at the University of Cambridge. (more…)
The Influence of Translations in Philosophy: The Case of the Tractatus
You know that famous last line of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, “Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent”? That’s not quite what he said, according to Damion Searls, whose new translation of the book comes out this month. It was more like, “We mustn’t try to say what cannot be said.” (more…)
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Philosophy’s Digital Future (guest post)
“The crucial question for any academic system is how filtering works. Information is cheap. What we want is some way to identify the most valuable information.” (more…)
One Front in the Fight for Philosophy’s Survival in the US: High Schools
One obstacle undergraduate philosophy programs in the United States face is student unfamiliarity with philosophy. (more…)
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update
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American Philosophers Should Condemn the War in Gaza (guest post)
“American academic philosophers should speak out to condemn the Israeli assault on Gaza.” (more…)
AI & the Professions
Large language models outperform humans as junior lawyers, according to a new study. (more…)
Lawrence Pasternack (1967-2024)
Lawrence Pasternack, professor of philosophy at Oklahoma State University, has died. (more…)
Further Progress on Vesuvius Scrolls
“Epicureanism says hi, with a text full of music, food, senses, and pleasure!” (more…)
Philosophers, Should You Pay to Publish Your Paper? (guest post)
“In a survey of 27 philosophy of science journal editors we conducted in 2023, many, if not most of them, did not know that they were working in a transformative journal.” A what now? (more…)
Manhattan College May Eliminate Philosophy
Philosophy is one of 10 undergraduate majors that administrators at Manhattan College, a Catholic college in New York, have proposed eliminating. (more…)
2023 Philosophy Primary Job Cycle Report (guest post)
What did the Fall 2023 philosophy job market look like? (more…)
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Philosophy at Kent Threatened (again) (updated)
Imagine a major university financially mismanaged to such a degree that its administration is desperate enough to suggest cutting its philosophy program as a solution. (more…)
New APA Grant Winners
The American Philosophical Association (APA) has announced the winners of its latest round of grants. (more…)
New: “This Is the Way”
This Is the Way is a new podcast on Chinese philosophy. (more…)
First Sub-Saharan Ethics Center Approaches 5th Anniversary; Seeks Funds for Conference
EthicsLab, a research center in Yaoundé, the capital of Cameroon, is organizing a conference in celebration of its upcoming fifth anniversary, and has launched a crowdfunding campaign to help people attend it. (more…)
Philosophy, Creativity, and AI
“I sincerely believe that to save the humanities, within which I include philosophy, we are going to have to reconceive what we do as at least in part a creative endeavor—literary, artistic, imaginative, playful, in short, all those things of which a human spirit is capable, and a machine never will be.” (more…)
Diversity Reading List Dollar-Matching Fundraiser
The Diversity Reading List (DRL), which gathers and organizes philosophical texts written by authors from groups that have typically been underrepresented in philosophy so as to make it easier for others to make use of them, and puts together reading group blueprints on various topics, is currently running a fundraiser with the Marc Sanders Foundation. (more…)
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