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New Commenting Platform

A new commenting platform, implemented as of this morning, is one of the more noticeable results of recent work on the site. Check it out!

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What news and issues concerning the philosophy profession received the most attention in 2019? Among last year’s top stories were a philosopher’s punishment for sexual harassment, the rallying of academics worldwide to defend the study of philosophy in a country in which it was under attack, philosophers commenting on a provocative physics experiment, the philosophy..

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Hi readers. A couple of you have inquired about the dearth of posts over the past week or so. (more…)

I Don’t Tweet About The Availability Heuristic As Much As You Think

Charles Lassiter, associate professor of philosophy at Gonzaga University, knows more about my tweeting than I do. Why? (more…)

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Daily Nous Turns Five

Daily Nous began with a brief welcome message five years ago, today, around this time. Some of you may be thinking: “five years already? No way!” Others may be thinking, “only five years? I thought it has been around forever.” Still others might be thinking, “you are not going to guess what I’m thinking.” (more…)

Posting Likely To Be Light This Week

Hi everyone. I’m away at a conference this week and will have less time for attending to Daily Nous. (more…)

A Note On Making Discussions Here Better

We often have vigorous and contentious discussions in the comments here at Daily Nous, and this past week—with its focus on philosophizing about transgender issues—was no exception (see here and here).

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Administrative Note

Dear readers, posting at Daily Nous will be on the rather light side for the remainder of the week. (more…)

Message from the Editor regarding “A Tale of Two Conferences”

Running a news and discussion site for professional philosophers involves, among other things, making judgments about what is and what is not newsworthy.

That a story is newsworthy is not to say that a post about it will appear at Daily Nous, for there may be countervailing considerations that provide reasons not to post about it, or there might be circumstances ..

Site Layout Issues

Yesterday morning, some changes were made to the layout here at Daily Nous (most visibly, some of the advertising slots were moved around). Some people have reported that the site now looks “different” or “avant garde” or “completely screwed up.” Here’s how it should look (on a normal-sized laptop):

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This Week at Daily Nous

This week Daily Nous will be publishing a number of guest posts. I’m at a conference and will have considerably less time to attend to the site and to philosophy news. Feel free to keep me informed about what’s going on, but please note that posts and replies to emails will be slower to appear. (more…)

Thanks to This Month’s Advertisers

Thanks to this month’s advertisers at Daily Nous!

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Thanks to This Month’s Advertisers

Daily Nous thanks April’s advertisers. See the ads in right side bar for:

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Daily Nous Turns 2

Daily Nous turns 2 today!

Time flies. I was looking through the old scrapbook the other day and it is amazing how much DN has changed since those first few months…

Daily Nous continues to grow. Over the past year it was visited nearly three and a half million times, and there are bunch of new features at the site, as I detailed in the end-of-2015 post.
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Thanks to This Month’s Advertisers

Daily Nous thanks March’s advertisers. See the ads in right side bar for:

The Public Discourse Project at the University of Connecticut’s Humanities Institute
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The George Washington University’s Masters Programs in Philosophy
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Daily Nous Year In Review

2015 is drawing to a close. I hope you had a good year.

The year saw Daily Nous’s first birthday (in March) and a number of new features, including:

Philosophers On Series: group posts consisting of brief remarks by several philosophers on topics of current interest.
Ought Experiment: the column doling out “personal advice for your academic life,” written b..

Comments Changeover This Weekend

As the new commenting system (described here) is put into place this weekend, piece by piece, the commenting on Daily Nous may be a bit buggy. This may mean some comments getting lost, some going right through on the new system without my moderation, and some being queued for moderation as on the old system. Please bear with us.

The ‘reply’ function and comment ‘..

Some Upcoming Changes to Daily Nous

At Daily Nous we toil to provide you, dear readers, with an exceptional philosoblogospheric experience. There have been a number of changes to the site over the course of its existence, and a complete overhaul in October of last year. I bet none of you remembers the site looking like this: (more…)

Advertising On Daily Nous

Daily Nous is supported by caffeine and advertising revenue, so please buy me a coffee next time you see me, and also check out our advertisers. By “check out” I mean click on them and see what they’re about. They’re right over there → (on a standard screen), or down there ↓ (on a phone).

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From The Censor

One of the benefits of thought experiments and hypothetical examples is that, since the people with which they’re populated aren’t real, you can relentlessly discuss your way through the logical space without having to worry about how they’ll take what you’re saying about them. Your conversation might justifiably sound a bit different, I’d think, if your interlocuto..