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Ad Hoc by Rachel Katler

Some colleges have no philosophers. Some colleges have philosophers, but not many, yielding a very low philosopher-to-student ratio, particularly when compared to elite institutions or…

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The following is a guest post* by the organizers of the recent online philosophy conference, Minds Online, Cameron Buckner (Houston), Nick Byrd (Florida State), and…

Jeremy Bentham’s Prison Cooking is a real book. Need I say more? The book is based on a collection of Bentham’s papers marked “Panopticon –…

This week, two philosophers—Kwame Anthony Appiah (NYU) in the New York Times Magazine and Gary Gutting (Notre Dame) in The Chronicle of Higher Education—have discussed the point of a college…

Among new PhDs in the humanities who described their dissertation research as interdisciplinary, philosophy students reported the largest percentage of dissertations that crossed fields…

Philosophers may be lovers of truth, but that doesn’t mean they are exempt from the cognitive biases that bedevil humans generally. Given that philosophers…

This past Tuesday, Amnesty International representatives from 60 countries voted on which stance the influential non-governmental organization should take regarding the legal status of prostitution,…

Abner Shimony, professor emeritus of philosophy and physics at Boston University, has died. Professor Shimony was known for his work in philosophy of physics.…

The following is a guest post* by Aaron Garrett, associate professor of philosophy at Boston University. Professor Garrett recently became editor of the History of…

The American Philosophical Association (APA) has announced the recent winners of four honors: Carol Gould (CUNY Graduate Center) has won the 2015 Joseph B. Gittler Award for…

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Have you ever had a problem and thought, “I bet a professional philosopher could help”? If so, you are almost certainly a professional philosopher…

Under the so-called 5+2 program, humanities graduate students at Irvine will receive additional funding designed to push them through course work and their dissertations…

The aim of the Self, Motivation, and Virtue (SMV) Project is “to open avenues of inquiry into virtue using the framework of the ‘self,’ instead of…

While there’s always something new to talk about, there are some recent posts here at Daily Nous that would benefit from further comments, including:…

For our entire relationship, I was absolutely and irrevocably miserable. I can see now that you used me purely as a means to an…

The American Philosophical Association is starting a new blog later this year and has named Lewis Powell, assistant professor of philosophy at the University…

A group of rather successful philosophers currently or formerly employed at universities in the UK have put together a guide for students and other applicants from US…