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In his guest post the other day, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong wrote: many top departments today view colleagues with suspicion when they choose to write accessible…

In the wake of Peter Railton’s Dewey Lecture, I have been asked to create a space on Daily Nous for philosophers to share their experiences…

The Central Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association is underway. Let’s hear about it.

Which philosophy books would you recommend for a high school library? That is the question currently being asked by Hallie Liberto (Connecticut), on behalf of…

“I am about to be involved in organizing an online conference and I am interested in how the group mind of philosophy thinks about…

It seems to me we need some clarification of the idea of academic freedom, so I am throwing out these thoughts, rather tentatively, to…

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Cultural beliefs and stereotypes that associate men but not women with “raw intellectual talent” can help explain the differing gender gaps across various academic disciplines, according…

Yesterday, twelve people were shot dead at the Paris office of Charlie Hebdo, a French satirical magazine. It was reported that the gunmen shouted “We have…

This fall, one of the most powerful institutions in the field of philosophy in this country began to collapse… In “The Rise and Fall…

Somewhere along the line many physicists have come to believe that it must be possible to formulate a theory without observational input, based on…

The first ever Daily Nous t-shirt sale is over. An elite group of 38 people with apparently really good taste were lucky enough to…

David Sobel (Syracuse) announces the creation of the Marc Sanders Prize in Political Philosophy: The Marc Sanders Prize in Political Philosophy is a biennial…

The University of Oregon administration has told international graduate students that they will be deported if they join the Graduate Teaching Fellows Federation strike,…

A philosopher who prefers to remain anonymous has noticed a marked drop in applications to his graduate program and is wondering whether this is part…

The following is a guest post* from a philosopher who has been in communication with Marquette University philosophy graduate student Cheryl Abbate about the…

I am posting this today in the hope that I will not be spending tomorrow in front of a glowing screen. For Thanksgiving, I…

A philosophy graduate student and instructor at Marquette University is the target of a political attack initiated by one of her students, facilitated by…

The folks at Super Scholar, who were responsible for a chart of the history of Western philosophy (previously), have now produced a chart of…