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Harry Shearer and Gillian Anderson Voice Philosophy Series
BBC 4 Radio is releasing a series of animations on assorted philosophical topics as a spin-off of its History of Ideas program. Among those doing the…
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Pre-PhD Program Coursework
A student writes in with a question: I’m a student in my first semester at a terminal masters program, and as an undergraduate I…
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Hobbies of Philosophers: Lauren Ashwell
Lauren Ashwell is assistant professor of philosophy at Bates College. She works in metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and feminist ethics, and her work has…
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Andrei Marmor (USC) to Cornell (official)
It’s now official: Andrei Marmor, currently Professor of Philosophy and Maurice Jones Jr. Professor of Law at the University of Southern California, will be moving…
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Open Access and Journal-less Publishing
Recently I was asked by the editors of a journal whose mission and scholarship I support and respect to review a book by a…
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Comment Linking, Accessing the Heap
Two minor updates about the site: Some of you may have already noticed this but a bug of the recent redesign has just been fixed:…
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Funding and Philosophical Results (Updated w/ Replies by Dennett)
Suppose you were reviewing a scientific report that drew the conclusion that a diet without fat was in fact unhealthy, and that butter and…
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Comfortable With a Kind of “Stupidity”
At some point, the conversation turned to why she had left graduate school. To my utter astonishment, she said it was because it made…
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On ‘Begs the Question’: A Poll
This Daily Nous item is temporarily unavailable while its historical content completes a security review. The title and publication record are preserved; the original…
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Cornel West Arrested in Ferguson
Cornel West (Princeton) was arrested in Ferguson, MO today while taking part in the “Ferguson October” rally, which has been attended by over 1,000…
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Two Ways to Help Victims (Guest Post by Jennifer Lackey)
Jennifer Lackey is professor of philosophy at Northwestern University. She works mostly in epistemology, with an emphasis on social epistemology. She is the author…
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Outrageous Firing of 8 Seminary Faculty (updated)
Eight of the ten full-time faculty teaching at General Theological Seminary, an Episcopal Seminary in Manhattan, have been fired after detailing the highly objectionable…
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Cosmopolitanism and Diversity in Philosophy
“The reason why most Anglo-American philosophers don’t worry about learning non-Western philosophy is that they assume cosmopolitanism is an ideal developed by Western philosophy.…
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New Journal In Need of Submissions
I’ve received word of a new generalist philosophy journal that is in need of submissions: Proceedings of the Society of Drinking a Lot of Cough Syrup. You can…
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Change the Face of Philosophy — Right Now
Philosophy in an Inclusive Key Summer Institute (PIKSI) is a weeklong summer school that brings undergraduates from underrepresented groups into graduate school for philosophy. It has been…
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New Huge History of Philosophy Chart
Former philosophy student Merrill Cook has created an enormous and well-designed chart of the history of philosophy. The above is just an excerpt. For…
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Duke Philosophers Receive $1.8m Grant
Felipe De Brigard and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, both at Duke University, have received a $1.8 million dollar grant from the John Templeton Foundation to conduct…
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An Advisor’s Extra Help on the Job Market
Placement practices at different graduate programs in philosophy vary, and one difference concerns what advisors do to help their students land jobs. There is,…
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Site Redesign (updated)
If you are reading this then the Daily Nous website is working. Woohoo! As you can see, it looks a little different. (If it…