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  • Dagfinn Føllesdal (1932-2026)

    Dagfinn Føllesdal, professor of philosophy emeritus at Stanford University and the University of Oslo, has died.

  • Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

    This is the weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, new podcast episodes, recently published…

  • Cantor’s Plagiarism

    A new article by Joseph Howlett at Quanta explains how Georg Cantor plagiarized Richard Dedekind’s work on infinity.

  • Anthropic’s Statement on the Department of War’s Demands

    Pete Hegseth, the US Secretary of War, earlier this week ordered Anthropic, the company that makes Claude artificial intelligence products, to allow the Department…

  • Academic Equipment: Sounds & Silence

    In this installment of the occasional academic equipment series, the topic is audio.

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  • When Philosophy Enters the Criminal Court: Black Male Studies as Expert Testimony (guest post)

    To what extent should theoretical approaches to understanding the world offered up by the humanities be sensitive to empirical evidence? And how might the…

  • All Happy Classrooms (guest post)

    Are all happy classrooms alike? Probably not. But perhaps there’s some qualities common to many of them.

  • Malcolm Budd (1941-2026)

    This Daily Nous item is temporarily unavailable while its historical content completes a security review. The title and publication record are preserved; the original…

  • Michelle Beer (1941-2026)

    Michelle Beer, professor of philosophy at Florida International University, has died.

  • Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

    This is the weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, new podcast episodes, recently published…

  • Florida Implements Stronger Thought Policing

    With measures borrowed from history’s totalitarian regimes, political leaders in Florida are taking unprecedented steps to indoctrinate students and prevent them from learning about…

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  • Philosophy Facts

    Philosophy is a “fact-based discipline” that makes progress, says Bryan Frances,  and to prove it he offers up “200 straightforward facts directly about philosophical…

  • An AI Analyzes Philosophers’ Discussion of AI

    Last week I posted about PhilLit, a new AI research tool for philosophers that finds and summarizes philosophical writing. The post generated a lot…

  • An Index of Philosophy Book Reviews

    Matt Zwolinski (University of San Diego) says he has long thought it would be useful to have a website in which you could type…

  • Activism and the Pursuit of Knowledge

    The pursuit of knowledge generates disagreement, including disagreement about how to pursue knowledge.

  • Grammarly Is a Cheating Machine

    Grammarly is sometimes thought by instructors to be a relatively benign writing tool app, akin to a sophisticated spelling and grammar checker.

  • CV Do’s and Don’ts

    I’ve been asked to put up a post about what goes under the “publications” heading on a cv, but I thought we could expand…

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