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February 20, 2026
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…

February 19, 2026
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…

February 19, 2026
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…

February 18, 2026
Activism and the Pursuit of Knowledge

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

February 18, 2026
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.

February 17, 2026
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…

February 17, 2026
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February 17, 2026
Summer 2026 Philosophy Programs

Reminder: if you’re organizing a philosophy summer program, you can list it here at Daily Nous.

February 17, 2026
Crafting a Critical Thinking Course that Sticks with Students (guest post)

A forthcoming study shows that a critical thinking course focused on a few good, relatively easy to learn, and useful reasoning strategies can impart…

February 16, 2026
How Much Reading Do You Assign? Poll Results

Last week, I asked philosophy instructors to let us know how much reading they assign in their undergraduate courses.

February 16, 2026
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…

February 16, 2026
Can AI Write a Useful Philosophical Literature Review? (guest post)

A pair of philosophers have developed a new research tool that uses AI to provide comprehensive and reliable philosophical literature reviews, and they’d like…

February 12, 2026
APA Joins Other Organizations in Calling for Texas A&M to Rescind Censorship Policies

The American Philosophical Association (APA) has signed onto to a letter by PEN America to the Texas A&M University System Regents “to request that…

February 12, 2026
Placement, Program Ratings, Student Comments, and Keywords: an APDA Update (guest post)

What’s the latest data about philosophy graduate programs?

February 11, 2026
A Brief Appreciation of Rawls

If you appreciate Rawls, you should read this brief essay by Joseph Heath. If you don’t appreciate Rawls, you should read this brief essay…

February 11, 2026
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February 10, 2026
Philosophia’s Outstanding Referee Award

In 2024, Philosophia: A Global Journal of Philosophy introduced an “Outstanding Referee Award“, joining a small number of journals that single out particular referees for special…

February 10, 2026
How Much Reading Do You Assign?

At the end of this post is a poll about how much reading you assign. Please take part in it if you teach philosophy…

February 9, 2026
Laurence Thomas (1949-2025)

Laurence Thomas, professor emeritus of philosophy at Syracuse University, died this past December.

February 9, 2026

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“Real relationships with people are what’s good for us. And if we don’t get that, even if we don’t know we don’t get it, it’s still bad for us.” — Valerie Tiberius is interviewed on Minnesota Public Radio about the limits of AI "friendship"
Kant thought the indigenous people of the Americas were a race “too weak for hard work, too indolent for assiduous labor and unsuited to any cultivation” — but, as Arnaud Pelletier notes, that not what his source said. So why did he say it?
“Proportional to student body size,” the number of students majoring in philosophy at Harvard is “about 10 times the national average” — why is philosophy doing so well there?
A philosophy prof’s mission statement: “reproducing the foundations of Western civilization, one lecture at a time” — one challenge, says Joseph Heath, is that "the two sets of governing principles in our society—liberalism… and capitalism—are second-best arrangements"
“Philosophy: head and heart” — Stephen Darwall's 2024 Dewey Lecture
Is there anything to the concept of “intrinsic human dignity”? — yes, says Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, and "it names a burden as much as a distinction"
“Intuition is the cognitive means by which the conceptual structure of a situation is revealed to us” — whether that situation is a stylized thought experiment or a real world experience, says Marc A. Moffett
“Professors can’t fix the problem on their own” — Victor Kumar on what university administrators need to do address AI's threat to higher education
“The wall between jus ad bellum and jus in bello, which had sustained his theory for almost half a century, was no longer sturdy” — a profile of Michael Walzer, focusing on his thoughts about just war theory and the Israeli-Palestine conflict
We may think that we lose something significant when AI beats us to a discovery — if we do, Daniel Greco says, that seems to imply we gained something significant, too
“Once upon a time there were a couple of handsome naturalistic philosophers working in and around the philosophy of fiction” — thoughts on new directions in philosophy of fiction, from several philosophers
What is the debate over whether trans women are women even about? — Katie Zhou argues that it's about which facts are granted "the cross-contextual significance and stickiness characteristic of gender"
We’re putting human brain cells into mice brains — One moral risk of this, says Mackenzie Graham, is a decrease in our ability to interpret what mice behavior tells us about their experiences and welfare
The Rawls Game — with instructions, background, advice, and downloadable character cards
“The central question would shift from ‘How do we maximize shareholder value?’ to ‘How do different forms of organization distribute power, risk and reward — and which should we strengthen?'” — Chris Marquis on the case for abolishing, or at least radically changing, business schools
Asking “How did I get here?” may help us reflect on the nature of personal identity in ways that asking “Who am I?” cannot — Marya Schechtman's 2024 Central Division Meeting Presidential Address
“Collecting is a game, but what kind of game? It is an imperfect information game of acquisition” — a theory of collecting, from Steven Hales
“A general human tendency: to overestimate how far we have come in the progress of human knowledge” — a lengthy interview with Thomas Nagel
“Many couples do not survive trauma like this” — A profile of Susan Brison—who was brutally attacked in 1990, and who wrote about it in Aftermath—and her husband, Thomas Trezise, who has now written his own book stemming from those events
“Bad AI Consciousness Takes” Bingo Card — Henry Shevlin's area of specialization is becoming a popular topic in popular discourse, and he can't stand the "cavalcade of terrible takes"

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Felix on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
…critics of the policies promoted (very successfully, it is important to note, at least for a time) by maximalist trans activism are causing all manner of harm. This…
Reichenbach on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
Fine is not wrong on that score.
Felix on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
That's a good question. I don't think that the amicus briefs actually swayed opinion on the court, but more so that they provided the intellectual legitimization that the…
Meme on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
Oh… my.
Grad student on Mini-Heap
What a great sense of humour S Darwall has – a very enjoyable listen
Noah Gordon on “A Failure of Expectation Calibration”
I'd be curious to hear more about who the evaluators were in the blind evaluation tasks. The human contributors are described as "philosophy PhDs and professors", whereas the…
Noah Gordon on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
I thought we were all clamoring for Kit Fine's opinion on the politicization of music studies.
Jessie Ewesmont on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
Rosen and Fine are some of the greatest metaphysicians to ever live. I think everyone would be better off if they directed the majority of their energies towards…
norms are not cheap explanations! on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
Weinberg offered a thoughtful presentation of a social scientific hypothesis. You offered something much more flippant (which is fine, but was also something whose content surprised me). So…
Shay A Logan on Underrepresentation of Non-Native English Speakers in Philosophy: Findings from over 100,000 Papers (guest post)
That’s not how statistics work.
Meme on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
"submitting amicus briefs to the Supreme Court, and having that very court cite them in support of wide-ranging judicial decisions bearing upon the rights of trans people" Is…
Moti Gorin on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
This is bizarre. For years, there has been a steady stream of articles, both in the peer reviewed literature and in the popular media, doing exactly what you…
KLY on Underrepresentation of Non-Native English Speakers in Philosophy: Findings from over 100,000 Papers (guest post)
Nice work! I do wonder, however, whether the proxies (working in an English-speaking country plus having obtained one’s PhD in one) classify some very accomplished non-native speakers as…
Student Philosopher on New: Oxford Studies in Philosophy of AI and Computing
Fantastic, thanks so much!
John Bengson on Where Intuitions Conflict
Fair question, Vinicius. I consider the worry in §3 and address it via what I call the First and Second Observations, which I take to be on firm…

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