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Summer (2019) Programs in Philosophy for Graduate Students
Last week’s post about upcoming summer programs in philosophy for undergraduates prompted a few requests for a similar post for summer programs in philosophy for current graduate students. (more…)
Summer (2019) Programs in Philosophy for Undergraduates
There are a number of universities and organizations that host summer programs in philosophy for undergraduates. (more…)
Lenhard Wins 2024 Covey Award
Johannes Lenhard (Rhineland-Palatinate Technical University) has been selected as the winner of the 2024 Covey Award by the board of the International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP). (more…)
Rasmussen from Azusa to Baylor
Joshua Rasmussen, currently associate professor of philosophy at Azusa Pacific University, will be moving to Baylor University, where he will be professor of philosophy. (more…)
New “Meta-Ranking” of Philosophy Journals
A new article in Synthese presents two new rankings of philosophy journals—a survey ranking and a composite of several existing rankings—and discusses their strengths and weaknesses. (more…)
Stephen Gaukroger (1950-2023)
Stephen Gaukroger, professor emeritus at the University of Sydney, died this past September. (more…)
Paul Woodruff (1943-2023)
Paul Woodruff, professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Texas, Austin, has died. (more…)
Douglas Portmore’s Six Commandments for Getting the Most Out of Graduate School
How can you get the most out of graduate school? Douglas Portmore, professor of philosophy at Arizona State University, has some advice for you. (more…)
Jennifer McMahon (1956-2023) (updated)
Jennifer McMahon, professor emerita of philosophy at the University of Adelaide, died this past June. (more…)
Baylis Wins Molson Prize
Françoise Baylis (Dalhousie University, emerita) has been named one of the 2023 winners of the Molson Prize by the Canada Council for the Arts. (more…)
New Philosophy of Disability Prize
The Society for Philosophy of Disability has created a new prize, The Anita Silvers Essay Prize, to recognize work in the philosophy of disability. (more…)
Philosophers on Next-Generation Large Language Models
Back in July of 2020, I published a group post entitled “Philosophers on GPT-3.” At the time, most readers of Daily Nous had not heard of GPT-3 and had no idea what a large language model (LLM) is. How times have changed. (more…)
How the Press Feels about Philosophy
While major newspapers report on philosophy with, on average, slightly positive sentiment, it seems this positive sentiment becomes slighter by the year. (more…)
Berggruen Prize Awarded to Kojin Karatani
Kojin Karatani, a Japanese philosopher and literary theorist, has been selected as 2022 winner of the $1 million Berggruen Prize for Philosophy & Culture. (more…)
Progress at Philosophical Psychology (guest post)
Lisa Bortolotti (Birmingham), who took over the editorship of Philosophical Psychology following a publication controversy in 2020, and who announced some changes to the journal last year, writes in with an update about their implementation and results. (more…)
Gender in Philosophy Hiring
When it comes to finding a permanent academic position in philosophy, “women have 58–114 percent greater odds than men, or a probability difference of 10–17 percent.” (more…)
New Data about Philosophy Graduate Programs (guest post)
In the following guest post, Carolyn Dicey Jennings, associate professor of philosophy at UC Merced, shares some new data about graduate programs in philosophy that she and her team at Academic Philosophy Data and Analysis (APDA) have collected and analyzed. (more…)
Frank Cunningham (1940-2022)
Frank Cunningham, professor emeritus of philosophy and political science at the University of Toronto, has died. (more…)
APA Issues Several Prizes
The American Philosophical Association (APA) has announced the winners of several of its prizes. (more…)
World Philosophy Day & the Growth of Philosophy
Today is World Philosophy Day, a day designated by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to celebrate “the enduring value of philosophy for the development of human thought, for each culture and for each individual.” (more…)
Evidence for a Probabilistic Turn in Philosophy (guest post)
“If our data is representative of the philosophy literature, then the use of formal methods in philosophy changed starkly over the course of just a single decade.” (more…)
Peter Singer Wins $1 Million Berggruen Prize
The 2021 Berggruen Prize for Philosophy & Culture, a $1 million prize, has been awarded to philosopher Peter Singer (Princeton University). (more…)
$1.4 Million Grant for Philosopher’s Project on Causal Analysis
Michael C. Baumgartner, professor of philosophy at the University of Bergen, has been awarded a NOK12,000,000 (approximately $1.4 million) grant from the Research Council of Norway to support his project, “Advancing Causal Modeling with Coincidence Analysis (AdCNA).” (more…)
The APA’s New Strategic Plan
The American Philosophical Association (APA) has released its new strategic plan, which describes the aims and priorities of the organization. (more…)
What Video Games to Play in a Philosophy Classroom? (guest post)
“Video games and various scenarios they present can help us not only to better explain and understand philosophical issues and thought experiments, but more importantly, they allow us — although in a limited sense — to experience them as well.” (more…)
The Art of Philosophical Writing: An Interview with William Lycan (by Nathan Ballantyne)
“There has to be a balance between the formal and the conversational.” (more…)
2020 Journal of the History of Philosophy Book Prize
The 2020 Journal of the History of Philosophy (JHP) Book Prize, for books published in 2019, has been awarded to Sanford Shieh, professor of philosophy at Wesleyan University. (more…)
Can Small, Non-Mainstream Philosophy Departments Flourish?
“It has been painful to witness the end of a programme in which we invested so much of our energy and creativity, a programme that was praised by students and external examiners, that featured innovative modules and assessments, that defied being classified as either European or analytic, that was for the larger part run by two women, neither of whom identify as ‘Wh..