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  • Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

    Here’s the weekly report of what’s new at some useful online philosophy resources.

  • Trump Reads Daily Nous?

    Trump’s egotism pushes him to a position on the alleged problem of political correctness run amok on college campuses that is close to mine:…

  • Mini-Heap

    Once again, here’s the Mini-Heap—10 recent items from the Daily Nous Heap of Links, our regularly updated list of material from around the web that philosophers…

  • Philosophy & Music Festival in Wales

    Tickets for HowTheLightGetsIn, a large four-day philosophy and music festival held in Hay-on-Wye, Wales, are on sale, and the organizers have offered a discount to Daily…

  • Why Is Philosophy So Hard?

    Daniel Kodsi, an undergraduate at Oxford and founding editor of the Oxford Review of Books, writes about his interview of Amia Srinivasan,  philosophy lecturer in…

  • To φ Or Not To φ (Daily Nous Philosophy Comics)

  • Philosopher Clothing

    What should we wear? This is the “Gottlob Frege: Begriffsschrift” A-line dress, designed by philosopher-artist Maureen Eckert and brought to my attention by Sara Bernstein. The…

  • Hartry Field Will Be 2018-2019 Romanell Lecturer

    Hartry Field, Silver Professor of Philosophy at New York University, has been selected to give the 2018–2019 Romanell Lecture on Philosophical Naturalism at the 2019…

  • Stubblefield Pleads Guilty (Update: Sentenced to “Time Served”)

    [See UPDATE 3, below] Anna Stubblefield, the former professor of philosophy at Rutgers University-Newark whose October 2015 conviction for sexually assaulting a disabled man was overturned…

  • Students Allege Sexual Harassment by Concordia Philosophy Professor

    Several students at Concordia University have accused a professor in its Department of Philosophy of sexual harassment.  One of the students has accused the university of “systemic…

  • Mini-Heap

    Here’s the latest Mini-Heap—10 recent items from the Daily Nous Heap of Links, our regularly updated list of material from around the web that philosophers may want…

  • Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

    Here’s the weekly report of what’s new at some useful online philosophy resources.

  • Resisting the “Serve Limitlessly” Narrative

    Many institutions control your choices in various ways, and bend your time to their aims, by suggesting that you must serve limitlessly or else…

  • Schock Prize Awarded to Saharon Shelah

    Logician Saharon Shelah has won the 2018 Rolf Schock Prize for Logic and Philosophy. 

  • Mini-Heap

    Following close on the heels of the last edition, here’s another Mini-Heap post—10 recent items from the Daily Nous Heap of Links, our regularly updated list of…

  • APA, Others, Issue Statement Opposing Program Cuts at UW Stevens Point

    The American Philosophical Association (APA) and 22 other academic organizations issued a statement today opposing the plans of administrators at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens…

  • “The accomplishment I am most proud of is my relationship with the end of my life”

    In June, 2016,  Adam Hayden, then a philosophy student in his lower 30s, and also a husband and a father of three young boys,…

  • New Philosophy Podcast on Love and Happiness

    Jennifer Frey, assistant professor of philosophy at the University of South Carolina, has launched a new podcast on love and happiness called Sacred and Profane…

  • Mini-Heap

    Here’s the latest edition of Mini-Heap—10 recent items from the Daily Nous Heap of Links, our regularly updated list of material from around the web that philosophers…

  • A Proper Memorial Monument for Peirce

    A group of scholars have undertaken a plan to design and erect a memorial monument for philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce, to replace the existing…