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September 26, 2025
Best Next Moves: How Philosophers Can Make Good Use of Theory-Driven GPTs (guest post)

We’ve talked previously about some of the various tasks that philosophers might have large language models help them with in their work, mainly focusing…

September 25, 2025
Philosopher Wins Open Access Award

Adrian Kind, a postdoctoral researcher in philosophy and psychology at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, is one of the winners of the 2025 Open Access…

September 25, 2025
New Film Captures the Value and Excitement of Ethics Bowl

The Bowl is a new documentary that follows a team of six girls and their teacher as they prepare for and compete in the…

September 25, 2025
Philosophers at Clemson Defend the Academic Freedom of Colleagues

Two philosophers at Clemson University, each in their own way, have responded to their employer’s punishment of faculty for their comments following the murder…

September 24, 2025
The Hidden Costs of Being a Non-Native English Speaker in Philosophy (guest post)

Last year, a group of scholars launched an international survey of philosophers on the dominant language of philosophy today—“academic English”—and the challenges faced by…

September 24, 2025
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September 23, 2025
Jonathan Lear (1948-2025)

Jonathan Lear, Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Chicago, has died.

September 22, 2025
What Will Academia.edu Do with Its New Rights to Your Name, Likeness, and Voice? (updated)

Users of the Academia.edu service are cancelling their subscriptions in response to perceived overreach by the firm in its recent update to its terms…

September 22, 2025
Will US Universities Pay $100,000 for H-1B Visas?

The Trump administration announced on Friday that as of yesterday, new applications for H-1B visas will only be accepted if accompanied by a $100,000…

September 22, 2025
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, and new podcast episodes…

September 22, 2025
Speech under Authoritarianism (updated)

Governments in the United States are ramping up their attacks on freedom of speech, with state and federal officials getting people—including professors—fired or investigated…

September 19, 2025
Grant Tavinor (1973-2025)

Grant Tavinor, senior lecturer in philosophy at Lincoln University in New Zealand, has died.

September 19, 2025
Philosophers File Amicus Brief in Supreme Court Cases on Transgender Athletes

A group of 24 philosophers has submitted an amicus curiae brief for two US Supreme Court cases concerning laws about the participation of transgender…

September 19, 2025
The Philosophy Blogosphere in 2025

What philosophy blogs are active in 2025?

September 18, 2025
What Will It Be Like To Be An Academic In Ten Years?

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

September 17, 2025
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September 17, 2025
The PSA’s “Office Hour” Returns

The Philosophy of Science Association (PSA) is continuing its excellent expert “office hour” series this semester—a program other academic associations should consider adopting.

September 16, 2025
Which Philosophy Grad Programs Are Accepting Fewer or No Applications for Next Year?

A reader says she has heard rumors of some departments of philosophy deciding to not accept any applications to their graduate programs, or to…

September 15, 2025
One of Philosophy’s Most Influential Public Voices May Lose His Own

“Basically, the parts of my brain that tell my mouth how to produce speech are gradually shutting down. Over time my speech is likely…

September 15, 2025

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Is metaphysics about looking for some kind of fundamental level? Does reality come in levels? If so, do they stand in relations of fundamentality? Might it be levels all the way down? Why down? — Kit Fine and Timothy Williamson debate metaphysics
“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

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Nick Laskowski on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
Object to the substance of what I've said by all means, but yeesh, please ignore the missing words, extraneous words ('was' in the first sentence), typos ('envious'), etc.…
Alessandro Corona Mendozza on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
These should be Zollman's results on transient diversity in epistemic networks (2007 & 2010), just in case you wanted to fetch them back
Mourinho on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
I don't think Ethan would disagree with this. The point is rather that ignorance of the existing literature is a missed opportunity to perhaps do things quicker and…
David Wallace on “A Failure of Expectation Calibration”
The excerpt read like Claude to me so I put the full paper into Pangram, which thinks it’s 59% AI written (qualitatively matching my own sense on a…
JCM on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
You don't even need to go that far afield to find a prehistory of conceptual engineering! At the time conceptual engineering came into vogue, I was studying R.…
Michel on Underrepresentation of Non-Native English Speakers in Philosophy: Findings from over 100,000 Papers (guest post)
Thanks. I confess that I bristle a bit at that grouping, since some of those countries are rather more Anglophone than others. But I accept that, in the…
Student Philosopher on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
I attended a lecture recently where a philosopher of science shared how innovation does not necessarily follow from fully connected systems. I can’t remember the source but it…
Caio Cezar Silva on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
I don't wanna bash anyone, but this is the kind of thing you expect anyone would do as they consider writing about something. It is comprehensible that a…
Neri on Underrepresentation of Non-Native English Speakers in Philosophy: Findings from over 100,000 Papers (guest post)
From the paper: "We divided countries into majority ES and non-majority ES, based on the United Kingdom’s official classification scheme,(7) and then classified authors with one or more addresses…
Nick Laskowski on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
As someone else with whom I was spoke about the report rightly pointed out, there's no systematic empirical evidence regarding social philosophy's research climate available to us. But…
Keith Douglas on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
The philosopher of science Mario Bunge taught us undergraduates in the 1990s that a literature search in philosophy should always include any connected fields. The philosopher of mind…
B.B. on Underrepresentation of Non-Native English Speakers in Philosophy: Findings from over 100,000 Papers (guest post)
The skewing here might in fact be more significant than one might immediately realize, too. I mean, like many from my home country, I went abroad (mostly the…
Junior Faculty on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
The epistemology of inquiry is in a similar position with respect to philosophy of science, especially the historicist tradition (i.e., Kuhn and the subsequent literature).
cecil burrow on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
I wonder if it is really true that this area of philosophy has simply re-invented something that already existed. I'll wager that there are all sorts of interesting…
JCM on Underrepresentation of Non-Native English Speakers in Philosophy: Findings from over 100,000 Papers (guest post)
Agreed. 'Accomplished' might beg the question, but those people may (also) be the ones most keen to get away from their native country never to return, and so…

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