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  • Competition: Philosophy Through Short Story

    To encourage philosophical engagement with the public, the American Philosophical Association (APA) is funding a “Philosophy Through Fiction” short story competition. 

  • Traits of the Greats

    What are the traits of great philosophers? Matthew Hammerton, a PhD student at Australian National University, came across a passage by Cambridge University mathematician Timothy Gowers about…

  • Artistic Impressions of Academic Talks

    The art of the academic talk takes on a different meaning when looking at the drawings and paintings of Kaća Bradonjić. Dr. Bradonjić is wrapping up…

  • Kagan on Pogge

    The Huffington Post’s Tyler Kingkade has interviewed Shelly Kagan, who was chair of the philosophy department at Yale when Thomas Pogge was hired. In…

  • A Taxonomic Map of Philosophy (Updated with 5-layer Version!)

    Some people go to PhilPapers, get the information they need, and then just go. Not Valentin Lageard, a graduate student in philosophy at Université Paris-Sorbonne. The Categories…

  • Chaospet (Daily Nous Philosophy Comics)

    Chaospet by Ryan Lake

  • Philosophers On Brexit

    Last week, a majority of voters in the United Kingdom supported Brexit, the proposal for Britain to leave the European Union. The referendum’s outcome…

  • Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

    Forthwith, a Game of Thrones spoiler-free accounting of the past week’s updates to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP), Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (IEP), Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (NDPR), and Wi-Phi.

  • Guide to Graduate Study in Aesthetics

    The American Society for Aesthetics (ASA) has released the fourth edition of its Guide to Graduate Aesthetics in North America. 

  • How Will Brexit Affect Philosophy in the UK?

    According to Times Higher Education (THE), there is some concern among higher education leaders in the UK about the effect that the successful referendum to leave…

  • Humans Haven’t Yet Figured Out How To Combine Culture and Ethics

    “The good of any one individual is of no more importance, from the point of view (if I may say so) of the Universe,…

  • The Ideal Conference

    Let’s figure out what the ideal moderately-sized academic conference with, say, 30 to 40 participants, would be like. There are various factors to consider, including,…

  • Philosophers Discuss Trump

    The Chronicle of Higher Education has a “Trump Issue” (may be paywalled) in which several academics, including three philosophers, comment on the U.S. presidential…

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

    To φ Or Not To φ by Tanya Kostochka

  • Philosophy For Children on the US/Mexico Border

    Local school teachers, professors and students of philosophy at the University of Texas El Paso (UTEP), and several community organizations have teamed up for a…

  • A Question About Journals’ Style Requirements

    Dear Journal Editors, On behalf of those submitting articles to your journals, I write with a question about your house style requirements.

  • Open Letter Regarding Thomas Pogge (a few updates)

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

  • Valuable Philosophical Life Lessons

    I’m often asked—by non-academics, natch—if anything in my philosophical education has been of value to me in the conduct of my lived life. I…

  • Lodi Nauta Wins 2.5 Million Euro Spinoza Prize

    L.W. (Lodi) Nauta, professor of philosophy and dean at the University of Groningen, is one of the 2016 winners of the Spinoza Prize, “the highest…

  • Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

    What has no thumbs and the past week’s updates to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP), Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (IEP), Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (NDPR), and Wi-Phi? This post.