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Hagit Benbaji (1966-2025)

Hagit Benbaji, a philosopher at Ben-Gurion University, has died.

July 23, 2025
On Being Seriously Funny (guest post)

“I got into philosophy at least partly because it was comic and that’s still much of what I enjoy about it.”

July 22, 2025
Administrators, Trustees, Students, and the Future of the Liberal Arts

“The tragedy of the contemporary academy is that even when traditional liberal learning clearly wins with students and donors, it loses with those in…

July 17, 2025
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July 16, 2025
Beyond Argument: The Creative Craft of Philosophy Writing (guest post)

“I want to talk about the part of philosophy writing that comes after the argument part: the bit where you work on expressing your…

July 15, 2025
Studying Philosophy Makes People Better Thinkers: Further Data

A new study “offers the strongest evidence to date that studying philosophy does indeed make people better thinkers.”

July 14, 2025
Philosophy Professor Reportedly Assaulted & Abducted During ICE Raid on Farm (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This Daily Nous item is temporarily unavailable while its historical content completes a security review.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…

July 12, 2025
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July 11, 2025
Bender from Göttingen to LMU Munich

Sebastian Bender, currently “juniorprofessor” at the University of Göttingen, will be moving to Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich), where he will be professor of early modern…

July 10, 2025
Stephen Daniel (1950-2025)

Stephen H. Daniel, emeritus professor of philosophy at Texas A&M University, has died.

July 10, 2025
Philosophers Among Recent ARC Grant Winners

The Australian Research Council (ARC) has announced the recipients of its latest round of large grants, and a few philosophers are among them.

July 10, 2025
Prison Experiments with Stoicism Courses for Inmates; Results Unclear

“Violence has plummeted in a Norfolk [England] prison where inmates have been learning Greek philosophy,” the Eastern Daily Press reports. But violence has not plummeted…

July 9, 2025
The Personal Value of Conversations Across Serious Disagreement (guest post)

“I know that people are reluctant to voice objections to things I’ve said, not because I’ve given a convincing argument, but because I’m a…

July 8, 2025
Against “Throwaway Culture” in Philosophy

Throwaway culture refers to a culture in which the consumption and production of many goods is based on the practice of discarding them after…

July 7, 2025
Robeyns Wins Stevin Prize

Ingrid Robeyns, professor of philosophy at Utrecht University and the Chair in Ethics of Institutions at the university’s Ethics Institute, has been awarded the…

July 7, 2025
Dover from UCLA to Rutgers

Daniela Dover, associate professor of philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) will be moving to Rutgers University, where she will be…

July 7, 2025
Chirimuuta Wins 2025 Lakatos Award

Mazviita Chirimuuta (Edinburgh) is the winner of the 2025 Lakatos Award.

July 7, 2025
APA Establishes Two New Prizes

The American Philosophical Association (APA) has announced that it has established two new prizes for papers in two sets of philosophical areas.

July 3, 2025
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July 3, 2025
Philosophy at Some Indiana Public Universities Threatened

The Indiana state legislature has passed a budget bill that will have the effect of closing programs at several public universities in the state,…

July 2, 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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Ben on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
Are you sure? It may depend on what you mean by "conservative." If you mean "adherent of free market policies and a generally small state" or "person who…
Reichenbach on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
Would love to read Fine’s take on poptimism.
Ben on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
Yes, philosophers sometimes reinvent wheels from other disciplines. But I actually think philosophers tend to do a much better job engaging with work from other disciplines than academics…
A thought? on Underrepresentation of Non-Native English Speakers in Philosophy: Findings from over 100,000 Papers (guest post)
Mhh if only there was a really useful tool to help non-native speakers deal with language barriers and every instance of it wasn't uncritically treated as the spawn…
Nathan Kellen on Calls for Papers / Grants / Etc.
Society for Exact Philosophy 2027 Annual Meeting. Kansas State University (Manhattan, KS). June 26-28 2027. Submissions due February 21 2027. https://meta.phil.ufl.edu/host/sep/meeting.html. The Society for Exact Philosophy invites submissions…
Nathan Kellen on Calls for Papers / Grants / Etc.
North American Summer School for Logic, Language, and Information 2027. Kansas State University (Manhattan, KS). June 21-25 2027. Course Proposals due December 18 2026. [email protected] courses are aimed…
Will Conner on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
I want to preface this by saying it’s sometimes tough to know what counts as reinventing the wheel, and I would not endorse any general claim about wheel…
praymont on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
This happens throughout the humanities and social sciences. People in faculties of education and lit departments publish on critical thinking without a deep dive into what philosophers have…
Kate on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
just want to say that i really admire how forthright you're being about this, it's inspiring.
ikj on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
as a person with multiple degrees in literary study, i still think back and chuckle about the philosopher who was having their students read anna karenina and basking…
Student Philosopher on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
This is it! Thank you!
Ethan Landes on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
There are two things I find particularly humbling about this. First is scope. There are almost 500 papers in PhilPaper's conceptual engineering collection. I just quickly checked Google…
cecil burrow on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
Yes, but there is also the flip side that ignorance of the literature can free you from prejudices existent in that literature. Let the wheel be re-invented in…
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

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