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  • Name-Blind Hiring

    The BBC reports that Leading companies and universities are being asked to remove names from application forms in an effort to stop “unconscious bias”…

  • Chaospet (Daily Nous Philosophy Comics)

    Chaospet by Ryan Lake

  • Philosophy in 10 Years

    Here are five predictions about the state of philosophy in ten years: 1. Philosophy’s popularity as a major will increase. This will be owed in…

  • Bernecker Selected as Humboldt Professor at Cologne (updated)

    Sven Bernecker, professor of philosophy at the University of California, Irvine, is one of the recipients of the latest round of Humboldt Professorships. The…

  • Where Philosophy Is Missing

    Some colleges have no philosophers. Some colleges have philosophers, but not many, yielding a very low philosopher-to-student ratio, particularly when compared to elite institutions or…

  • Applying for Jobs at a SLAC?

    A revised version of the Guide for Applying to Jobs at Selective Liberal Arts Colleges has been published at Inside Higher Ed. Check it out. The original…

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

    To φ Or Not To φ by Tanya Kostochka

  • Does Philosophy Improve Critical Thinking?

    Following on the heels of last week’s discussion of non-philosophers teaching critical thinking, the Chronicle of Higher Education drew attention to a meta-analysis of studies about whether…

  • Open Access Philosophy Textbooks

    Open educational resources (OER) are “any kind of material that you can use in teaching and learning that is openly available.” Richard Zach (Calgary) explains that “openly available” in…

  • Back to the Future Day: To When Should A Philosopher from 2015 Go?

    In the movie Back to the Future II, Doc Brown and Marty McFly travel 30 years into the future, to today, October 21st, 2015. The…

  • Mind Chunks (Daily Nous Philosophy Comics)

    Mind Chunks by Pete Mandik

  • Frisch from Maryland to Hannover

    Mathias Frisch, currently professor of philosophy at the University of Maryland, is moving to the University of Hannover  to take up a chair in the…

  • Intellectually Safe Space

    What is an “intellectually safe space”? In “What Does Intellectual Safety Really Mean?” Katelyn Hallman (North Florida) notes: An intellectually safe environment, as typically construed,…

  • The Lecture Strikes Back

    Lecturing as a teaching style is not particularly trendy these days, but perhaps it is particularly well-suited for the humanities. Writing in the New York…

  • Philosophers on Rating People

    If you were to be rated—as a person—on a scale of 1 to 10, what do you think you’d get? Questions like that might have been…

  • Six Degrees of Francis Bacon

    You may have heard of, and if so probably by now forgotten about, “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.” A meme before the age of…

  • Challenges of Chairing Philosophy Departments

    One thing that a Philosophy Head or Chair has to bear in mind continuously is “out-of-sight, out-of-mind.” I’ve always made it a point to…

  • SEP, IEP, NDPR, Wi-Phi Weekly Update

    Below are last week’s additions and updates to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP), the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (IEP), Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (NDPR), and Wi-Phi Wireless Philosophy, appearing here…

  • Grad Student Sues U. Miami, Colin McGinn, and Edward Erwin

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

  • When Non-Philosophers Teach “Critical Thinking”

    “Critical thinking” means a very particular sort of thing to philosophers (mostly identifying, reconstructing, and evaluating arguments), but in the desperate struggle to stay relevant,…