Daily Nous

News for & about the philosophy profession

  • Meet the Daily Nous Cartoonists!

    I am very excited to announce that Daily Nous will soon have its own comic strips! The call for cartoonists generated so many good submissions…

  • Pre-Grad School Logic Preparation

    An undergraduate who is interested in pursuing graduate studies in philosophy writes in seeking advice about making up for deficits in his logic background:…

  • The Tricky Truth about Tractatus Trees (updated)

    Earlier in the week I put up a website that allows one to click through the tree-like structure of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus in the Heap of Links…

  • Philosophy in Verse, from A to Z

    Earlier in the week we discussed the job market significance of alphabetical order, and just yesterday featured some poetry by philosophers, so what better way…

  • Philosopher Poets

    It is National Poetry Day in the UK and Ireland. There are some contemporary philosophers who are also poets—successful, well-published, and acclaimed poets. It strikes…

  • A Nobel Prize for Philosophy? (updated)

    When Alfred Nobel, the renowned inventor of dynamite, died in 1896, he left behind a will that laid a foundation for the prestigious Nobel…

  • Philosophers by Subject Area (updated)

    The Philosophy Documentation Center‘s mailing lists provides a breakdown of how many U.S. and Canadian philosophers claim various areas of specialization. I don’t know…

  • Cognitive Biases and Limitations of Search Committees

    A philosopher whose last name starts with a letter towards the end of the alphabet writes in: I wonder how often members of search…

  • Live From 2003: BEARS Is Back Online

    BEARS? Sounds familiar. Then I clicked and saw this — —and it all came back to me. Yes, kids, this is what the internet…

  • Should Professional Philosophy Be More Like Grad School?

    Graduate student Nick Byrd (Florida State) sends in an interesting thought to ponder: maybe professional philosophy would be improved in certain respects if it were…

  • Writers: Love Your Ideas, But Love Your Readers, Too

    Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, a philosopher who has written nonfiction for non-philosophers, as well as novels, is interviewed in The Chronicle of Higher Education about writing. Some…

  • Guide to Online Self-Promotion

    Last spring we discussed some issues regarding self-promotion in philosophy. The focus then was largely on egotistical and boorish online behavior. The current discussion of…

  • Projects Funded by New Directions in the Study of Mind

    New Directions in the Study of Mind, a project headed by Tim Crane (Cambridge) and funded primarily with a £1.25 million grant from the Templeton Foundation,…

  • Earnings and Occupations of Humanities Undergrads

    Data about the earnings, occupations, and unemployment of humanities undergraduates (as of 2013) is featured in a new report by the American Academy of…

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

    Here 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…

  • Stubblefield Convicted of First-Degree Aggravated Sexual Assault

    Anna Stubblefield, a professor of philosophy at Rutgers-Newark, was found guilty of two counts of felony first-degree aggravated sexual assault for raping a mentally…

  • Undergrad at Philosophical Crossroads

    An undergraduate student in philosophy writes in with a question that I suspect many philosophers confronted at some point in their studies. Perhaps we…

  • Three Philosophers Honored by Royal Society of Canada

    Last year, the Royal Society of Canada launched a new initiative to provide recognition for notables among the “emerging generation of scholarly, scientific and…

  • De Cruz from Amsterdam to Oxford Brookes

    Helen De Cruz, currently assistant professor in philosophy at the VU University Amsterdam, will become senior lecturer (associate professor) in the Department of History,…

  • Examples of Public Philosophy

    Barry Maguire (UNC) is attempting to get a new prize for public philosophy up and running. By “public philosophy” he means “anything with significant philosophical…