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  • How Philosophers Can Help Cosmologists

    Cosmology’s hot streak has stalled. Cosmologists have looked deep into time, almost all the way back to the Big Bang itself, but they don’t…

  • First Sanders Prize in Political Philosophy Awarded

    The Marc Sanders Foundation, which sponsors various programs and prizes in philosophy, has awarded its inaugural prize in political philosophy to Keith Hyams (Warwick)…

  • Crash Course: Environmental Philosophy

    Last week saw the creation of a new series of “crash course” posts here at Daily Nous. The brainchild of Natalia Cecire (Sussex), the idea…

  • Questions for Academic Publishers (updated)

    Oxford University Press philosophy editors Peter Momtchiloff, Peter Ohlin, and Lucy Randall have offered to answer Daily Nous readers’ questions about academic publishing. Here’s how it’ll…

  • An Exchange on Disgust

    Many of you will remember Nina Strohminger‘s amusing review of Colin McGinn’s book, The Meaning of Disgust. The review, written with the kind of frankness McGinn’s…

  • The Role of Professors in Students’ Lives

    In “What’s the Point of a Professor?“, an opinion piece in The New York Times, Emory University English professor Mark Bauerlein laments the current role of professors.…

  • Barnett to Resign from Colorado (updated)

    David Barnett, an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado, Boulder, will be resigning from the school with a $210,000 settlement. Barnett…

  • Morgan Freeman, Philosophy, and Science

    Through the Wormhole is a television show on the Science Network hosted by Morgan Freeman. Its latest episode is about the direction of time…

  • Kant + Data = Beautiful Utility? (updated)

    Minerva is “a web tool for supporting philosophical historiography research.” It’s the master’s thesis project of Valerio Pellegrini, and was designed by him in conjunction with…

  • Dennett Withdraws from Templeton-Sponsored Event

    Daniel Dennett (Tufts) has withdrawn from the popular World Science Festival upon learning of its funding from the John Templeton Foundation. Dennett, whose opposition to…

  • The Last Philosopher in Alaska’s Interior

    As reported last month, the University of Alaska at Fairbanks is losing its philosophy major and eliminating philosophy as its own department. Now, the…

  • The Art of Thought Experiments

    Si-Won Song, a student about to graduate from the University of Puget Sound, has created a series of digital artworks based on well-known philosophical…

  • Crash Course: Metaethics

    Natalia Cecire, a lecturer in English and American literature at Sussex, has embarked upon an interesting project called “Crash Courses for the Desperate”: Lately…

  • Your Strangest-Sounding Philosophical Beliefs

    If philosophy can sometimes sound weird to other philosophers, it can sound really weird to non-philosophers. Imagine (you can do it) you were in a conversation with some…

  • Cartoon Introduction to Philosophy

    The Cartoon Introduction to Philosophy is out! By philosopher  Michael Patton (Montevallo) and illustrator Kevin Cannon, the book stars Heraclitus as the reader’s guide and companion…

  • Annalisa Coliva (Modena) to UC Irvine

    Annalisa Coliva, currently lecturer at the University of Modena and associate director of the Cogito Research Centre in Philosophy, will be taking up a position…

  • How Philosophy Changed Your Students’ Minds

    Jennifer Baker (College of Charleston) asked the students in her introductory philosophy course to report (anonymously) “ideas of theirs that changed after studying some…

  • The Open Logic Text

    The Open Logic Project, instigated by Richard Zach (Calgary) and including Aldo Antonelli (UC Davis), Andrew Arana (UIUC), Jeremy Avigad (Carnegie Mellon), Gillian Russell (Wash U. St. Louis,…

  • A Philosophy Department Is Born

    In an era in which we are hearing more and more about threats to the humanities, including the consolidation and elimination of departments, it…

  • Philosophy & Literary Writings Revisited

    Last week’s post, “Philosophy’s Exclusion of Literary Writings,” asked whether philosophy could be done in the form of fiction or myth or poetry. Around…