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  • Out of Context

    It has happened to many a teacher. You are up there speaking in front of the class and the words escape your lips. And…

  • “The Best Students I Have Are Inmates”

    Christia Mercer (Columbia) reports on her experiences teaching philosophy to inmates as part of the new Justice-in-Education Initiative, sponsored by Columbia University’s Center for…

  • APA Calls for Nominations for Best Op-Eds by Philosophers

    Did you read a particularly good op-ed in 2014 that was written by a philosopher? Are you a philosopher who wrote a particularly good…

  • Students Object to Philosophy Prof’s Facebook Post About Gaza

    Andrew Pessin, professor of philosophy at Connecticut College, is at the center of a controversy at Connecticut College regarding offensive speech for a Facebook…

  • Grant Ramsey from Notre Dame to KU Leuven

    Grant Ramsey, currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, will become BOFZAP Research Professor in the Institute of…

  • Recent APA Prize Winners Announced

    The American Philosophical Association (APA) has announced the winners of several competitions. First up are the winners of the 2013 Public Philosophy Op-Ed Contest,…

  • Philosophy’s Disunity as Cover for Its Problems

    The nature of philosophy is to blame for philosophy’s woman problem, says Zachary Ernst, who left his position as tenured associate professor of philosophy…

  • Scary Ideas (updated)

    People ought to go to college to sharpen their wits and broaden their field of vision. Shield them from unfamiliar ideas, and they’ll never…

  • Philosophy, Real People, and the Real World

    What are the boundaries of philosophy? Why are they there and what is their nature? How do such boundaries structure the way philosophers approach…

  • Is Phenomenology Philosophically Unproductive?

    Recently, AskPhilosophers received the following question: Why is so little phenomenology taught and researched in North American philosophy departments? Because it studies the essence…

  • New Way Trolley Problem Shows We’re Awful

    Tiffany Sun, a student at Rosyln High School in New York, was one of 40 finalists in the 2015 Intel Science Talent Search with an…

  • Schliesser Offered Chair at Amsterdam

    Eric Schliesser, currently Research Professor in Philosophy and Moral Sciences at Ghent University, has been offered a Chair in Political Theory in the Political Science department…

  • New Hires at Ohio State

    Tristram McPherson, currently in the Department of Philosophy at Virginia Tech, will be taking up a position as associate professor of philosophy at The Ohio…

  • From Ordinary Vandalism to the Philosophical (updated)

    By now many of you have heard that Kant’s house was spray-painted with the words meaning something like “Kant is an idiot” (the BBC…

  • How to Review Book Manuscripts

    An assistant professor writes in with the following query: I’ve been asked recently to review some books for major presses, which is great and…

  • Women in Philosophy: A Case for Optimism

    Clara Fisher, Newton International Fellow at the Gender Institute at London School of Economics, makes “the case for a tentatively optimistic reading of women’s contemporary place…

  • APA / BPA Journal Surveys

    Last year, the American Philosophical Association (APA) and the British Philosophical Association (BPA) teamed up to conduct a survey of philosophy journals, and the…

  • Gender Discrimination Alleged at Sam Houston (updated)

    Diana Buccafurni-Huber, assistant professor of philosophy at Sam Houston State University in Texas, has accused her department chair, Frank Fair, of intimidation and retaliation, resulting…

  • Philosopher’s Annual Suggestions

    The nominating editors of Philosopher’s Annual, which takes as its goal “to select the ten best articles published in philosophy each year—an attempt as simple to…

  • Philosophy, Disability, and Chronic Illnesses

    Several weeks back Daily Nous had a post which served as a space for philosophers  to discuss their experiences of depression and mental illness.…