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Philosophy Major at Kennesaw State May Be Eliminated

As if it were the manager of a candy store deciding which chewing gum to stock, the administration of Kennesaw State University (Georgia) is…

May 6, 2025
Philosophers Selected as Ambassadors for the European Research Council

The European Research Council (ERC) has launched a new “Ambassadors for the ERC” program.

May 6, 2025
Brake and Dandelet (and two others) to Wisconsin

Elizabeth Brake, currently professor of philosophy at Rice University, and Sophia Dandelet, currently associate professor of philosophy at the University of Cambridge, have accepted…

May 5, 2025
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May 5, 2025
Acquisitions, Revenue, and Morale Down at Harvard University Press

“Harvard University Press published 142 new titles in the fall of 2016. Last fall, it put out just 26.”

May 5, 2025
Philosopher’s Apparent Role in Government’s “Treatment for Pediatric Gender Dysphoria” Report Revealed by Metadata (updated)

A philosopher is apparently listed as the creator of part of a controversial report released May 1st by the United States Department of Health…

May 5, 2025
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, and new podcast episodes.

May 5, 2025
The Integrity of Academic Integrity Enforcement

The philosophy professor heading up the office at his college that handles student violations of academic integrity, like cheating, is dealing with a seemingly…

May 1, 2025
AAPT Board Condemns Trump’s Attacks on Higher Education

The board of directors of the American Association of Philosophy Teachers (AAPT) has issued a statement condemning “a series of Trump administration attacks on…

May 1, 2025
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May 1, 2025
Judge Orders ICE to Free Philosophy Major it Abducted

Mohsen Mahdawi, the graduating philosophy major at Columbia University who was taken into custody by hooded and masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents…

April 30, 2025
Karl Ameriks (1947-2025)

Karl Ameriks, emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, has died.

April 29, 2025
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April 29, 2025
A Journal’s Experiment with Interdisciplinarity

Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy is a peer-reviewed philosophy journal that publishes single-theme issues. For a recent issue they tried something new: a…

April 29, 2025
Virtual Dissertation Writing Groups

New virtual writing groups for people working on dissertations in philosophy will be forming soon.

April 29, 2025
Teaching Humanities in the AI Era: Is this the Bargaining or the Acceptance Stage?

“What, again, is education? The non-coercive rearranging of desire.”

April 28, 2025
Are Human Reasoning Abilities Declining?

In a piece at the Financial Times (and in a Bluesky thread about it), John Burn-Murdoch, the chief data reporter for the newspaper, goes over some of the…

April 28, 2025
Author Gender in Elite Philosophy Journals (guest post) (updated)

What percentage of the authors in elite philosophy journals are women?

April 28, 2025
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, and new podcast episodes.

April 28, 2025
A Mysterious Publication (updates, incl. response from publisher)

(ETA: See Update 5, below, from Springer.) An article published recently in Synthese caught the eye of a few Daily Nous readers.

April 25, 2025

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“What shape is this paradox?” sounds like a category mistake — but mathematicians have an explanation for why the Condorect Paradox is in the shape of a Klein bottle
“The tragedy is that many people today are deprived of both good company and good solitude. They do not feel truly met by others, and they do not feel at home in themselves” — Amir Zadnemat on loneliness (via The Browser)
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

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Moti Gorin on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
Out of curiosity I quickly looked at the events listed. Some of them feature speakers who, if they engaged with GC philosophy at all, are very unlikely to…
Meme on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
That’s very helpful, thanks. I notice that you say, in all of these conferences and articles and the like, that the sex-based views are “engaged with.” Does this…
Alex Byrne on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
I was surprised to see this list of books characterized as “engag[ing] with sex-based views in the boring scholarly ways of which we’re all familiar.” Taking them in…
Hey Nonny Mouse on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
I'm sure that of the philosophers whose politics I know, all are firmly on the left. When I say "conservatives", I mean people with a conservative ideology (which…
Michel on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
Yeah… I find it kind of annoying when philosophy of literature is taught like a literature class, not least because literature proofs do a better job of it.…
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…

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