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  • Is Bio-Medical Ethics Failing?

    What medical ethics needs is more and better philosophy—and a return to the adventurousness and originality of its pioneering days. There have been successes—euthanasia…

  • Philosopher is State-Level Winner in Professor of the Year Contest

    Karen Hornsby, associate professor of philosophy at North Carolina A&T, has been recognized by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education and the…

  • Overheard at the 2014 APA Eastern / Open Thread

    This could be a terrible idea. Let’s find out! Any and all attendees of the 2014 APA Eastern are welcome to post their observations,…

  • Leiter Threatens Jenkins & Ichikawa with Legal Action (updated)

    Jonathan Ichikawa (UBC) reports that he and his wife, Carrie Jenkins (UBC), have received from a Toronto lawyer a notification that Brian Leiter (Chicago) is…

  • Brandom Wins Prize

    Robert Brandom (Pittsburgh) has been awarded the Anneliese Maier Forschungspreis by the Humboldt Foundation. The Foundation awards the prize each year to three or four people…

  • This Year in Philosophical Intellectual History

    This fall, one of the most powerful institutions in the field of philosophy in this country began to collapse… In “The Rise and Fall…

  • New Hires at Western Ontario

    The University of Western Ontario Department of Philosophy has made two new hires. Timothy Bayne, currently at the University of Manchester, has accepted a…

  • Lack of Political Diversity: A Problem?

    In a recent paper, a group of social psychologists—Jonathan Haidt (NYU), José L. Duarte (ASU), Jarret T. Crawford (College of New Jersey), Charlotta Stern (Stockholm), Lee Jussim (Rutgers ),…

  • 20th Century Continental PhD Programs Wiki

    The latest addition to the set of informational wikis about the strengths of PhD programs is on 20th Century Continental Philosophy. Developed by Noëlle McAfee…

  • Philosophers from Poverty 2: Suggestions

    The post, “Philosophers from Poverty,” is still growing, with a range of interesting, informative, and often moving accounts of the lives of philosophers from…

  • UK’s Research Excellence Framework (REF) & Philosophy

    A few days ago, the results from the UK government’s 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) exercise were released. I suspect that a lot of…

  • The Most Impressive Philosopher You’ve Met

    Philosophy Bites has compiled the answers philosophers have given to the question, “Who is the most impressive philosopher you’ve ever met?” I am listening…

  • Statement from Colorado’s Tenured Women Philosophers

    The tenured women philosophy professors at the University of Colorado—Carol Cleland, Alison Jaggar, Mi-Kyoung “Mitzi” Lee, and Claudia Mills (emeritus)—have jointly authored a statement…

  • Woody Allen, Please, No

    On a small town college campus, a philosophy professor in existential crisis gives his life new purpose when he enters into a relationship with…

  • Philosophers from Poverty

    The announcement of the UPDirectory has prompted a number of comments about a category not included among its underrepresented groups: philosophers who grew up…

  • Philosophy as Bad Science?

    Somewhere along the line many physicists have come to believe that it must be possible to formulate a theory without observational input, based on…

  • New App Brings APA Eastern Into 21st Century

    The American Philosophical Association (APA) has partnered with Guidebook to make a mobile app for its Eastern Division meeting later this month. The old paper…

  • Directory of Philosophers from Underrepresented Groups

    The UPDirectory is a new website that provides a directory of philosophers from traditionally underrepresented groups in philosophy. From the site: The purpose of…

  • James Murphy (not Tooley) on “The Colorado Sex Scandal” (corrected & updated)

    CORRECTION: It appears that, contrary to what I initially posted, Professor Tooley did not write the report mentioned in this post. I was provided a…

  • Philosophers Gift Guide

    I thought Daily Nous should get in on the year end list action. But what would be a good list? Top philosophy blog posts?…