Daily Nous

News for & about the philosophy profession

  • Dudley Knowles (1947 – 2014) (updated)

    Dudley Knowles, professor of philosophy at the University of Glasgow, has died. Professor Knowles worked in political philosophy and on Hegel. The department has…

  • Martin Tamny (1941-2014)

    Martin Tamny, Professor of Philosophy at CCNY and the CUNY Graduate Center, has died. Professor Tamny worked in the philosophy and history of science.…

  • Philosophy Summaries

    Alexander Dietz, a graduate student at the University of Southern California, has been working on a project called Philosophy Summaries. It features “hierarchical summaries”…

  • Hobbies of Philosophers: Lauren Ashwell

    Lauren Ashwell is assistant professor of philosophy at Bates College. She works in metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and feminist ethics, and her work has…

  • Andrei Marmor (USC) to Cornell (official)

    It’s now official: Andrei Marmor, currently Professor of Philosophy and Maurice Jones Jr. Professor of Law at the University of Southern California, will be moving…

  • Another Explanation for Philosophy’s Whiteness

    In most philosophy classes the religious traditions of the Middle East and Asia are in the periphery as the other to philosophy – the impulses to…

  • Philosophy Professor Implicated in UNC Academic Fraud Investigation (several updates)

    Philosophy professor Jan Boxill was named as an active participant in an academic fraud scheme in a 136-page report issued earlier today by the University…

  • Open Letter from the Northwestern Philosophy Graduate Students (Guest Post)

    In June it was reported that Peter Ludlow was suing officials, a professor, and a graduate student at Northwestern University for defamation, gender discrimination and…

  • Open Access and Journal-less Publishing

    Recently I was asked by the editors of a journal whose mission and scholarship I support and respect to review a book by a…

  • Comment Linking, Accessing the Heap

    Two minor updates about the site: Some of you may have already noticed this but a bug of the recent redesign has just been fixed:…

  • How Philosophers Dress

    “Academics dress badly because we are so fulfilled in our work,” says Jonathan Wolff (UCL) in his column in The Guardian. Maybe. Or perhaps it…

  • Mele Replies to Dennett on Templeton Funding (Guest Post)

    Yesterday’s post, “Funding and Philosophical Results,” on Daniel Dennett’s critique of Alfred Mele’s acceptance of money from the John Templeton Foundation, generated a fair…

  • Philosophy Tag

    When last we updated the game, Dan Haybron (St. Louis University) had tagged Michael Bishop (Florida State) for a book and an article. Not…

  • Colorado’s Troubles in The Chronicle (several updates)

    Today’s Chronicle of Higher Education has a long article (may be paywalled) on the University of Colorado Department of Philosophy’s issues with sexual misconduct and climate for…

  • World Philosophy Day Plans

    This year’s World Philosophy Day is one month away, on November 20th. From the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) website: In establishing…

  • Philosophy Jobs at Community Colleges (updated)

    [This post originally appeared on October 20, 2014, but a recent query, in the update below, suggested that it might be worth reposting.] I’ve…

  • Funding and Philosophical Results (Updated w/ Replies by Dennett)

    Suppose you were reviewing a scientific report that drew the conclusion that a diet without fat was in fact unhealthy, and that butter and…

  • Philosophical Op-Ed Contest

    The American Philosophical Association’s Committee on Public Philosophy is seeking nominations for the best opinion pieces or editorials published by philosophers in 2013. We…

  • Comfortable With a Kind of “Stupidity”

    At some point, the conversation turned to why she had left graduate school. To my utter astonishment, she said it was because it made…

  • Bioethicists on Ebola

    We are now experiencing the tragic consequences of failing to appreciate the need to invest more resources, expertise and support in developing countries, including…