Daily Nous

News for & about the philosophy profession

  • Philosopher-Celebrity Lookalikes

    Brian Talbot (Washington University in St. Louis) has been pairing up well-known philosophers with the celebrities who look like them. He kindly agreed to let…

  • Who Is Submitting to Top Journals?

    Helen De Cruz conducted a survey about submitting articles to the “top-5” philosophy journals and now has a post up analyzing the results.

  • Student Evaluations of Teaching

    We’re confusing consumer satisfaction with product value. That’s Philip B. Stark, a professor of statistics at Berkeley, discussing a mathematical critique of student evaluations…

  • A Response to the Colorado Undergrad

    Wes Morriston, who retired this past summer after 42 years as a member of the philosophy department at the University of Colorado, has written…

  • Advice for First-Year Grad Students

    David Shorter, a professor world arts and cultures at UCLA, has published a list of “six key lessons” for people starting graduate school. Paraphrasing,…

  • Calling UK & Europe Philosophers Working On…

    Miranda Fricker, Jennifer Saul, and Holly Lawford-Smith at the University of Sheffield are interested in hearing from anyone with an interest in epistemological, metaphysical,…

  • When Is an Area of Inquiry “Political”?

    Certain subfields of philosophy, such as feminist philosophy, philosophy of race, and philosophy of disability, are sometimes accused of being improperly “political.” Lately, I have…

  • A Philosopher Talks with Psychopaths

    “One of the striking features of people on psychiatric wards is how much their conversation is about topics also discussed in philosophy journals.” One thing…

  • Heap of Links

    1. Greasy spoons and Gricean maxims. (via Gerald Dworkin) 2. The regress problem for consequentialism, robot version. 3. “In a deeper and more troubling…

  • $3 Million Chair in “Applied Critical Thinking”

    An anonymous donor contributed $3 million for the creation of Rochester Institute of Technology’s Eugene H. Fram Chair in Applied Critical Thinking, named for a tough…

  • Why Study the History of Philosophy?

    In his contribution to A Teacher’s Life: Essays for Steven M. Cahn, David Rosenthal (CUNY) raises questions about philosophy’s fit with the humanities and the…

  • Heap of Links

    1. A sculpture of Edgar Allen Poe, crafted by philosopher Stefanie Rocknak (Hartwick), will soon be unveiled at the corner of Boylston Street and Charles…

  • Intro to Philosophy…Department

    At Texas Christian University, Introduction to Philosophy is team taught—and by “team” they mean the whole department, as a brief article in the school paper describes.…

  • Philosophy of Time Gets Down to Business

    Here’s a sentence you might never have expected to read: “Drawing on his research on presentism, he has suggested a variety of ways in…

  • An Undergraduate’s Perspective on Colorado

    Allison Blakeney, an alumna of the philosophy department at the University of Colorado, has penned a column for The Daily Camera on her reaction to the recent…

  • Alain Locke Given Place in Congressional Cemetary

    This weekend, 60 years after his death, Locke is finally being given a permanent resting place in Capitol Hill’s Congressional Cemetery, where a polished-granite…

  • The History of Racism in Philosophy

    Christoph Meiners (1747-1810), a philosophy professor at the University of Göttingen and prolific scholar, initiated “a successful campaign to exclude Africa and Asia from…

  • Experimental Philosophy Advances

    Experimental philosophy is a young (and controversial) subdiscipline of philosophy, but enough of it has been conducted that potentially informative meta-analyses are now possible.…

  • Heap of Links

    1. Why study paradoxes? Roy Cook (Minnesota) answers. 2. An argument for the following: “The maxim ‘my country must fight a war to end…

  • UIUC Board Votes Down Salaita Offer

    The University of Illinois’s Board of Trustees voted on Thursday to deny the appointment of Steven G. Salaita to a professorship on the Urbana-Champaign…