Daily Nous

News for & about the philosophy profession

  • Heap of Links

    1. Is Žižek a plagiarist? Update: Newsweek gets on the story. Update 2: Žižek’s response. 2. “Philosophers ought to do their best to find a female…

  • Non-Academic Philosophers in The Atlantic

    The Atlantic has a short piece on Helen De Cruz’s interviews with non-academic philosophers, which were posted at NewApps in three parts (1, 2,…

  • Philosophy Tag

    In our previous round, Anthony Shiver (University of Georgia) tagged A.J. Cotnoir (University of St. Andrews). The game continues, as Cotnoir makes his move……

  • Philosopher to Head NEH

    William D. “Bro” Adams, a philosopher who taught at Santa Clara University, UNC Chapel Hill, and Stanford, has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate…

  • Lappin and Russell and 189 million Swedish Kroner to Gothenburg

    Shalom Lappin (King’s College London) and Paul Russell (University of British Columbia) will be heading to the Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science at the…

  • Are Trigger Warnings for White People? (Guest Post by Kristina Meshelski)

    Kristina Meshelski, an assistant professor of philosophy at CSU Northridge, has kindly authored the following guest post about the recent discussion of trigger warnings at…

  • Heap of Links

    1. Vivian Feldblyum may have earlier wooed you with “The Deductive Logic Love Song” but now she is singing the epistemology break-up song, “Do I…

  • Is It Deep or Have You Been Duped?

    In line with the principle of charity in cooperative communication, people will try to reconstruct the meaning of unknown terms on the presumption that what…

  • Making Philosophy Journal Statistics Publicly Available

    Philipp Blum, one of the co-editors of the journal, dialectica, has a request for other journal editors: I think it would be very helpful…

  • The Philosophical Underclass Group

    The Philosophical Underclass is a Facebook group of philosophers who request and provide electronic copies of philosophical works from and to each other. It is…

  • Digitizing the Geometry of Spinoza’s Ethics

    Torin Doppelt, a PhD candidate in philosophy at Queen’s University, has created Spinoza’s Ethics 2.0, a an interesting digital humanities project that “provides a representation of…

  • Heap of Links

    1. NPR’s Tamara Keith, a philosophy major, tells her “it doesn’t hurt to ask” story. 2. Someone who sounds a bit like Carly Rae…

  • Which Scientific Idea Should Go?

    Edge.org’s 2014 annual question is “What Scientific Idea is Ready for Retirement?” Many weigh in on the question with interesting answers, including philosophers Andy…

  • Relationships with Students

    Slate’s Rebecca Schuman reports on recent discussions in the philosophical community on relations between professors and students. Several philosophers were interviewed for the article,…

  • Colorado’s “Best Practices” Document

    The University of Colorado Department of Philosophy’s “Best Practices for Faculty and Students” document, in which the department sets out ways to make itself a “safe,…

  • Bentham Trashes the Declaration of Independence

    So you’ve had your long weekend and your fireworks, but now it is time for a Monday morning beat down, USA, courtesy of Jeremy…

  • A Non-Academic Use for those Powers of Deduction

    Like a modern Sherlock Holmes, he uses unconventional techniques to unravel the mysteries of corruption, kidnapping and drug trafficking. Eduardo Salcedo was a philosophy…

  • Criticism of Colorado’s Proposed “Best Practices”

    Spencer Case, a PhD student at the University of Colorado, writing in the National Review, describes and criticizes some of the practices his department…

  • Friday Night Tunes… from a Philosophy PhD Student

    Tom Krell, a PhD student at DePaul, records pop music under the name How To Dress Well. His latest release, What is This Heart, was…

  • Co-Authorship and Voice in Philosophy

    Necessarily, it seems to me, a co-authored work, growing… out of collaborative discussion and intellectual exchange, cannot have an authentic and distinctive voice. Inevitably,…