Daily Nous

News for & about the philosophy profession

  • How Political Should the APA Be?

    An article in The Chronicle of Higher Education discusses whether professional academic organizations should take overt stances on the political issues of the day. The American…

  • The Anthropology of the College Professor

    Anthropologist John Ziker (Boise State) applied the tools of his trade to the species homo academicus and reports the first of his findings on how…

  • World’s Largest Philosophy and Music Festival

    I don’t know what the other competitors for this title are, but apparently the world’s largest philosophy and music festival, How The Light Gets In, will…

  • Solutions to the Jobs Problem?

    Eleanor Dickey, professor of classics at University of Reading, has been soliciting possible responses to the problem of the high ratio of PhD holders…

  • Dungeons and Dragons and Derrida

    For the readership in that part of the Venn diagram where the “Dungeons & Dragons”, “Continental Philosophy”, and “Sense of Humor About Yourself” circles overlap: “The…

  • AAUP’s Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession

    There’s lots of information and analysis in the AAUP’s Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession, which was released today. Find it here.…

  • Helping Those Who Leave: What Can Departments Do?

    For various reasons–personal, institutional, cultural, structural, etc.–some academics decide that the better course of action for them is to pursue careers outside of academia. Most…

  • One Month!

    I started Daily Nous on March 7 — one month ago today. I would like to thank my friends and colleagues in the profession for…

  • The Sad Prospects for Reasoned Agreement

    “And what kind of man am I? One of those who would gladly be refuted if anything I say is not true, and would gladly…

  • A Defense of the History of Philosophy

    Graham Priest (CUNY, Melbourne) presents a brief defense of the history of philosophy over at the OUP blog. One of my friends said that…

  • Philosophy of Choking

    Massimiliano Cappuccio, an assistant professor of philosophy at United Arab Emirates University, has received a grant for over $100,000 for “examining the theory of…

  • Nancy Snow (Marquette) Wins $2.6 Million to Study Virtue

    Nancy Snow (Marquette University) has won a $2.6 million grant from the Templeton Religious Trust for a project called “The Self, Motivation, and Virtue.”…

  • Chang on Sexual Harassment in Philosophy

    Ruth Chang (Rutgers) is interviewed at 3am Magazine. Apart from a good discussion of her work on incomparability, the interview also includes some thoughts…

  • Aphorisms, Quips, and Tweets

    Epictetus, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein — they’re just some of the philosophers known for putting big ideas into small packages. They are great to read, yet the aphoristic…

  • A ____________ of Philosophers (Friday Fun)

    A pride of lions, a murmuration of starlings, a dazzle of zebras, an eloquence of lawyers, a pack of lies — the English language has some unusual…

  • Rawlsian Links

    Bookforum’s Omnivore has an assortment of links up about Rawls, distributive justice, and related topics. UPDATE: “Subway™ Eat Fresh and Freeze, Scumbag!®” I yelled.

  • Philosophers and Science in the News

    Were Einstein’s complaints about quantum theory evidence of his senility? Some people think so, but Thomas Ryckman (Stanford) says no, defending Einstein and the…

  • Philosophy in Childrens’ Books

    Once upon a time, there was a website called History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, run by a man named Peter Adamson. On the…

  • Design and Violence

    The Museum of Modern Art is hosting a series of debates on issues at the intersection of design and violence. Too often, and naïvely,…

  • The Oxford Case and University Responses to Harassment

    Times Higher Education has published “Let’s Discuss The Way We Live Now,” an essay by Luke Brunning, a DPhil student in philosophy at Oxford,…