Daily Nous

News for & about the philosophy profession

  • How Should Journals Instruct Referees?

    “How, then, can philosophy become more inclusive and less boring?” Over at the Philosopher’s Cocoon, Marcus Arvan suggests that one way might be to have…

  • The APA’s New Journal

    Amy Ferrer continues her series of guest posts at NewAPPS with some details about the new Journal of the American Philosophical Association. Among other…

  • Concrete Suggestions for Breaking the Silence

    There has been quite a bit of talk lately regarding speaking out about problems in the profession. This prompted one reader to send in the…

  • Oxford Tutor Jeffrey Ketland Fired

    Jeffrey Ketland, a philosophy fellow and tutor at Pembroke College at Oxford University, who was accused of harassment of a BPhil student who later committed suicide,…

  • Will a Philosopher be the 2014 “World Thinker”?

    Prospect Magazine’s “World Thinker” competition is underway. Among the 50 candidates are 14 people listed as philosophers: Elizabeth Anderson, Nick Bostrom, Judith Butler, Patricia Churchland,…

  • Harman & Martin on Mitochondrial DNA Transfer in the NY Times

    Elizabeth Harman (Princeton) and Adrienne Martin (Penn) have a short letter to the editor in the New York Times in response to this article about mitochondrial DNA…

  • Amy Ferrer Discusses the Site Visit Program

    Amy Ferrer, executive director of the APA, discusses the Site Visit Program of the APA’s Committee on the Status of Women in a post…

  • “Waiter, There’s A Fly In My Soup!”

    “Yes, I see him, trapped, floating helplessly on the surface of the broth, spinning slowly near the vortex left by your quickly withdrawn spoon,…

  • Tim Crane Talks Metaphysics

    It used to be that a trip to the bookstore in search of a volume on metaphysics would bring you face to face with titles about…

  • Saying Something if You See Something

    Carrie Ichikawa Jenkins has some cautiously encouraging words for junior faculty who have “things to say” about our profession. She knows you are quite…

  • Philosophy: The Trivia Game

    Perhaps you know how to solve the mind-body problem, or how to prove that eternalism is (and always has been) true, or even which dinner…

  • Brandom Interviewed

    Jeffrey J. Williams conducts a wide-ranging and thoughtful interview with Bob Brandom in the journal Symploke. The interview (PDF) covers Brandom’s thoughts about the enterprise of…

  • Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Humor

    A possible breakthrough in the analysis and science of humor, reported here.

  • March Madness: “Overrated Philosophers”

    Critical-Theory.com has set up a March Madness tournament, bracket and all, of “overrated philosophers.” You can enter your vote here.

  • A Lot of Money for a Lot of Humility

    Saint Louis University has received a grant of $2.7 million from the The John Templeton Foundation to explore the subject of intellectual humility. Contributions by SLU…

  • Are Junior Faculty Overburdened with Service?

    How much service, and what kinds, are appropriate for junior faculty? Is more teaching preferable to more service? Do service burdens vary by gender?…

  • Making a Bioethics MOOC

    A team at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown (disclosure: my graduate alma mater), is putting together a massive open online course, or…

  • Upcoming Faculty Moves

    Berit Brogaard (University of Missouri-St. Louis; philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, philosophy of psychology) will be moving to University of Miami as full professor,…

  • The Case for Aesthetics

    Anna Christina Ribeiro (Texas Tech) makes the case for aesthetics in analytic philosophy. (via Michaela McSweeney)

  • Alcoff, Leiter, and Pluralism Revisited

    Regan Penaluna recounts the controversy over the Pluralist Guide to Philosophy in “A Latina Takes On the ‘Philosopher King-Maker‘” at Talking Philosophy. (via Ben…