Daily Nous

News for & about the philosophy profession

  • When Others Philosophize in Public

    Today’s column by economist Gregory Mankiw in the New York Times provides an occasion to reflect on a problem for public philosophy. In the…

  • Philacronyms (Friday Fun)

    This week’s Friday Fun comes courtesy of David Boonin (University of Colorado). Thank you, David, for your suggestion, and for inspiring others to send…

  • Does Utilitarianism Leave Room for Art?

    A screenwriter considers the question.

  • An Article and a Petition to the APA about Negotiations

    Inside Higher Ed has some further commentary on W’s negotiation debacle (or maybe it is better characterized as “Nazareth’s negotiation debacle”). Also, Chad Kautzer (CU-Denver)…

  • Human Rights for Prospective Martians

    Mars One is a crowdfunded space exploration project that plans on sending humans to Mars. The trip is one-way, and after they have arrived…

  • 292 Interviews With Philosophers

    In case you haven’t checked recently, Philosophy Bites has conducted 292 audio interviews with philosophers. What a great service! Here’s the list of the…

  • Only Five Black Philosophers Are on Faculty at British Universities

    And only two of them are employed in philosophy departments, according to UCL philosopher Nathaniel Adam Tobias Coleman, writing in the The Times Higher…

  • The Grasshopper to be Reunited With Its Original Illustrations

    Broadview Press is publishing a new version of the strangely-little-known-yet-intensely-loved-minor-philosphical-classic The Grasshopper, by Bernard Suits. This edition, its third, retains the introduction from the second…

  • Contrarian on Questions

    Continuing with the recent theme of methodology, Robin Hanson, who holds an appointment in the Economics Department at George Mason University, writes often about rationality…

  • “Education is created, not consumed”

    Historian David M. Perry takes on the consumer model of college education in an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education entitled “Faculty Members Are…

  • Canadian Radio Interviews Philosopher of Science

    Kevin Elliott, a philosopher of science in the Lyman Briggs College at Michigan State University (and before that a colleague of mine at South…

  • Powers, Capacities, and Dispositions

    Ruth Groff (Saint Louis University) writes to inform me of a new, open, collective blog she writes for and coordinates called Powers, Capacities &…

  • Philosophy v. Common Sense

    Speaking of philosophical methodologies (and there is of course a lot that falls under that heading), one longstanding issue is the extent to which philosophy must…

  • What Are We Doing When What We’re Doing Is Philosophy?

    A number of philosophers will take up that question at the Edinburgh Women in Philosophy Group’s Spring Workshop on Philosophical Methodologies this May. The workshop’s…

  • “How Philosophy Can Illuminate Sport and Vice Versa”

    David Papineau has begun a new blog, More Important than That, on “how philosophy can illuminate sport and vice versa.” Those interested in philosophy of…

  • Nagel on Nozick and Philosophy

    A new edition of Robert Nozick’s Anarchy, State, and Utopia is available, and contains a foreword by Thomas Nagel. Nagel describes not just the main themes…

  • Cohen, the Latke-Hamantash Debate, and Incommensurability

    Owing, sadly, to Ted Cohen’s death, I learned of the Latke-Hamantash debate, an academic debate, begun in 1946, over the relative merits of these…

  • Latest on the Ludlow Story

    The Chicago Reader sums up some of the latest news on the sexual assault allegations surrounding Northwestern University philosophy professor Peter Ludlow. The article…

  • Adrienne Martin (University of Pennsylvania) to Claremont McKenna

    Adrienne Martin, associate professor of philosophy at University of Pennsylvania, will be moving to Claremont-McKenna to take up the Murty and Shankar Professorship of…

  • Candidate Whose Offer was Rescinded Responds

    W, a candidate for an assistant professorship in philosophy at Nazareth College whose offer was rescinded mid-negotiation responds to criticisms in this article at Inside…