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Bluesky Codes (updated w/ new ones)

If you’re interested in trying out the social media platform, Bluesky, which is Twitter-like in its format, below are some invitation codes.

January 12, 2024
Philosophia Introduces Outstanding Referee Award

Philosophia is now offering an annual Outstanding Referee award, and has just announced the inaugural co-winners.

January 11, 2024
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January 11, 2024
Reminder: Philosophy Summer Programs 2024

In the fall I put up posts for listing philosophy programs for the upcoming summer.

January 10, 2024
Baron and Blumberg from Dianoia (ACU) to Melbourne

Sam Baron and Kyle Blumberg, both previously at the Dianoia Institute of Philosophy at Australian Catholic University, have joined the Department of Philosophy at…

January 10, 2024
Philosophers Among Recent NEH Grant Winners

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has announced the winners of its latest round of grants.

January 9, 2024
Open Access Journals in Philosophy

How many open access philosophy journals are there? Take a guess.

January 9, 2024
Shein from Ben-Gurion to Hebrew

Noa Shein, previously a tenured senior lecturer in philosophy at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, has moved to Hebrew University, where she is a…

January 9, 2024
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January 9, 2024
J.B. Schneewind (1930 – 2024)

Jerome (“Jerry”) Borges Schneewind, professor emeritus of philosophy at Johns Hopkins University, well-known for his work on history of philosophy and ethics, has died.

January 8, 2024
Toronto Philosophy Receives $5 Million Endowment for New Chair

The Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto has received a donation of CA$2.5 million and matching funds from the university’s Faculty of…

January 8, 2024
Ethics Has a New Editor

Douglas W. Portmore, professor of philosophy at Arizona State University, is the new editor-in-chief of Ethics.

January 8, 2024
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources and new reviews of philosophy books…

January 8, 2024
Nicholas Rescher (1928-2024)

Nicholas Rescher, professor of philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, well-known for his work on logic, metaphysics, and epistemology, has died.

January 5, 2024
Philosophy News in 2023

Happy New Year, philosofriends! Before Daily Nous returns to a more regular posting schedule (next week) I thought it would be worth taking a…

January 4, 2024
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December 29, 2023
Philosophers Against Malaria: Fundraising Competition Results

The “Philosophers Against Malaria” fundraising competition among departments of philosophy has concluded, and in total generated $27,089.

December 28, 2023
Speech, Campuses, Antisemitism (guest post)

“If we don’t resort to censorship, we need to think more about the responsibilities of all actors involved with this difficult speech… This suggests…

December 27, 2023
Potsdam & the Future of Liberal Arts Education

The administration at the State University of New York (SUNY) Potsdam decided earlier this year to discontinue its philosophy major, and has now moved…

December 26, 2023
Philosophy You Liked Published in 2023

The year is coming to a close, and so it’s a good time for year-end lists, and Daily Nous is a good place for…

December 22, 2023

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Dreams can come true it can happen to you — if someone forgets to renew a software license
Explanations are “mental acts, not just facts” — Chaz Firestone looks at Tania Lombrozo's new book on explanation
“What shape is this paradox?” sounds like a category mistake — but mathematicians have an explanation for why the Condorect Paradox is in the shape of a Klein bottle
“The tragedy is that many people today are deprived of both good company and good solitude. They do not feel truly met by others, and they do not feel at home in themselves” — Amir Zadnemat on loneliness (via The Browser)
Is metaphysics about looking for some kind of fundamental level? Does reality come in levels? If so, do they stand in relations of fundamentality? Might it be levels all the way down? Why down? — Kit Fine and Timothy Williamson debate metaphysics
“Real relationships with people are what’s good for us. And if we don’t get that, even if we don’t know we don’t get it, it’s still bad for us.” — Valerie Tiberius is interviewed on Minnesota Public Radio about the limits of AI "friendship"
Kant thought the indigenous people of the Americas were a race “too weak for hard work, too indolent for assiduous labor and unsuited to any cultivation” — but, as Arnaud Pelletier notes, that not what his source said. So why did Kant say it?
“Proportional to student body size,” the number of students majoring in philosophy at Harvard is “about 10 times the national average” — why is philosophy doing so well there?
A philosophy prof’s mission statement: “reproducing the foundations of Western civilization, one lecture at a time” — one challenge, says Joseph Heath, is that "the two sets of governing principles in our society—liberalism… and capitalism—are second-best arrangements"
“Philosophy: head and heart” — Stephen Darwall's 2024 Dewey Lecture
Is there anything to the concept of “intrinsic human dignity”? — yes, says Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, and "it names a burden as much as a distinction"
“Intuition is the cognitive means by which the conceptual structure of a situation is revealed to us” — whether that situation is a stylized thought experiment or a real world experience, says Marc A. Moffett
“Professors can’t fix the problem on their own” — Victor Kumar on what university administrators need to do address AI's threat to higher education
“The wall between jus ad bellum and jus in bello, which had sustained his theory for almost half a century, was no longer sturdy” — a profile of Michael Walzer, focusing on his thoughts about just war theory and the Israeli-Palestine conflict
We may think that we lose something significant when AI beats us to a discovery — if we do, Daniel Greco says, that seems to imply we gained something significant, too
“Once upon a time there were a couple of handsome naturalistic philosophers working in and around the philosophy of fiction” — thoughts on new directions in philosophy of fiction, from several philosophers
What is the debate over whether trans women are women even about? — Katie Zhou argues that it's about which facts are granted "the cross-contextual significance and stickiness characteristic of gender"
We’re putting human brain cells into mice brains — One moral risk of this, says Mackenzie Graham, is a decrease in our ability to interpret what mice behavior tells us about their experiences and welfare
The Rawls Game — with instructions, background, advice, and downloadable character cards
“The central question would shift from ‘How do we maximize shareholder value?’ to ‘How do different forms of organization distribute power, risk and reward — and which should we strengthen?'” — Chris Marquis on the case for abolishing, or at least radically changing, business schools

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ikj on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
and i *don’t* mean derrida, whom i think isn’t widely taught in lit classes (and hasn’t been for the past 1.5 decades!)
ikj on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
it’s also the case that many lit profs approach their material with philosophical lenses, though contemporary analytic philosophy of literature may not be widely referenced.
Moti Gorin on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
I provided a link to the HHS review above and I suggested that those interested should first direct their attention to the most critical responses, as well as…
Even intraphilosophy on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
Even today when the literature review is probably the easiest it has ever been, one can see in prominent philosophy journals papers which say nothing more than a…
P D Van Pelt on Humanist Gets Religious Exemption from Using AI at Work
Seems like a bad move, to me.
doris on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
In the martial arts, it's said, "the advanced technique in one style is a beginning tecnique in another." Seems like a lot of interdisciplinary work, mine included, exploits…
Rando on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
If I submit a paper in which I am perceived to be reinventing the wheel *in the philosophy literature*, the paper will receive a quick, ruthless rejection. I…
Connie Price on Alphonso Lingis (1933-2025)
I learned only today of his passing. I never forgot him, one of the Penn State Philosophy giants who knew and taught and lived and wrote the freedom.…
Felix on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
This mischaracterization on your part speaks to a comment I made above about how I found it unlikely that some of the people who spoke at some of…
Michel on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
Hear hear!
Meme on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
Do you still think negative existentials are contingently zero-grounded? I love that paper.
Citation man on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
Another thing that might be worth distinguishing here is intentional and unintentional non-engagement / under-citation? Isn't it possible that some people publishing on meta-linguistic negotiation (indeed, myriad other…
Jack on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
I think giving talks also play a role in this process, at least in philosophy. In the cases I'm familiar with, where people were omitting relevant literature in…
Moti Gorin on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
“if you look at philosophy of gender and sex from the perspective of ordinary scholars who don’t also engage in extra scholarly political activism of the sort that…
Nicholas Denyer on Underrepresentation of Non-Native English Speakers in Philosophy: Findings from over 100,000 Papers (guest post)
My college is located in a majority ES country. I can think offhand of 20 fellows of the college in philosophy. Of those 20, 8 do not have…

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