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“I don’t believe that arguing is usually the way we come up with good ideas. Argument might be an effective way of deciding which ideas to believe in. But adjudication is not creation. Safety inspections are important for deciding whether a building is sound. But safety inspections on their own don’t erect the building to be inspected.”

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Editors at Springer’s Journal of Philosophical Logic Resign, Launch New Open Access Journal

All of the editors-in-chief and associate editors of Springer Nature’s Journal of Philosophical Logic have announced their immediate or pending resignation and the launch, as of today, of a new “diamond” open access journal, Philosophical Logic. (more…)

Nanay Wins 2025 Ernest-John Solvay Prize

Bence Nanay, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Antwerp, has been awarded the 2025 Ernest-John Solvay Excellence Prize in the Humanities. (more…)

Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

New and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, new podcast episodes, and more—including, now, a section on recently published open access philosophy books (if you tell us about them). (more…)

Large Grant for Artificial Cognition Project

“Our current cognitive concepts are simultaneously indispensable, yet inadequate; indispensable, because we need the richness of cognitive vocabulary to guide trust and decision-making; inadequate, because they encode anthropomorphic assumptions.” (more…)

James Bogen (1935-2025)

James “Jim” Bogen, a longtime professor of philosophy at Pitzer College as well as an adjunct professor in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, has died. (more…)

How “Originality” and “Interdisciplinarity” Can Mislead Philosophy Students (guest post)

Clarifying these expectations is not a minor pedagogical matter. It is essential to helping students succeed, avoid wasted effort, and stay motivated.
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This Year, Give the Idea of a Gift

Just a couple of days remain for people to enter the Daily Nous Gift Guide Giveaway. All you have to do to enter is suggest an idea for a gift, and you might win that gift or any of the other suggested ones. (more…)

Texas Tech Chancellor Opposes Freedom, Endorses Inefficiency

Texas Tech University System Chancellor Brandon Creighton, in a memo yesterday to the presidents of the universities in the system, announced a policy to “ensure that classroom instruction fully complies with state and federal law, Board of Regents policy, and Chancellor directives.” The memo includes a remarkable flowchart. (more…)

Ethics Announces AI Policy

Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy has published its policy regarding the use of artificial intelligence (AI) by authors, editors, and reviewers. (more…)

Sylvia Burrow (1969-2025)

Sylvia Burrow, professor in the Department of Humanities at Cape Breton University, has died. (more…)

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Copyright, Publishers, and Your Anthropic Payout

In October, a settlement was announced in the copyright lawsuit against Anthropic, providing authors of books they trained their AI on with compensation of around $3000. There were certain eligibility conditions, though. (more…)

What Can Professional Philosophers Learn from Philosophy for Children? (guest post)

“I should have presented my topic using the p4c method,” said a philosopher about about his talk at a conference on Plato’s theory of forms, after taking part in a demonstration of it. (more…)

Philosophers Against Malaria: Philosophy Department Fundraising Competition

Philosofriends, here’s an opportunity to do some good. (more…)

Kantraversy Over Korean SAT Question

The Korean version of a college admissions exam, the CSAT, administered last month, had several questions about Immanuel Kant. (more…)

Current & Recent Philosophy Grad Students: APDA Is Reaching Out

If you’re a current philosophy PhD student or received your PhD within the past decade, Academic Philosophy Data and Analysis (APDA) wants to make sure you’re counted in its 2025 survey, which is running until the end of the year. (more…)

Andrew Cooper (1986-2025)

Andrew Cooper, associate professor of philosophy at the University of Warwick, has died. (more…)

Gratitude

In a previous Thanksgiving post that first appeared in 2016, I noted that a 1975 article in Ethics by Fred Berger (then a philosopher at UC Davis), “Gratitude“, begins with the following: (more…)

The Charade of Banning “Advocacy”

“Leaders at these institutions want to ban only certain topics from discussion. To do so, they have issued vague directives that no one knows how to interpret.” (more…)

Kind & Nickel Awarded Prize for Philosophy in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy

The German Society for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Psychosomatics and Neurology, the largest continental European national association for psychiatry, has announced the winners of its Prize for Philosophy and Ethics in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy. (more…)

Pevnick Wins Rockwell Prize

The Elizabeth D. Rockwell Center on Ethics and Leadership at the Hobby School of Public Affairs at the University of Houston has announced the winner and runner-up for its 2025 Prize for the Best Article on Ethics, Leadership, and Public Policy. (more…)

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