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Lederman Wins Dao Best Essay Award

Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy has given its award for the best essay it published in 2022 to Harvey Lederman, professor of philosophy at University of Texas, Austin. (more…)

Journal of the History of Philosophy Book Prize

The Journal of the History of Philosophy (JHP) has announced the winner of its 2022 Book Prize. (more…)

The Artful Geometry of Logic

A research team has amassed a collection of Aristotelian diagrams created between the years of 830 and 2021 and have placed them online.

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Found: Five Boxes of New Hegel (updated)

Five boxes of previously unknown transcriptions of lectures by G.W.F. Hegel have been found. (more…)

Teaching Hume and His Racism

“Whenever someone claims that we should not mention Hume’s racism because he was a product of his time we should commit that argument ‘to the flames: for it contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.'” (more…)

Why the History of Philosophy Matters to Philosophy (guest post)

“Studying the history of philosophy can help us see ourselves from the outside and that can help us inhabit philosophy from the inside.” (more…)

Article Spotlight: “The End of History” by Hanno Sauer (Updated)

Daily Nous is launching a new series, Article Spotlight, in which the authors of recent journal articles are invited to write brief posts here about them.

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Curation, Digitization, Path Dependence, and the Urgency of the History of Philosophy

Philosophy, and especially the history of philosophy, is not known for being in a rush. But an appreciation of the factors that go into shaping our discipline and its self-understanding might give us a sense of urgency. (more…)

€1.5 Million Grant for Work on Medieval Hebrew Philosophical Manuscripts

Yoav Meyrav, a research associate at the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies at the University of Hamburg, has been awarded a €1.5 million (approximately $1.58 million) grant for work on medieval Hebrew philosophical manuscripts. (more…)

On the Time McDowell Told Taylor and Putnam They Misunderstood Him (guest post)

“On Saturday, April 27 1996, in Chicago, at the Palmer House, there was an epic, bewildering Author Meets Critics session on McDowell’s (1994) Mind and World with Charles Taylor and Hilary Putnam as Critics and John Haugeland presiding…” (more…)

“Most scholarship is… not going to live forever. Is it therefore not worth doing?”

Writer B.D. McClay was prompted to ask the question in the above headline by remarks from Jason Stanley (Yale), who on Twitter said, “I would regard myself as an abject failure if people are still not reading my philosophical work in 200 years. I have zero intention of being just another Ivy League professor whose work lasts as long as they are alive.” (more…)

British Journal for the History of Philosophy Announces Prize Winners

The British Journal for the History of Philosophy (BJHP) has announced the winners of three of its prizes. (more…)

Escaping the “Feedback Loop” of Sexism in the History of Philosophy

“Some of the women discussed in this Issue cannot be slotted easily into a history that did not include their ideas in the first place.” (more…)

€2.3 Million Grant for Work on Philosophical Responses to Newton

Three philosophers have been awarded a €2,349,000 grant for their project, “Responses to Newton’s Mathematical-Experimental Paradigm in 18th-Century Philosophy.” (more…)

Philosophy that “Tries to Get You to See Something”

At the beginning of his interviews of philosophers, Richard Marshall asks his subjects, “What made you become a philosopher?” (more…)

Immanuel Kant’s Critical Race Theory

Immanuel Kant is in the news today following the discovery that he basically invented critical race theory. (more…)

The Philosopher’s Archive in the Digital Age: David Lewis and His Correspondence (guest post)

“There are both intellectual and practical questions here. On the intellectual side, a major question is how the medium of email affects the communication and discussion of philosophical ideas… On the practical side… how do we approach the job of preserving a philosopher’s emails after her death, assuming there is sufficient scholarly interest in her corresponde..

Using “Distant Reading” to Complement Close Reading

“I don’t think the computers will ever replace the people when it comes to interpreting philosophical texts. It’s rather that we humans can use computers to help keep ourselves honest and unearth patterns that would be difficult to detect if we did everything manually.” (more…)

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