history of philosophy
TagSwallows, Moles, and other Animal-Philosopher Typologies
“There are two kinds of philosophers: swallows and moles.” (more…)
Alznauer Wins Journal of the History of Philosophy Article Prize
The Journal of the History of Philosophy has awarded its 2023 best article prize to Mark Alznauer (Northwestern University). (more…)
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 Arts & Science to create a CA$5 million endowed chair in the history of philosophy. (more…)
Philosophy’s Importance in “Times Like These”
The Los Angeles Review of Books has just concluded publishing a series of articles on the importance of philosophy in “times like these”. (more…)
Externalist Explanations of Philosophy
Why did a particular philosophical view emerge or flourish at a particular time? Why did another fall into disfavor? Why are philosophers today thinking and writing about the particular questions, problems, ideas, and figures they are? (more…)
Letting Different Kinds of Philosophy Be Their Own Thing
Last week, Harvey Lederman (UT Austin) delivered some remarks at Academia Sinica on what he referred to as “the path forward for Chinese philosophy.” (more…)
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…)
The Various Literary Forms of Philosophy (guest post)
“What are the literary forms philosophy can come in? Judging by contemporary works it seems the best way to express our ideas is in 8000-word journal articles, monographs, the occasional op-ed. But there are so many literary forms to do philosophy in.” (more…)
Better Philosophy Through Time Travel
Here’s one way of thinking about progress in philosophy. (more…)
British Journal for the History of Philosophy Awards
The British Journal for the History of Philosophy has announced the winners of three of its prizes. (more…)
Hübner Wins the Journal of the History of Philosophy’s Best Article Prize
The Journal of the History of Philosophy has awarded its 2022 best article prize to Karolina Hübner (Cornell). (more…)
New: Journal of the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists
December 2022 saw the publication of the first two issues of the Journal of the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists (JHWP). (more…)
Is Any of Analytic Philosophy’s Dominance Owed to McCarthyism?
“It is clear enough that McCarthyism and its legacy were sufficient to make life hard for a particular strand of opposition to the analytic mainstream, characterized by its general adherence to empiricism and liberalism: those who were broadly Marxists.” (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.
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.
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)Â 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…)