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John Searle (1932-2025)

Philosopher John Searle, well-known for his work on philosophy of mind and philosophy of language, has died.

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Where the Streets are Named for Philosophers

The streets and parks in a new neighborhood being developed in Prague will bear the name of well-known philosophers.

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So, philosophers tend to have these occupational tics, right?

Many years ago I realized that, while teaching, I was automatically adding the one-word question, “right?” to the end of a lot of my sentences. (more…)

New Interactive Visualization of Philosophy

Designer Deniz Cem Önduygu has built a new interactive visualization of philosophy. (more…)

The Philosophical Lexicon (updated)

A commenter the other day used “chisholm” as a verb, reminding me that it has been a while since The Philosophical Lexicon has made the rounds (or so it seems to me). (more…)

Study: Neurodiversity among Philosophers

A new study is underway to learn about neurodiversity in philosophers. (more…)

What Philosophical Idea Or Position Do You Find The Scariest?

It’s Halloween, and philosophers everywhere are dressing up as obscure ideas and concepts that they’ll have to spend too much time explaining. Costumes are fun, but let’s not forget the horror, shall we? (more…)

What Aren’t We Philosophizing About, But Should?

“The singular magic of philosophy lies in its pairing of imaginative liberty with analytic clarity, but the field has come to privilege the latter at the expense of the former” (more…)

The Outsider Perspective

At one point in his 2017 Dewey Lecture (the audio of which was recently posted at the Blog of the APA), William Lycan (UNC) remarks on a comment of Dave Chalmers‘ (NYU) that “the age of the greats has passed.” (more…)

Philosophers Awarded ARC Grants

The Australian Research Council (ARC) has announced the recipients of its Discovery Projects grants, which includes several philosophers. (more…)

Greatest Achiever, Philosopher Edition

Over at Marginal Revolution, Tyler Cowen (GMU) suggests that Johann Sebastian Bach may be “the greatest achiever of all time.” (more…)

Desperate Honesty (guest post)

“I abandoned classics for philosophy in large part because that was where the refuters were. Now people can’t stop telling me I am wrong.”

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New Video Archive of Mid-to-Late 20th Century British Philosophers

“Philosophy in the Open” is a new archive of philosophy videos from Open University. (more…)

In the United States it is National Pet Day, an unofficial holiday created in 2006 to “celebrate the joy pets can bring to us,” and an unofficial reason for us to talk about philosophers and their pets and philosophy regarding pets, and—why not?—to share photos of our pets. (more…)

Philosophers among New National Humanities Center Fellows

The National Humanities Center (NHC) has announced the appointment of 35 fellows for the academic year 2023–24, including three philosophers.

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Perceptions and Appetitions: New Music About Philosophy (guest post)

“To refute a theory, but it’s my life that’s on the line…” (more…)

Philosophers on the Internet

In today’s irony report, Daily Nous editor Justin Weinberg, who mere days ago announced he would be taking a break from the website, has returned to it to post about, of all things, philosophers on the internet. (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…)

“Departments of Cognitive Poker”? Competitiveness and Philosophy (guest post)

Is philosophy an especially competitive discipline? How? Is its competitiveness a problem? If so, what might we do about it? (more…)

“The Way Philosophy Is Personal”

Wittgenstein’s early private notebooks have just been published in English, translated by Marjorie Perloff (Stanford). Towards the end of an essay about them, Kieran Setiya (MIT) draws attention to “the way philosophy is personal.” (more…)

The Problems with Philosophers: A Reply to Weinberg (guest post)

Last week, I posted about an exchange between historians Amna Khalid and Jeffrey Aaron Snyder (both of Carleton College), and philosopher Michael Veber (East Carolina), using Veber’s contribution to highlight some things philosophers sometimes do that might contribute to a negative impression about them. (more…)

The Purpose of a University / Negativity about Philosophers

A couple of weeks ago, I posted about a popular tweet asking why people had negative attitudes towards philosophers and philosophy. Later that day, an email brought to my attention an essay and response to it that seemed to be the kind of thing one might point to as part of an explanation for those negative attitudes. (more…)

Theodore Kisiel (1930-2021)

Theodore Kisiel, professor emeritus of philosophy at Northern Illinois University, has died. (more…)

Citation Rankings of Philosophers Based on Scopus Data (updated)

A database of information regarding citations of researchers has been updated, and now includes information about the citation rates of researchers, including philosophers. (more…)

How Military Veterans Contribute to Academic Philosophy (guest post)

Before becoming a philosopher, Descartes studied and then taught military engineering as a soldier. Wittgenstein penned the Tractatus as an artilleryman in World War I and sent out his manuscript while confined at a prisoner of war camp in Italy. Quine was a codebreaker during World War II, while Davidson trained spotters to distinguish Allied planes from Axis plane..