philosophy
TagMaking Haiku and Art from the SEP
Maximilian Noichl (University of Vienna), whose visualizations and data analysis has been featured before on Daily Nous (see here), has taken up a new project: using computers to find haiku in the text of the Stanford Encylopedia of Philosophy (SEP) and make art to accompany them. (more…)
Philosopher’s Annual Volume 40 Released
Philosopher’s Annual, an attmpt to select the “best” articles published in philosophy each year—a task the editors admit is “as simple to state as it is admittedly impossible to fulfill”—has released its 40th volume, covering literature from 2020. (more…)
$1.4 Million Grant for Philosopher’s Project on Causal Analysis
Michael C. Baumgartner, professor of philosophy at the University of Bergen, has been awarded a NOK12,000,000 (approximately $1.4 million) grant from the Research Council of Norway to support his project, “Advancing Causal Modeling with Coincidence Analysis (AdCNA).” (more…)
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Of Philosophy and Dogs
Apparently today is International Dog Day. This means we have an excuse to talk about dogs. (more…)
Pulling In Undergraduate Majors
A philosophy professor writes in asking for suggestions about how a philosophy department can attract undergraduate majors. (more…)
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New: Washington University Review of Philosophy
Washington University Review of Philosophy is a new, open-access journal featuring articles by and interviews with professional philosophers, edited by undergraduate students. (more…)
Mid-Career Philosophers Win ARC Future Fellowships
The Australian Research Council (ARC) has announced the winners of its Future Fellowships, and a few philosophers are among them. (more…)
Philosophers Win Substantial ARC Early Career Awards
Several philosophy faculty are among the winners of Discovery Early Career Research Awards from the Australian Research Council (ARC). (more…)
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Free Online NYU Event to Bring Philosophy to High School Students
The Annual High School Philosophy Conference @ NYU, a free, online event aimed at introducing high school students to philosophy and motivating them to learn more about it, will be taking place on September 18th. (more…)
Bits of Laughing Matter (guest post)
Gerald Dworkin, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of California, Davis, seeks out philosophical humor and has put together a couple of volumes of it (see here). (more…)
Philosophers Cited in IPCC Report
The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the United Nations body for assessing science related to climate change, earlier this week released the report of its Working Group I, which is the first installment of its Sixth Assessment Report (AR6), to be completed in 2022. (more…)
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Grad Students: What Do You Wish You Knew? (Volume 2)
The academic year is soon upon us (don’t shoot the messenger). Philosophy departments are getting ready for a new class of graduate students and those new graduate students getting ready for graduate school. What should those new graduate students know? (more…)
Children, Academia, and the Life of the Mind
“If children take time away from a habit of intellectual activity that is bad in itself, it’s hardly a real accusation against them.” (more…)
Impostor Syndrome, Brilliance, and Philosophy
A new study concludes that the more a discipline is thought to value innate “brilliance” or raw intellectual talent, the more that women in it—and especially women from groups traditionally underrepresented in that discipline—experience impostor syndrome. (more…)
APA/ASA Danto Prize Winner Announced
The American Philosophical Association (APA) and American Society for Aesthetics (ASA) has announced that Sarah Elizabeth Lewis has been selected as the winner of the 2022 Arthur Danto Prize. (more…)
First-Generation College Students and Philosophy
A philosophy professor has embarked on a project to understand and address issues faced by philosophy students who are first-generation college students or members of other traditionally underrepresented groups, and she could use your help. (more…)
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Surplus Ideas Depository / Philosophical Wishlist
As with wealth, so, too, ideas: some people have more than they know what to do with. (more…)
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$1 Million Grant for Work on Philosophy of Contemporary and Future Science
Darrell Rowbottom, professor of philosophy at Lingnan University, has been awarded a grant of approximately $1 million for his project, “Philosophy of Contemporary and Future Science.” (more…)
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Strange Philosophical Claims By Scientists
Did you know that the brain cortex has “an amount of free will exceeding 96 terabytes per second”? No? Is it because… umm… you thought it was some other number of terabytes? (more…)
Philosopher Awarded Nearly $1 Million Grant for Memory and Forgiveness Project
Felipe De Brigard, associate professor of philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience at Duke University, and leader of the Imagination and Modal Cognition Lab there, has been awarded a grant of $988,602 for his project, “Forgetting and Forgiving: Exploring the Connections between Memory and Forgiveness.” (more…)