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Four Philosophers Make Vox’s “Future Perfect 50” List

Vox publishes an annual list of fifty “thinkers, innovators, and changemakers who are working to make the future a better place.” This year’s edition includes four philosophers. (more…)

If People Could Get Just One Thing From Philosophy…

Happy World Philosophy Day! (more…)

World Philosophy Day Is this Thursday

World Philosophy Day is the third Thursday of November. That’s this Thursday. Is your department doing anything to mark the day? Are you? (more…)

Berggruen Institute Announces Winners of Its New $25,000 Essay Prize

The Berggruen Institute, a think tank oriented around cross-cultural and philosophical approaches to big questions about how to “best support flourishing relations between humans, technology, and the planet” and known for its $1 million “Prize for Philosophy and Culture,” has announced the inaugural winners of its new essay prize. (more…)

Have an Idea for a Philosophy App?

About five years ago, Caleb Ontiveros, a former philosophy graduate student who went into software engineering, wrote a guest post for Daily Nous about apps as a form of public philosophy and an app he developed, Stoa, with which people can do Stoic exercises, read Stoic philosophers, meditate, and “begin to embody Stoicism”. (more…)

Manne’s “Unshrinking” Longlisted for National Book Award (Update: Now Shortlisted)

Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia by Kate Manne (Cornell) has been longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award in the nonfiction category. (UPDATE (10/1/24): it has now made the shortlist.)

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New Teaching Mentorship Program for Philosophers in Small Departments

The American Association of Philosophy Teachers (AAPT) is launching a new teaching mentorship program designed for philosophers teaching in small philosophy departments. (more…)

Two Ideas for Improving the Future of Philosophy (guest post)

“In this post, I want to encourage a conversation about active steps that we—all of us who love, teach, and write philosophy—might take to help philosophy’s future.” (more…)

Royal Institute of Philosophy Essay Prizes Awarded

The Royal Institute of Philosophy has announced the winners of essay prizes for its publications Philosophy and Think. (more…)

Two Philosophers Named “New Generation Thinkers” by BBC

The BBC and the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) have selected “ten of the UK’s most promising arts and humanities early career researchers” as this year’s “New Generation Thinkers,” and two of them are philosophers. (more…)

Sanders Foundation Names 44 Philosophy in Media Fellows

The Marc Sanders Foundation has announced the names of forty-four philosophers selected to take part in its Philosophy in Media fellowship program this summer. (more…)

Department of Defense Adopts a Philosopher’s Applied Ontology

When you think of ontology, the branch of metaphysics concerned with what kinds of things there are, what probably comes to mind is talk of universals and particulars or types and tokens. But perhaps you should be thinking of the “precision mission desired outcomes” of “the nation’s warfighters and intelligence professionals.” (more…)

Berggruen Launches New Philosophy Essay Competition

The Berggruen Institute, known for, among other things, its $1 million annual “philosophy and culture” prize, has launched a new philosophy essay competition. (more…)

New: “This Is the Way”

This Is the Way is a new podcast on Chinese philosophy. (more…)

Learn from Experts How To Bring Philosophy to the Public

Philosophers will have the opportunity to learn from experts in longform writing, op-ed writing, trade books, and podcasting how to communicate their ideas to a broader audience at a summer program offered by the Marc Sanders Foundation. (more…)

Offering Free and Low-Cost Philosophy Programs to the Public

Wisdom’s Edge Foundation is a non-profit organization that “brings philosophy to the edges of society.” (more…)

Philosopher Appointed to Advisory Group on UK Digital Currency

Alex Voorhoeve, Professor and Head of the Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method Department at the London School of Economics, has been appointed to the Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) Academic Advisory Group, run by the Bank of England and the UK Treasury. (more…)

“What began to feel frustrating instead was a growing sense of the marginal place of philosophy more generally in UK culture… it is arguable that philosophy has drifted away, partly due to its own fault and partly due to the fault of the wider culture.” (more…)

“Starting around 2010, however, there was a striking change, surprising to someone trained in the 1980s. Some philosophy professors began to write a lot more personally; they tried to show how philosophical ideas had affected and might affect their own lives.” (more…)

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