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New Academic Interview Site: “The Workbench”

The Workbench is a new site for “conversations with academic writers on their craft,” created by Nathan Ballantyne, associate professor of philosophy, cognition, and culture at Arizona State University (ASU). (more…)

Funding for Work on Technologies to Improve Reasoning in Government Intelligence

Steven Rieber, a former philosopher who is now a program manager at Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), a part of the United States government’s Office of the Director of National Intelligence, is heading up a new research program that might be of interest to philosophers. (more…)

If You Can’t Beat Them, Join Them: GPT-3 Edition

“How to deal with GPT-3-written essays? Instead of scolding students not to use it, we ask them to generate a ten, choose the best one, and explain why. Unless they have a paid account, the word-count limit would make it impossible to use GPT-3 to also generate the explanation…” (more…)

Philosophy’s Happiness Literature: More of It, More Empirical (guest post)

In the following guest post, Michael Prinzing (Yale) discusses trends in philosophical discussions of happiness and well-being. (more…)

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…)

Seeking Feedback on “Good Practices Guide” – Part 4

This is the last in a series of posts asking for comments on a draft “Good Practices Guide” for advancing diversity in philosophy. (more…)

Which Topics Are Trending in the Work of Philosophy Graduate Students & Recent PhDs?

What areas, topics, and questions are going to be hot in philosophy? (more…)

Stepping Outside of Philosophy: Reflections on a Transdisciplinary Career (guest post)

Universities say they want their faculty to pursue “interdisciplinary” and “transdisciplinary” work. Yet it might be difficult to figure out how to do that given the structure of academia and the nature of academic training. (more…)

Making the Abundance of Philosophy on Video More Usable

An effort is underway to curate the vast number of philosophy videos that can be found on YouTube, Vimeo, Instagram, and elsewhere on the web. (more…)

Overlooked Originators in Philosophy

Sometimes, one person comes up with an idea, but the idea later comes to commonly be attributed to someone else. When has this happened in philosophy? (more…)

Philosophy Labs: Some Recommendations (guest post)

The “lonely-armchair methodology” is one way of approaching philosophy, but it’s not the only way. (more…)

Sci-Hub & the Philosophy Grad Student “Pirate Queen”

You may know that Sci-Hub is a means by which to freely access academic research that normally requires a subscription or purchase. Did you know its founder, Alexandra Elbakyan, is a philosophy graduate student? (more…)

Virtual Archive of Logical Empiricism

A new digital humanities initiative at the Institute Vienna Circle (IVC) at the University of Vienna provides an open-source archive of digitized materials from and on the history of logical empiricism. (more…)

Jargon & Citation in Philosophy

A study of papers published in academic science journals on the topic of “cave science” found that “papers containing higher proportions of jargon in their titles and abstracts were cited less frequently by other researchers.” (more…)

Building A Better “Which Philosopher Are You Most Similar To?” Quiz

There are various silly little quizzes across the internet claiming to be able to tell you which famous philosopher you most agree with, but as far as I know, philosophy does not have something like Chris Said’s “Which Famous Economist Are You Most Similar To?” (more…)

Junior Yearly Progress Reports in Pandemic Times

A junior faculty member has questions about the assessment of faculty on the tenure-track over the past year, particularly regarding how such faculty should, if at all, discuss how the challenges of the pandemic affected their progress. (more…)

How Should Departments Credit Faculty for Public Philosophy?

The Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside (UCR), will be considering a proposal about how to recognize the work its faculty do in public philosophy. (more…)

How to Publish a Journal Article in Philosophy: Advice for Graduate Students and New Assistant Professors (guest post)

In the following guest post,* Eric Schwitzgebel, professor of philosophy at the University of California, Riverside, shares his “possibly quirky advice” about publishing in philosophy journals. (more…)

A Norm for Self-Citation (guest post by Colin Klein)

“How to self-cite without giving away your identity? I’ve seen two ways of doing it over the years. One is great, and one is really frustrating. We should all stop doing the frustrating one.” (more…)

$4.4 Million Grant for Philosophical Exploration of Honesty

Christian B. Miller, the A. C. Reid Professor of Philosophy at Wake Forest University, and a team of researchers, have been awarded a $4.4 million grant for his “Honesty Project.” (more…)

Posting Copies of Your Published Papers

An independent scholar, Rebecca Morris, noted in an email that “it seems that it’s not uncommon for philosophers to avoid ‘self archiving’ their work.” (more…)

Which Essays Should All Philosophy Graduate Students Read?

A philosophy professor tasked with teaching the required proseminar for incoming graduate students has a question for Daily Nous readers. (more…)

Lasting Lessons of the Academic Lockdown

Most university and college campuses have been mostly closed for a month or so at this point, with professors teaching their courses online from home and meetings happening via videoconferencing. (more…)

A Philosophy & COVID-19 Bibliography

Jef Delvaux, a Ph.D. student in philosophy at York University, has undertaken the project of putting together a bibliography of writings by philosophers about the COVID-19 pandemic and related issues. (more…)