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Writing

The Quality and Reach of Philosophical Writing

February 22, 2017

In an epic interview at Emotion Researcher, Martha Nussbaum answers questions about her life and her work and philosophy. At one point, the interviewer says: Another…
Writing

Writing Philosophy With Style

December 21, 2016

Lou Andreas-Salomé, who was at one time a friend and romantic interest of Friedrich Nietzsche’s, included in her book on the philosopher his “ten…
Teaching

Teaching Under Trump: A Writing Exercise

November 16, 2016

This is what author and professor of literature and creative writing Melissa Febos (Monmouth University) did with her students the day after the election:
Writing

What To Read To Improve Your Philosophical Writing

May 25, 2016

A professor writes in with a question: I’d be very curious what books or other resources your readers might recommend for graduate students looking to…
Writing

Reference Management Software Revisited

March 30, 2016

Back in Fall of 2014 we discussed reference management software and apps. Bibdesk and Zotero seemed to be the most popular options at the time.…
Writing

Virtual Dissertation Groups

January 26, 2016

Working on a dissertation? The latest round of the Virtual Dissertation Groups, organized by Joshua Smart of the University of Missouri, will be up…
Daily Nous Features

Stomaching Controversy (Ought Experiment)

November 19, 2015

Welcome back to Ought Experiment! This week I heap reflexive and excessive scorn on a philosopher who’s worried that their work is taking…
Writing

Writers: Love Your Ideas, But Love Your Readers, Too

October 6, 2015

Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, a philosopher who has written nonfiction for non-philosophers, as well as novels, is interviewed in The Chronicle of Higher Education about writing. Some…
Daily Nous Features

10 Ways to Beat Writer’s Block (Ought Experiment)

September 30, 2015

Welcome back to Ought Experiment! This week’s question comes to us from someone dealing with a bad case of writer’s block. Maybe. Dear Louie,…
philosophy

A Bias Against Simplicity?

September 2, 2015

Kieran Healy (Duke) recently presented a paper entitled “Fuck Nuance” at the American Sociological Association’s annual meeting. He writes: Nuance is not a virtue…
Writing

Virtual Dissertation Writing Groups

August 26, 2015

Joshua Smart at the University of Missouri writes to let graduate students know about Virtual Dissertation Groups (previously): Virtual Dissertation Groups While advisors and committees…
Research

Philosophers Don’t Read and Cite Enough (guest post by Marcus Arvan)

March 2, 2015

The following guest post* is by Marcus Arvan (Tampa). Marcus runs The Philosophers’ Cocoon, a helpful blog aimed at early-career philosophers. Last week saw…
Writing

A Case for Clarity

February 28, 2015

This stark opposition between analytic clarity and continental obscurity must be qualified. Certainly, analytic philosophers tend to see clarity as a virtue. Yet the…
Research

The Mechanics of Your Research Production

February 25, 2015

There are many little everyday steps leading up to the production of a philosophical manuscript. Charles Rathkopf (CUNY) writes in asking philosophers about “the daily…
Research

Reference Management Apps

October 30, 2014

Philosophers, I have been asked to ask you all about reference manager / bibliographic software, such as Endnote, Qiqqa, Mendeley, Zotero, etc. Do you use…
Uncategorized

Philosophy that’s a Pleasure to Read

September 2, 2014

“People have been asking me: what will you acquire? In most cases I gave the obvious response about seeking new directions in these fields…
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Writing Tools

August 6, 2014

No, this is not a post about jerks who write. Rather, it is spurred by an inquiry from John Schwenkler (Florida State) about which…

Latest Comments

Mark Robert Taylor on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
That is a helpful response, thank you. I suppose then what I mean to ask is whether you think GC views now, going forward, ought to be ostracized…
Felix on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
That's Horribly Persecuted Philosopher, OBE. Don't you even read her columns in the papers?
Jimmy Doyle on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
Chris, you make it sound as though you faced a stark choice between slandering a horribly persecuted philosopher and giving everyone the impression that you approved of the…
Jason Stanley on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
We have now had a decade of very powerful people whining about how terribly they have been oppressed and their speech chilled, and using this to represent themselves…
Meme on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
I think you’re ignoring a plausible implication of their comment, which I noted re: harm.
Felix on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
Now, I’ll admit that the latter comment could be read more weakly (e.g., it’s about *valuable* scholarship). It's not just that it could be read like that; it's…
Meme on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
Sorry, but your experience is in fact metaphysically impossible.
Kevin Harrelson on New Digital Editions of Hegel, Schelling
Based on about one hour spent scrolling around the Hegel page, this seems to me to be a very high-level resource. It's user friendly and smartly arranged. More…
Michel-Antoine Xhignesse on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
I guess I'll go on record and say that I think this response is pretty fair and even-handed (more so than the report, in my opinion), and I…
Felix on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
I don't know where you are getting the idea that I am opposed to GCs "get[ting] a fair hearing," which is what you read Bettcher and Saul as…
Meme on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
“We do not say Stock should not be permitted to say the things she does. We believe in the principles of academic freedom.” “Rather, our concern is that…
Felix on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
What are you talking about?
Felix on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
Jon, we can read the letter. It doesn't call for "driv[ing] Stock out," no matter what unnamed "students" might invoke it to claim. It does, correctly, draw attention…
Meme on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
“We’re not opposed to Stock’s academic freedom. But actually, it’s a mistake to think she’s even exercising it.” This seems to imply something pretty convenient for those against…
Meme on Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)
Excellent comment.