Daily Nous
Daily Nous
Justin Weinberg
Daily Nous provides news for and about the philosophy profession, useful information for academic philosophers, links to items of interest elsewhere, and an online space for philosophers to publicly discuss it all. The site is maintained by me, Justin Weinberg, an associate professor of philosophy at the University of South Carolina.
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Economist Alex Tabarrok (GMU) recently wrote of “ideas behind their time”. He explains: We are all familiar with ideas said to be ahead of their time, Babbage’s analytical engine and da Vinci’s helicopter are classic examples. We are...
Philosopher David Boonin (University of Colorado Boulder) is inviting other Jewish philosophers to contribute to a collection of writings he’s putting together. [The seder dinner scene from “Crimes and Misdemeanors” (1989)]The idea is to...
The University at Buffalo Department of Philosophy is launching what will be the first PhD program in applied ontology. . [Acid Dyes for Felt Pile, Base Colors, Société Anonyme des Matières Colorantes et Produits Chimiques de...
The latest links… A tendency to move from “disruptive innovation” to “novelty through recombining existing insights into new connective ideas” — a study of work by millions of scientists over six decades on the relationship between...
Administrators at the University of Hertfordshire are eliminating not just philosophy (as reported last week) from the school, but also undergraduate programs in English Language and Linguistics, English Literature, Creative Writing, and...
Why should a department hire some fresh PhD when it could instead hire Derek Parfit, Daniel Dennett, Judy Thomson, Hilary Putnam, Ruth Barcan Marcus, or David Lewis? You might say: “How could a department hire these people? They’re...
A federal court judge ruled today that Texas State University must reinstate philosopher Idris Robinson, whom the university fired from his assistant professorship over a talk he gave about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Robinson had...
The number of students earning an undergraduate degree in philosophy in the United States declined for the third year in a row. According to new data from Humanities Indicators, a project of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, US...
Alex Guerrero, professor of philosophy at Rutgers University, received an unusual email the other day. It was from the American Advanced Educational Association (AAEA), and it concerned an “opportunity to collaborate… in Ph.D....
This is the weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, new podcast episodes, recently published open access philosophy books, and more. (If we missed anything, please let us...
If you open up a philosophy article or chapter on your computer, the software you’re using, now updated with various AI features, may present you with something like the following message: “This looks like a long article. Would you like...
In a couple of years, students at the University of Hertfordshire will be unable to take a philosophy course there. The administration has announced a decision to eliminate the whole of the undergraduate philosophy program, according to...
Robert F. Ladenson, professor emeritus of philosophy at Illinois Institute of Technology and founder of the Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl, has died. The following obituary is by Wayne Yuen. Robert Ladenson (1943-2026) Robert F. Ladenson,...
Emily Rolfe Grosholz, professor emerita of philosophy, English, and African American studies at Penn State, has died. Professor Grosholz‘s philosophical work ranged across topics in philosophy of math, philosophy of science, logic, and...
A new website describes and tracks the interconnections between 222 “theories” of consciousness across various disciplines. “The Map of Consciousness” was developed by Ricardo Forcano, the chief technology and operations officer at...