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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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...
Links to things you might find interesting… What is a music genre? — P.D. Magnus, Emmie Malone, & Brandon Polite explore the idea that music genres are “historical individuals” (thanks to OUP for making this article temporarily open...
The American Philosophical Association (APA) has announced that the new chair of its Board of Officers will be Marya Schechtman. Marya Schechtman is a Liberal Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of...
Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business has revamped its MBA curriculum and has made ethics a focal point of its first-year curriculum. The McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University A press release about the...
What’s one thing that could make ICE agent Jonathan Ross’s lethal shooting of innocent US citizen Renee Good even worse? If it were legally justified. ICE agent killing Renee Good How would this make it worse? The shooting was a horrific...
Bastiaan “Bas” van Fraassen, professor emeritus of philosophy at Princeton University, has been awarded the 2026 Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy. The Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy is bestowed by the Royal Swedish Academy...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has announced the winners of its latest round of grants, and several philosophy professors are among them. . They and their projects are: David Ebrey (University of Barcelona) Plato’s...
“You want to know why philosophy matters? This is the true answer, and the one upon which we must plant our flag: philosophy is the most productive force ever discovered by human beings and we are responsible for modernity. Philosophy is...
Has the literature review in philosophy dissertations largely disappeared, and if so, what should we think of this change? In a post reflecting on how younger scholars have engaged (or not) with his work, Eric Schliesser (Amsterdam)...
How, as a researcher, can you use AI tools like ChatGPT in a way that doesn’t compromise your integrity, creativity, and independence? In the following guest post, Jimmy Alfonso Licon (Arizona State University) explains how he does it,...
In recognition of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, here are MLK’s six principles of nonviolent resistance. [Martin Luther King, Jr., Montgomery Jail, 1958. Photo by Charles Moore.] “Nonviolent resistance is not a method for cowards… This is...
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...
New links… The Sorites Paradox isn’t just about concepts, the Problem of the Many isn’t just about objects — and there is an underlying commonality to these two classic puzzles of vagueness, argue Isa Kooiman & Robert van Rooij What...
“I’ve never felt my speech was so chilled as it was in the classroom at UATX.” That’s one student quoted in an article at Politico by Evan Mandery that describes how things have gone at the University of Austin (UATX). UATX was announced...
Texas A&M University (TAMU) administrators cancelled “Ethics in Public Policy,” a graduate course in the university’s Bush School of Government and Public Service, because they rejected as too vague its professor’s explanation of when...