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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The pessimistic meta-induction—the argument that since past scientific theories have been shown to be false, we should expect that today’s will turn out false, too—makes the New York Times. . Elay Shech, professor of philosophy at Auburn...
Ian Church, associate professor of philosophy at Hillsdale College, has received a $2.5 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation for a project on “The Virtues and Vices of Spiritual Yearning”. Professor Church will be...
The winner of the 2025 Marc Sanders Prize in Epistemology is Errol Lord (University of Pennsylvania). Professor Lord was awarded the prize for “Aestheticizing Epistemology”. Here’s the abstract of the paper: Aesthetic value is central to...
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. This edition covers the past couple of...
Happy New Year to you all! I hope the year is off to a good start for you. While I won’t be asking you about your new year’s resolutions, I thought it would be a good idea to hear from you about what you’d like to see covered and...
The Hubert L. Dreyfus Foundation, a nonprofit, public benefit corporation founded by Hubert Dreyfus’s family following the philosopher’s death in 2017, is raising funds to establish an audio archive. Hubert Dreyfus B. Scot Rouse, a...
Eduardo Mendieta, professor of philosophy at Penn State University, has died. Professor Mendieta, described by some as a “giant” in Latin American and Latinx philosophy, wrote on various topics in ethics, social and political philosophy,...
The fundraising competition among departments of philosophy to raise funds to fight malaria, launched at the start of this month, has come to an end. Malte Hendrickx (Michigan), who organizes the annual competition, says that this year...
New links… “Some objects and properties that make up a body are too specific or small—too deep—to properly count as parts of the body in a morally significant sense” — Christopher Register on the ontological “depth” of bodies, and why it...
The University of Notre Dame’s Institute for the Ethics and the Common Good (ECG), directed by philosophy professor Meghan Sullivan, has received a $50.8 million grant for work on various moral problems related to artificial intelligence...
The Department of Philosophy at Georgetown University will not be accepting any PhD students for the 2026-2027 academic year. The decision is owed to “budget constraints” and was directed by the College of Arts & Sciences at Georgetown....
He sees you when you’re sleeping. He knows when you’re awake. What else does Santa Claus know, and how does he know it? These are the questions Derek Anderson (Boston University) examines in his timely investigative report, below....
Some people have the ability to look at a mess and see the makings of something beautiful. I don’t know David Kishik personally, but judging from what he is doing in the classroom, it seems like he is one of those people. A professor of...
The American Philosophical Association (APA) has announced the winners of its latest round of prizes. Below are the prizes and their winners. 2025 AI2050 Prizes ($10,000 each. Awarded in recognition of outstanding philosophical...
Links links links… In defense of “mere civility” as a governing strategy for campus conflict — because, says Marie Newhouse, “No set of shared values specific enough to be action-guiding will be endorsed by all students, faculty, and...