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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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Philosofriends, here’s an opportunity to do some good. Once again, Malte Hendrickx, a philosophy graduate student at the University of Michigan, has set up a charity “competition” for philosophy departments to raise money for the Against...
The Korean version of a college admissions exam, the CSAT, administered last month, had several questions about Immanuel Kant. [image made with To-ASCII and Photoshop]According to reports in the Chosun Daily, the German philosopher was...
If you’re a current philosophy PhD student or received your PhD within the past decade, Academic Philosophy Data and Analysis (APDA) wants to make sure you’re counted in its 2025 survey, which is running until the end of the year. APDA...
Andrew Cooper, associate professor of philosophy at the University of Warwick, has died. Professor Cooper worked in the history of modern philosophy, especially on the ideas of Immanuel Kant and Amalia Holst, and had recently begun...
In a previous Thanksgiving post that first appeared in 2016, I noted that a 1975 article in Ethics by Fred Berger (then a philosopher at UC Davis), “Gratitude“, begins with the following: Gratitude is not a subject much discussed in the...
“Leaders at these institutions want to ban only certain topics from discussion. To do so, they have issued vague directives that no one knows how to interpret.” That’s philosopher Jacob Beck (York), writing about higher education in...
The German Society for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Psychosomatics and Neurology, the largest continental European national association for psychiatry, has announced the winners of its Prize for Philosophy and Ethics in Psychiatry and...
The Elizabeth D. Rockwell Center on Ethics and Leadership at the Hobby School of Public Affairs at the University of Houston has announced the winner and runner-up for its 2025 Prize for the Best Article on Ethics, Leadership, and Public...
New links… “It is not uncommon to open an analytic philosophy paper written during the past century and find logical symbols and mathematical notation among the prose… Why do analytic philosophers do this?” — Richard Pettigrew answers...
New and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, new podcast episodes, and more—including, now, a section on recently published open access philosophy books (if you send them to us). (If we missed...
Tell us about something that would make a great gift, and in exchange you get a chance of winning it or any of the other gifts people suggest. That’s right, it’s time for the Daily Nous Holiday Gift Guide Giveaway. Yes, I could give you...
The Australian has published its Research Magazine, which includes a list of the top current researchers in Australia in 250 fields. Two philosophers are on the list. The Australian‘s top researcher in the “Philosophy” category is Mark...
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John Tasioulas resigned from his position as director of the University of Oxford’s Institute for Ethics in AI in September. Five months earlier, the university had begun an investigation into allegations of harassment against him....
“What do we want the theory for?” That’s the question that should be kept in mind when doing social metaphysics, argues Ásta (Duke University) in a new article, “Critical Social Metaphysics: Metaphysics for Liberation and Social Science...